HUGO AWARD-WINNING SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY MAGAZINE
Synch Me, Kiss Me, Drop
2013 Aurora Award Nominee for Best Short Fiction - English
Our second piece of audio fiction for May is "Synch Me, Kiss Me, Drop" written by Suzanne Church and read by Kate Baker.
Clarkesworld Magazine Issue 68 - Synch Me, Kiss Me, Drop by Suzanne Church [32:37m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (8742)Please Support This Month's Sponsors
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Suzanne Church lives near Toronto, Ontario with her two teenaged sons. She is a 2011 and 2012 Aurora Award finalist for her short fiction. She writes Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror because she enjoys them all and hates to play favorites. When cornered she becomes fiercely Canadian. Her stories have appeared in Cicada and On Spec, and in several anthologies including Chilling Tales: Evil Did I Dwell; Lewd I Did Live and Tesseracts 14.
WEBSITE
PURCHASE THIS ISSUE:
ISSN 1937-7843 Clarkesworld Magazine © 2013 Wyrm Publishing. Robot illustration by Serj Iulian.
Dominic wrote on May 15th, 2012 at 6:36 pm:
I'm not sure if the podcast is a drug, but that's easy to say when I'm getting my regular fix.
This was a nuanced reading that added much emotional depth to the story, or at least to my understanding of it.
I find many of the stories here at Clarkesworld a little too conceptual for my tastes, but this one struck a good balance for me between high concept and simple narrative. Well done, all.
Steve Thompson wrote on May 24th, 2012 at 6:20 am:
Hi Kate,
I really enjoyed this one, kind of Cyberpunk in a druggy kind of way. You said in this podcast, you wondered what life would be like in the future if all our senses were used to get us high, well in a way, they already do, what part of our decision making is NOT controlled by pheromones, hormones etc? do you really want that cheeseburger? or is a hormone in your stomach telling you to eat it? Do you want to ask that girl out because she's truly interesting? or is your body's reproductive clock is tell you to propagate your DNA? I often wonder, if we could take away all the hormonal and physical demands our body makes on the brain/personality, what would be left of the purely intellectual personality? You probably would even recognise yourself without all the physical drives. How much is you? and how much is the monkey brain behind the wheel?