Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchCatherynne M. Valente | A Hole to China
Tristram was certain she would never have made the attempt had she not heard that it was a thing other children often did. She did so want to be like…
13 years, 8 months ago
Linda Nagata | Nightside on Callisto
A faint, steady vibration carried through the igloo’s massive ice walls—a vibration that shouldn’t have been there. Jayne heard it in her sleep. Age …
13 years, 8 months ago
Kim Stanley Robinson | Our Town
I found my friend Desmond Kean at the northeast corner of the penthouse viewing terrace, assembling a telescope with which to look at the world below…
13 years, 8 months ago
Eric Gregory | The Sympathy
The apartment was in his name, and the Accord was in hers. It took Lauren less than a minute to step out one door and into the other. She put her sui…
13 years, 8 months ago
Caitlín R. Kiernan | The Steam Dancer (1896)
Missouri Banks lives in the great smoky city at the edge of the mountains, here where the endless yellow prairie laps gently with grassy waves and lo…
13 years, 9 months ago
Vandana Singh | Ruminations in an Alien Tongue
Sitting on the sun-warmed step at the end of her workday, Birha laid her hand on the dog’s neck and let her mind drift. Like a gyre-moth finding the …
13 years, 9 months ago
Steven Utley | Test
Something is eating the starship Stephen W. Hawking, chewing it slowly and efficiently to pieces. Hurtling through hyperspace, or merely hanging susp…
13 years, 9 months ago
David Barr Kirtley | Beauty
Nicole Sanders was beautiful. One night after work, she stopped off at a bar downtown, which is where she met the beast. “Hi,” the beast said, in a g…
13 years, 9 months ago
Kathleen Ann Goonan | Electric Rains
Ella sat by Nana’s body for two days before she pushed it out the window. She had spent the first half-day realizing what death was, the next half-da…
13 years, 9 months ago
Mary Rosenblum | My She
I wait outside the speaking chamber, where the young Speakers learn to Hear and Speak. The walls and carpeted floor are purest white, the color of th…
13 years, 9 months ago