One of the things I’m going to start doing more of on this blog is recommend books and stories that I’ve enjoyed. I recently decided to start listening to all of the major SF&F short story podcasts again, and while they’re all batshit crazy woke, a good story will occasionally slip through. So I suppose if you’re looking for SF&F short stories that aren’t insufferably woke, these recommendations will be a good source for those.
Last month, Podcastle put out “A Thousand Echoes in One Voice” by Deborah L. Davitt. It’s an intriguing and atmospheric time travel story, where the main character discovers a mysterious and (seemingly) abandoned subway network that can take her to alternate times and dimensions, and the other travelers who came before her have left semi-coherent maps scrawled in graffiti on the walls. It has a really fund mind-screw that reminded me of Heinlein’s “All You Zombies.” Good stuff!
I’ll try to post these short story podcast recommendations as often as I find them, though I may end up skipping a few not because they’re terrible, but just because I have too much to listen to. And of course, if a story is terrible I won’t bother posting about it—not even if it’s spectacularly terrible. There’s enough outrage on the internet already that I really don’t feel a need to contribute to it.
