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The Science Fiction Podcast Magazine. Each week Escape Pod narrates fun science fiction and fantasy short stories, with commentary and review. We're also the first paying market in podcasting. Listen today, and hear the new sound of science fiction! (Author: Stephen Eley)
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Published: Aug 29, 08By Mike Resnick.Read by Stephen Eley.Every now and then we strike it rich. Usually we make a profit. Once in a while we just break even. There’s only been one world where we actually lost money; I still remember it — Greenwillow. Except that it wasn’t green, and there wasn’t a willow on the whole [...]
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Published: Aug 22, 08The Escape Pod episode is still coming up later today. But by special permission of Mur Lafferty, here’s a special bonus for you: the complete text of her novel, Playing for Keeps, in PDF format. It’s officially launching August 25th, so be sure to buy it from Amazon then!
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Published: Jul 4, 08By David Brin.Read by Stephen and Anna Eley.“…So you want to talk about flying saucers? I was afraid of that.“This happens every damn time I’m blackmailed into babysitting you insomniacs, while Talkback Larry escapes to Bimini for a badly needed rest. I’m supposed to field call-in questions about astronomy and outer space for two weeks. [...]
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Published: May 29, 08By Cat Rambo.Read by Stephen Eley.First appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction, March 2008.“Sometimes we don’t realize that what we want isn’t good for us,” the man said, speaking for the first time. He stared intently at Kallakak.“Dominance rituals do not work well on me,” Kallakak said, roughening his voice to rudeness. “I will [...]
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Published: May 29, 08(Updated 5/30: Corrected misspelled name in the title. Sorry, Cat.)By Cat Rambo.Read by Stephen Eley.First appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction, March 2008.“Sometimes we don’t realize that what we want isn’t good for us,” the man said, speaking for the first time. He stared intently at Kallakak.“Dominance rituals do not work well on me,” [...]
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Published: May 22, 08By Kristine Kathryn Rusch.Read by Máia Whitaker (of KnitWitch’s SciFi/Fantasy Zone and Superior Audioworks).First appeared in Women of War, ed. Tanya Huff & Alexander Potter.I could’ve followed the sounds. The closer I get, the louder voices grow—yelling obscenities, cheering, clapping in approval.These women love fights.I used to let them do it too, without interference, [...]
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Published: May 20, 08If you’re as much a fan as I am of J.C. Hutchins’s SF thriller trilogy 7th Son, you’ll be jazzed to hear about 7th Son: OBSIDIAN, the new short fiction audio anthology set in the 7th Son universe. The anthology has stories from some of the top names in podcasting, including Mur Lafferty, Scott [...]
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Published: May 15, 082008 Hugo Nominee!By Ken MacLeod.Read by Stephen Eley.First appeared in The New Space Opera, ed. Gardner Dozois & Jonathan Strahan.When you’re as old as I am, you’ll find your memory’s not what it was. It’s not that you lose memories. That hasn’t happened to me or anyone else since the Paleocosmic Era, the Old Space [...]
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Published: May 8, 082008 Hugo Nominee!By Michael Swanwick.Read by Cheyenne Wright (of Arcane Times and Girl Genius).First appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction, April/May 2007.That Winter, Will le Fey held down a job working for a haint politician named Salem Toussaint. Chiefly, his function was to run errands while looking conspicuously solid. He fetched tax forms for the alderman’s [...]
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Published: May 1, 082008 Hugo Nominee!By Mike Resnick.Read by Steve Anderson (of SGA Creative and Great Tales Live).First appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction, April/May 2007.“Let me show you,” I said, pulling out my wallet. I took my Deirdre’s photo out and handed it to her.“It’s uncanny,” she said, studying the picture. “We even sort of wear our hair [...]
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Published: Apr 24, 082008 Hugo Nominee!By Elizabeth Bear.Read by Stephen Eley.Closing Music: “The Fall” by Red Hunter.They would have called her salvage, if there were anyone left to salvage her. But she was the last of the war machines, a three-legged oblate teardrop as big as a main battle tank, two big grabs and one fine manipulator folded [...]
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Published: Apr 24, 082008 Hugo Nominee!By Elizabeth Bear.Read by Stephen Eley.Closing Music: “The Fall” by Red Hunter.They would have called her salvage, if there were anyone left to salvage her. But she was the last of the war machines, a three-legged oblate teardrop as big as a main battle tank, two big grabs and one fine manipulator folded [...]
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Published: Apr 18, 08By Jeffrey R. DeRego.Read by Nuri (of CandyCorn Studios and Artist Alley).Closing Music: “Juzt Mizunderztood” by Norm Sherman.My head throbs. I think about the mess in the fridge, the heaps of crap in the flat while I force the clumps of wet clothes into the dryers.As far as I know I am the only Union [...]
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Published: Apr 10, 08By Robert Silverberg.Read by Stephen Eley.This much is reality: Schwartz sits comfortably cocooned — passive, suspended — in a first-class passenger rack aboard a Japan Air Lines rocket, nine kilometers above the Coral Sea. And this much is fantasy: the same Schwartz has passage on a shining starship gliding silkily through the interstellar depths, [...]
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Published: Apr 4, 08By Mike Resnick.Read by Stephen Eley.First appeared in Jim Baen’s Universe, June 2007.“Okay,” said Fishbait. He tossed a ball to the Big Guy. “Let’s try a little one-on-one. Ralph, let’s see what you can do against Jacko here.”The Big Guy took a look at me, his face totally expressionless. I moved forward to lean on [...]
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