Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchLinda Nagata | A Moment Before It Struck
He felt death coming a moment before it struck. In the lingering gray twilight, Smoke lay on his bedding, eyes not quite closed and mind adrift, only…
14 years ago
Ken Liu | The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species
There is no definitive census of all the intelligent species in the universe. Not only are there perennial arguments about what qualifies as intellig…
14 years, 1 month ago
Maria Dahvana Headley | Give Her Honey When You Hear Her Scream
In the middle of the maze, there’s always a monster. If there were no monster, people would happily set up house where it’s warm and windowless and c…
14 years, 1 month ago
Peter S. Beagle | Gordon, the Self-made Cat
Once upon a time, to a family of house mice there was born a son named Gordon. He looked very much like his father and mother and all his brothers an…
14 years, 1 month ago
Joe Haldeman | Four Short Novels
Eventually it came to pass that no one ever had to die, unless they ran out of money. When you started to feel the little aches and twinges that mean…
14 years, 1 month ago
Jake Kerr | Requiem in the Key of Prose
There is such a thing as an antifuse. This device is used to maintain the ongoing flow of electricity when there is local failure. The antifuse works…
14 years, 2 months ago
George R.R. Martin | The Way of Cross and Dragon
“Heresy,” he told me. The brackish waters of his pool sloshed gently. “Another one?” I said wearily. “There are so many these days.” Narrated by Ste…
14 years, 2 months ago
Kelsey Ann Barrett | My Teacher, My Enemy
My enemy’s body is still warm when I take my knife to him. Stripped to his skin and lain upon his back, he looks much less frightening than he had wh…
14 years, 2 months ago
John Langan | Renfrew’s Course
Six feet tall, the statue had been carved from wood that retained most of its whiteness, even though the date cut into its base read 2005, seven year…
14 years, 2 months ago
Simon McCaffery | The Cristóbal Effect
The wooden detour barricade is barely in place when I spot the car closing fast from the east. Just a glint of light against the desert hills, yet I …
14 years, 3 months ago