Rish and Big don’t have a story for this one, but they always have a Christmas episode, so they got together and had a quick conversation about Christmas songs, and talked about their favorites.
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It’s Jason Sanford month everybody! So put on your ugly Jason Sanford Month sweaters; make yourself a mug of The Ships Like Clouds, Risen By Their Rain tea, and gather around the table for the roast Plague Birds. It’s time to enjoy some more Jason Sanford!
Today, we have a vintage Dunesteef production of Jason’s story, When Thorns Are The Tips Of Trees, originally produced for the StarShipSofa podcast back in 2009. Miles and his father care for the local memorial grove, but the job has become a more dangerous as gangs of deteriorating thorn die, almost zombie-like people driven mad by the phage that is rewriting their DNA, have begun attacking the groves all around the area. Can they survive, or will they become thorn die themselves?
Afterward, Rish and Big talk about how much of a formative moment this story was in the history of the podcast, and look back at the production process for putting it all together.
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Related Links:
Link to purchase Jason Sanford’s novel Plague Birds.
Link to the StarShipSofa episode that originally contained When Thorns Are The Tips Of Trees
Jason’s other stories that have appeared on The Dunesteef
Cover art photo by Andrey Grinkevich on Unsplash
Franklin has a huge crush on Jillian, but up until now she hasn’t returned his affection at all. Surprisingly, this Christmas Eve she changed her tune, and suddenly asking him back to her house for Christmas Eve dinner with her family. Turns out that the meal was not what Franklin was expecting…
Afterwards, Rish and Big talk about the story, Broken Mirror contests, and the joys and hassles of Christmas music.
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Music for today’s episode was: “Sugar Plum Breakdown” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
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The episode art photo was provided by Justin Russel
Declan’s boyfriend, Brooks, is taking him to meet the parents for the first time today at Christmas dinner. He’s a little nervous, but it couldn’t be as bad as it was when Brooks met Declan’s parents at Thanksgiving, could it? Could it?
Afterward, Big and Rish talk about the story, the year we’ve had, and about having hope for the future.
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Cover art courtesy Photograham.
Music for today’s episode was: “Dance Of The Tuba Plum Fairy” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), and “Sugar Plum Breakdown” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Zane and Delanna don’t come from similar backgrounds. Zane is a run-of-the-mill Lunar who’s had to pull himself by his bootstraps everywhere he went. Delanna, on the other hand, comes from one of the richest families on Mars. Somehow, the two came together as a couple, and have hit it off amazingly ever since, but Delanna’s family has never approved, and now the two of them are going home for Christmas with the folks…
Afterward, Big and Rish talk about beefalopes, the rite of passage that is meeting the parents, and Santa Claus III. This is going to be delightful.
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Related links:
Void of Intelligence YouTube Channel
Music for today’s episode was: “Holiday Weasel” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), and “Sugar Plum Breakdown” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Sam is having a really hard time getting over the loss of his dearly departed pet cat, Boots. His girlfriend, Beth, hopes that bringing him home to the family farm for Christmas dinner might help him overcome his loss.
Afterward, Big and Rish go off the farm talking about all the weird stuff you might guess they would, however, I won’t mention it here, so as to not spoil the story.
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Music for today’s episode was: “We Wish you a Merry Christmas” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), “Dance of the Tuba Plum Fairy” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), and “Sugar Plum Breakdown” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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It’s the first installment in our 2020 Christmas Extravaganza! We’ll be bringing you several stories from our Broken Mirror Story Event, the first being “Service with a Smile” by Rob Broughton. When Tommy gets a mysterious invitation to his girlfriend’s parents’ house for the holidays, he finds that not everyone is acting of their own accord.
Afterward, Rish and Big talk about Shamong, meeting the parents, and eating worms and insects…really? Actually, why am I surprised, of course they do.
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Music in the story was: “Krampus Workshop” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
“Sugar Plum Breakdown” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Something is going wrong at the space outpost that Captain Seymour just docked at. Things seem to be deteriorating quickly. Luckily for him, someone grabbed him, and pulled him into a hiding place. Or was it lucky for him? Now he’s trapped in here with two strangers, and it seems as though one of them is not who he seems after all.
Afterward, Big and Rish talk about the process of adapting a story from one format to another. What does it take? How do you go about it? What sacrifices to dark gods of chaos and evil must be made? Whose name appears first on the byline? We answer none of those questions, coming up!
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Related Links:
Link to the original version of the audiodrama.
Music in the story was: Spc X2x (Unseen Presence) by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/6738-spc-x2x-unseen-presence-
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
In Jason Sanford’s “What Is Sand But Earth Purified?” New widower Anchor is approached by TV personalities to be their guide into the living sandstorm out in the ocean, the same sandstorm that killed his wife.
Afterward, Big and Rish talk about Jason’s various possible futures, and what makes a body human.
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Related Links:
Jason Sanford’s Site
Anguish by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3373-anguish
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
When Mike Resnick passed away on January 9th, Rish and Big knew they had to make one of his stories their next episode. Years ago, he’d sent them out a huge batch of Catastrophe Baker stories so that they could continue the series on the show. What better way to remember him than to put one of his creations out for fans to enjoy?
Catastrophe Baker makes a trip to Silverstrike and while he’s there, he attends a carnival. It’s pretty ho-hum until he gets summoned to the tent of the Siren of Silverstrike to see the show that everyone is talking about.
Afterward, Rish and Big talk about Mike Resnick and what he has meant to the science fiction community, the podcast community, and the Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine. We’ll miss you, Mike.
Special thanks to Renee Chambliss for lending her voice to the episode.
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Related Links:
Mike Resnick stories that have run previously on The Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine.
Mike Resnick episodes on Escape Pod that we mention (it’s in the middle of the page under the heading “authored episodes”)
Renee Chambliss’s Website
The Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine 