audio podcast_corydoctorow A podcast reading of a new novella that I co-wrote with Hugo- and Nebula-nominee <a href="http://www.benjaminrosenbaum.com/" rel="nofollow">Benjamin Rosenbaum</a>. The story's a big, 32,000-word piece called &quot;True Names&quot; (in homage to Vernor Vinge's famous story of the same name), and it involves the galactic wars between vast, post-Singularity intelligences that are competing to corner the universe's supply of computation before the heat-death of the universe. <p> Ben and I will be reading the story in weekly installments, taking turns as our schedules allow. The reading is Creative Commons licensed -- Attribution-ShareAlike-NonCommercial -- and the story itself will be published this fall in <a href="http://www.pyrsf.com/FastForward-2.html" rel="nofollow">Fast Forward 2</a>, Lou Anders' followup to his knockout 2007 anthology, <a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2007/01/23/fast-forward-1-wonde.html" rel="nofollow">Fast Forward</a> (regular Boing Boing readers will remember Paul Di Filippo's <a href="http://www.pyrsf.com/chapters/WikiWorld.htm" rel="nofollow">Wikiworld</a> story from that volume). Lou's given us permission to post the story's text simultaneous with the book's publication, under the same Creative Commons license. </p><p> I had a nearly illegal amount of fun working on this story with Ben, who is a gonzo comp-sci geek with a real flare for phrasing, and I hope you'll enjoy hearing it as much as we enjoyed writing it!</p> corydoctorow benjaminrosenbaum truenames vernorvinge singularity sciencefiction podcast Benjamin Rosenbaum and Cory Doctorow http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ CoryDoctorowPodcast116TrueNameswithBenjaminRosenbaumPart03 doctorow@craphound.com 2008-03-27 12:52:01 2008-03-27 12:56:38 audio_podcast