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The Science Fiction Podcast Magazine. Each week Escape Pod narrates fun science fiction and fantasy short stories, with commentary and review. We're also the first paying market in podcasting. Listen today, and hear the new sound of science fiction! Primary Format : Science Fiction Language : Unknown Also Listed as: City : Unknown State/Province : Unknown User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: View this Podcast on a Google Map. Podcast iTunes Link Text Only listing of Escape Pod Podcasts Methings.com listings of Escape Pod Podcasts If you like this podcast, you might also like:

View the full archive of Escape Pod EP225: A Hard Rain at the Fortean Café by Lavie Tidhar narrated by Sarah Tolbert This story originally appeared in Aeon #14. The diner stood off the highway outside a small town optimistically called Hope. Hope was being stuck in the middle of the Northwest and wishing you were someplace, anyplace else. And Hope was also the name on the tag pinned to the dead woman [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EP224: The Ghost in the Death Trap by Marjorie James read by Steve Eley Editor’s note:  this is a sequel to EP007.  Listen to it here. Flies buzzed around the edges of the huge stone block, gathering at the rivulets of blood that ran down to the floor. A bit of what looked like it might be intestine hung off one corner, drawing special attention. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EP223: The Uncanny Valley by Nick Mamatas read by Kathryn Baker The trouble with knowing everything there is to know, Stephanie Dowling decided instantly, because that’s how clever she was, was that when there was something unknown out there, she had nobody to consult. And there was something unknown out there, nibbling away at the edge of the economy, and screwing with [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EP222: Infestation by Garth Nix read by Geoff Michelli Recently appeared in By Blood We Live. They were the usual motley collection of freelance vampire hunters. Two men, wearing combinations of jungle camouflage and leather. Two women, one almost indistinguishable from the men though with a little more style in her leather armour accessories, and the other looking like she [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EP221: Little Ambushes by Joanne Merriam read by Rachel Swirsky Practically the first thing she did when she took in the alien was to give him a new name. He looked at her outstretched hand long enough to annoy her, and then grasped it with his four opposable fingers and hung on limply until she wrenched her hand out of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EP220: Come All Ye Faithful by Robert J. Sawyer read by Mike Boris “Damned social engineers,” said Boothby, frowning his freckled face. He looked at me, as if expecting an objection to the profanity, and seemed disappointed that I didn’t rise to the bait. “As you said earlier,” I replied calmly, “it doesn’t make any practical difference.” He tried to get me again: “Damn [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EP219: Sleepy Joe by Marc Laidlaw narrated by Ben Phillips originally appeared in The Infinite Matrix The plan must have come to Rog fully formed that first morning, as he stepped off the elevator into the lobby of Szilliken Sharpenwright and saw the old soldier newly stationed there in his omnichair between the potted silk ferns and the coffee [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EP218: Ode To Katan Amano by Caitlin R. Kiernan narrated by Kim the Comic Book Goddess No one hears when I ease the heavy steel door shut behind me. All the ears in the darkened workshop, all those hundreds and hundreds of ears, but still no one hears a thing. And I stand there for a while, as unmoving as they, not [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EP217: The Kindness of Strangers by Nancy Kress narrated by Kate Baker When morning finally dawns, Rochester isn’t there anymore. Jenny stands beside Eric, gazing south from the rising ground that yesterday was a fallow field. Maybe the whole city hasn’t vanished. Certainly the tall buildings are gone, Xerox Square and Lincoln Tower and the few others that just last night [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EP216: βoyfriend by Madeline Ashby read by Tina Connolly Violet snapped three photos of herself from various angles, sent them, and waited for her boyfriend’s response. He rang her up—a slow vibrating purr, unlike the staccato door-knocking of her mother’s ringvibe—and said: “Me likey. Now take it off.” Violet frowned. “You were supposed to dig up the backstory on the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EP215: Mr. Penumbra’s Twenty-Four-Hour Book Store By Robin Sloan Narrated by Stephen Eley First appeared at Robin Sloan’s blog, June 8, 2009. IT’S 2:02 A.M. ON A COLD SUMMER NIGHT. I’m sitting in a book store next to a strip club. Not that kind of book store. The inventory here is incredibly old and impossibly rare. And it has a secret—a secret that I might have [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EP215: Mr. Penumbra’s Twenty-Four-Hour Book Store By Robin Sloan Narrated by Stephen Eley First appeared at Robin Sloan’s blog, June 8, 2009. IT’S 2:02 A.M. ON A COLD SUMMER NIGHT. I’m sitting in a book store next to a strip club. Not that kind of book store. The inventory here is incredibly old and impossibly rare. And it has a secret—a secret that I might have [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EP214: Sinner, Baker, Fablist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast by Eugie Foster Narrated by Lawrence Santoro Each morning is a decision. Should I put on the brown mask or the blue? Should I be a tradesman or an assassin today? Whatever the queen demands, of course, I am. But so often she ignores me, and I am left to figure out for myself who [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EP195: 26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss 2009 Hugo Nominee! By Kij Johnson. Read by Diane Severson (of The Diva’s Divine Days). First appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction, July 2008. Narration first appeared at and produced by Starship Sofa. Special thanks to Tony Smith and Diane Severson for their kind permission to resyndicate this award nominee. She sets a stepladder next to it. She claps her [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Escape Pod Flash: Chump Change By Pete Butler Read by Jake Squid It’s going to be the Three of Clubs. I know this, as certainly as I know my own name. I’m less sure about some things than my fans would think. But sometimes, the swirling laws governing what may happen coalesce into what will happen with astonishing clarity. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EP196: Evil Robot Monkey By Mary Robinette Kowal Read by Stephen Eley First appeared in the Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, vol. 2 edited by George Mann. Special closing monkey music by George Hrab Sliding his hands over the clay, Sly relished the moisture oozing around his fingers. The clay matted down the hair on the back of his hands making them [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Escape Pod Flash: Semi-Autonomous or ‘For Whom The Warranty Tolls By Jim Kling Read by Rachel Swirsky Hello, you have reached Jim’s semi-autonomous answering machine. Leave a message and I will have him return your call. Hello, you have reached Jim’s semi-autonomous answering machine. He will be hosting his birthday party on Saturday night. If you plan to attend, press ‘one’ and then speak your [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Episode 197: From Babel’s Fall’n Glory We Fled… By Michael Swanwick Read by Sarah Tolbert First appeared in Asimov’s Feb 2008 Imagine a cross between Byzantium and a termite mound. Imagine a jeweled mountain, slender as an icicle, rising out of the steam jungles and disappearing into the dazzling pearl-grey skies of Gehenna. Imagine that Gaudí—he of the Segrada Familia and other biomorphic architectural [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Worlds of Tomorrow: 2010 By Alasdair Stuart Read by Alasdair Stuart Welcome to Worlds of Tomorrow, an occasional feature we’ll be running looking at some of the best in science fiction cinema. From acknowledged classics to forgotten gems we’ll be covering them all. Some of them you’ll have seen, some you won’t, some you’ll agree with me on and some you’ll [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Escape Pod Flash: Get Me to the Job on Time By Ian Randal Strock Read by Elie Hirschman “Maybe it’s what you’d do with the knowledge that determines whether or not you’ll discover the secret of time travel.” “What?” I asked the old man. “I know for a fact that time travel is possible. I knew the man who discovered it. And you’ll never guess what he used his [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |