Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchKen Liu | Cosmic Spring
Qubits resolve and superimpose; information entangles and de-couples; consciousness re-emerges. I don’t know for how long I’ve been asleep. There’s s…
8 years, 4 months ago
Beesan Odeh | Al-Kahf (الكهف)
There once lived a man who was stolen from the sea. Rare and magnificent, he lived in his cave, rising to the surface every so often to pluck the str…
8 years, 4 months ago
Bryan Camp | The Independence Patch
It is exam week, and Donny is 14 years 10 months 15 days 10 hours 16 minutes old. He is bored and hungry and his scalp itches and he hates school mor…
8 years, 4 months ago
Ashok K. Banker | The Goddess Has Many Faces
Pillai expected Kali border security to be much tighter than it was. All he got was a body search that was routinely thorough, and a few old-fashione…
8 years, 4 months ago
Naomi Kanakia | A Coward’s Death
Well, the 101,201st Emperor needed some levies to build a huge statue of himself, so he said, “Okay, all of my recently subjugated peoples: If you’ve…
8 years, 5 months ago
Bogi Takács | Four-Point Affective Calibration
Of course I can be angry. But I wear a headscarf. The moment I’m angry, you put me in your mental box labeled “TERRORIST” in neat, tidy small capital…
8 years, 5 months ago
Cassandra Khaw | The Quiet Like a Homecoming
Travel to Scandinavia if you can, the older cats told me, the queens in their raftered kingdoms. The coffee there, they said, is bitter as an old lie…
8 years, 5 months ago
Sarah Pinsker | The Court Magician
The boy who will become court magician this time is not a cruel child. Not like the last one, or the one before her. He never stole money from Blind …
8 years, 5 months ago
Susan Jane Bigelow | The Eyes of the Flood
The river’s in flood again, and it feels like a blessing from God. You emerge from your home, built with wood and plastic scraps of ancient towns, an…
8 years, 5 months ago
José Pablo Iriarte | The Substance of My Lives, the Accidents of Our Births
I seem to make an outcast of myself every time I’m a teenager. Which is fine, I guess. I’ll take one good dog and one good friend over being a phony …
8 years, 6 months ago