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Here’s part two of the podcast of Truncat — the final part will come next week.

The latest installment of Rick Kleffel’s great tech/sf podcast contains an interview with me, recorded last spring at the Singularity Summit at Stanford.

After a long hiatus, I’ve started up my podcast again with my story Truncat, an indirect sequel to my first novel, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. Truncat is a parable about warez groups and Napster, about generation war and the trouble with power-laws. In Truncat, the reputation-based Bitchun Society is stagnating, and the birth rate has dropped off so far that only a million kids are alive on the whole planet. These kids have hacked the consciousness-backup system and illicitly copy and load the backups of their elders, treating these backups as a kind of drug.

Here’s the fourth and final installment in a new story podcast. This time, it’s “I, Row-Boat,” a story I just finished about a story about a theological dispute between an artifically intelligent Asimov three-laws cultist and an uplifted coral reef.

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Here’s the third installment in a new story podcast. This time, it’s “I, Row-Boat,” a story I just finished about a story about a theological dispute between an artifically intelligent Asimov three-laws cultist and an uplifted coral reef.

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Here’s the second installment in a new story podcast. This time, it’s “I, Row-Boat,” a story I just finished about a story about a theological dispute between an artifically intelligent Asimov three-laws cultist and an uplifted coral reef.

Here’s the first installment in a new story podcast. This time, it’s “I, Row-Boat,” a story I just finished about a story about a theological dispute between an artifically intelligent Asimov three-laws cultist and an uplifted coral reef.. I’m going to read this one in three or four parts over the next couple weeks.

Robbie the Row-Boat’s great crisis of faith came when the coral reef woke up.

“Fuck off,” the reef said, vibrating Robbie’s hull through the slap-slap of the waves of the coral sea, where he’d plied his trade for decades. “Seriously. This is our patch, and you’re not welcome.”

Robbie shipped oars and let the current rock him back toward the ship. He’d never met a sentient reef before, but he wasn’t surprised to see that Osprey Reef was the first to wake up. There’d been a lot of electromagnetic activity around there the last few times the big ship had steamed through the night to moor up here.

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I did a fun, short interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s LateNightLive program this week — the audio’s online now.

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Here’s the second part of a two-part podcast of my story Visit the Sins, which was originally published in Asimov’s in 1999 and reprinted in Hartwell’s Year’s Best SF volume 5. This story deals with attention deficit disorder, the effect that cognitive problems have on families, and how your mental state and your technology are intimately related.

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Here’s the first part of a two-part podcast of my story Visit the Sins, which was originally published in Asimov’s in 1999 and reprinted in Hartwell’s Year’s Best SF volume 5. This story deals with attention deficit disorder, the effect that cognitive problems have on families, and how your mental state and your technology are intimately related.

Part 1 MP3