This was one of those wonderful, terrible months where there were simply too many good stories to choose from. Buckle up!
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This month has been a tumultuous one – travel, holidays, and illness. Podcasted fiction seems to have also had a hard time, December representing the weakest month for fiction that I have yet seen. Even so, we shake off the snow from our cloaks and gather round the fire to discuss the best stories from December and the year at large!
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Here on the Synthetic Voices podcast, I see a LOT of fiction over the course of a calendar year. Now, the 2012th year of the Common Era is coming to a close, so I thought I’d look back over my selections and pick out the cream of the crop. The podcast has only been running since March, but I have been writing a “Top Picks” list since at least January of 2012, so all of those stories were eligible in addition to those featured on the podcast.
The winners below were painstakingly plucked from over 30 initial candidate stories, so congrats to all the authors, narrators, producers, and editors involved!
The last month had a LOT of great fiction to choose from, so let’s jump right into the featured stories!
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Over the last few months, I have acquired yet another hobby. Those who know me may appropriately groan at this point.
There is a wonderful little website called LibriVox.org. They specialize in converting public domain works from text into spoken word. This has a number of useful side effects: Continue reading