Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchKen Liu | The Litigation Master and the Monkey King
The tiny cottage at the edge of Sanli Village—away from the villagers’ noisy houses and busy clan shrines and next to the cool pond filled with lily …
12 years, 4 months ago
Yoon Ha Lee | The Knight of Chains, the Deuce of Stars
The tower is a black spire upon a world whose only sun is a million starships wrecked into a mass grave. Light the color of fossils burns from the sh…
12 years, 5 months ago
Ursula K. Le Guin | The Stars Below
The wooden house and outbuildings caught fire fast, blazed up, burned down, but the dome, built of lathe and plaster above a drum of brick, would not…
12 years, 5 months ago
Ryan North | Cancer
This certifies that HELEN FRANCES LAWRENCE, sex FEMALE was born to JOHN DENISON LAWRENCE and VIRGINIA MATILDA LAWRENCE on SATURDAY at SIX TEN PM, thi…
12 years, 5 months ago
Adam-Troy Castro | The Boy and the Box
The boy looked like any other boy his age, except that, thanks to him, there had been for some time now no other boys his age, or of any other age. T…
12 years, 6 months ago
Benjamin Roy Lambert | Division of Labor
No one said anything, but Sull could tell they were all a little jealous when he lost his arms and legs. The arms went first, the left one during a b…
12 years, 6 months ago
Sylvia Spruck Wrigley | Alive, Alive Oh
The waves crash onto the blood-red shore, sounding just like the surf on Earth: a dark rumbling full of power. It’s been seventeen years since we lef…
12 years, 6 months ago
Paul Park | Get a Grip
Here’s how I found out: I was in a bar called Dave’s on East 14th Street. It wasn’t my usual place. I had been dating a woman in Stuyvesant Town. One…
12 years, 6 months ago
Megan Arkenberg | The Huntsman
“It’s the best bargain you’ll get in this town,” the faery woman says. She’s standing by a cracked kitchen sink with mold between the tiles, rinsing …
12 years, 7 months ago
Theodora Goss | Princess Lucinda and the Hound of the Moon
When the Queen learned that she could not have a child, she cried for three days. She cried in the clinic in Switzerland, on the shoulder of the doct…
12 years, 7 months ago