Escape Pod

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 […] Source

Author : Mar Vincent Narrator : Cherrae L. Stuart Host : Tina Connolly Audio Producer : Adam Pracht Escape Pod 920: Harvest the Stars is an Escape Pod original. This episode is sponsored by The Theater of the Midnight Sun podcast, an anthology series of sci-fi/fantasy audio dramas where… FUN ADVENTURE AWAITS! With wall-to-wall music and […] Source

Author : V.M. Ayala Narrator : Julia Rios Host : Mur Lafferty Audio Producer : Adam Pracht Escape Pod 919: Emotional Resonance is an Escape Pod original. Cursing and warfare 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 […] Source

Benjamin C. Kinney, author of 'Conference of the Birds,' and Eric Valdes, the narrator, join host Alasdair Stuart and audio producer Summer Brooks to discuss topics including surveillance tracking, high-stakes missions, animal puns as resistance, and the potential of a coyote lawsuit.

Author : Uchechukwu Nwaka Narrator : Mofiyinfoluwa Okupe Host : Valerie Valdes Audio Producer : Adam Pracht Escape Pod 917: Challenges to Becoming a Pro Dragonracer in Apapa-Downtown is an Escape Pod original. Includes cursing and physical abuse. Challenges to Becoming a Pro Dragonracer in Apapa-Downtown By Uchechukwu Nwaka The gear is too expensive. Honestly. There […] Source

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 and Space by Tim Pratt The big day came, and Anna was tempted to tie […] Source

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 Confessionist by Ava Kelly Vemund pauses, standing on the wet sidewalk. Underneath the overcast sky, […] Source

Author : Simon Kewin Narrator : Rebecca Wei Hsieh Host : Valerie Valdes Audio Producer : Adam Pracht #buttonsinweirdplaces originally appeared in Abyss & Apex (2020). #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 […] Source

Author : Simon Kewin Narrator : Rebecca Wei Hsieh Host : Valerie Valdes Audio Producer : Adam Pracht #buttonsinweirdplaces originally appeared in Abyss & Apex (2020). #buttonsinweirdplaces (Part 1 of 2) 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 […] Source

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 future self in the past. Doing so can close your mind to alternative plans if […] Source