Podiobooker
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The Parsec Awards are in their fourth year now. The awards recognize excellence in speculative fiction podcasting. This year, many Podiobooks.com authors and producers are represented in wide range of categories. You can see the full announcement on the Parsec Awards site. Germane to us and our authors/producers:

Best Speculative Fiction Story (Short Form)

• Best in Class by Jonathan C. Gillespie, Variant Frequencies

• St. Darwin’s Spirituals by D.K. Thompson, Variant Frequencies
• Under The Bed by Michael Natale, Variant Frequencies
  Rick Stringer is the producer of Variant Frequencies and produced The Failed Cities Monologues

• Eusocial Networking by Scott Sigler, 7th Son: Obsidian
• The Goodbye Party by Christiana Ellis, 7th Son: Obsidian
  J.C. Hutchins created the 7th Son: Obsidian project. He and Scott Sigler are among our most popular authors. Christiana Ellis is the author of two books on our site.

• Gestalt by J. C. Hutchins, Stories of the Third Wave
  Stories of the Third Wave is a spinoff of Mur Lafferty’s novel Playing for Keeps. She has several other books available as well

Best Speculative Fiction Story (Novella Form)

• Eden by Phil Rossi
  Eden and other stories by Phil Rossi are available here on the site

• The End of Flesh by Matt Wallace, Variant Frequencies
• Pallas & Stan by Matt Wallace, Playing For Keeps
  Matt Wallace is the author of The Failed Cities Monologues

• Nemesis by Mark Yoshimoto Nemcoff, 7th Son: Obsidian
  Mark is the author of many serialized audiobooks available on our site

• Profit of Panamindorah Book 3: Fire and Flood by Abigail Hilton
  Abbie makes her entire trilogy available here on the site

Best Speculative Fiction Story (Novel)

All of these books are available on our site

• Contagious by Scott Sigler

• Double Share by Nathan Lowell
• Fractured Horizon by H.E. Roulo

Best Speculative Fiction Audio Drama (Long Form including Independents)

Both of these books are available on our site

• Murder at Avedon Hill – P.G. Holyfield

• The Takeover – Mur Lafferty

Best Speculative Fiction Video Podcast

• 7th Son: Obsidian – J.C. Hutchins
  J.C. Hutchins created 7th Son: Obsidian, a spinoff project of his 7th Son trilogy, available here

Best Speculative Fiction Magazine or Anthology Podcast

• Bloodcast, Season 2 – Scott Sigler
  Scott Sigler is the author of BloodCast, Season 2 and many other books on our site

• Erotica a la carte – Philippa Ballantine
  An experiment in short story writing by Philippa Ballantine, author of many books on the site

• Variant Frequencies – Rick Stringer
  Rick Stringer is the producer of Variant Frequencies and produced The Failed Cities Monologues

Best Speculative Fiction Comedy/Parody Podcast

• Christiana’s Shallow Thoughts
  Christiana Ellis is the author of two books on our site.

Best Writing-related Podcast

• The Dead Robots’ Society – Including P.G. Holyfield
  P.G. is the author of Murder at Avedon Hill, available on the site

• I Should Be Writing – Mur Lafferty
  Mur Lafferty has several books available on our site

Best New Speculative Fiction Podcaster/Team

• The House of Grey – Collin Earl
  The House of Grey is produced by Chris Snelgrove, and the book is available on our site

I hope I got everyone. If not, someone let me know and I’ll update this list. Loads of of our authors and producers involved with many projects, and I want to be sure and include them all.

The winners will be announced at Dragon*con in Atlanta, GA. Make plans to go now!

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