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EP178: Unlikely
By Will McIntosh. Read by Stephen Eley. First appeared in Asimov’s, January 2008. Special closing music: “Mandelbrot Set” by Jonathan Coulton. “The mayor seems to believe there’s something to this,” Tuesday…
EP177: Usurpers
By Derek Zumsteg. Read by Stephen Eley. Audible.com Promotion! Get your free audiobook at: http://audible.com/escapepodsff King spots a knock-off cluster, glowing sunny in the rain, too fit, perfectly proportioned. Tear off some burnished bronze,…
EP176: How The World Became Quiet: A Post-Human Creation Myth
By Rachel Swirsky. Read by Frank Key (of Hooting Yard). Humans laid the foundation for the sixth apocalypse in much the same way they’d triggered the previous ones. Having recovered their ambition after the Apocalypse of Serotonin and rebuilt …
EP175: Reparations
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…
EP174: Private Detective Molly
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…
EP173: Robots Don’t Cry
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.…
EP172: Union Dues - Tabula Rasa
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 …
EP BONUS: Playing for Keeps by Mur Lafferty
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,…
EP171: Fenneman’s Mouth
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…
EP170: Pervert
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,…
Late notice (and bonus file)
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 …
EP169: How I Mounted Goldie, Saved My Partner Lori, and Sniffed Out The People’s Justice
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…
EP168: Family Values
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,…
EP167: Love and Death in the Time of Monsters
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…
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