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Anonymous 09/26/2006EscapePod plays Science Fiction and fantasy stories.
I have listened to nearly every episode of EscapePod and each one is thrilling and unique. A large portion of the episodes contain adult t...
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The SciPhi show 10/18/2005This is one of the best podcasts I have listened to. I don't always like every story that is read, but it is certianly a case of many more hits than misses. I've been listening to this show ...
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Episodes
- EP175: Reparations
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Thu, 11 Sep 2008 20:10:58 +0000
By Merrie Haskell. Read by Mary Robinette Kowal. Audible.com Promotion! Get your free audiobook at: http://audible.com/escapepodsff I just swab my arm and administer the cocktail, a booster for my radiation immunization. The taste of brass fills my mouth in seconds, and I know that the cocktail has flooded my system. With this stuff burbling inside, I can stare down three sieverts without [...] - EP174: Private Detective Molly (28mb)
Sat, 06 Sep 2008 05:32:07 +0000
By A.B. Goelman. Read by Stephen Eley. That’s when I see my new boss. Four feet of trouble. Brunette variety. Tear tracks cutting through the dirt on her face, wearing jeans that were already old when Molly Dolls were nothing more than molded plastic and fantasy homes. She’s no idiot, though. “I want the [...] - EP173: Robots Don?t Cry (31mb)
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:20:41 +0000
By 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 [...] - Jeffrey DeRego?s surgery and financial assistance
Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:27:55 +0000
I’ve been in e-mail contact today with Jeffrey DeRego’s wife Cindy. She tells me that he had open heart surgery yesterday to bypass five blocked arteries. The surgery was successful and he’s expected to go home sometime next week. If anyone cares to know for purposes of sending cards or flowers, etc., he’s at [...] - EP172: Union Dues - Tabula Rasa (29mb)
Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:00:58 +0000
By Jeffrey R. DeRego. Read by Stephen Eley. Audible.com Promotion! Get your free audiobook at: http://audible.com/escapepodsff I raise my hand and she stops chattering. “Just tell me who you are and where I am.” She freezes and blinks twice. “Tell you where you are? Cap, you’re home. This is the Cleveland Pyramid. I’m Sarah Shadow. You don’t recognize me?” “That doesn’t [...] - EP BONUS: Playing for Keeps by Mur Lafferty (39mb)
Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:33:10 +0000
The 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! - Meetup at Dragon*Con!
Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:26:45 +0000
First: my apologies for recent delays in getting Escape Pod out; in the last couple of weeks it’s hit the feed Friday afternoons rather than late Thursday. It’s probably going to happen again this week. Personal business lately has included me losing my day job, finding a new and much better day job [...] - EP171: Fenneman?s Mouth (27mb)
Fri, 15 Aug 2008 22:30:03 +0000
By Andy Duncan. Read by Jared Axelrod (of The Voice of Free Planet X). “Fenneman?” The studio audience laughed loudly, as it always did when Groucho turned, in mock desperation or annoyance, to his long-suffering, hopelessly square announcer. Groucho’s voice slightly increased in pitch whenever he said Fenneman?s name, as if he were just at the edge [...] - EP170: Pervert (26mb)
Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:45:33 +0000
By Charles Coleman Finlay. Read by Stephen Eley. First appeared in Fantasy and Science Fiction, March 2004. Audible.com Promotion! Get your free audiobook at: http://audible.com/escapepodsff When the bus reaches the corner, they climb onboard, taking seats on their side and evening out the ride so it doesn’t feel so much like we’ll tip over. We rattle along past road construction, the [...] - Late notice (and a bonus file)
Fri, 08 Aug 2008 07:50:50 +0000
Sorry folks. I know that EP is getting to the point where it’s usually late these days, but today it’s going to be a bit later than usual. There are a few good reasons for it — some related to the content itself, and some related to things going on with me — [...] - EP169: How I Mounted Goldie, Saved My Partner Lori, and Sniffed Out The People?s Justice (35mb)
Fri, 01 Aug 2008 08:00:36 +0000
By Jonathon Sullivan. Read by Stephen Eley and Jennifer Bowie (of Screen Space). Q: What happened when you arrived at the address in question? A: My Partner Lori opened my door and I jumped out. I arrested a suspect! Q: Yes, Officer Bull. But I would like you to tell me exactly what happened, in detail, from the time [...] - EP Review: Wall-E (6mb)
Tue, 29 Jul 2008 06:00:59 +0000
A film by Andrew Stanton Reviewed by Ryan Nichols - EP168: Family Values (16mb)
Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:00:05 +0000
By Sara Genge. Read by Alasdair Stuart (of Pseudopod). First appeared in Cosmos, August/September 2007. Audible.com Promotion! Get your free audiobook at: http://audible.com/escapepodsff Senator Wu accepted Twing’s seed out of courtesy, although she had no intention of conceiving his child. Twing of Sails had thrown this party in his house in her honour, but he wasn’t as free with kilojoules as he was [...] - EP167: Love and Death in the Time of Monsters (23mb)
Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:30:28 +0000
By Frank Wu. Read by Stephen Eley. First appeared in Abyss & Apex, 4th Quarter 2007. Special closing music: “Showdown in Shinjuku” and “Incognito” by Daikaiju. They try everything. Cellular toxins. DNA replication inhibitors. Anti-sense nucleic acids. Artillery. Great bolts of lightning. Nothing stops him, it only makes the monster angrier. They try mutagens, teratogens, carcinogens, neurotoxins, hemotoxins, genotoxins [...] - EP166: The Something-Dreaming Game (28mb)
Fri, 11 Jul 2008 08:10:12 +0000
By Elizabeth Bear. Read by Mur Lafferty (of The Takeover and The Murverse). First appeared in Fast Forward 1, ed. Lou Anders. Audible.com Promotion! Get your free audiobook at: http://audible.com/escapepodsff First, there?s the pressure. A special kind of pressure, high under Tara?s chin, that makes her feel heavy and light all at once. She kneels by the chair and leans across [...] - EP165: Those Eyes (28mb)
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:00:53 +0000
By 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. [...] - EP164: The Right Kind of Town (17mb)
Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:00:25 +0000
By Christian Klaver. Read by Cunning Minx (of Polyamory Weekly). Audible.com Promotion! Get your free audiobook at: http://audible.com/escapepodsff In the civilized places closer to Hegemony space, you don?t see many bodies in the street in the first place. When you do, they?re always swarmed with sheriffs, marshals, constables, morticians and the like. Then the body gets moved fast, so as to [...] - EP163: Revolution Time (26mb)
Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:52:57 +0000
By Lavie Tidhar. Read by Stephen Eley. First appeared in Flurb #2, ed. Rudy Rucker. Special closing music: “Think For Yourself” by George Hrab. “I don’t see why you necessarily think it leads to the Chrono area,” Monty said, playing devil’s advocate. It was a month earlier, at the usual place: The Trotsky, a damp, dark watering hole in [...] - EP162: God Juice (45mb)
Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:00:35 +0000
By M.K. Hobson. Read by Christiana Ellis (of Christiana’s Shallow Thoughts). First appeared in Polyphony 6, ed. Deborah Layne and Jay Lake. Audible.com Promotion! Receive your free audiobook at: http://audible.com/escapepodsff “I wish to give you the opportunity to purchase a very valuable artifact from the great age of Ja’ardi civilization,” he said. “We stole it from a rival tribe, who [...] - EP161: Alien Promises (21mb)
Fri, 06 Jun 2008 05:44:33 +0000
By Janni Lee Simner. Read by Anna Eley. First appeared in Bruce Coville’s Book of Aliens II, ed. Bruce Coville. Jenny was silent for a while. “Promise me something?” she finally asked. “If they ever come for you, promise you’ll let me know?” “Why?” I had trouble believing Jenny really wanted to leave. Maybe this was all some sort [...] - EP160: Kallakak?s Cousins (27mb)
Fri, 30 May 2008 03:59:38 +0000
(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,” [...] - EP159: Elites (35mb)
Thu, 22 May 2008 08:30:20 +0000
By 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, [...] - EP BONUS: J.C. Hutchins OBSIDIAN Poster (1mb)
Tue, 20 May 2008 04:01:08 +0000
If 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 [...] - EP158: Who?s Afraid of Wolf 359? (30mb)
Fri, 16 May 2008 01:15:11 +0000
2008 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 [...] - EP157: A Small Room in Koboldtown (25mb)
Fri, 09 May 2008 03:58:39 +0000
2008 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 [...] - EP156: Distant Replay (25mb)
Fri, 02 May 2008 03:59:39 +0000
2008 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 [...] - EP155: Tideline (28mb)
Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:19:49 +0000
2008 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 [...] - EP154: Union Dues - Freedom With a Small f (36mb)
Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:30:03 +0000
By 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 [...] - EP153: Schwartz Between the Galaxies (41mb)
Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:59:34 +0000
By 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, [...] - EP152: The Big Guy (28mb)
Fri, 04 Apr 2008 10:30:03 +0000
By 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 [...] - EP BONUS: PodCastle 001: Come Lady Death (30mb)
Wed, 02 Apr 2008 06:08:38 +0000
PodCastle, our fantasy fiction podcast, has finally launched with its first episode. Rachel and company are presenting “Come Lady Death,” one of the earliest and strongest stories by legendary fantasy writer Peter S. Beagle. You should go straight over to PodCastle.org and follow the subscription links — but just to let you know what you’re [...] - EP Review: Classics - Dr. Strangelove (6mb)
Mon, 31 Mar 2008 03:19:20 +0000
A Film By Stanley Kubrick. Reviewed by Jonathon Sullivan - EP151: Behind the Rules (22mb)
Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:03:44 +0000
By Stephanie Burgis. Read by MA in PA (of Better Late Than Never). First appeared in Forgotten Worlds, July 2006. Closing music: “I Feel Fantastic” by Jonathan Coulton. The first Jacqui wrote me out a list of instructions thirty pages long. It contained all her history with Robert, in detail. It gave me a list of all the things to say and [...] - EP150: This, My Body (44mb)
Fri, 21 Mar 2008 10:00:51 +0000
By Jeremiah Tolbert. Read by Stephen Eley. I am the lover. I am the chef. I am the preterite priest. I am the secret, unknowable ingredient. You may taste me a thousand times, but never hold my essence on your tongue or capture it in your memory. I am the flavor of ecstasy. Taste me and [...] - EP149: Union Dues - All That We Leave Behind (29mb)
Fri, 14 Mar 2008 07:52:15 +0000
By Jeffrey R. DeRego. Read by Stephen Eley. If I just lay here they will get tired and leave. They can’t hurt me all that much; my body is too hard now, too strong. But I can’t let on that their kicks and punches don’t bother me or who knows what they’ll do next. So I’ll lay [...] - EP Metacast #3 (18mb)
Tue, 11 Mar 2008 06:28:57 +0000
The third “state of the podcast” address. Full text of an earlier draft can be found on our forums. Closing music is “Ya Famous?” by George Hrab. Used with standing permission. Be sure to check out the Geologic Podcast as well. - EP148: Homecoming at the Borderlands Caf? (23mb)
Fri, 07 Mar 2008 05:09:07 +0000
By Carole McDonnell. Read by Stephen Eley. First appeared in Jigsaw Nation, ed. Edward J. McFadden III and E. Sedia. We don’t see a lot of mixed couples around here, and we’re not like some of the other states in the Confederate United Republic. It’s not like they’re gonna get killed or lynched or nothing. But it’s tough [...] - EP147: Pressure (31mb)
Thu, 28 Feb 2008 20:43:07 +0000
By Jeff Carlson. Read by Graydancer (of The Ropecast). First appeared in Strange Horizons, August 2003. Closing music: “I Crush Everything” by Jonathan Coulton. I spent the longest five weeks of my life in that tank and in a deeper pool, healing, testing, practicing. My feet and toes had been augmented much like my hands, my thighs shortened [...] - EP146: Edward Bear and the Very Long Walk (32mb)
Fri, 22 Feb 2008 03:41:37 +0000
By Ken Scholes. Read by Stephen Eley. First appeared in Talebones, Spring 2001. “Do you know what’s happened to the children?” Edward swallowed. Suddenly, he wanted to cry. “Yes. They’re…sleeping?” He hoped and hoped and hoped and hoped, grimacing as he did. He looked around. Makeshift beds lined the room. Small hands gripped blankets, small eyes stared at [...] - EP145: Instead of a Loving Heart (21mb)
Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:32:03 +0000
By Jeremiah Tolbert. Read by Jared Axelrod (of The Voice of Free Planet X). First appeared in All-Star Zeppelin Adventure Stories (ed. David Moles & Jay Lake). We are somewhere among the tallest mountains of the world. When we arrived, I was locked away in a cargo hold, so I don?t know exactly where. Our home is a [...]
