Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJohn Grant | The Law of Conservation of Data
“Slots Palace,” says Suze. You all stare at her. Staring at her is worth doing. She’s moved into a new bod since coming here, and the change has been…
8 years, 6 months ago
Matthew Kressel | Love Engine Optimization
I rooted her system on the first day. It was the only way to be sure. Sure that she’d love me. Step by matching step, I walk her under the boughs of …
8 years, 6 months ago
Elizabeth Bear | The Heart’s Filthy Lesson
The sun burned through the clouds around noon on the long Cytherean day, and Dharthi happened to be awake and in a position to see it. She was alone …
8 years, 6 months ago
Scott Dalrymple | Marcel Proust, Incorporated
It’s 12:15, and Monica West is late for our lunch. We’re meeting at a trendy Greenwich Village bistro, one of the few to survive the depression that …
8 years, 7 months ago
Shweta Narayan | World of the Three
Then the Bird of A Hundred and Eight Names gathered together her three new children, and she said, “You have passed our people’s tests and joined our…
8 years, 7 months ago
Susan Jane Bigelow | The Heart’s Cartography
Jade was the sort of backwoods girl who had a map of the countryside tattooed on her heart, and she could feel it in her bones when the pieces of her…
8 years, 7 months ago
Kendra Fortmeyer | Octopus vs. Bear
You woke up female this morning, so now you have a choice: do what other people want, or be a bitch. It is a thing you know without precisely knowing…
8 years, 7 months ago
Bruce McAllister | This Is for You
There was one girl I really liked in school when I returned to Earth, but it took me three months to say hello. I wasn’t good with human beings. We’d…
8 years, 8 months ago
Adam-Troy Castro | James, In the Golden Sunlight of the Hereafter
It took James Washington forever, almost literally forever, to remember that his wife and children were as dead as he was. For a while, he barely eve…
8 years, 8 months ago
Jess Barber | Maybe Look Up
You’re just stepping into the crosswalk when the SUV screeches to a stop with its bumper six inches from your hip. It’s sleeting. It wasn’t sleeting …
8 years, 8 months ago