Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchChen Qiufan | The Mao Ghost
I still remember that evening: In the heavy air, the plastic dragonflies hovered just below the eaves like miniature helicopters, drifting about slig…
11 years, 9 months ago
Sofia Samatar | How to Get Back to the Forest
“You have to puke it up,” said Cee. “You have to get down there and puke it up. I mean down past where you can feel it, you know?” She gestured earne…
11 years, 10 months ago
Kat Howard | A Different Fate
We are one. We are three. We are sisters, together and individual. Past, present, future. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be. One …
11 years, 10 months ago
Ken Liu | None Owns the Air
“Push! Push! Damn it, put your backs into it!” Kino Ye’s voice rose to a panicked screech as the four sweat-drenched soldiers strained against the sp…
11 years, 10 months ago
Carrie Vaughn | Harry and Marlowe and the Intrigues at the Aetherian Exhibition
Finally, Harry arrived at the Royal Albert Hall in Kensington with her mother and her older sister Victoria. Once they entered through the great gilt…
11 years, 10 months ago
Sunny Moraine | So Sharp That Blood Must Flow
In the end, the water goes black with the witch’s blood. Before this happens, the little mermaid understands that a deal is a deal, a bargain a barga…
11 years, 11 months ago
Jess Barber | Coma Kings
So I guess the story begins, fittingly, with someone handing me a Coma rig and saying, play me. Two a.m. and I’m at this party in somebody’s trailer …
11 years, 11 months ago
Adam-Troy Castro | The Thing About Shapes to Come
Monica’s new baby was like a lot of new babies these days in that she was born a cube. She had no external or internal sexual organs, or for that mat…
11 years, 11 months ago
Ursula K. Le Guin | Elementals
No one knows how many airlings there are, most likely not a great many, whatever a great many means. They inhabit the atmosphere, generally between a…
11 years, 11 months ago
Terry Bisson | Bears Discover Fire
I was driving with my brother, the preacher, and my nephew, the preacher’s son, on I-65 just north of Bowling Green when we got a flat. It was Sunday…
11 years, 11 months ago