Journey #154 - Elsie at 30,000 Feet by Tim Pratt

Gustavo Reyes is flying home from Seattle with a surprise for his mom, but then, Elsie boards the plane and sits right next to him.  Elsie is full of surprises.

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Tim Pratt typically writes about love, monsters, secret societies, romance, trickster gods, terrible decisions, punching, metaphysics, nostalgia, entropy, magical anthropophagous cars, bridges to implausible realities, libraries, demonic thrift shops, cryptids, and breakfast foods, among other subjects. Most of his stories involve magic, or science, or science that could be mistaken for magic.

And he's pretty good at this stuff. He won a Hugo Award for one of his stories a while back, and his short work has been nominated for World Fantasy, Nebula, Sturgeon, and Stoker Awards, too. His stories have appeared in the Best American Short Stories (Fancy!), the Year's Best Fantasy, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, the Mammoth Book of Best New Horror – you get the idea.

Go to timpratt.org to learn about more about his books and collections, or like I mentioned earlier, head over to patreon.com/timpratt to read more of his stories.  Recently, in light of the Coronavirus and all the quarantines, Tim made the first year of stories on Patreon free for anyone to read.  That's very cool, but you might as well toss him a buck a month to read all of his stories.

Cast of characters:

Rish Outfield (of The Rish Outcast and The Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine) as Gustavo Reyes
Abigail Hilton as Elsie
Bria Burton as the airport gate agent
Marshal Latham as the airplane pilot

Relevant Links:
"Dream Engine" by Tim Pratt on Journey Into (Part 1 and Part 2)
The Nex by Tim Pratt  at Audible.com (produced with full cast by Marshal Latham)
"Impossible Dreams" by Tim Pratt on Escapepod
Rish Outfield's "Twilight Groan" Podcast

Other Elsie Stories:
"Happy Old Year" by Tim Pratt on Drabblecast
"Ghostreaper" by Tim Pratt at Nightmare

Music:
Symmetry by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4790-symmetry
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Theme music: Liberator by Man In Space

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Journey #105 - The Nex by Tim Pratt (a preview)

Teenager Miranda Candle finds a mysterious necklace and is suddenly transported to The Nex, the bizarre city at the center of all possible universes, where she falls in with a pair of would-be revolutionaries - the skinshifter Howlaa, and the bodiless Wisp.

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Cast of characters:
Renee Chambliss (author of Dreaming of Deliverance) as Miranda Candle (Randy)
Abigail Hilton (of the Fullcast Podcast and Guild of the Cowry Catchers) as Howlaa Moor
Bryan Lincoln (of the Fullcast Podcast) as Cal Candle, Randy's brother
Marshal Latham as Wisp


Tim Pratt is a science fiction and fantasy writer and poet. He grew up in the vicinity of Dudley, North Carolina, and attended Appalachian State University, where he earned a Bachelor's in English. In 1999 he attended the Clarion East Writing Workshop. He moved to Santa Cruz, California in 2000, and currently resides in Oakland with his wife Heather Shaw and son River. He currently works as a senior editor at Locus Magazine.

Tim's work has appeared in a number of markets, including Asimov's Science Fiction, Realms of Fantasy, Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show, and Strange Horizons. His story "Little Gods" (2002) was nominated for Nebula Award for the Best Short Story. His story "Hart & Boot," first published in Polyphony 4, was reprinted in Best American Short Stories: 2005. His "Impossible Dreams" (Asimov's July 2006) won the Hugo Award in the Best Short Story category. Collection Hart & Boot & Other Stories was a World Fantasy Award finalist in 2008.


If you liked this preview of The Nex, you can finish the adventure in the free serialized blog form, as a paperback or Kindle, or as a continuation of the full cast Audible book.

To listen to the first story set in this world, you can listen to Part 1 and Part 2 of "Dream Engine" by Tim Pratt.  Caution: The roles of the cast are shifted around a bit, as explained in the today's discussion after the preview.

To listen to the further adventures of Miranda and Jenny Kay, you can listen to "We Go Back" by Tim Pratt as read by Mur Lafferty on Escape Pod..


Theme music: Liberator by Man In Space.


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Journey #21 - Dream Engine, Part 2 by Tim Pratt

Episode art by Howard Lyon

When Howlaa and Wisp follow the Fat Man back to his world, they must unravel the mystery behind the dream engine..


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Listen to Part 1 of Dream Engine

Stay updated with Tim Pratt on his blog. Check out more with these characters, and this world, in Tim's YA online novel, The Nex.

Cast of characters:
Renee Chambliss (author of Dreaming of Deliverance) as Wisp
Rish Outfield (of the Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine) as the Regent
Bryan Lincoln (of the Fullcast Podcast) as the Fat Man, and the dreamer
Abigail Hilton (of the Fullcast Podcast and Guild of the Cowry Catchers) as the dreamer's wife
Marshal Latham as Howlaa Moor

Music used in this production: Calm at Heaven Disrupted by Industrial Water

Several sound effects were found at freesound.org.
Theme music: Liberator by Man In Space.


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Journey #20 - Dream Engine, Part 1 by Tim Pratt

Episode art by Howard Lyon

Howlaa and Wisp are are assigned by the Regent to rid Nexington-on-Axis of a murderous naked fat man.


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Listen to Part 2 of Dream Engine

Stay updated with Tim Pratt on his blog. Check out more with these characters, and this world, in Tim's YA online novel, The Nex.

Cast of characters:
Renee Chambliss (author of Dreaming of Deliverance) as Wisp
Rish Outfield (of the Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine) as the Regent
Bryan Lincoln (of the Fullcast Podcast) as the Fat Man
Marshal Latham as Howlaa Moor

Music used in this production:  Calm at Heaven Disrupted by Industrial Water

Several sound effects were found at freesound.org.

Theme music: Liberator by Man In Space.

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