Episode Reviews

I think I made this point before--about thirty reviews back...--but it's important so I'm going to mention it again. There's an art to using narration in audio fiction. Some people don't like it, sure, but there's the practical argument to consider. For the world of Numenera, there's a lot of tech that we aren't going to recognize by sound, a lot of actions that we need to understand but can't be prompted to envision with some beeps or boops. David S. Dear uses narration to help the audience understand the action. Not to condescend down to the audience like some narration podcasts do. That's the critical difference that people critical of narration in audio fiction don't fully realize.