Pseudopod (podcast)

Pseudopod
Hosting Alasdair Stuart
Updates Weekly
Debut 11 August 2006
Genre Horror Short Stories
Website http://pseudopod.org/

Pseudopod is a podcast launched on 11 August 2006 which presents horror genre short stories. It is part of Escape Artists, Inc. which also podcasts Escape Pod and PodCastle. Pseudopod is currently edited by Shawn M. Garrett (previously Ben Phillips until the end of 2010) and hosted by Alasdair Stuart.[1] Wil Wheaton calls Pseudopod, "pretty damn awesome," and cites it as an example of how new media is changing the broadcast landscape[2]

Pseudopod won the 2009 Parsec Award for Best Speculative Fiction Magazine or Anthology Podcast.

The stories it runs are usually between 2000 and 6000 words in length. It also irregularly releases shorter flash fiction pieces and movie reviews.

Escape Artists has a policy against authors reading their own work. Many stories are read by people associated with Escape Artists and other members of the podcasting community.

Pseudopod is distributed under the Creative Commons attribution non-commercial no-derivatives 3.0 license. The fiction itself remains copyrighted by its respective authors. Pseudopod contracts with authors for non-exclusive audio rights, paying semi-professional rates.[3]

Intro music is “Bloodletting on the Kiss” by Anders Manga.

List of Episodes

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References

  1. ^ "About Pseudopod". Escape Artists, Inc.. http://pseudopod.org/about/. Retrieved 2010-06-19. 
  2. ^ .Wil Wheaton. "Podcasts I love: Pseudopod". http://wilwheaton.typepad.com/wwdnbackup/2009/02/podcasts-i-love-pseudopod.html. Retrieved 2010-06-19. 
  3. ^ "Submission Guidelines". Escape Artists, Inc. http://pseudopod.org/?page_id=3. Retrieved 2011-04-03.