Journey #31 - The Funeral by Christopher Munroe

Attending a funeral, even a stranger's, can cause contemplation of life.

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Chris Munroe is not a stranger to our journeys.  His story “The Box” was featured in October, and he recently read Mark Onspaugh’s “The Milton Feinhoff Problem” for us. Chris is an actor, comedian, and wordsmith who lives in the great country of Canada.  His stories have appeared in assorted other podcasts such as the Drabblecast and the Dunesteef. You can find many more of his work at munsistories.com.  Check it out.

Our narrator is  Josh Roseman (not the trombonist) who lives in Georgia USA.  His writing has appeared in Asimov’s, Fusion Fragment, Port Iris, Big Pulp, and in audio form on the Drabblecast and Dunesteef.  He also does a lot of voice work and has been heard on StarShipSofa, EscapePod, Pseudopod, and the Dunesteef.   We last heard him here in December as the narrator of “The Mansion”.

Suggested Podcast Episode: "Death and Michelle Jenkins" by Christopher Munroe on the Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine.

Music used in this production: "Music for Funeral Home - Part 1 & 2" by Kevin MacLeod

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Journey #30 - A Logic Named Joe by Murray Leinster (X-Minus 1)

What happenens when the logics start using their vast databases of knowledge to "help" mankind?

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Murray Leinster (June 16, 1896 - June 8, 1975) was a nom de plume of William Fitzgerald Jenkins, an award-winning American writer of science fiction and alternate history. He wrote and published over 1,500 short stories and articles, 14 movie scripts, and hundreds of radio scripts and television plays.

Suggested Podcast Episode: "Soulmates" by Mike Resnick and Lezli Robyn on Escape Pod

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Journey #29 - All At Once by Nathaniel Lee

The dead birds outside the library fortell approaching doom, so Harker and the Gollimog must prepare.

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Nathaniel Lee likes to put words in various orders, and occasionally receive payment for this. He primarily writes short fiction, and his work can be seen at Abyss & Apex, Daily Science Fiction, and Pseudopod, as well as various other online venues, mostly for free. A full bibliography (and an ever-growing collection of 100-word stories) can be found at www.mirrorshards.org, where he publishes one very short story (almost) every day.

Suggested Podcast Episode: "May He Reign Forever" by Nathaniel Lee on the Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine.

Music used in this production: "A Thousand Skins (Part 2)" by Josh Woodward
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Journey #28 - Midshipman Hornblower: The Examination for Lieutenant by C.S. Forester (presented by BBC)

Horatio goes to take his examination for Lieutenant, and then prepared to take on a new independant command.

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The radio series "The Hornblower Story" (1968-69) was adapted from four of the Hornblower books by C.S.Forester. Dramatised into 20 half-hour parts by Val Gielgud, it was produced by Trevor Hill, and directed by Trevor Hill and Christopher Hayton Webb. Music by Johnny Pearson, special effects by David Fleming-Williams, Jack Hollinshead in conjunction with the Sea Training Association.

Suggested Podcast Episode: "Beachcombing" by Ray Cluley on Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine


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Journey #27 - The King of Rabbits and Moon Lake by Eugie Foster

Khargosh, King of Rabbits, seeks to save his colony from the drought.  Then the elephants come.

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Eugie Foster is a very talented and versitle writer of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and children's lit. Eugie received the 2009 Nebula Award for Best Novelette and was named the 2009 Author of the Year by Bards and Sages. Her short story collection, RETURNING MY SISTER'S FACE AND OTHER FAR EASTERN TALES OF WHIMSY AND MALICE, was published by Norilana Books and can be found on her website at eugiefoster.com.  Her works have appeared in Realms of Fantasy, Interzone, Fantasy Magazine, Apex Magazine, Cricket, and Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show just to name a few.

Today's narator, Rajan Khanna is a writer and sometimes corporate wageslave who spends much of his time dreaming of imaginary things.  Rajan is a graduate of the 2008 Clarion West Writers Workshop and a member of the NY-based writing group, Altered Fluid. His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Shimmer Magazine, GUD, and The Way of the Wizard (among others) and has received Honorable Mention in the Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror and the Year’s Best Science Fiction.   He sometimes writes articles for Tor.com and occasionally narrates podcasts for sites like Podcastle, Lightspeed, and Pseudopod, and now, lucky for us, Journey Into... 

Suggested Podcast Episode: "Mannie the Mailmobile" on Clonepod and "The Wish of the Demon Achromagk" on Drabblecast by Eugie Foster

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Journey #26 - The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux (CBS Radio Mystery Theater)

Terrorist? Angel? Musical genius? Ghost? Among the many questions surrounding the phantom of the Paris Opera House, one thing is for sure: He is in love with his protegee.

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Le Fantôme de l'Opéra (English: The Phantom of the Opera) is a novel by French writer Gaston Lerooux.  It was first published as a serialisation in "Le Gaulois" from September 23, 1909 to January 8, 1910. Initially, the story sold very poorly upon publication in book form and was even out of print several times during the twentieth century.  Iit is overshadowed by the success of its various film and stage adaptations. The most notable of these were the 1925 film depiction, Ken Hill's 1976 musical at the Theatre Royal Stratford East followed twelve years later by Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical, and Lloyd Webber and Joel Schumacher's 2004 film.

Suggested Podcast Episode: "Black Hill" and "The Worm That Gnaws" by Orrin Grey on Pseudopod.

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