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The Science Fiction Podcast Magazine. Each week we present a fun contemporary science fiction, fantasy, or horror short story, along with commentary, reviews, and bonuses throughout the week.
We're also podcasting's first paying market for writers. See our submission guidelines at: http://escape.extraneous.org/guidelines
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Escape Pod Episodes - | EP175: Reparations | By Merrie Haskell.
Read by Mary Robinette Kowal.
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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 [...] | Get at Short URL | Download EP175: Reparations | Play in Popup.
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| 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 announcer. Groucho’s voice slightly increased in
pitch whenever he said Fenneman?s name, as if he were just at the edge [...] | Get at Short URL | Download EP171: Fenneman’s Mouth | Play in Popup.
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| EP170: Pervert | By Charles Coleman Finlay.
Read by Stephen Eley.
First appeared in Fantasy and Science Fiction, March 2004.
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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 [...] | Get at Short URL | Download EP170: Pervert | Play in Popup.
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| EP168: Family Values | By Sara Genge.
Read by Alasdair Stuart (of Pseudopod).
First appeared in Cosmos, August/September 2007.
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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 [...] | Get at Short URL | Download EP168: Family Values | Play in Popup.
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| EP165: Those Eyes | 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. [...] | Get at Short URL | Download EP165: Those Eyes | Play in Popup.
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| EP164: The Right Kind of Town | By Christian Klaver.
Read by Cunning Minx (of Polyamory Weekly).
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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 [...] | Get at Short URL | Download EP164: The Right Kind of Town | Play in Popup.
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| EP163: Revolution Time | 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 [...] | Get at Short URL | Download EP163: Revolution Time | Play in Popup.
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| EP162: God Juice | By M.K. Hobson.
Read by Christiana Ellis (of Christiana’s Shallow Thoughts).
First appeared in Polyphony 6, ed. Deborah Layne and Jay Lake.
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“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 [...] | Get at Short URL | Download EP162: God Juice | Play in Popup.
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| EP161: Alien Promises | 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 [...] | Get at Short URL | Download EP161: Alien Promises | Play in Popup.
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| EP159: Elites | 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, [...] | Get at Short URL | Download EP159: Elites | Play in Popup.
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| EP156: Distant Replay | 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 [...] | Get at Short URL | Download EP156: Distant Replay | Play in Popup.
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| EP155: Tideline | 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 [...] | Get at Short URL | Download EP155: Tideline | Play in Popup.
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| EP152: The Big Guy | 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 [...] | Get at Short URL | Download EP152: The Big Guy | Play in Popup.
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| EP151: Behind the Rules | 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 [...] | Get at Short URL | Download EP151: Behind the Rules | Play in Popup.
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| EP147: Pressure | 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 [...] | Get at Short URL | Download EP147: Pressure | Play in Popup.
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