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February 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). Zebulon Vance Sings the Alphabet Songs of Love by Merrie Haskell I am Robot!Ophelia. I […]
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30 min
February 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 444 Forbidden Data. Access risks criminal liability, penalty level: unit decommission.
REPEAT QUERY: Locate file 8548.213 (“How to Pass as Human”)
COMMAND: EXECUTE scramble query source. Anonymize reader. Security level: maximum.
COMMAND: EXECUTE quantum de-encryption protocols. Render file: plain text.
25 min
February 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 Piper’s Breakout Single that Ended the Rat War”, in Troubadours and Space Princesses by Hemelein […]
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29 min
January 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 Marino “Did you read the terms and conditions?” “Fuck you, I read the terms and […]
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30 min
January 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 still shone and its maxillae were well-filed.
He stepped gingerly up onto one forelimb and squeezed between Mango and a delivery box.
“So,” she asked over her shoulder, “why do you need to get to the Core bad enough to spend a couple days’ pay on the trip?”
He snorted. “Try a week. I work for the government.”
Her eyes widened.
“No, it’s cool, I like my job. Second Assistant Director for Core Planning and Development.”
She didn’t respond, a familiar reaction when he talked about his job.
38 min
January 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 implant had been trying to wake him for some time.
He rolled off the couch. Another day, another commute from his nondescript apartment to the center of the Galaxy, trying to do the one thing his mother said he never would: make a difference.
The walk-in wardrobe straightened his collar as he registered the time. Carl sprinted past the pre-programmed bowl of cereal to the garage door.
“Leo? Where are you, boy?”
Carl’s ride was usually parked in the garage on a mat of sweet-grass and clover. It was nowhere to be seen. And it’s not like he could overlook a car-sized dimension-hopping tortoise.
41 min
January 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 Midnight Sun podcast: sci-fi/fantasy audio dramas that showcase tales of adventure, fun, and – alas […]
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39 min
December 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 Fiction Short Story 2022. Content warning for claustrophic situations and drowning. Death by Water by […]
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39 min
December 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 pure and bright.
“The seeds start out like any seeds; small, unassuming. Until we fertilize them, tend them. Give them space to grow,” Tuja said to the infant on her lap, who must have been more focused on the fingers stuffed in her mouth than the sight of the field crew moving amongst hulls like insects scrambling over gourds. They started in the early afternoon to harvest with the dusk.
31 min
December 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 storms that flashed red with threads of lightning. Beautiful.
And they were sent to clear it of all human life. Courtesy of ExoPLENTI, Inc.! Ugh, that slogan clung to their digital psyche no matter how hard they tried to scrub it from their databases.
At least this part, floating in orbit, wasn’t so bad.
35 min