E. Chris Garrison's Blog, page 11
April 20, 2020
Alien Beer Podcast: Bonus 4 – Speakeasy
For this bonus episode, I have a special guest reading. My wife Amy Garrison wrote a fun bit of microfiction that I thought might make a topical bonus for the podcast. I envy her reading voice.
April 16, 2020
Alien Beer Podcast: Ch 5. The Multiverse Blues – I Believe I’ll Dust My Broom
This episode finds Jules and the others in Hopes crew scrambling after an unexpected turn of events with Smiley and his men, and then on to New Louie for their concert in the Gamma verse.
When I started The Multiverse Blues serial, I made sure I had at least a couple of episodes written and recorded before they aired, giving me a cushion of time to work on the next episodes so I wouldnt fall behind....
April 9, 2020
Animal Crossing RPG
Last night, my friends and I played the Animal Crossing RPG, a one-page Lasers & Feelings hack. Since I love one page TTRPGs, awhile ago, I wrote my own hack of the L&F system, a monster hunting game called Saving People / Hunting Things. To say that these games are different is a vast understatement. Mines about mystery, horror, and action, while Animal Crossing RPG is idyllic and peaceful. This shows the powerful flexibility of the Lasers & Feelings RPG engine.
I GMed this game for some of...
Alien Beer Podcast: The Spark
This was a story that originated in late 2014 as a self-challenge: to write a short story set in one of the universes featured in my novel Reality Check. It kicked off the beginnings of a sequel to that book, which sadly became too tangled to finish. Never fear, I have a better idea for how the sequel should go, and you get to enjoy this as the original stand-alone project it was intended to be.
This is also the universe in which The Multiverse...
April 2, 2020
Alien Beer Podcast: The Multiverse Blues – Last Fair Deal Gone Down #sciencefiction #serial #audio
In this episode, the crew of Hopes Tour introduces Jules to the retro verse of Gamma Earth and its hazards.
The Multiverse Blues is a science fiction serial spanning many alternate realities.
March 26, 2020
Alien Beer Podcast – Personal Space
When I wrote this story in 2014, I couldnt have pictured our current pandemic lockdown. I decided to post this episode earlier than it appears in my Alien Beer and Other Stories anthology because of its timely topic social isolation. In Trogs case, the cause is supernatural, rather than viral.
Inspiration is a funny thing. It can come to you anywhere, anytime. The idea for A Bone to Pick came as I drove into work, and I was forced to call my own phone to leave a...
March 19, 2020
Alien Beer Podcast: The Multiverse Blues – Stones in My Passway
Jules meets the other members of the interdimensional rock stars crew; stage manager Harlan, general manager Marcy Davenport, drummer Dribbler, bass and backup singer Babs, and enchanting alien singing sensation Hope herself.
Just about to pass through the Arch to Gamma Earth, Jules and the crew are stopped for inspection by Beta Earths dreaded TSA. Jules does not have an interdimensional passport.
Listen now!
March 12, 2020
Alien Beer Podcast – A Tale of Two Laundries
This sequel to Moby Me was written nearly four years afterwards, in 2017. What can I say, I have fun with the mad scientist trope.
https://alienbeer.podbean.com/e/ep-4-a-tale-of-two-laundries/
March 9, 2020
I’m going to be a guest on the Star Chamber Podcast!
On Wednesday, March 11th, at 9pm EST, please join me and Sean Duregger on the Star Chamber Podcast! We’ll be talking about the making of the Road Ghosts audiobook with show hosts Stephen Zimmer, Michael West, and Daniel Dark!
If you can’t (or didn’t) make it Wednesday night, the show will be archived here:
Trans-Continental: Girl in the Gears audiobook chapter 1
The concept for Trans-Continental came to me in a dream. In that dream, a trans woman protagonist and her Artful Dodger-like companion flew their airship from place to place, having adventures together in the steampunk world I wrote about inReality Check. I was so excited about this idea, I got up from bed at 2:30 in the morning and scribbled what I could remember down on my grocery list. When I found the notes in the morning, I dropped the writing project I had going already and started what...
