Narrations
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Clarkesworld Magazine
“Kate Baker’s reading of the story is impressive. Aside from all the sound effects, Baker draws out the emotion from the protagonist, whether it’s genuinely moaning in pain to sharing her frustration with her husband.” (Review of “From the Lost Diary of TreeFrog7 by Nnedi Okorafor)
Charles Tan – Bibliophile Stalker
2011 Hugo Award Nominee – Best Semiprozine (Podcast Director) 
- “Celadon” by Desirina Boskovich
- “Herding Vegetable Sheep” by Ekatarina Sedia
- “From the Lost Diary of TreeFrog7″ by Nnedi Okorafor
- “Walking with a Ghost” by Nick Mamatas
- “White Charles” by Sarah Monette
- “Spar” by Kij Johnson
- “The Mermaids Singing Each to Each” by Cat Rambo
- “Night in Dark Perfection” by Richard Parks
- “The Things” by Peter Watts
- “All The Kings Monsters” by Megan Arkenberg
- “Torquing Vacuum” by Jay Lake
- “The Language of the Whirlwind” by Lavie Tidhar
- “Non-Zero Probabilities” by N.K. Jemison
- “Alone with Gandhari” by Gord Sellar
- “The History Within Us” by Matthew Kressel
- “Between Two Dragons” by Yoon Ha Lee
- “January” by Becca De La Rosa
- “A Jar of Goodwill” by Tobias S. Buckell
- “A Sweet Calling” by Tony Pi
- “Futures in the Memories Market” by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
- “My Father’s Singularity” by Brenda Cooper
- “Beach Blanket Spaceship” by Sandra McDonald
- “The Association of the Dead” by Rahul Kanakia
- “Thirteen Ways of Looking at Space Time” by Catherynne M. Valente
- “Messenger” by Julia Sidorova
- “The Cull” by Robert Reed
- “Paper Cradle” by Stephen Gaskell
- “Laying the Ghost” by Eric Brown
- “Salvaging Gods” by Jacques Barcia
- “On the Banks of the River Lex” by N.K. Jemisin
- “The Taxidermist’s Other Wife” by Kelly Barnhill
- “The Children of Main Street” by A.C. Wise
- “Ghostweight” by Yoon Ha Lee
- “Tying Knots” by Ken Liu
- “Diving After the Moon” by Rachel Swirsky
- “Three Oranges” by D. Elizabeth Wasden
- “The Book of Phoenix” by Nnedi Okorafor
- “Perfect Lies” by Gwendolyn Clare
- “The Cartographer Wasps and Anarchist Bees” by E. Lily Yu
- “Matchmaker” by Erin M. Hartshorn
- “Whose Face This Is I Do Not Know” by Cat Rambo
- “The Architect of Heaven” by Jason K. Chapman
- “Semiramis” by Genevieve Valentine
- “Trickster” by Mari Ness
- These podcasts also available via Itunes. Click here for the link.
“Kate Baker provides my favorite podcast from Clarkesworld this year, reading “Herding Vegetable Sheep.” I really enjoyed her interpretations of the rhythms in Sedia’s prose, and the subtle voice characterization.”
Alvaro Zinos-Amaro – The Fix
“I consider myself a pretty good live narrator, but Kate imbues my words with an undercurrent of regret and desperation that I would never have even considered. I’d have settled for just making my alien protagonist understandable: anthropologically, biologically. Kate makes it sympathetic, Kate makes it downright tragic. Kate takes those exact same words and inflects them somehow to make them hers.”
Peter Watts
“As a writer, it’s an easier way for me to disengage the critical brain, and have an emotional reaction to story. That is, after all, a big part of why I read and write. To feel. Yesterday I discovered a new story by a new writer I’d never heard of (Paper Cradle by Stephen Gaskell, read by Kate Baker, available at Clarkesworld) which made me cry. – Brenda Cooper
The Drabblecast
- “A Distant Sound of Hammers” by S. Boyd Taylor
- “Love in the Pneumatic Tube Era” by Jessica Grant
The Shine Anthology – A novel of optimistic science fiction edited by Jetse deVries
StarShipSofa
- Short story narration -Deadnauts by Ted Kosmatka (Aural Delights Episode #53)
- Poetry Narration -”Light Across An Impossible Lake” by Mark Rich (Aural Delights Episode #54)
- Poetry Narration – “Angel Bites” by Tim Pratt (Aural Delights Episode #68)
- Poetry Narration – “Black Holes Hold Their Breath” by Mike Allen (Aural Delights Episode #81)
- Poetry Narration – “Epochs in Exile” by Mike Allen & Charles Saplak (Aural Delights Episode #80)
- Poetry Narration – “The Strip Search” by Mike Allen (Aural Delights Episode #91)
- Short Story Narration – “The Reflection of Memory” by CL Holland (Aural Delights Episode #105)
- Short Story Narration – “After the Fire” by Aliette de Bodard (Aural Delights Episode #109)
These podcasts also available via Itunes. Click here for the link.
Escape Pod
- Short story narration – “Carthago Delenda Est” by Genevieve Valentine
- Short story narration -”The Kindness of Strangers” by Nancy Kress
- Short story narration – “The Uncanny Valley” by Nick Mamatas
- Short story narration – “Pirate Solutions” by Katherine Sparrow (Joint reading with other narrators)
- Short story narration – “Candy Art” by James Patrick Kelly
Mythic Delirium
- Poetry Narration – “Genesis” by Holly Dworken Cooley.
- Poetry Narration – “Last One Laments“ by Lindsey Nair
- Poetry Narration – “Other Fires” by Constance Cooper
- Poetry Narration – “The Ones Who Met Them” by Ann K. Schwader
These poems can be found under the “Featured Poems” link on the Mythic Delirium Website.
Fantasy Magazine
- Short story narration – “Superhero Girl” by Jessica J. Lee (This was included on a promotional audio CD given away at ReaderCon.)
Lee Stephen – Author of the Epic Series of Novels
- Podcast An excerpt from Chapters 0 &1 from Dawn of Destiny
- PodcastAn excerpt from Chapter 9 from Dawn of Destiny
- PodcastAn excerpt from Chapter 13 from Dawn of Destiny
- PodcastAn excerpt from Book 2 – Outlaw Trigger
- PodcastAn excerpt from Book 3 – Hero
My Writing (as Kathryn Nerys Baker)
- “The O’Leary Letters” – (set in the Loss of Innocence Universe, originally written by Pete. He’s given up some creative control and has let me write in the voice of a main character in this series, Shannon O’Leary.) — NEW!
- “How Not to Do A Podcast”
- “The Alchemist” – A high fantasy novel currently in progress
- “The Alchemist – Tobias”
- “The Alchemist – Chloe & Estelle”
- “The Alchemist – Dominic”
- “The Alchemist – Jessica”
- “The Alchemist – Thomas Netherward”
- “The Alchemist – William”
- “Jack and the Bellumwings”
- “The Price of Freedom – Part One”
- “A Question of Justice”
- “30 Paces to Wellingham”
- “It Was Raining“
- “A Question of Humanity”
- “A Question of Vengeance”
- “Entropy of Memory”
- “Into the Music”
- “Privateer” – A novel set on Europa
There are 10 chapters of this story. The first chapter was read by it’s author until he asked me to take over. You can find all of the chapters in that search string linked with the title.
A quick note: The stories “It Was Raining”, “A Question of Humanity”, “A Question of Vengeance”, “Entropy of Memory”, and “The Privateer” series are done with a relatively cheap (as you can hear by the slight hissing) microphone.
“The Alchemist” which is a novel in progress by Peter Hodges, uses both new microphone equipment and editing software. The reason I’ve put up all the rest of the work, is to see vocal inflection in the reading. (They’re great stories as well, and if I ever get the time, I might read them again, with the better setup.)
