Aural Delights No 111 Lawrence Santoro Lord Dickens's Declaration Pt 2

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Aural Delights No 111 Lawrence Santoro Lord Dickens's Declaration Pt 2

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Started 7 months ago by Tony
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Tony
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Editorial: by Tony C Smith 01:00 Poem: Safe in Their Cryogenic Chambers by Lyn C. A. Gardner 03:30 Fact Article: The Sofanaut Awards by Mark Bormann 05:20 Fact Article: Looking Back At SF History by Amy H Sturgis 09:20 Intro to Main Fiction: Lawrence Santoro 24:30 Main Fiction: Lord Dickens's Declaration Pt2 by Lawrence Santoro 29:00 Fact: Jeanne Update by Spider Robinson 01:10:00
Narrators: Lawrence Santoro

Posted 7 months ago #
fifteenjugglers
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The 2010 Sofanaut Awards 2010 - Shortlist
(links have been included for all stories and artwork)

Best Main Fiction
Exhalation by Ted Chiang (ep #66)
The Empire of Ice Cream by Jeffery Ford (ep #94)
Mars: A Traveler’s Guide by Ruth Nestvold (ep #73)
Lester Young and the Jupiter’s Moons by Gord Sellar (ep #71)
Child Of An Ancient City by Tad Williams (ep #106)

Best Flash & Short Fiction
Two Dreams On Trains by Elizabeth Bear (ep #100)
Jesus and the Cowboys by Jay Lake (ep #63)
Bob The Dinosaur Goes To Disneyland by Joe R Lansdale (ep #100)
Then, Just a Dream by Lawerence Santoro (ep #84)
Hard Rain by Matthew Sanborn Smith (ep #54)

Best Poetry or Song Contributor
Michael Bishop
Neil Gaiman
Fred Himebaugh
Norm Sherman
Laurel Winter

Best Narrator
Mike Boris
Jim Campanella
Larry Santoro
Amy H Sturgis
Spider Robinson

Best Fact Article Contributor
Jim Campanella (Science News)
Matthew Sanborn Smith (Fiction Crawler)
Lawrence Santoro (Progress Reports)
Amy H Sturgis (History of the Genre)
Damien G Walter (Support Our Zines)

Best Artwork
March 09 (Episode 71) - Skeet
August 09 (Episode 97) - Alllie
"The Reflection of Memory" (Episode 105) - Oleksandra Barysheva
November 09 (Episode 110) - Skeet
StarShipSofa Stories Volume 1 - Skeet

Here's me on LibraryThing

Posted 7 months ago #
Darren
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Is there a link we can click on to vote for the finals of the sofanauts?

"The art of Medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease." - Voltaire.

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Posted 7 months ago #
Tony
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It's the same one on the front of the site but here you go.

Posted 7 months ago #
LarrySantoro
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Part 3 just shipped to Tony. Just so you know...

Come blog with me! http://blufftoninthedriftless.blogspot.com/
Come, have a listen: http://www.SantoroReads.com/

Posted 7 months ago #
Judy__
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Narrator and Fact article are tough. They're all so good!!

Posted 7 months ago #
pdackerman
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Enjoying Larry’s story immensely, looking forward to number 3.

Many thanks Larry, you are the best and get my vote

Phil Ackerman

"Happiness? Happiness... is to wake up, on a bright spring morning, after an exhausting first night spent with a beautiful... passionate... multi-murderess."

Posted 7 months ago #
LarrySantoro
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The post-script feature shipped at 7:12 last night. That finishes it.

*sigh*

What's next?

Posted 7 months ago #
Gonzalo
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Just finished listening to Part 2 of Lord Dickens's (shouldn't it be Dickens' - I can't remember the rule) Declaration and am in awe at the world Larry has managed to create and flesh out in such a short time. Part 1 had me intrigued - I didn't know where the story was going, but the setting and characters, and, dare I say, the reading, were top notch. I also like all the little in-jokes or nods to characters in "our" timeline - although these are easy to miss while listening. I'll have to re-read this more slowly once Larry's done with the narration.

The second part just got its hooks into me - now I just wonder how this is going to be wrapped up. All the to-ings and fro-ings in time and the neat quantum-like explanation of how simply observing events can cause them to be subtly altered (or is it disaccommodated?) are reminiscent of the multiple drafts any story must go through and the feeling some authors must have that the story will never be done. Will this story reach a stable equilibrium in time - doesn;t this mean that the ability to travel through time must therefore be remeoved - as if it had never had been?

Whatever the conclusion, I can't wait. Roll on Part 3!

"Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That's why they're called revolutions. People die, and nothing changes."
-- (Terry Pratchett, Night Watch)

Posted 7 months ago #
LarrySantoro
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Gonzalo,
Thank you so much for your kind words. Hope you fully enjoy the ending.

As to the possessive of "Dickens" Mssrs. Strunk and White, Chapter I, Note 1 (p. 2) make the point that proper names ending in the letter 's' take an apostrophy 's'. Thus: the possessive of Dickens is Dickens's. The exception being "ancient names as in Jesus' and Isis' et al.

I'm certain that common usage is dispensing with these rules, but not on Sarum Hill and not, certainly, among the Literary Historians of Kings!

Posted 7 months ago #
Fredosphere
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Thanks guys for nominating me. I was listening to this show while driving, and suddenly heard my name. Freaky! I had to rewind because I couldn't imagine what I had done to deserve a nomination. Ah, yes: all for a deeply silly song with amateurish production values.

The bad news is, I have no hope of winning. The good news is, if I did win, it would grant me entry into one of the most exclusive clubs of all: those who have beaten out Neil Gaiman for an award!

Posted 7 months ago #
LarrySantoro
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Know how you feel, Fred. My first Stoker Nomination, I was up against Joyce Carol Oates and Stephen King. I'm told I beat out King but neither of us beat out the winner, Steve and Melanie Tem.

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