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Oh, no! They’ve nuked L.A.—and the Red Monday podcast series tells what happens next
December 3, 2007 | 1:34 pm
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By David Rothman
The nuking of Los Angels is the topic of the latest podcast series from J. Marcus Xavier, who earlier gave us The Silent Universe.
“It’s my first non-scifi effort on the web: a character drama set to the aftermath of a nuclear explosion in Los Angeles,” he tells us, and a quick sample from the opener suggests he put a lot of soul into it.
First episode is free, and then you pay for the rest. I hope JMX will check in with us later on and tell us how the project fares. Good luck on this!
“The Silent Universe has an audience of over 3,000 listeners,” JMX says, “and I’ve been mentioned in Netsurfer Digest, on AMC TV’s website, and in Sci Fi Channel’s Science Fiction Weekly.”
Your thoughts, gang? Should JMX use pay or the advertising model or maybe a mix?
And just to brighten your day: Enriched uranium seized at border: Material suitable for ‘dirty bomb,’ say Slovaks, in The Budapest Times.
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Comments:
For folks writing for pay, this sort of what-will-happen-next serial seems to be the perfect kind of material for using the street performer protocol, i.e. “The next episode goes up as soon as I get $X”. Open access *and* the author gets paid!
(Note that the protocol typically involves a certain threshold dollar value, not a percentage of readers, as in the aborted Stephen King serial. With a threshold, paying readers can’t get disappointed from ‘freeloaders’ interfering the release. And it gives an incentive to readers who want to find out the rest of the story sooner rather than later.)
When did post-apocalypse fiction become “non-scifi”?
Hi, M-K. In your imagination it can be anything you want. Hey, this could be worse. Happy holidays. David
Addendum: Yes, technically, this is sci-fi territory—er, for now.