Comments on: Pseudopod 90: The Exhibition http://pseudopod.org/2008/05/16/pseudopod-90-the-exhibition/ The Sound of Horror. Pseudopod is the world\'s first audio horror magazine. We deliver bone-chilling stories from today\'s most talented authors straight to your computer or MP3 player. Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:30:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: greenunivers http://pseudopod.org/2008/05/16/pseudopod-90-the-exhibition/#comment-119938 greenunivers Mon, 13 Oct 2008 03:06:55 +0000 http://pseudopod.org/?p=135#comment-119938 <p>sun tree woman all</p> sun tree woman all

]]> By: xv6700ringto http://pseudopod.org/2008/05/16/pseudopod-90-the-exhibition/#comment-117389 xv6700ringto Wed, 24 Sep 2008 08:12:01 +0000 http://pseudopod.org/?p=135#comment-117389 <p>apple clean greed english letter boy</p> apple clean greed english letter boy

]]> By: maxiscallerh http://pseudopod.org/2008/05/16/pseudopod-90-the-exhibition/#comment-117387 maxiscallerh Wed, 24 Sep 2008 08:11:40 +0000 http://pseudopod.org/?p=135#comment-117387 <p>see tom global white</p> see tom global white

]]> By: howtogetring http://pseudopod.org/2008/05/16/pseudopod-90-the-exhibition/#comment-117338 howtogetring Wed, 24 Sep 2008 07:42:13 +0000 http://pseudopod.org/?p=135#comment-117338 <p>keyboard yes yahoo no ugly</p> keyboard yes yahoo no ugly

]]> By: nightcubetru http://pseudopod.org/2008/05/16/pseudopod-90-the-exhibition/#comment-115084 nightcubetru Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:16:57 +0000 http://pseudopod.org/?p=135#comment-115084 <p>we letter girl stay night steven</p> we letter girl stay night steven

]]> By: rightapplest http://pseudopod.org/2008/05/16/pseudopod-90-the-exhibition/#comment-115080 rightapplest Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:16:19 +0000 http://pseudopod.org/?p=135#comment-115080 <p>canada all car cube cube global yes</p> canada all car cube cube global yes

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]]> By: tombagjhon http://pseudopod.org/2008/05/16/pseudopod-90-the-exhibition/#comment-99755 tombagjhon Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:11:04 +0000 http://pseudopod.org/?p=135#comment-99755 <p>house boat vacant boy you house google student</p> house boat vacant boy you house google student

]]> By: ::A Geek in Korea:: » Blog Archive » Lethal like ~woah. http://pseudopod.org/2008/05/16/pseudopod-90-the-exhibition/#comment-89893 ::A Geek in Korea:: » Blog Archive » Lethal like ~woah. Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:01:46 +0000 http://pseudopod.org/?p=135#comment-89893 <p>[...] different, however, I don’t think I’m up for a multiple day campaign at the moment. I’ve got a podcast I’m listening to for inspiration, but I still don’t have my basic plot sorted out yet. I’ll let my ideas perculate for [...]</p> [...] different, however, I don’t think I’m up for a multiple day campaign at the moment. I’ve got a podcast I’m listening to for inspiration, but I still don’t have my basic plot sorted out yet. I’ll let my ideas perculate for [...]

]]> By: The Fix | From the Podosphere: May 2008 http://pseudopod.org/2008/05/16/pseudopod-90-the-exhibition/#comment-29128 The Fix | From the Podosphere: May 2008 Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:38:11 +0000 http://pseudopod.org/?p=135#comment-29128 <p>[...] “The Exhibition” by Melinda Selmys (read by Heather Welliver) the action of the story, such as it is, takes [...]</p> [...] “The Exhibition” by Melinda Selmys (read by Heather Welliver) the action of the story, such as it is, takes [...]

]]> By: Sgarre1 http://pseudopod.org/2008/05/16/pseudopod-90-the-exhibition/#comment-28477 Sgarre1 Wed, 09 Jul 2008 01:57:06 +0000 http://pseudopod.org/?p=135#comment-28477 <p>This one falls into that strange area for me - stories I think I'd like better if I read them myself. Same thing happened with "The Language Of Crows".</p> <p>I'm not one for world-building (I think true horror works best as little alterations in the real world) but you could definitely feel this writer was serious, so I appreciated the focus. Still, so much interiority is tough to bring across in a reading. Not that the reader wasn't good, just that, as I said above, it's tough to beat the experience of [i]reading[/i] some types of stories.</p> <p>Solid</p> <p>Thanks For Listening</p> <p>“Dr Sass…maintained that in paradise, until the time of the fall, the whole world was flat, the back-curtain of the Lord, and that it was the devil who invented a third dimension. Thus are the words ‘straight’, ‘square’, and ‘flat’ the words of noblemen, but the apple was an orb, and the sin of our first parents, the attempt at getting around God. I myself much prefer the art of painting to sculpture.” Isak Dinesen, “The Monkey” (1934)</p> This one falls into that strange area for me - stories I think I’d like better if I read them myself. Same thing happened with “The Language Of Crows”.

I’m not one for world-building (I think true horror works best as little alterations in the real world) but you could definitely feel this writer was serious, so I appreciated the focus. Still, so much interiority is tough to bring across in a reading. Not that the reader wasn’t good, just that, as I said above, it’s tough to beat the experience of [i]reading[/i] some types of stories.

Solid

Thanks For Listening

“Dr Sass…maintained that in paradise, until the time of the fall, the whole world was flat, the back-curtain of the Lord, and that it was the devil who invented a third dimension. Thus are the words ‘straight’, ‘square’, and ‘flat’ the words of noblemen, but the apple was an orb, and the sin of our first parents, the attempt at getting around God. I myself much prefer the art of painting to sculpture.” Isak Dinesen, “The Monkey” (1934)

]]> By: Spork http://pseudopod.org/2008/05/16/pseudopod-90-the-exhibition/#comment-24183 Spork Thu, 29 May 2008 01:33:37 +0000 http://pseudopod.org/?p=135#comment-24183 <p>Gross-out scifi as horror? No, thanks.</p> <p>I couldn't finish this stupid story about people made out of clay torturing people for "art." It all struck me as just so freaking...dumb.</p> <p>I have an idea. Why don't you start running good stories again?</p> Gross-out scifi as horror? No, thanks.

I couldn’t finish this stupid story about people made out of clay torturing people for “art.” It all struck me as just so freaking…dumb.

I have an idea. Why don’t you start running good stories again?

]]> By: Audita Sum http://pseudopod.org/2008/05/16/pseudopod-90-the-exhibition/#comment-24171 Audita Sum Wed, 28 May 2008 22:40:27 +0000 http://pseudopod.org/?p=135#comment-24171 <p>It was alright. I thought the part about people made out of various things was cool, but the whole exhibition was pretty far-fetched. It would've been better with a couple of disgruntled human rights activists picketing the place.</p> It was alright. I thought the part about people made out of various things was cool, but the whole exhibition was pretty far-fetched. It would’ve been better with a couple of disgruntled human rights activists picketing the place.

]]> By: Kate G. http://pseudopod.org/2008/05/16/pseudopod-90-the-exhibition/#comment-24056 Kate G. Mon, 26 May 2008 23:29:51 +0000 http://pseudopod.org/?p=135#comment-24056 <p>Still trying to figure it out. So, she had betrayed her lover? And this was partly why she hadn't gone to The Exhibition? This really needed more development. But, hey, I'm still thinking about it -- enough to come to the forums to see if anyone else had insights into what it all was. On the other hand, I didn't like it enough to listen to it again to figure it out. Yeah, still living mutilated bodies aren't so much my thing ...</p> Still trying to figure it out. So, she had betrayed her lover? And this was partly why she hadn’t gone to The Exhibition? This really needed more development. But, hey, I’m still thinking about it — enough to come to the forums to see if anyone else had insights into what it all was. On the other hand, I didn’t like it enough to listen to it again to figure it out. Yeah, still living mutilated bodies aren’t so much my thing …

]]> By: scatterbrain http://pseudopod.org/2008/05/16/pseudopod-90-the-exhibition/#comment-23998 scatterbrain Sun, 25 May 2008 22:57:59 +0000 http://pseudopod.org/?p=135#comment-23998 <p>Nope--nothing for me.</p> Nope–nothing for me.

]]> By: Steve Cooper http://pseudopod.org/2008/05/16/pseudopod-90-the-exhibition/#comment-23983 Steve Cooper Sun, 25 May 2008 18:08:35 +0000 http://pseudopod.org/?p=135#comment-23983 <p>I also quit some way in, but only because it seemed a bit too sci-fi for my tastes.</p> <p>Another shout for Al. He does a great job putting the stories into context, and his fiction is well worth seeking out itself.</p> I also quit some way in, but only because it seemed a bit too sci-fi for my tastes.

Another shout for Al. He does a great job putting the stories into context, and his fiction is well worth seeking out itself.

]]> By: V http://pseudopod.org/2008/05/16/pseudopod-90-the-exhibition/#comment-23738 V Fri, 23 May 2008 14:42:44 +0000 http://pseudopod.org/?p=135#comment-23738 <p>liked the story, liked its evocation of modern industrialized life, although in that regard its analysis was simplistic. It may be flash but its images will certainly stay with me for a while.</p> <p>begin fangirl gushing: ((</p> <p>But what really made it for me was Alasdair Stewart's afterword. Yes, he's added an extra dimension to a number of stories, but I really loved what he said here. You go Alasdair!</p> <p>)) end fangirl gushing</p> <p>Sound quality at the beginning at bit dodgy however. Then again, I've heard worse.</p> liked the story, liked its evocation of modern industrialized life, although in that regard its analysis was simplistic. It may be flash but its images will certainly stay with me for a while.

begin fangirl gushing: ((

But what really made it for me was Alasdair Stewart’s afterword. Yes, he’s added an extra dimension to a number of stories, but I really loved what he said here. You go Alasdair!

)) end fangirl gushing

Sound quality at the beginning at bit dodgy however. Then again, I’ve heard worse.

]]> By: Kevin Anderson http://pseudopod.org/2008/05/16/pseudopod-90-the-exhibition/#comment-23674 Kevin Anderson Thu, 22 May 2008 16:33:18 +0000 http://pseudopod.org/?p=135#comment-23674 <p>I liked this one. Well read and nicely written. It did feel like I was listening to a very very dark episode of escapepod - Now escapepod's turn to do a horror story.</p> I liked this one. Well read and nicely written. It did feel like I was listening to a very very dark episode of escapepod - Now escapepod’s turn to do a horror story.

]]> By: Ogion The Silent http://pseudopod.org/2008/05/16/pseudopod-90-the-exhibition/#comment-23493 Ogion The Silent Tue, 20 May 2008 06:43:39 +0000 http://pseudopod.org/?p=135#comment-23493 <p>A nice little diversion from the tedium of my morning bus ride to work - there's nothing quite like a methodically mutilated but still-living body to wake you up in the morning. But when it comes to horror I'm still more of a spirits-of-the-unquiet-dead type.</p> A nice little diversion from the tedium of my morning bus ride to work - there’s nothing quite like a methodically mutilated but still-living body to wake you up in the morning. But when it comes to horror I’m still more of a spirits-of-the-unquiet-dead type.

]]> By: Nick http://pseudopod.org/2008/05/16/pseudopod-90-the-exhibition/#comment-23464 Nick Mon, 19 May 2008 20:09:24 +0000 http://pseudopod.org/?p=135#comment-23464 <p>I couldn't make it through this story. I gave up after 10 minutes. The concept of mutilated bodies and people made of clay wasn't coming together for me.</p> <p>Still, it was much better than what I have ever written.</p> <p>Also, it could be considered a flash.</p> I couldn’t make it through this story. I gave up after 10 minutes. The concept of mutilated bodies and people made of clay wasn’t coming together for me.

Still, it was much better than what I have ever written.

Also, it could be considered a flash.

]]> By: David http://pseudopod.org/2008/05/16/pseudopod-90-the-exhibition/#comment-23459 David Mon, 19 May 2008 18:17:31 +0000 http://pseudopod.org/?p=135#comment-23459 <p>I agree that it was more scifi than typical. However, I enjoyed that fact; we have too much fantasy horror here and not enough scifi! It was a little short but I feel the author got the point across. Good work, keep it up.</p> I agree that it was more scifi than typical. However, I enjoyed that fact; we have too much fantasy horror here and not enough scifi! It was a little short but I feel the author got the point across. Good work, keep it up.

]]> By: George http://pseudopod.org/2008/05/16/pseudopod-90-the-exhibition/#comment-23373 George Sun, 18 May 2008 01:04:13 +0000 http://pseudopod.org/?p=135#comment-23373 <p>This sounded like flash, had the same "glimpse into the life, no need for a conclusion" of a flash.</p> <p>Definitely a flash.</p> This sounded like flash, had the same “glimpse into the life, no need for a conclusion” of a flash.

Definitely a flash.

]]> By: Dom http://pseudopod.org/2008/05/16/pseudopod-90-the-exhibition/#comment-23361 Dom Sat, 17 May 2008 19:15:02 +0000 http://pseudopod.org/?p=135#comment-23361 <p>Are you sure that wasn't a flash?</p> <p>I don't know what to say about this one. I think it was more Sci-Fi than horror. I found the idea of the world interesting, but it wasn't typical good Pseudopod to me. Sorry.</p> Are you sure that wasn’t a flash?

I don’t know what to say about this one. I think it was more Sci-Fi than horror. I found the idea of the world interesting, but it wasn’t typical good Pseudopod to me. Sorry.

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