Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchS. L. Gilbow | Alarms
My curse is that I set off alarms. Smoke alarms. Car alarms. House alarms. It doesn’t matter what kind; I set them all off as soon as I get close to …
13 years, 10 months ago
Carrie Vaughn | Harry and Marlowe and the Talisman of the Cult of Egil
Carefully, with gloved hands, she removed the object from its stone niche, where it had rested for centuries deep underground, inside the dormant vol…
13 years, 10 months ago
Gregory Benford | Dark Sanctuary
In the asteroid belt you either have fast reflexes or you’re a statistic. I slammed into the airlock bulkhead and stopped dead, waiting to see where …
13 years, 10 months ago
Brooke Bolander | Her Words Like Hunting Vixens Spring
The fox shoulders and wriggles from between her jaws, first the whiskery, pointed muzzle and then all the rest. Finally free, it shakes its sodden co…
13 years, 11 months ago
Ken Liu | The Five Elements of the Heart Mind
The Dandelion lost structural integrity so quickly that I doubt the bridge even had time for a distress call, and this escape pod’s radio is only sub…
13 years, 11 months ago
Marissa Lingen | On the Acquisition of Phoenix Eggs (Variant)
Lloyds was not willing to insure a phoenix egg, not even of the most impeccable pedigree. Hence the inspection of the purchase became a great deal mo…
13 years, 11 months ago
Sarah Monette | Blue Lace Agate
Jamie Keller and his partner hadn’t found the shoggoth larva smugglers yet, but his boss, the head of the Bureau of Paranormal Investigation’s southe…
14 years ago
Megan Arkenberg | How Many Miles to Babylon?
It’s getting harder and harder to pretend we aren’t racing along the edge of a knife, one box of flashlights and a fistful of batteries away from the…
14 years ago
Andrew Penn Romine | The Parting Glass
I gulp the whiskey and it burns my plastic throat, sets my nutrient sac on fire. I've got filters, but they haven't been changed in six months. Too e…
14 years, 1 month ago
Vylar Kaftan | The Sighted Watchmaker
The Makers had been dead for billions of years, yet Umos discovered one caught in the starship's net. A young one, naked, with still-fused dorsal fin…
14 years, 1 month ago