Transmission 18:
The Scent of Their Arrival by Mercurio D. Rivera
The Scent of Their Arrival by Mercurio D. Rivera
Read by the author and Matthew Kressel
From Interzone 214, February 2008
Illustration by Paul Drummond
Podcast Length: 66 minutes • Transmission Length: 58 minutes
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Welcome to Transmissions From Beyond, the biweekly podcast of stories selected from the pages of the TTA Press magazines Interzone (science fiction & fantasy), Black Static (horror) and Crimewave (crime & mystery) by editor Pete Bullock. New stories appear every other Monday. Videocasts are not on a set schedule.
July 23rd, 2009 at 4:15 am
Superb story and excellent readers! I was a bit intimidated given the abundance of alien names and technical terminology in science-fiction, but one strength of Mercurio’s writing is that it is laden with neither. Instead, he presents a riveting tale of a world whose inhabitants communicate through their sense of smell, trying to make contact with an orbiting vessel from Earth. I listened to the entire podcast on a drive through New England and was thoroughly riveted.