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Trumix.com listings available of Escape Pod Podcasts Build your own playlists with this podcast. EP166: The Something-Dreaming Game By Elizabeth Bear. Read by Mur Lafferty (of The Takeover and The Murverse). First appeared in Fast Forward 1, ed. Lou Anders. Audible.com Promotion! Get your free audiobook at: http://audible.com/escapepodsff First, there’s the pressure. A special kind of pressure, high under Tara’s chin, that makes her feel heavy and light all at once. She kneels by the chair and leans across [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP165: Those Eyes By David Brin. Read by Stephen and Anna Eley. “…So you want to talk about flying saucers? I was afraid of that. “This happens every damn time I’m blackmailed into babysitting you insomniacs, while Talkback Larry escapes to Bimini for a badly needed rest. I’m supposed to field call-in questions about astronomy and outer space for two weeks. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP164: The Right Kind of Town By Christian Klaver. Read by Cunning Minx (of Polyamory Weekly). Audible.com Promotion! Get your free audiobook at: http://audible.com/escapepodsff In the civilized places closer to Hegemony space, you don’t see many bodies in the street in the first place. When you do, they’re always swarmed with sheriffs, marshals, constables, morticians and the like. Then the body gets moved fast, so as to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EP163: Revolution Time By Lavie Tidhar. Read by Stephen Eley. First appeared in Flurb #2, ed. Rudy Rucker. Special closing music: “Think For Yourself” by George Hrab. “I don’t see why you necessarily think it leads to the Chrono area,” Monty said, playing devil’s advocate. It was a month earlier, at the usual place: The Trotsky, a damp, dark watering hole in [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 gave me a [...] 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 Stephen Eley. 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 |