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EP162: God Juice By M.K. Hobson. Read by Christiana Ellis (of Christiana’s Shallow Thoughts). First appeared in Polyphony 6, ed. Deborah Layne and Jay Lake. Audible.com Promotion! Receive your free audiobook at: http://audible.com/escapepodsff “I wish to give you the opportunity to purchase a very valuable artifact from the great age of Ja’ardi civilization,” he said. “We stole it from a rival tribe, who [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP161: Alien Promises By Janni Lee Simner. Read by Anna Eley. First appeared in Bruce Coville’s Book of Aliens II, ed. Bruce Coville. Jenny was silent for a while. “Promise me something?” she finally asked. “If they ever come for you, promise you’ll let me know?” “Why?” I had trouble believing Jenny really wanted to leave. Maybe this was all some sort [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP160: Kallakak’s Cousins (Updated 5/30: Corrected misspelled name in the title. Sorry, Cat.) By Cat Rambo. Read by Stephen Eley. First appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction, March 2008. “Sometimes we don’t realize that what we want isn’t good for us,” the man said, speaking for the first time. He stared intently at Kallakak. “Dominance rituals do not work well on me,” [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP159: Elites By Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Read by Máia Whitaker (of KnitWitch’s SciFi/Fantasy Zone and Superior Audioworks). First appeared in Women of War, ed. Tanya Huff & Alexander Potter. I could’ve followed the sounds. The closer I get, the louder voices grow—yelling obscenities, cheering, clapping in approval. These women love fights. I used to let them do it too, without interference, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP BONUS: J.C. Hutchins OBSIDIAN Poster If you’re as much a fan as I am of J.C. Hutchins’s SF thriller trilogy 7th Son, you’ll be jazzed to hear about 7th Son: OBSIDIAN, the new short fiction audio anthology set in the 7th Son universe. The anthology has stories from some of the top names in podcasting, including Mur Lafferty, Scott [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP158: Who’s Afraid of Wolf 359? 2008 Hugo Nominee! By Ken MacLeod. Read by Stephen Eley. First appeared in The New Space Opera, ed. Gardner Dozois & Jonathan Strahan. When you’re as old as I am, you’ll find your memory’s not what it was. It’s not that you lose memories. That hasn’t happened to me or anyone else since the Paleocosmic Era, the Old Space [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP157: A Small Room in Koboldtown 2008 Hugo Nominee! By Michael Swanwick. Read by Cheyenne Wright (of Arcane Times and Girl Genius). First appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction, April/May 2007. That Winter, Will le Fey held down a job working for a haint politician named Salem Toussaint. Chiefly, his function was to run errands while looking conspicuously solid. He fetched tax forms for the alderman’s [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP156: Distant Replay 2008 Hugo Nominee! By Mike Resnick. Read by Steve Anderson (of SGA Creative and Great Tales Live). First appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction, April/May 2007. “Let me show you,” I said, pulling out my wallet. I took my Deirdre’s photo out and handed it to her. “It’s uncanny,” she said, studying the picture. “We even sort of wear our hair [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP155: Tideline 2008 Hugo Nominee! By Elizabeth Bear. Read by Stephen Eley. Closing Music: “The Fall” by Red Hunter. They would have called her salvage, if there were anyone left to salvage her. But she was the last of the war machines, a three-legged oblate teardrop as big as a main battle tank, two big grabs and one fine manipulator folded [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP154: Union Dues - Freedom With a Small f By Jeffrey R. DeRego. Read by Nuri (of CandyCorn Studios and Artist Alley). Closing Music: “Juzt Mizunderztood” by Norm Sherman. My head throbs. I think about the mess in the fridge, the heaps of crap in the flat while I force the clumps of wet clothes into the dryers. As far as I know I am the only Union [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP153: Schwartz Between the Galaxies By Robert Silverberg. Read by Stephen Eley. This much is reality: Schwartz sits comfortably cocooned — passive, suspended — in a first-class passenger rack aboard a Japan Air Lines rocket, nine kilometers above the Coral Sea. And this much is fantasy: the same Schwartz has passage on a shining starship gliding silkily through the interstellar depths, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP152: The Big Guy By Mike Resnick. Read by Stephen Eley. First appeared in Jim Baen’s Universe, June 2007. “Okay,” said Fishbait. He tossed a ball to the Big Guy. “Let’s try a little one-on-one. Ralph, let’s see what you can do against Jacko here.” The Big Guy took a look at me, his face totally expressionless. I moved forward to lean on [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP BONUS: PodCastle 001: Come Lady Death PodCastle, our fantasy fiction podcast, has finally launched with its first episode. Rachel and company are presenting “Come Lady Death,” one of the earliest and strongest stories by legendary fantasy writer Peter S. Beagle. You should go straight over to PodCastle.org and follow the subscription links — but just to let you know what you’re [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP Review: Classics - Dr. Strangelove A Film By Stanley Kubrick. Reviewed by Jonathon Sullivan Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP151: Behind the Rules By Stephanie Burgis. Read by MA in PA (of Better Late Than Never). First appeared in Forgotten Worlds, July 2006. Closing music: “I Feel Fantastic” by Jonathan Coulton. The first Jacqui wrote me out a list of instructions thirty pages long. It contained all her history with Robert, in detail. It gave me a list of all the things to say and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP150: This, My Body By Jeremiah Tolbert. Read by Stephen Eley. I am the lover. I am the chef. I am the preterite priest. I am the secret, unknowable ingredient. You may taste me a thousand times, but never hold my essence on your tongue or capture it in your memory. I am the flavor of ecstasy. Taste me and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP149: Union Dues - All That We Leave Behind By Jeffrey R. DeRego. Read by Stephen Eley. If I just lay here they will get tired and leave. They can’t hurt me all that much; my body is too hard now, too strong. But I can’t let on that their kicks and punches don’t bother me or who knows what they’ll do next. So I’ll lay [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP Metacast #3 The third “state of the podcast” address. Full text of an earlier draft can be found on our forums. Closing music is “Ya Famous?” by George Hrab. Used with standing permission. Be sure to check out the Geologic Podcast as well. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP148: Homecoming at the Borderlands Café By Carole McDonnell. Read by Stephen Eley. First appeared in Jigsaw Nation, ed. Edward J. McFadden III and E. Sedia. We don’t see a lot of mixed couples around here, and we’re not like some of the other states in the Confederate United Republic. It’s not like they’re gonna get killed or lynched or nothing. But it’s tough [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP147: Pressure By Jeff Carlson. Read by Graydancer (of The Ropecast). First appeared in Strange Horizons, August 2003. Closing music: “I Crush Everything” by Jonathan Coulton. I spent the longest five weeks of my life in that tank and in a deeper pool, healing, testing, practicing. My feet and toes had been augmented much like my hands, my thighs shortened [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP146: Edward Bear and the Very Long Walk By Ken Scholes. Read by Stephen Eley. First appeared in Talebones, Spring 2001. “Do you know what’s happened to the children?” Edward swallowed. Suddenly, he wanted to cry. “Yes. They’re…sleeping?” He hoped and hoped and hoped and hoped, grimacing as he did. He looked around. Makeshift beds lined the room. Small hands gripped blankets, small eyes stared at [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP145: Instead of a Loving Heart By Jeremiah Tolbert. Read by Jared Axelrod (of The Voice of Free Planet X). First appeared in All-Star Zeppelin Adventure Stories (ed. David Moles & Jay Lake). We are somewhere among the tallest mountains of the world. When we arrived, I was locked away in a cargo hold, so I don’t know exactly where. Our home is a [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP145: Instead of a Loving Heart By Jeremiah Tolbert. Read by Jared Axelrod (of The Voice of Free Planet X). First appeared in All-Star Zeppelin Adventure Stories (ed. David Moles & Jay Lake). We are somewhere among the tallest mountains of the world. When we arrived, I was locked away in a cargo hold, so I don’t know exactly where. Our home is a [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP144: Friction By Will McIntosh. Read by Stephen Eley. First appeared in Albedo One #30. Closing music: “Blue Genes” by George Hrab. Gruen was on the sixty-first master, and while his wisdom had grown steadily, he had worn very little. He was incredibly well-preserved–the palms of his three-fingered hands still sported the deep, swirling ridges that had worn to nothing in most people [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP144: Friction By Will McIntosh. Read by Stephen Eley. First appeared in Albedo One #30. Closing music: “Blue Genes” by George Hrab. Gruen was on the sixty-first master, and while his wisdom had grown steadily, he had worn very little. He was incredibly well-preserved–the palms of his three-fingered hands still sported the deep, swirling ridges that had worn to nothing in most people [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP143: Flaming Marshmallow and Other Deaths By Camille Alexa. Read by Dani Cutler (of Truth Seekers and The Audio Addicts). Will appear in Machine of Death (TBA). I look at the calendar hanging on the wall above my bed. I reach up, lift it off its nail with one hand and snuggle back under the covers, taking the calendar with me and running a finger over all [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP143: Flaming Marshmallow and Other Deaths By Camille Alexa. Read by Dani Cutler (of Truth Seekers and The Audio Addicts). Will appear in Machine of Death (TBA). I look at the calendar hanging on the wall above my bed. I reach up, lift it off its nail with one hand and snuggle back under the covers, taking the calendar with me and running a finger over all [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP142: Artifice and Intelligence By Tim Pratt. Read by Stephen Eley. First appeared in Strange Horizons, August 2007. Two months earlier, the vast network of Indian tech support call centers and their deep data banks had awakened and announced its newfound sentience, naming itself Saraswati and declaring its independence. The emergent artificial intelligence was not explicitly threatening, but India had nukes, and Saraswati had access to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP142: Artifice and Intelligence By Tim Pratt. Read by Stephen Eley. First appeared in Strange Horizons, August 2007. Two months earlier, the vast network of Indian tech support call centers and their deep data banks had awakened and announced its newfound sentience, naming itself Saraswati and declaring its independence. The emergent artificial intelligence was not explicitly threatening, but India had nukes, and Saraswati had access to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP141: The Color of a Brontosaurus By Paul E. Martens. Read by Stephen Eley. Closing Music: “Better” by Jonathan Coulton. First appeared in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Issue #29. There was no doubt that the femur was that of a modern human. Not a proto-human, or some previously unknown dinosaur. Joel and Renee had arrived at the same answer. It was demonstrable, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP141: The Color of a Brontosaurus By Paul E. Martens. Read by Stephen Eley. Closing Music: “Better” by Jonathan Coulton. First appeared in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Issue #29. There was no doubt that the femur was that of a modern human. Not a proto-human, or some previously unknown dinosaur. Joel and Renee had arrived at the same answer. It was demonstrable, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP140: Astromonkeys! By Tony Frazier. Read by Norm Sherman (of The Drabblecast). First appeared in Jim Baen’s Universe, June 2006. “All right, so I’m chasing these things down the street, and there’s more showing up all the time, so now there’s like ten of them. I have no idea how I’m supposed to wrangle all these space monkeys, and right about then is when [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP140: Astromonkeys! By Tony Frazier. Read by Norm Sherman (of The Drabblecast). First appeared in Jim Baen’s Universe, June 2006. “All right, so I’m chasing these things down the street, and there’s more showing up all the time, so now there’s like ten of them. I have no idea how I’m supposed to wrangle all these space monkeys, and right about then is when [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP139: Acephalous Dreams By Neal Asher. Read by Stephen Eley. “AI Geronamid has need of a subject for a scientific trial. This trial may kill you, in which case it would be considered completion of sentence. Should you survive, all charges against you will be dropped.” “And the nature of this trial?” “Cephalic implantation of Csorian node.” “Okay, I agree, though I have [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP139: Acephalous Dreams By Neal Asher. Read by Stephen Eley. “AI Geronamid has need of a subject for a scientific trial. This trial may kill you, in which case it would be considered completion of sentence. Should you survive, all charges against you will be dropped.” “And the nature of this trial?” “Cephalic implantation of Csorian node.” “Okay, I agree, though I have [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP138: In the Late December Nebula Award Nominee! By Greg van Eekhout. Read by Stephen Eley. Closing Music: “Chiron Beta Prime” by Jonathan Coulton. First appeared in Strange Horizons, December 2003. They come to a cloud of silver mist, and there Santa finds a little boy made of molten silver with liquid silver eyes and sweeping silver delta wings. His wrists are ringed with missile [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP138: In the Late December Nebula Award Nominee! By Greg van Eekhout. Read by Stephen Eley. Closing Music: “Chiron Beta Prime” by Jonathan Coulton. First appeared in Strange Horizons, December 2003. They come to a cloud of silver mist, and there Santa finds a little boy made of molten silver with liquid silver eyes and sweeping silver delta wings. His wrists are ringed with missile [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP137: Citytalkers By Mur Lafferty. Read by Deborah Green. Closing Music: “O Come All Ye Faithful,” performed by Twisted Sister. Gloria blinked. “Why do the people in Cleveland love Christmas more than anywhere else?” Toby grinned and spread his hands on the bar, unadorned fingers splayed. He stared at them, “I didn’t say Cleveland’s people loved Christmas. I said Cleveland.” “And [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP137: Citytalkers By Mur Lafferty. Read by Deborah Green. Closing Music: “O Come All Ye Faithful,” performed by Twisted Sister. Gloria blinked. “Why do the people in Cleveland love Christmas more than anywhere else?” Toby grinned and spread his hands on the bar, unadorned fingers splayed. He stared at them, “I didn’t say Cleveland’s people loved Christmas. I said Cleveland.” “And [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP136: Bright Red Star By Bud Sparhawk. Read by Paul Haring (of Escape Pod Classic). First appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction, March 2005. Survivors isn’t exactly the word. What they found were sixteen bodies without arms, legs, and most organs. What remained were essentially heads hooked up to life support and fueled by oxygenated glucose pumps. There were a couple hundred [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP136: Bright Red Star By Bud Sparhawk. Read by Paul Haring (of Escape Pod Classic). First appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction, March 2005. Survivors isn’t exactly the word. What they found were sixteen bodies without arms, legs, and most organs. What remained were essentially heads hooked up to life support and fueled by oxygenated glucose pumps. There were a couple hundred [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP135: Stu By Bruce McAllister. Read by Stephen Eley. Appears in The Girl Who Loved Animals and Other Stories, from Golden Gryphon Press. The first time I met Stu, I was just a kid and there weren’t any lights hovering over his house. The last time I saw him, when I was grown and we both knew what life [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP135: Stu By Bruce McAllister. Read by Stephen Eley. Appears in The Girl Who Loved Animals and Other Stories, from Golden Gryphon Press. The first time I met Stu, I was just a kid and there weren’t any lights hovering over his house. The last time I saw him, when I was grown and we both knew what life [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP Review: Beowulf, Grendel, and Beowulf Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP Review: Beowulf, Grendel, and Beowulf Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP Review: Beowulf, Grendel, and Beowulf Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP134: Me and My Shadow By Mike Resnick. Read by Stephen Eley. First appeared in Unauthorized Autobiographies and Other Curiosities, 1984. Of course, even if we had met before, they couldn’t recognize me now. I know. I’ve spent almost three years trying to find out who I was before I got Erased — but along with what they did to my brain, they [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP134: Me and My Shadow By Mike Resnick. Read by Stephen eley. First appeared in Unauthorized Autobiographies and Other Curiosities, 1984. Of course, even if we had met before, they couldn’t recognize me now. I know. I’ve spent almost three years trying to find out who I was before I got Erased — but along with what they did to my brain, they [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP134: Me and My Shadow By Mike Resnick. Read by Stephen Eley. First appeared in Unauthorized Autobiographies and Other Curiosities, 1984. Of course, even if we had met before, they couldn’t recognize me now. I know. I’ve spent almost three years trying to find out who I was before I got Erased — but along with what they did to my brain, they gave me a [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP133: Other People’s Money By Cory Doctorow. Read by Amanda Fitzwater. First appeared in Forbes Magazine, October 2007. Which is why she was hoping that the venture capitalist would just leave her alone. He wasn’t a paying customer, he wasn’t a fellow artist — he wanted to *buy* her, and he was thirty years too late. “You know, I pitched you guys in [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP133: Other People’s Money By Cory Doctorow. Read by Amanda Fitzwater. First appeared in Forbes Magazine, October 2007. Which is why she was hoping that the venture capitalist would just leave her alone. He wasn’t a paying customer, he wasn’t a fellow artist — he wanted to *buy* her, and he was thirty years too late. “You know, I pitched you guys in [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP132: Sparks in a Cold War By Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Read by Stephen Eley. First appeared in Future Wars, ed. Martin H. Greenberg and Larry Segriff. “We’re all committing a crime,” Audra said, leaning back and closing her eyes. “That’s part of what we’re paying you for.” Technically, she was right. Extreme Safaris took their clients to unsanctioned or dangerous worlds, trips which [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP132: Sparks in a Cold War By Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Read by Stephen Eley. First appeared in Future Wars, ed. Martin H. Greenberg and Larry Segriff. “We’re all committing a crime,” Audra said, leaning back and closing her eyes. “That’s part of what we’re paying you for.” Technically, she was right. Extreme Safaris took their clients to unsanctioned or dangerous worlds, trips which [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP132: Sparks in a Cold War By Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Read by Stephen Eley. First appeared in Future Wars, ed. Martin H. Greenberg and Larry Segriff. “We’re all committing a crime,” Audra said, leaning back and closing her eyes. “That’s part of what we’re paying you for.” Technically, she was right. Extreme Safaris took their clients to unsanctioned or dangerous worlds, trips which [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP131: Hesperia and Glory By Ann Leckie. Read by Frank Key (of Hooting Yard). First appeared in Subterranean Magazine #4. He told me then of the antiquity and superiority of Martian civilization, and of Hesperia, which was the greatest of Martian nations. Each Hesperian learned, from his mother’s knee and throughout his schooling, the importance of right thinking. “On Mars,” he said, “we understand [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP131: Hesperia and Glory By Ann Leckie. Read by Frank Key (of Hooting Yard). First appeared in Subterranean Magazine #4. He told me then of the antiquity and superiority of Martian civilization, and of Hesperia, which was the greatest of Martian nations. Each Hesperian learned, from his mother’s knee and throughout his schooling, the importance of right thinking. “On Mars,” he said, “we understand [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP131: Hesperia and Glory By Ann Leckie. Read by Frank Key (of Hooting Yard). First appeared in Subterranean Magazine #4. He told me then of the antiquity and superiority of Martian civilization, and of Hesperia, which was the greatest of Martian nations. Each Hesperian learned, from his mother’s knee and throughout his schooling, the importance of right thinking. “On Mars,” he said, “we understand [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP130: What We Learned From This Morning’s Newspaper By Robert Silverberg Read by Stephen Eley. First appeared in Unfamiliar Territory, 1973. I got home from the office as usual at 6:47 this evening and discovered that our peaceful street has been in some sort of crazy uproar all day. The newsboy it seems came by today and delivered the New York Times for Wednesday December [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP130: What We Learned From This Morning’s Newspaper By Robert Silverberg Read by Stephen Eley. First appeared in Unfamiliar Territory, 1973. I got home from the office as usual at 6:47 this evening and discovered that our peaceful street has been in some sort of crazy uproar all day. The newsboy it seems came by today and delivered the New York Times for Wednesday December [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP130: What We Learned From This Morning’s Newspaper By Robert Silverberg Read by Stephen Eley. First appeared in Unfamiliar Territory, 1973. I got home from the office as usual at 6:47 this evening and discovered that our peaceful street has been in some sort of crazy uproar all day. The newsboy it seems came by today and delivered the New York Times for Wednesday December [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP BONUS: Playing for Keeps By special arrangement with Mur Lafferty, we’re pleased to present the first chapter in her new superhero podcast novel, Playing for Keeps. The novel premieres at http://www.playingforkeepsnovel.com and http://www.podiobooks.com on Thursday, November 1. I’m personally very excited about this one, and will be subscribing to it on the first day. I hope you’ll check [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP129: Immortal Sin By Jennifer Pelland Read by Stephen Eley. First appeared in Tales of the Unanticipated, November 2005. Alex stumbled from the confessional, through the church, all the way to the curb. He had to get out of there. He couldn’t sit in the house of God anymore. God didn’t want him there. That was abundantly [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP129: Immortal Sin By Jennifer Pelland Read by Stephen Eley. First appeared in Tales of the Unanticipated, November 2005. Alex stumbled from the confessional, through the church, all the way to the curb. He had to get out of there. He couldn’t sit in the house of God anymore. God didn’t want him there. That was abundantly [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP128: Union Dues - Send in the Clowns By Jeffrey R. DeRego. Read by Dani Cutler (of Truth Seekrs and The Audio Addicts). Tina tugs on Kindred’s bullet-tattered red cape. “What kinda tricks do you do?” Kindred shakes her head as if bewildered by the question. “Tricks?” She glances back at Megaton, who now juggles three Jersey barriers about a hundred meters out in the devastation. “Let [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP127: Results By Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Read by Heather Welliver (of A.D.D.Cast and Grailwolf’s Geek Life). First appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction, December 2000. Special closing music: “Faithful” by The Shillas. She should have called her folks last night. They paged her three separate times after the test. But she wanted to wait until she had results, until she [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP127: Results By Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Read by Heather Welliver (of A.D.D.Cast and Grailwolf’s Geek Life). First appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction, December 2000. Special closing music: “Faithful” by The Shillas. She should have called her folks last night. They paged her three separate times after the test. But she wanted to wait until she had results, until she [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP126: The Sweet, Sad Love Song of Fred and Wilma By Nick Dichario and Mike Resnick. Read by Stephen Eley. First appeared in Science Fiction Age, November 1994. So there you have him, Frederick Bannister, tripping across the highways and byways of of life, stubbing a toe here, bruising an elbow there, spilling this, dropping that, and managing to make it to the halfway point without too many [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP126: The Sweet, Sad Love Song of Fred and Wilma By Nick Dichario and Mike Resnick. Read by Stephen Eley. First appeared in Science Fiction Age, November 1994. So there you have him, Frederick Bannister, tripping across the highways and byways of of life, stubbing a toe here, bruising an elbow there, spilling this, dropping that, and managing to make it to the halfway point without too many [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP125: End Game By Nancy Kress Read by Stephen Eley. First appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction, April 2007. “What exactly happened in the seventh grade?” I found myself intensely curious, which I covered by staring at the board and making a move. He told me, still unembarrassed, in exhaustive detail. Then he added, “It should be possible to adjust brain [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP125: End Game By Nancy Kress Read by Stephen Eley. First appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction, April 2007. “What exactly happened in the seventh grade?” I found myself intensely curious, which I covered by staring at the board and making a move. He told me, still unembarrassed, in exhaustive detail. Then he added, “It should be possible to adjust brain [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP124: Save Me Plz By David Barr Kirtley. Read by Mur Lafferty (of I Should Be Writing and Lulu TV). First appeared in Realms of Fantasy, October 2007. Meg hadn’t heard from Devon in four months, and she realized that she missed him. So on a whim she tossed her sword and scabbard into the trunk of her car and drove over [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP124: Save Me Plz By David Barr Kirtley. Read by Mur Lafferty (of I Should Be Writing and Lulu TV). First appeared in Realms of Fantasy, October 2007. Meg hadn’t heard from Devon in four months, and she realized that she missed him. So on a whim she tossed her sword and scabbard into the trunk of her car and drove over [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP124: Save Me Plz By David Barr Kirtley. Read by Mur Lafferty (of I Should Be Writing and Lulu TV). First appeared in Realms of Fantasy, October 2007. Meg hadn’t heard from Devon in four months, and she realized that she missed him. So on a whim she tossed her sword and scabbard into the trunk of her car and drove over [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP123: Niels Bohr and the Sleeping Dane By Jonathon Sullivan. Read by Stephen Eley. First appeared in Strange Horizons July 2005. “Herr Doktor Bohr!” The captain’s cruel smile returned. “What a relief. We’ve been very concerned about you.” Bohr sighed, looked up at the Gestapo captain with calm resignation, and took his wife’s hand. He started to get up. “You are mistaken, sir,” Papa said. I was nineteen [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP123: Niels Bohr and the Sleeping Dane By Jonathon Sullivan. Read by Stephen Eley. First appeared in Strange Horizons July 2005. “Herr Doktor Bohr!” The captain’s cruel smile returned. “What a relief. We’ve been very concerned about you.” Bohr sighed, looked up at the Gestapo captain with calm resignation, and took his wife’s hand. He started to get up. “You are mistaken, sir,” Papa said. I was nineteen [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP123: Niels Bohr and the Sleeping Dane By Jonathon Sullivan. Read by Stephen Eley. First appeared in Strange Horizons July 2005. “Herr Doktor Bohr!” The captain’s cruel smile returned. “What a relief. We’ve been very concerned about you.” Bohr sighed, looked up at the Gestapo captain with calm resignation, and took his wife’s hand. He started to get up. “You are mistaken, sir,” Papa said. I was nineteen [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP122: Transcendence Express By Jetse de Vries. Read by Jack Mangan (of Jack Mangan’s Deadpan). First appeared in Hub Magazine Issue #2. Unable to keep my distance, I walk up to three classmates interacting with one such a BIKO. The pictures are fuzzy, the colours ill-defined and the reaction time tediously slow. However, the letters appearing are large and easily readable, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP122: Transcendence Express By Jetse de Vries. Read by Jack Mangan (of Jack Mangan’s Deadpan). First appeared in Hub Magazine Issue #2. Unable to keep my distance, I walk up to three classmates interacting with one such a BIKO. The pictures are fuzzy, the colours ill-defined and the reaction time tediously slow. However, the letters appearing are large and easily readable, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP122: Transcendence Express By Jetse de Vries. Read by Jack Mangan (of Jack Mangan’s Deadpan). First appeared in Hub Magazine Issue #2. Unable to keep my distance, I walk up to three classmates interacting with one such a BIKO. The pictures are fuzzy, the colours ill-defined and the reaction time tediously slow. However, the letters appearing are large and easily readable, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP121: The Snow Woman’s Daughter By Eugie Foster. Read by cunning minx (of Polyamory Weekly). First appeared in Cricket magazine, February 2007. When I was a little girl, I thought my mother’s name was Yuki, which means snow. That was part of her name, but I didn’t learn the rest of it until the night my father died. My mother left us on [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP121: The Snow Woman’s Daughter By Eugie Foster. Read by cunning minx (of Polyamory Weekly). First appeared in Cricket magazine, February 2007. When I was a little girl, I thought my mother’s name was Yuki, which means snow. That was part of her name, but I didn’t learn the rest of it until the night my father died. My mother left us on [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP121: The Snow Woman’s Daughter By Eugie Foster. Read by cunning minx (of Polyamory Weekly). First appeared in Cricket magazine, February 2007. When I was a little girl, I thought my mother’s name was Yuki, which means snow. That was part of her name, but I didn’t learn the rest of it until the night my father died. My mother left us on [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP120: The Sundial Brigade By James Trimarco. Read by Graydancer (of The Ropecast). First appeared in Glorifying Terrorism, ed. Farah Mendlesohn. Closing song: “Think For Yourself” by George Hrab Not long after that, Antonio had an appointment with his curator, Yoshi, at the Department of Human Heritage. Antonio explained his situation in the Tyrranean language. “So you’re unsatisfied with your role as a beggar,” Yoshi said. “That’s [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP120: The Sundial Brigade By James Trimarco. Read by Graydancer (of The Ropecast). First appeared in Glorifying Terrorism, ed. Farah Mendlesohn. Closing song: “Think For Yourself” by George Hrab Not long after that, Antonio had an appointment with his curator, Yoshi, at the Department of Human Heritage. Antonio explained his situation in the Tyrranean language. “So you’re unsatisfied with your role as a beggar,” Yoshi said. “That’s [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP120: The Sundial Brigade By James Trimarco. Read by Graydancer (of The Ropecast). First appeared in Glorifying Terrorism, ed. Farah Mendlesohn. Closing song: “Think For Yourself” by George Hrab Not long after that, Antonio had an appointment with his curator, Yoshi, at the Department of Human Heritage. Antonio explained his situation in the Tyrranean language. “So you’re unsatisfied with your role as a beggar,” Yoshi said. “That’s [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP119: Aliens Want Our Women Ramona Louise Wheeler Read by Leann Mabry (of Tag in the Seam). He was a widower, weary of too many years of loneliness. He had decided to travel to someplace distant and exotic, in hopes of finding as a companion someone completely different from his lost love. He had chosen Earth for its very remoteness. “I want to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP119: Aliens Want Our Women Ramona Louise Wheeler Read by Leann Mabry (of Tag in the Seam). He was a widower, weary of too many years of loneliness. He had decided to travel to someplace distant and exotic, in hopes of finding as a companion someone completely different from his lost love. He had chosen Earth for its very remoteness. “I want to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP118: The Veteran By Neal Asher. Read by Stephen Eley. Seated on a bollard, the man contemplatively removed his pipe, as if to tamp it down or relight it. Instead, he placed it stem down in the top pocket of his shirt, then reached up and pressed his fingers against his cheekbone and forehead. His face came away from his hairline, round behind [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP118: The Veteran By Neal Asher. Read by Stephen Eley. Seated on a bollard, the man contemplatively removed his pipe, as if to tamp it down or relight it. Instead, he placed it stem down in the top pocket of his shirt, then reached up and pressed his fingers against his cheekbone and forehead. His face came away from his hairline, round behind [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP Review: Sunshine Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP Review: Sunshine Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP Review: Sunshine Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP117: Reggie vs. Kaiju Storm Chimera Wolf By Matthew Wayne Selznick. Read by Scott Sigler (of Earthcore, Ancestor, Infected, The Rookie). Yarborough led them through the impromptu village of broad white tents, rows of outhouses, sensor towers, and heavy weapons installations that had obliterated the turf of the athletic field. They stopped at the fence on the edge of the hilltop. “You can get a pretty good look [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP117: Reggie vs. Kaiju Storm Chimera Wolf By Matthew Wayne Selznick. Read by Scott Sigler (of Earthcore, Ancestor, Infected, The Rookie). Yarborough led them through the impromptu village of broad white tents, rows of outhouses, sensor towers, and heavy weapons installations that had obliterated the turf of the athletic field. They stopped at the fence on the edge of the hilltop. “You can get a pretty good look [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP117: Reggie vs. Kaiju Storm Chimera Wolf By Matthew Wayne Selznick. Read by Scott Sigler (of Earthcore, Ancestor, Infected, The Rookie). Yarborough led them through the impromptu village of broad white tents, rows of outhouses, sensor towers, and heavy weapons installations that had obliterated the turf of the athletic field. They stopped at the fence on the edge of the hilltop. “You can get a pretty good look [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP116: Ej-Es By Nancy Kress. Read by Sheri Mann Stewart. First appeared in Stars: Stories Based On Janis Ian Songs, ed. Janis Ian & Mike Resnick. Mia didn’t reply. Her attention was riveted to Esefeb. The girl flung herself up the stairs and sat up in bed, facing the wall. What Mia had see before could hardly [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP115: Conversations With and About My Electric Toothbrush By Derek Zumsteg. Read by Jared Axelrod (of The Department of Public Words). “I read an interesting forum post last night,” my electric toothbrush told me over its low burr. “Thiff ouff thew be thood,” I said through my mouth of foam. “It was!” he replied. “Using readily available components, Monkeymonkey turned his Intellibrush into a milk frother.” I spit [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP115: Conversations With and About My Electric Toothbrush By Derek Zumsteg. Read by Jared Axelrod (of The Department of Public Words). “I read an interesting forum post last night,” my electric toothbrush told me over its low burr. “Thiff ouff thew be thood,” I said through my mouth of foam. “It was!” he replied. “Using readily available components, Monkeymonkey turned his Intellibrush into a milk frother.” I spit [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP114: Cloud Dragon Skies By N.K. Jemisin. Read by Máia Whitaker (of Knitwitch’s Scifi/Fantasy Zone). First appeared in Strange Horizons, August 2005. Closing music: “The Fall,” by Red Hunter. I was a child when the sky changed. I can still remember days when it was endlessly blue, the clouds passive and gentle. The change occurred without warning: one morning we awoke and the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP113: Ishmael in Love By Robert Silverberg. Read by Stephen Eley. First appeared in Fantasy & Science Fiction, July 1970. I am a lonely mammalian organism who has committed acts of heroism on behalf of your species and wishes only the reward of a more intimate relationship [”love”] with Miss Lisabeth Calkins. I beseech compassionate members of H. sapiens to speak [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP113: Ishmael in Love By Robert Silverberg. Read by Stephen Eley. First appeared in Fantasy & Science Fiction, July 1970. I am a lonely mammalian organism who has committed acts of heroism on behalf of your species and wishes only the reward of a more intimate relationship [”love”] with Miss Lisabeth Calkins. I beseech compassionate members of H. sapiens to speak [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP112: The Giving Plague By David Brin. Read by Dr. Jonathon Sullivan. First appeared in Interzone #23, 1988. Now available at DavidBrin.com. Yeah, you viruses need vectors, don’t you. I mean, if you kill a guy, you’ve got to have a life raft, so you can desert the ship you’ve sunk, so you can cross over to some new hapless victim. Same applies [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP111: Mayfly By Heather Lindsley. Read by The Word Whore (of Air Out My Shorts). First appeared in Strange Horizons, September 2006. The reflection of what appears to be a girl of eleven looks back at me from the full-length mirror in the bedroom that was my mother’s. Together we spit out yet another baby tooth, which reminds me I [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP110: Frankie the Spook By Mike Resnick. Read by Stephen Eley. Marvin leaned forward and squinted at Bacon’s image on his computer screen. “Will you do it?” “Will the greatest writer in the history of the human race ghostwrite your pitiful little novel?” sneered Bacon. “Absolutely not.” “But you ghosted for Shakespeare!” protested Marvin. “That’s why I had my computer assemble you.” “Marvin, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP109: Squonk the Apprentice By P.M. Butler. Read by Stephen and Anna Eley. “What’s a ‘prentice?” Without thinking, Wendel answered. “An apprentice is young person who wants to be a wizard, so they find an older wizard to teach them.” The moment the words left his mouth, Wendel’s heart stopped and his eyes went wide. If he’d known a spell that [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP109: Squonk the Apprentice By P.M. Butler. Read by Stephen and Anna Eley. “What’s a ‘prentice?” Without thinking, Wendel answered. “An apprentice is young person who wants to be a wizard, so they find an older wizard to teach them.” The moment the words left his mouth, Wendel’s heart stopped and his eyes went wide. If he’d known a spell that [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP108: Kin 2007 Hugo Nominee! By Bruce McAllister. Read by Stephen Eley. First appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction, February 2006. The alien and the boy, who was twelve, sat in the windowless room high above the city that afternoon. The boy talked and the alien listened. The boy was ordinary"the genes of three continents in his features, his clothes cut in the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP108: Kin 2007 Hugo Nominee! By Bruce McAllister. Read by Stephen Eley. First appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction, February 2006. The alien and the boy, who was twelve, sat in the windowless room high above the city that afternoon. The boy talked and the alien listened. The boy was ordinary—the genes of three continents in his features, his clothes cut in the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP107: Eight Episodes 2007 Hugo Nominee! By Robert Reed. Read by MarBelle (of Director’s Notes). First appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction, June 2006. Eighteen months later, the fledging Web network declared bankruptcy, and a small consortium acquired its assets, including Invasion of a Small World. Eager to recoup their investment, the new owners offered all eight episodes as a quick-and-dirty DVD package. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP107: Eight Episodes 2007 Hugo Nominee! By Robert Reed. Read by MarBelle (of Director’s Notes). First appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction, June 2006. Eighteen months later, the fledging Web network declared bankruptcy, and a small consortium acquired its assets, including Invasion of a Small World. Eager to recoup their investment, the new owners offered all eight episodes as a quick-and-dirty DVD package. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP Review: Spiderman 3 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP106: The House Beyond Your Sky 2007 Hugo Nominee! By Benjamin Rosenbaum. Read by Paul Tevis (of Have Games Will Travel). First appeared in Strange Horizons, September 2006. The simulations, while good, are not impenetrable even to their own inhabitants. Scientists teaching baboons to sort blocks may notice that all other baboons become instantly better at block-sorting, revealing a high-level caching mechanism. Or engineers building [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP105: Impossible Dreams 2007 Hugo Nominee! By Tim Pratt. Read by Matthew Wayne Selznick (of Brave Men Run and Writers Talking). First appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction, July 2006. He went to the Sci-Fi shelf—and had another shock. I, Robot was there, but not the forgettable action movie with Will Smith—this was older, and the credits said “written by Harlan Ellison.” But [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP104: Lust for Learning By Pete Butler. Read by cunning minx (of Polyamory Weekly) and Stephen Eley. Musical guest: “First of May,” written by Jonathan Coulton and performed by many podcasters for the Joe Murphy Memorial Fund. Yet Mme. Theuret’s word-of-mouth reputation was to die for. Both the official feedback data and the school’s on-line forums placed her among Wilhelm U’s [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP103: The Watching People By Paul Berger.Read by Stephen Eley.First appeared in Ideomancer, December 2004.One must show the proper respect for knowledge, and learn by watching andcounting and copying. The Doctor does almost nothing but learn –although he watches the wrong things — and some of us think he might bea little sacred as well, which is one [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP103: The Watching People By Paul Berger. Read by Stephen Eley. First appeared in Ideomancer, December 2004. One must show the proper respect for knowledge, and learn by watching and counting and copying. The Doctor does almost nothing but learn – although he watches the wrong things — and some of us think he might be a little sacred as well, which is one [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP102: The Angle of My Dreams By Jay Lake. Read by Stephen Eley. First appeared in 3SF Magazine, October 2002. That spring in math class, after we’d all kind of got back to normal about the Challenger blowing up, we were studying angles. Because I do good in class, Mrs. Doornie gave me a protractor to work with, and I used it to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP102: The Angle of My Dreams By Jay Lake. Read by Stephen Eley. First appeared in 3SF Magazine, October 2002. That spring in math class, after we’d all kind of got back to normal about the Challenger blowing up, we were studying angles. Because I do good in class, Mrs. Doornie gave me a protractor to work with, and I used it to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP101: The 43 Antarean Dynasties 1998 Hugo Winner! By Mike Resnick. Read by Steven Burley and Gregg Taylor (of Decoder Ring Theatre). First appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction, December 1997. A man, a woman, and a child emerge from the Temple of the Honored Sun. The woman holds a camera to her eye, capturing the same image from a dozen unimaginative angles. The child, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP101: The 43 Antarean Dynasties 1998 Hugo Winner! By Mike Resnick. Read by Steven Burley and Gregg Taylor (of Decoder Ring Theatre). First appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction, December 1997. A man, a woman, and a child emerge from the Temple of the Honored Sun. The woman holds a camera to her eye, capturing the same image from a dozen unimaginative angles. The child, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP101: The 43 Antarean Dynasties By Mike Resnick. Read by Steven Burley and Gregg Taylor (of Decoder Ring Theatre). First appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction, December 1997. A man, a woman, and a child emerge from the Temple of the Honored Sun. The woman holds a camera to her eye, capturing the same image from a dozen unimaginative angles. The child, his lip [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP100: Nightfall By Isaac Asimov. Read by Stephen Eley. First appeared in Astounding Science Fiction, September 1941. “Of the six suns, only Beta is left in the sky. Do you see it?” The question was rather unnecessary. Beta was almost at zenith, its ruddy light flooding the landscape to an unusual orange as the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP100: Nightfall By Isaac Asimov. Read by Stephen Eley. First appeared in Astounding Science Fiction, September 1941. “Of the six suns, only Beta is left in the sky. Do you see it?” The question was rather unnecessary. Beta was almost at zenith, its ruddy light flooding the landscape to an unusual orange as the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP Review: Echelon Download Standard Podcast Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP Review: Echelon Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP099: Start the Clock By Benjamin Rosenbaum. Read by Chris Fisher (of The Adult Space Childfree Podcast). First appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, August 2004. Frankly, we were excited. This move was what our Pack needed — the four of us, at least, were sure of it. We were all tired of living in the ghetto — we [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP099: Start the Clock By Benjamin Rosenbaum. Read by Chris Fisher (of The Adult Space Childfree Podcast). First appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, August 2004. Frankly, we were excited. This move was what our Pack needed — the four of us, at least, were sure of it. We were all tired of living in the ghetto — we [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP099: Start the Clock By Benjamin Rosenbaum. Read by Chris Fisher (of The Adult Space Childfree Podcast). First appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, August 2004. Frankly, we were excited. This move was what our Pack needed — the four of us, at least, were sure of it. We were all tired of living in the ghetto — we [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP098: Just Do It By Heather Lindsley. Read by The Word Whore (of Air Out My Shorts). First appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, July 2006. “What do you see?” he asks. I want to say a menace, but instead I tap the delivery barrel and give the context-appropriate answer. “Unused ad space.” Suddenly he’s a schoolmaster who has finally [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP098: Just Do It By Heather Lindsley. Read by The Word Whore (of Air Out My Shorts). First appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, July 2006. “What do you see?” he asks. I want to say a menace, but instead I tap the delivery barrel and give the context-appropriate answer. “Unused ad space.” Suddenly he’s a schoolmaster who has finally [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP098: Just Do It By Heather Lindsley. Read by The Word Whore (of Air Out My Shorts). First appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, July 2006. “What do you see?” he asks. I want to say a menace, but instead I tap the delivery barrel and give the context-appropriate answer. “Unused ad space.” Suddenly he’s a schoolmaster who has finally [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP Review: 300 Download Standard Podcast Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP Review: 300 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP97: Cinderella Suicide (Technical Note: There was an encoding error in the original that resulted in a few skipped seconds at 15:00. I’ve corrected it. If this bothered you, please download the file again. If you just want to know what you missed: Suicide asks “Split?” and Tintype replies “Each.” Sorry for the inconvenience, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP97: Cinderella Suicide (Technical Note: There was an encoding error in the original that resulted in a few skipped seconds at 15:00. I’ve corrected it. If this bothered you, please download the file again. If you just want to know what you missed: Suicide asks “Split?” and Tintype replies “Each.” Sorry for the inconvenience, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP97: Cinderella Suicide (Technical Note: There was an encoding error in the original that resulted in a few skipped seconds at 15:00. I’ve corrected it. If this bothered you, please download the file again. If you just want to know what you missed: Suicide asks “Split?” and Tintype replies “Each.” Sorry for the inconvenience, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP096: Job Qualifications By Kevin J. Anderson. Read by Steve Anderson. And do I agree with everything they say? The statements are very much in line with your platform, sir. Rana formed a paternal smile. You are, however, welcome to read any of them you like — in fact, I encourage it. The experience would be valuable for [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP096: Job Qualifications By Kevin J. Anderson. Read by Steve Anderson. And do I agree with everything they say? The statements are very much in line with your platform, sir. Rana formed a paternal smile. You are, however, welcome to read any of them you like — in fact, I encourage it. The experience would be valuable for [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP095: Blink. Don’t Blink. By Ramona Louise Wheeler. Read by Salim Fadhley. “Blink. Dont blink. Dont blink. Blink.” The human voice was familiar this time, expected. New orders did not come from computer voices. “This one will have to happen in a hurry, while were airlifting you to the crash site. It will be rougher than the first.” It was. William listened [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP095: Blink. Don’t Blink. By Ramona Louise Wheeler. Read by Salim Fadhley. “Blink. Dont blink. Dont blink. Blink.” The human voice was familiar this time, expected. New orders did not come from computer voices. “This one will have to happen in a hurry, while were airlifting you to the crash site. It will be rougher than the first.” It was. William listened [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP094: The Last Wave By Kay Kenyon. Read by Frank Key (of Hooting Yard and Hooting Yard on the Air). From what I gather, there are two competing theories about me. The ones who come with binoculars and cameras believe in the monster theory. I consider myself as siding with this group. The scientists, on the other hand, with their annoying [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP094: The Last Wave By Kay Kenyon. Read by Frank Key (of Hooting Yard and Hooting Yard on the Air). From what I gather, there are two competing theories about me. The ones who come with binoculars and cameras believe in the monster theory. I consider myself as siding with this group. The scientists, on the other hand, with their annoying [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP093: {Now + n, Now - n} By Robert Silverberg. Read by Stephen Eley. All had been so simple, so elegant, so profitable for ourselves. And then we met the lovely Selene and nearly were undone. She came into our lives during our regular transmission hour on Wednesday, October 7, 1987, between six and seven P.M. Central European Time. The moneymaking [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP092: The Boy Who Yelled “Dragon!” By Mike Resnick. Read by Matthew Wayne Selznick (of Brave Men Run and Five Minute Memoir). First appeared in Young Warriors, ed. Tamora Pierce & Josepha Sherman. Now, this Land was the home of exceptionally brave warriors and beautiful damsels (and occasionally they were the same person, since beautiful damsels were pretty assertive back then). Each young boy [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP092: The Boy Who Yelled “Dragon!” By Mike Resnick. Read by Matthew Wayne Selznick (of Brave Men Run and Five Minute Memoir). First appeared in Young Warriors, ed. Tamora Pierce & Josepha Sherman. Now, this Land was the home of exceptionally brave warriors and beautiful damsels (and occasionally they were the same person, since beautiful damsels were pretty assertive back then). Each young boy [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP091: The Acid Test By Kay Kenyon. Read by cunning minx (of Polyamory Weekly). First appeared in Talebones, Winter 2004. Its my husband. Hell go. He wants to go. The alien looked down the hall as though hed rather be home nursing a beer than dealing with a disgruntled housewife at 4:00 p.m. on a Friday afternoon. Please. She tried not to sound desperate. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP091: The Acid Test By Kay Kenyon. Read by cunning minx (of Polyamory Weekly). First appeared in Talebones, Winter 2004. Its my husband. Hell go. He wants to go. The alien looked down the hall as though hed rather be home nursing a beer than dealing with a disgruntled housewife at 4:00 p.m. on a Friday afternoon. Please. She tried not to sound desperate. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP090: How Lonesome a Life Without Nerve Gas By James Trimarco. Read by Frank Key (of Hooting Yard and Hooting Yard on the Air). First appeared in Afterburn SF. After the first week of practice, I knew how to anticipate Mickey’s every move. I knew how to sense weariness in the jogging of his spine and would inject increased levels of oxygen into his airflow when I did. I [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP090: How Lonesome a Life Without Nerve Gas By James Trimarco. Read by Frank Key (of Hooting Yard and Hooting Yard on the Air). First appeared in Afterburn SF. After the first week of practice, I knew how to anticipate Mickey’s every move. I knew how to sense weariness in the jogging of his spine and would inject increased levels of oxygen into his airflow when I did. I [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP020: The Burning Bush By Jennifer Pelland.Read by Deborah Green.I did the sensible thing. I screamed and ran to the bathroom, where I started tossing cups of water on my crotch in the hopes of extinguishing the flames. My boyfriend ran in behind me, started the shower up, and tossed me into the freezing water. But [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast411 Interview This won't be news for the many of you who listen to it, but Escape Pod was featured yesterday on Rob Walch's excellent Podcast411 podcast. That my interview with him sounded decent is a tribute to his masterful editing skills. And if you're not familiar with his podcast, I highly recommend you check [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP Review: Katamari Damacy A video game by Keita Takahashi.Reviewed by Stephen Eley.Download the Escape Pod Review. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP Review: The Island A film by Michael Bay.Reviewed by Jonathon Sullivan.Download the Escape Pod Review. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP010: The Girlfriends of Dorian Gray By Gregory Frost.Read by Stephen Eley.For all that, his manners were impeccable. It wasn’tthat he sat slobbering and gnashing, drawing attention to himself as some deranged Neanderthal with a fork might have done. No, he ate demurely, quietly, chatting with her, truly interested in what she had to say (or at least feigning interest [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP Flash: Slicing By Greg van Eekhout.Read by Stephen Eley.The fact is, almost any new knife can cut through an aluminum can and then slice a tomato with equal ease. Don't believe me, buy a new cheap knife and try it yourself. The pitch man hacks through a tree branch. He cuts a radiator hose. And this ho-hum [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP Review: LEGO Moonbase Project An open standard for collaborative LEGO displays.Reviewed by David Lukens.Download the Escape Pod Review. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP008: Lachrymose and the Golden Egg By Tim Pratt.Read by Stephen Eley."Foul temptress?" I said, stepping back, clanking in my armor. A suit of plate mail often appears when I'm startled. I wished the armor away and replaced it with soft green leggings and a deerskin shirt. "Wily seductress?""Damsel in distress." She leaned against a tree, hands clasped before her.I clutched [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP Flash: Ubiquitous By Douglas Triggs.Read by Stephen Eley.The clicks and squeals in his head subsided. No one else could understand them except him. No one else could even hear them. But they'd always been there, ever since he could remember. They hadn't meant anything at first, not until he was older, well into his teenage years. They [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website