Author : Craig Delancey Narrator : Marguerite Kenner Host : Marguerite Kenner Audio Producer : Jeremy Carter Artist : Emma Thompson Discuss on Forums Cast of Wonders 218: Saurs (Dinovember!) is a Cast of Wonders original. Special thanks to Emma Thompson for the use of her photograph in this week’s episode art, featuring her three […]

• Narrated by Marguerite Kenner • Audio production by Jeremy Carter • A Cast of Wonders original! • Discuss this story on our forum • For a list of all our stories, authors and narrators, visit our Wikia page • Come visit us on Facebook and Twitter Listen above or download here. Show Notes Craig Delancey’s YA novel Gods of Earth is available from 47 North Press. He lives in upstate New York and, in addition to writing, teaches philosophy at Oswego State, part of the State University of New York. Stop by his web site, of follow him on Twitter.         Special thanks to Emma Thompson for the use of her photograph in this week’s episode art, featuring her three adorable dinosaur lovers. And if you’ve a hankerin’ for a weird western that lets you fight an undead T-Rex, check out Deadlands! And tell Shane, Clint and Jodi I sent you. Theme music is “Appeal to Heavens” by Alexye Nov, available at MusicAlley.com. Read along with the text of the story.

Author : Rebecca Birch Narrator : Dave Thompson Host : Marguerite Kenner Audio Producer : Jeremy Carter Discuss on Forums Cast of Wonders 217: Boys’ Night is a Cast of Wonders original. Boys’ Night by Rebecca Birch Walter Ocherman rolled along the two-lane highway at five miles an hour under the speed limit, scanning the road’s […]

• Narrated by Dave Thompson • Audio production by Jeremy Carter • A Cast of Wonders original! • Discuss this story on our forum • For a list of all our stories, authors and narrators, visit our Wikia page • Come visit us on Facebook and Twitter Listen above or download here. Show Notes Rebecca Birch is a science fiction and fantasy writer based in Seattle, Washington. She’s a classically trained soprano, holds a deputy black belt in Tae Kwon Do, and enjoys spending time in the company of trees. Her fiction has appeared in markets including Nature, Cricket, and Flash Fiction Online. She is also a two-time finalist in the Writers of the Future contest. Check our her website, Words of Birch, or Twitter.       Dave Thompson is a teacher who lives in Southern California with his wife, three children, and eight chickens. He is an author, narrator, and sometimes Escape Artist who keeps getting pulled back in for one last job. (Actually, he always hopes it’s never the last job.) He’s lost NaNoWriMo twice and is the former editor of PodCastle. He doesn’t like to talk about himself in the third person, but he finds he […]

Author : Rachael K. Jones Narrator : Jen R. Albert Host : Marguerite Kenner Audio Producer : Jeremy Carter Artist : Jeremy Carter Discuss on Forums Cast of Wonders 216: This Story Begins With You (Banned Books Week) is a Cast of Wonders original. The Comic Book Legal Defence Fund is a non-profit dedicated to […]

• Narrated by Jen R. Albert • Audio production by Jeremy Carter • A Cast of Wonders original! • Discuss this story on our forum • For a list of all our stories, authors and narrators, visit our Wikia page • Come visit us on Facebook and Twitter Listen above or download here. Show Notes Rachael K. Jones grew up in various cities across Europe and North America, picked up (and mostly forgot) six languages, an addiction to running, and a couple of degrees. Now she writes speculative fiction in Athens, Georgia, where she lives with her husband. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in many venues including Shimmer, Lightspeed, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Strange Horizons, EscapePod, InterGalactic Medicine Show, and The Drabblecast. She is a SFWA member and a secret android. Follow her on online or on Twitter.     Jen R. Albert is an entomologist, writer of science fiction and fantasy, gamer, and (in her own words) all around geek. She is co-editor at PodCastle and submissions editor at Uncanny. Her first story appeared in Mad Scientist Journal in June 2015. You can follow her online or on Twitter.       The Comic Book Legal Defence Fund […]

Author : Brian Lawrence Hurrel Narrator : Tatiana Grey Host : Marguerite Kenner Audio Producer : Jeremy Carter Artist : Jeremy Carter Discuss on Forums Cast of Wonders 215: Problematic (Banned Books Week) is a Cast of Wonders original. Learn more about The Freedom to Read Foundation, an advocacy group that deals with a wide […]

• Narrated by Tatiana Grey • Audio production by Jeremy Carter • Banned Books Weeks 2016 photograph courtesy of Jeremy Carter • A Cast of Wonders original! • Discuss this story on our forum • For a list of all our stories, authors and narrators, visit our Wikia page • Come visit us on Facebook and Twitter Listen above or download here. Show Notes Brian Lawrence Hurrel is a lifelong science fiction fan, and is especially fond of Golden Age stories from the forties and fifties. His fiction has appeared in the science journal Nature and magazines such as Daily Science Fiction and Bete Noir. A former high school English and History teacher, he now makes a living as a technical writer and communications consultant. His previous occupations over the years include machine assembler, carpet installer, cab driver, and US Marine. He lives in New Jersey with his wife and son. You can follow him on Twitter.     Tatiana Grey is a critically acclaimed actress of stage, screen, and the audio booth. She has been nominated for dozens of fancy awards but hasn’t won a single damned thing. She went to NYU and lives in Brooklyn, New York. YOu […]

Author : Shannon Connor Winward Narrator : Katherine Inskip Host : Marguerite Kenner Audio Producer : Jeremy Carter Artist : Jeremy Carter Discuss on Forums Cast of Wonders 214: The Price of Stories (Banned Books Week) is a Cast of Wonders original. Learn more about Stop Hate and their work to challenge all forms of […]

• Narrated by Katherine Inskip • Audio production by Jeremy Carter • Banned Books Weeks 2016 photograph courtesy of Jeremy Carter • A Cast of Wonders original! • Discuss this story on our forum • For a list of all our stories, authors and narrators, visit our Wikia page • Come visit us on Facebook and Twitter Listen above or download here. Show Notes Shannon Connor Winward is the author of Undoing Winter from Finishing Line Press. Her poems and stories appear in Analog, Pseudopod, Strange Horizons, Star*Line, Flash Fiction Online, The Pedestal Magazine, Gargoyle and PANK, and have been nominated, placed, or earned mention for many nifty awards. In between writing, parenting, and other madness, Shannon is also an officer for the Science Fiction Poetry Association, a poetry editor for Devilfish Review, and founding editor of Riddled with Arrows Literary Journal (set to debut in early 2017). Learn more on her website.       Katherine Inskip, assistant editor of Cast of Wonders, teaches astrophysics for a living and spends her spare time populating the universe with worlds of her own. She is addicted to chocolate and Japanese logic puzzles. You can follow her on Twitter or her website. […]