Promising new approach to online fiction – Realm - Podcast App Review

Remember when the TV serials with cliffhangers at the end of each episode first appeared? And it took a whole season to get the whole story? Well, that used to be the way it was in publishing. Authors wrote by the chapter and people had the enjoyable frustration of waiting for the next chapter to appear. And now it's back. Beginning with a really promising start by the wonderful Max Gladstone that will keep you from hearing the phrase "lost in a book" the way you used to for the rest of your life, and with another serial on deck for late October, this software brings on-line publishing into the world of TV serials or the old serial novels. It's as easy to use as can be and not expensive. An app like this stands or falls on the quality of its content. With Gladstone's "Bookburners", the content is first-rate: what starts off like a police procedural rapidly swims into the deep waters of fantasy, magic, the Vatican (of course), and on and on. If Dan Brown could read this, he would burst into tears and never write another page. Meanwhile, fans of Tim Powers, Philip K. Dick, and (of course) Gladstone himself will have a fine time reading what's there and trying to figure out what's coming up - just like in any other serial. So great start to what could be a great addition to the online reading world.
Review by Chakwin on Realm - Podcast App.