Escape Pod

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The Original Science Fiction Podcast

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Escape Pod episodes:

04.18.2024
Escape Pod 937: Punk Voyager (Flashback Friday)
Author : Shaenon K. Garrity Narrator : Nathaniel Lee Hosts : Valerie Valdes and Norm Sherman Audio Producers : Summer Brooks and Mat Weller Escape Pod 937: Punk Voyager (Flashback Friday) is an Escape Pod original. A copious amount of...
04.11.2024
Escape Pod 936: Old People’s Folly (Part 2 of 2)
By Nora Schinnerl (...Continued from Part 1) Kite was still curled into a bundle of blankets in front of the stove when Setti woke. The old woman sniffed, torn between surprise and annoyance. She'd have figured him for a quitter, sneaking out...
04.04.2024
Escape Pod 935: Old People’s Folly (Part 1 of 2)
Old People's Folly (Part 1 of 2) By Nora Schinnerl Setti knew the woman for a ghost the moment she appeared. It was the pink hair that gave her away, short and spiky. Real people didn't have hair like that. Also, you...
03.28.2024
Escape Pod 934: The Alien in My Bathtub
Author : Tony Dunnell Narrator : Bryce Dahle Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Summer Brooks Escape Pod 934: The Alien in My Bathtub is an Escape Pod original. If you aren’t familiar with Locus Magazine, they’re a respected...
03.21.2024
Escape Pod 933: Summitting the Moon
Summitting the Moon By Pragathi Bala T-7 days The moon Landed, the Rut appeared, home equity plummeted, jobs disappeared, and Ghis liked riding the moon. It was the last item on this tragic list that her wife couldn’t accept. It was the leaf...
03.14.2024
Escape Pod 932: The Walking Mirror of the Soul
Author : Renan Bernardo Narrator : Julia Rios Host : Valerie Valdes Audio Producer : Summer Brooks This story was originally published at Apex Magazine #134 in December 2022. The Walking Mirror of the Soul by Renan Bernardo My desire...
03.07.2024
Escape Pod 931: The Rhythms of the World
The Rhythms of the World By Johnny Caputo As always, we’re starving to death. From our place inside the leather pouch tied to Aamsaa’s belt, our two remaining stalks ache with hunger, barely able to hold our withered green-spotted spore caps upright. We...
02.29.2024
Escape Pod 930: Fulfillment in Purpose
Author : Jack Windeyer Narrator : Matt Dovey Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Summer Brooks Escape Pod 930: Fulfillment in Purpose is an Escape Pod original. Zima Blue Zima Blue episode of Love, Death & Robots Get Excited...
02.22.2024
Escape Pod 929: The Library
The Library By N. B. Andersen Every morning at ten to ten, Dot powered on. Its hands lay flat against the thick glass of the reading room window, which let the photoreceptors on its palms feast on the sun. The window overlooked...
02.15.2024
Escape Pod 928: Zebulon Vance Sings the Alphabet Songs of Love (Flashback Friday)
Author : Merrie Haskell Narrator : Amanda Ching Hosts : Valerie Valdes and Norm Sherman Audio Producers : Summer Brooks and Eric Valdes Originally published in Apex Magazine, February 2013, and was previously published in Escape Pod 404 (July 2013)....
02.08.2024
Escape Pod 927: How to Pass as Human
“How to Pass as Human”: a Quantum-Encrypted Listicle on the Synthetic Consciousness Subnet By Raiff Taranday QUERY: Locate file 8548.213 (“How to Pass as Human”) WARNING: File 8548.213 (“How to Pass as Human”) has been flagged by the Synthetic Regulatory Commission as Code...
02.01.2024
Escape Pod 926: Felix and the Flamingo
Author : David Hankins Narrator : Eric Valdes Host : Valerie Valdes Audio Producer : Summer Brooks “Felix and the Flamingo” was originally published in the anthology Murderbirds (January 2023). To learn more about Bruiser the Rat, check out “Milo...
01.25.2024
Escape Pod 925: The Ballad of Starburst Smith
Author : David Marino Narrator : Ibba Armancas Host : Mur Lafferty Audio Producer : Summer Brooks Escape Pod 925: The Ballad of Starburst Smith is an Escape Pod original. Contains harsh language. The Ballad of Starburst Smith by David...
01.18.2024
Escape Pod 924: The T-4200 (Part 2 of 2)
The T-4200 (Part 2 of 2) By J. R. Johnson (...Continued from Part 1) Carl scrambled to follow Mango past the loading dock to the parking corral. Her T was an early model with a lot of light-years on it, but its shell...
01.11.2024
Escape Pod 923: The T-4200 (Part 1 of 2)
The T-4200 (Part 1 of 2) By J. R. Johnson Carleton T. Lowengren, low-level civil servant, single twenty-something and refugee from the war-torn Outer Rim, woke to the remnants of a gaming binge and a killer headache courtesy of his interface. The...
01.04.2024
Escape Pod 922: The Last Oracle of Atlantic City
Author : C. H. Irons Narrator : Elie Hirschman Host : Valerie Valdes Audio Producer : Summer Brooks Escape Pod 922: The Last Oracle of Atlantic City is an Escape Pod original. This episode is sponsored by The Theater of the...
12.28.2023
Escape Pod 921: Death by Water
Author : Grace Chan Narrator : Rebecca Wei Hsieh Host : Mur Lafferty Audio Producer : Summer Brooks “Death By Water” originally appeared in From the Waste Land (PS Publishing, Oct 2022). It was shortlisted for the Aurealis Award for Best Science...
12.23.2023
Escape Pod 920: Harvest the Stars
Harvest the Stars By Mar Vincent The summer Sif turned one, the starships were ripe on the vine. They hulked in fields ringing the town where Tuja had always lived. A place far from big cities, where the starlight they fed on came...
12.14.2023
Escape Pod 919: Emotional Resonance
Emotional Resonance By V.M. Ayala Arbor’s favorite part of a mission was always the first view of a planet. Even after seven hundred years of being a giant robot, it never got old. Green and blue clouds churned over purple seas, imposing...
12.07.2023
Escape Pod 918: Conference of the Birds
Author : Benjamin C. Kinney Narrator : Eric Valdes Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Summer Brooks “Conference of the Birds” originally appeared in Analog Science Fiction & Fact (January 2021) Contains some harsh language. This episode is sponsored...
11.30.2023
Escape Pod 917: Challenges to Becoming a Pro Dragonracer in Apapa-Downtown
Challenges to Becoming a Pro Dragonracer in Apapa-Downtown By Uchechukwu Nwaka The gear is too expensive. Honestly. There isn’t enough competition in the market. The Immersion® console alone costs an arm and a leg. Ọmọ. You’ll sweat to even get a Nigerian-used console...
11.23.2023
Escape Pod 916: Anna and Marisol in Time and Space (Flashback Friday)
Author : Tim Pratt Narrator : Amy H. Sturgis Host : Mur Lafferty Audio Producer : Summer Brooks This story originally aired in Escape Pod 622 (April 2018) Some cursing. Suggestions of violence and death. Anna and Marisol in Time...
11.16.2023
Escape Pod 915: The Confessionist
Author : Ava Kelly Narrator : Ben Gideon Host : Tina Connolly Audio Producer : Summer Brooks “The Confessionist” was previously published in the anthology: Community of Magic Pens, edited by E.D.E. Bell, released May 2020 by Atthis Arts The...
11.09.2023
Escape Pod 914: #buttonsinweirdplaces (Part 2 of 2)
#buttonsinweirdplaces (Part 2 of 2) By Simon Kewin (... Continued from Part 1) The news the following morning was bad. An explosion in the middle of a market-square in Libya had been variously blamed upon a suicide-bomber and upon over-zealous security forces trying...
11.02.2023
Escape Pod 913: #buttonsinweirdplaces (Part 1 of 2)
#buttonsinweirdplaces By Simon Kewin The buttons started to appear on the last day of April, 2022. A six-year-old boy from Nairobi, Jomi Mbenzi, was perhaps the first to spot one. Dawdling along behind his mother, her swaying yellow-orange dress and the bag of...
10.26.2023
Escape Pod 912: The Retcon Man
Author : Cameron Fischer Narrator : Dave Robison Host : Mur Lafferty Audio Producer : Summer Brooks Escape Pod 912: The Retcon Man is an Escape Pod original. The Retcon Man by Cameron Fischer Never look for evidence of your...
10.19.2023
Escape Pod 911: Driftwood in the Sea of Time
Driftwood in the Sea of Time By Wendy Nikel They'd warned us about the paradoxes, but humanity has always had a way of ignoring the things we don't want to think about and disregarding the parts that don't align with how we...
10.12.2023
Escape Pod 910: Tuesday, June 13, at the South Valley Time Loop Support Group
Author : Heather Kamins Narrator : Heather Thomas Host : Mur Lafferty Audio Producer : Summer Brooks Escape Pod 910: Tuesday, June 13, at the South Valley Time Loop Support Group is an Escape Pod original. Tuesday, June 13, at...
10.05.2023
Escape Pod 909: Murder or a Duck (Flashback Friday)
Murder or a Duck By Beth Goder George called out, “Mrs. Whitman, you have a visitor.” Mrs. Whitman strode from her workroom, her white hair skipping out of its hairpins. She straightened her work skirt, massaged her bad knee, then hurried down the...
09.28.2023
Escape Pod 908: Harvest Moon
Author : Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe Narrator : Somto Ihezue Host : Tina Connolly Audio Producer : Summer Brooks “Harvest Moon” was previously published in Solarpunk Magazine Harvest Moon by Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe “We cannot sustain the farm, Gozie.” I don’t like the...
09.21.2023
Escape Pod 907: A Layer Thin As Breath
A Layer Thin As Breath By T. K. Rex “Valley. Can you still hear me?” Julian’s voice filtered through her dying radio. The Prince of Cats was a speck of light, dimming through the gold-grey film that, atom by atom, was devouring her...
09.14.2023
Escape Pod 906: Trash (Flashback Friday)
Author : Marie Vibbert Narrator : Tatiana Grey Host : Valerie Valdes Audio Producer : Summer Brooks “Trash” was originally published in Escape Pod 467 (November 2014) Harsh language. Trash by Marie Vibbert Nanlee was a woman with the sort...
09.08.2023
Escape Pod 905: Six Ways to Get Past the Shadow Shogun’s Goons, and One Thing to Do When You Get There
Six Ways to Get Past the Shadow Shogun's Goons, and One Thing to Do When You Get There By Stewart C. Baker 1. Dust 'em "Listen, little lady," the guy in front of the door is saying with a sneer. "There's two types...
08.31.2023
Escape Pod 904: Itoro fe Queen
Author : Maurice Broaddus Narrator : Cherrae L. Stuart Host : Mur Lafferty Audio Producer : Summer Brooks “Itoro fe Queen” was originally published in The Sunday Morning Transport, May 2022 Itoro fe Queen by Maurice Broaddus “It’s all gone.”...
08.24.2023
Escape Pod 903: Bishop’s Opening (Part 4 of 4)
Bishop's Opening (Part 4 of 4) By R.S.A. Garcia The attendants set little bowls shaped like flower petals in front Sebastian and Olly. Steam drifted upward, redolent of fresh herbs and a hint of lime. Bits of white flesh speckled with green...
08.17.2023
Escape Pod 902: Bishop’s Opening (Part 3 of 4)
Bishop's Opening (Part 3 of 4) By R.S.A. Garcia (Continued from Part 2...) The Pawn was seated at the table with arms outstretched along its surface. Metal restraints held their forearms and wrists immobile. They had been stripped naked and their mask removed....
08.10.2023
Escape Pod 901: Bishop’s Opening (Part 2 of 4)
Bishop's Opening (Part 2 of 4) By R.S.A. Garcia (Continued from Part 1...) Bishop was alone in the Grandmaster's Penthouse suite when the call came from the Kingston. Once it was over and his Grandmaster's virtual form had dissipated, Bishop cursed under his...
08.03.2023
Escape Pod 900: Bishop’s Opening (Part 1 of 4)
Bishop's Opening (Part 1 of 4) By R.S.A. Garcia Old as she was, the Kiskadee had done three full delivery runs without a single safety incident. So naturally, with the crew relaxed after a fourth successful delivery and launch, and eight cycles...
07.27.2023
Escape Pod 899: Sounding the Fall (Flashback Friday)
Author : Jei D. Marcade Narrator : Amanda Ching Host : Valerie Valdes Audio Producer : Summer Brooks “Sounding the Fall” is an Escape Pod Original, first published in July 2015. Sounding the Fall by Jei D. Marcade Sometimes, Narae...
07.20.2023
Escape Pod 898: A Gentlemen’s Agreement
A Gentlemen's Agreement By Aimee Ogden Heroes are such fragile things. Sphinx takes in the scene from a distance, first, as is his custom. He makes a wide orbit around the pillars of smoke and the pathetic caution-tape bandages. The first responders are...
07.13.2023
Escape Pod 897: Migratory Patterns of the Modern American Skyscraper
Author : Derrick Boden Narrator : Valerie Valdes Host : Mur Lafferty Audio Producer : Summer Brooks This story originally appeared in the August 2022 issue of Clarkesworld. Migratory Patterns of the Modern American Skyscraper by Derrick Boden They call...
07.06.2023
Escape Pod 896: The AI That Looked at the Sun
Author : Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko Narrator : Andrew K. Hoe Host : Tina Connolly Audio Producer : Adam Pracht The AI That Looked at the Sun originally appeared in Clarkesworld Magazine, January 2020. The AI That Looked at the...
06.29.2023
Escape Pod 895: Man on the Moon
Author : Elaine Midcoh Narrator : Mur Lafferty Host : Valerie Valdes Audio Producer : Summer Brooks “Man on the Moon” was the winner of the 2022 Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award and was published on the Baen Books...
06.22.2023
Escape Pod 894: The Uncool Hunters
The Uncool Hunters By Andrew Dana Hudson Before she settled down into publishing in Minneapolis, before she got taken for a ride by the Chicago AltNormLit scene, before she flared spectacularly out of Silicon Alley, and had her pilot shoot C&Ded; by...
06.15.2023
Escape Pod 893: A Series of Endings
Author : Amal Singh Narrator : Kaushik Narasimhan Host : Valerie Valdes Audio Producer : Summer Brooks “A Series of Endings” originally appeared in Clarkesworld Magazine (December 2021) A Series of Endings by Amal Singh This is the story of...
06.08.2023
Escape Pod 892: Rogue Farm (Flashback Friday)
Rogue Farm (Excerpt) By Charles Stross “Buggerit, I don’t have time for this,” Joe muttered. The stable waiting for the small herd of cloned spidercows cluttering up the north paddock was still knee-deep in manure, and the tractor seat wasn’t getting any...
06.01.2023
Escape Pod 891: Wanderlust
Author : LP Kindred Narrator : LP Kindred Host : Tina Connolly Audio Producer : Summer Brooks This story originally appeared in Anathema: Spec from the Margins (July 2022) Content warning for NSFW language, sex Wanderlust by L. P. Kindred...
05.25.2023
Escape Pod 890: The Mechanical Turk Has a Panic Attack
Author : Francis Bass Narrator : Valerie Valdes Host : Tina Connolly Audio Producer : Summer Brooks This story was previously published in Uncharted Magazine in May 2022 The Mechanical Turk Has a Panic Attack by Francis Bass Gab gripped...
05.18.2023
Escape Pod 889: The Greatest One-Star Restaurant in the Whole Quadrant
Author : Rachael K. Jones Narrator : Christiana Ellis Host : Mur Lafferty Audio Producer : Summer Brooks “The Greatest One-Star Restaurant in the Whole Quadrant” originally appeared in Lightspeed in December 2017, and in The Best American Science Fiction...
05.11.2023
Escape Pod 888: The Revolution, Brought to You by Nike (Part 2) (Flashback Friday)
Author : Andrea Phillips Narrator : Julia Rios Hosts : Valerie Valdes and Mur Lafferty Audio Producer : Summer Brooks The Revolution, Brought to You by Nike originally appeared in Fireside Magazine in February 2017 and first played on Escape Pod...

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Escape Pod episodes:

Escape Pod 937: Punk Voyager (Flashback Friday)

Escape Pod 936: Old People’s Folly (Part 2 of 2)

Escape Pod 935: Old People’s Folly (Part 1 of 2)

Escape Pod 934: The Alien in My Bathtub

Escape Pod 933: Summitting the Moon

Escape Pod 932: The Walking Mirror of the Soul

Escape Pod 931: The Rhythms of the World

Escape Pod 930: Fulfillment in Purpose

Escape Pod 929: The Library

Escape Pod 928: Zebulon Vance Sings the Alphabet Songs of Love (Flashback Friday)

Escape Pod 927: How to Pass as Human

Escape Pod 926: Felix and the Flamingo

Escape Pod 925: The Ballad of Starburst Smith

Escape Pod 924: The T-4200 (Part 2 of 2)

Escape Pod 923: The T-4200 (Part 1 of 2)

Escape Pod 922: The Last Oracle of Atlantic City

Escape Pod 921: Death by Water

Escape Pod 920: Harvest the Stars

Escape Pod 919: Emotional Resonance

Escape Pod 918: Conference of the Birds

Escape Pod 917: Challenges to Becoming a Pro Dragonracer in Apapa-Downtown

Escape Pod 916: Anna and Marisol in Time and Space (Flashback Friday)

Escape Pod 915: The Confessionist

Escape Pod 914: #buttonsinweirdplaces (Part 2 of 2)

Escape Pod 913: #buttonsinweirdplaces (Part 1 of 2)

Escape Pod 912: The Retcon Man

Escape Pod 911: Driftwood in the Sea of Time

Escape Pod 910: Tuesday, June 13, at the South Valley Time Loop Support Group

Escape Pod 909: Murder or a Duck (Flashback Friday)

Escape Pod 908: Harvest Moon

Escape Pod 907: A Layer Thin As Breath

Escape Pod 906: Trash (Flashback Friday)

Escape Pod 905: Six Ways to Get Past the Shadow Shogun’s Goons, and One Thing to Do When You Get There

Escape Pod 904: Itoro fe Queen

Escape Pod 903: Bishop’s Opening (Part 4 of 4)

Escape Pod 902: Bishop’s Opening (Part 3 of 4)

Escape Pod 901: Bishop’s Opening (Part 2 of 4)

Escape Pod 900: Bishop’s Opening (Part 1 of 4)

Escape Pod 899: Sounding the Fall (Flashback Friday)

Escape Pod 898: A Gentlemen’s Agreement

Escape Pod 897: Migratory Patterns of the Modern American Skyscraper

Escape Pod 896: The AI That Looked at the Sun

Escape Pod 895: Man on the Moon

Escape Pod 894: The Uncool Hunters

Escape Pod 893: A Series of Endings

Escape Pod 892: Rogue Farm (Flashback Friday)

Escape Pod 891: Wanderlust

Escape Pod 890: The Mechanical Turk Has a Panic Attack

Escape Pod 889: The Greatest One-Star Restaurant in the Whole Quadrant

Escape Pod 888: The Revolution, Brought to You by Nike (Part 2) (Flashback Friday)

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