Author Topic: Trying to find a story I think I heard on Podcastle  (Read 4247 times)

espertus

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on: February 06, 2012, 06:40:12 AM
I am trying to track down a fantasy story that I think I heard on Podcastle, but I can't find it in the archives: It was about a European adventurer who moved to a South American country in the hopes of entering the service of another adventurer, who disdained him when they met.  The main character ended up freeing an enslaved African by tricking a supernatural creature out of a treasure.  Can anyone help me?

Thanks.



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Reply #1 on: February 06, 2012, 12:29:40 PM
Are we sure that's Podcastle?  I thought I read that in Realms of Fantasy around the middle of last year...



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Reply #2 on: February 06, 2012, 12:44:25 PM
It doesn't sound familiar to me, and I've listened to every podcastle episode...



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Reply #3 on: February 06, 2012, 02:10:27 PM
Ah, I believe you're talking about Christopher Kastensmidt's "The Fortuitous Meeting of Gerard van Oost and Oludara," which played over at StarShipSofa.


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Reply #4 on: February 06, 2012, 04:34:38 PM
DKT, yes, that was it.  Thanks very much.  Sorry for mis-identifying the podcast.

Others, I recommend the story.



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Reply #5 on: February 06, 2012, 06:59:01 PM
DKT, yes, that was it.  Thanks very much.  Sorry for mis-identifying the podcast.

Others, I recommend the story.

I'm sure PodCastle is terribly insulted by your thinking of them first when it comes to good fiction that sticks in your head.

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