Episode 35: All The Rage by David Walton
Diane and Ray are art lovers, always after the next big thing, something amazing, something shocking, something unique. They find it in Willie, a boy who is…normal. For, in a world where everyone is a special and uniquely engineered snowflake, what exactly, is special and unique anymore?
Also, Rish and Big do a post-mortem on Joss Whedon’s “Dollhouse.” How was it? Any favorite moments? Did it live up to its potential? And FOX did cancel it, didn’t they?
Special thanks to Eleiece Krawiec for narrating today’s story.
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David Walton’s Fiction
David Walton’s Terminal Mind (Which he just won the Phillip K. Dick Award for!!!)
Eleiece Krawiec on Well Told Tales
Jonathan Coulton
OnClassical’s Music at Jamendo.com
The Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine 
June 5, 2009 at 12:13 pm
The story was fairly enjoyable. Not my favorite; not a subgenre I really like.
Is this the one you guys told me had a ton of voices in?
June 5, 2009 at 3:44 pm
Nope, Josh, that one’s still to come.
What would you call this subgenre?
June 7, 2009 at 4:17 am
This story was okay, although I had a little trouble getting really hooked. The production was top notch (although the scream sounded out of place!)
Just a question—I normally listen to the prattle half of the show, but I’ll skip ahead to the next track if there’s a spoiler warning. Did I miss anything interesting this week?
June 7, 2009 at 12:07 pm
Well, Cameron, we talked all about Joss Whedon’s show, Dollhouse. We did give away some really cool moments to the show, so if you haven’t seen it, and you want to or plan to, then I would wait until after to listen to the prattle half of the show.
Do you guys get to see Dollhouse out there in Australia? Or do you just have to wait until it hits DVD? It’s not like it was a big deal show, so I don’t know what would motivate an Australian network to pick it up and show it. Do you get FOX out their, maybe via satellite or something?
Anyway, that’s what you missed.
June 7, 2009 at 6:55 pm
I don’t know about Dollhouse, but Firefly didn’t go free to air. Serenity (the movie) was given a huge amount of advertising by our local cinema, but they didn’t even show it. Our family doesn’t have any of the pay-TV services, so I can’t tell you what the deal is there.
It will come out on DVD soon, I’d imagine, and we’ll buy it and watch it all end to end. If Firefly’s anything to go by, I’m really looking forward to that weekend…
June 8, 2009 at 4:45 am
I would call this the “genetic engineering” subgenre of SF. I’ve made some forays into writing in it but haven’t been able to pull it off. I guess it’s just not my thing. But like I said, still a good story.
June 8, 2009 at 11:30 pm
Two things. I wanted to compliment you guys in having a guest reader this week. I often listen to Well Told Tales and I like the reader’s voice.
And second, I thought it was cool taht you mentioned rage infected monkeys. Two great tastes that taste great together.
June 10, 2009 at 8:43 pm
No second season for Firefly, but there is going to be a Dollhouse Season 2. Great Googly Moogly.
Well, looks like I’ll have to go back and watch season one on DVD, find out what I missed. At least I’m sure of one thing, that the worst episode of Dollhouse will be 10 times better than the best episode of Dark Angle.
June 11, 2009 at 11:02 am
oops. I mean 10 times better than Dark Angel.
I think Dark Angle is a dead spot in evil geometry.
June 11, 2009 at 12:37 pm
Tell me about it. My sister has the DVDs of Dark Angle…er Dark Angel. I borrowed them from her, and just couldn’t manage to get through more than two or three shows.
June 11, 2009 at 1:03 pm
But . . . the girl? Hot? In leather? Big sad eyes?
June 11, 2009 at 2:35 pm
Isn’t that Leather Tuscadero from Happy Days?
June 15, 2009 at 9:23 am
To me, a SF story is successful if it gets me thinking, and this story definitely got me thinking.