::A Geek in Korea::

I listened to Starship Sofa’s podcast while sitting around during the Lunar New Year holiday. Right now I’m listening to my second episode, and while I like that this has some Hugo Award winning and nominated authors, I don’t know if I like this podcast yet.

The host has a thick Scottish accent, but thankfully doesn’t do the readings of the short fiction. In fact, I don’t know why there is even a host on the podcast at all. A plug for feedback and a drop of a name or two seems to be his only function. I don’t listen to their “round table talk out SF” episodes, only the stories, so maybe he is more involved than I know. It’s also a bi-weekly podcast, and that’s slow. I’ll keep it in queue, but it better deliver quality if it’s that infrequent.

One of the reasons I LOVE Escape Pod is that they have a lot of variety in their story choices and get a lot of new authors too. It’s weekly, but still brings consistent quality. I also like the commentary of Steve Eley about the way they choose stories. There is the annoyance of hearing them ask for donations, but they release their podcasts with a Creative Commons license. That’s pure awesome. Escape Pod is also better polished and seems to have a philosophy of general coolness I can get behind. It’s one of my highlights of the week when I get a chance to listen to it.

Anyway, it’s not like listening to one podcast means that I’m not allowed to listen to the other. The more the merrier when it comes to good Science Fiction short literature is what I’ll say.