Makeshift Stories

After discovering more planted incriminating evidence against them on the café’s computer, Maya and Tim decide to flee when net regulatory agents show up. In an attempt to find Maya’s parents they take the train to new Hudson Beach. Along the way they are helped by the odd bag lady’s secret organization, but neither Tim or nor Maya know who, other than the authorities are chasing them or why they have been framed as criminals. Program Notes And Credits Background audio textures and sound effects from SoundSnap Opening and closing music from Premiumbeat. Episode album cover image from Fotolia.

With the first Moon landings in the late 1960’s many may have felt that a Mars mission was no too far off, but since that time no human has left near Earth orbit. On the 200th anniversary of the first moon landing an international mission is poised to be the first human presence on Mars, but events are more complex than they seem. Program Notes And Credits Background audio textures and sound effects from soundsnap.com. Opening and closing music from Premiumbeat.

Maya and Tim live in a future that is powered by coal, kids over 8 must work for a living, and reality is not what it seems. Tim’s parents died after an apparently random traffic accident, leaving him alone, and in debt for the medical expenses. Unable to pay, his liabilities were auctioned off to a family who owns a café, where he now has to work until their daughter, Maya, finishes college. When two mysterious customers from Europa Café show up in the lobby of the building that hides Anneita's secret archive she forces Tim and Maya to leave. While on their way back to the café Maya feels that they are being followed, and when they arrive at the Europa they find it closed and Maya's mother missing. Program Notes And Credits Background audio textures and sound effects from SoundSnap Opening and closing music from Premiumbeat. Episode album cover image from Fotolia.

An astronomer, watching for near earth objects, makes a shocking discovery which forces Adrian out from hiding. Adrian realizes that events in the past have lead to a disaster in the present. He is forced to intervene and change history, but the results are not entirely what he had planned. This episode revisits the original series from year one. Program Notes And Credits Background audio textures and sound effects from soundsnap.com. Opening and closing music from Premiumbeat.

An automated planetary mission goes awry when it is hit by solar flares. Unit C-11 one of the landing group’s communication nodes attempts to repair its damaged memory with information erroneously downloaded from the mission’s orbiter. Once assimilated, the information along with a comment from one of the mission control hubs, convinces the tiny robot that it is a knight-errant on an important quest. Program Notes And Credits Background audio textures and sound effects from soundsnap.com. Opening and closing music from Premiumbeat.

Lambent Nape Nor works at the Infinite Macro Cosmic Reality Corporation as the assistant head of product design and customer services for Universe 8. Despite Lambent’s concerns management insists on a last minute change to an already rushed update. It quickly becomes evident that change does more than they had intended. The week’s story is based on the idea proposed by physicist David Bohm that the Universe is might be similar to a holographic projection and discussion around our house on recent news headlines that graphically point out how things don’t always go as planned. Program Notes And Credits Background audio textures and sound effects from soundsnap.com. Opening and closing music from Premiumbeat.

Maya and Tim live in a future that is powered by coal, kids over 8 must work for a living, and reality is not what it seems. Tim’s parents died after an apparently random traffic accident, leaving him alone, and in debt for the medical expenses. Unable to pay, his liabilities were auctioned off to a family who owns a café, where he now has to work until their daughter, Maya, finishes college. After receiving an unexpected message warning him to check the server logs at the café, Tim and Maya go to meet the mysterious sender, who initially appears to be a bag lady, but is in fact from an old eccentric wealthy Way Station family. She takes Tim and Maya to the disused top floor of the Ashton Towers, where she reveals her involvement in a hundred year old society that is trying to understand the actions of an elusive and dangerous group which has been apparently changing history. Tim’s gopher server project has inadvertently brought him, Maya and the café under the scrutiny of this organization and the Europa café’s future may be threatened as a result. Program Notes And Credits Background audio textures and sound effects from SoundSnap Opening and closing music from Premiumbeat. Episode album cover image from Fotolia.

A 500 hundred year old terraforming project is derailed by an imminent invasion. No one, except a small group of scientists, understands the true nature of the threat and its real implications for the future of their civilization. This story evolved out of a discussion on James Lovelock‘s Gaia hypothesis that the earth is an single complex organism, the recent announcement of the creation of a synthetic genome, and a story that appeared about the possibility of life on Titan, based on an entirely different chemistry then our own. Program Notes And Credits Background audio textures and sound effects from soundsnap.com. Opening and closing music from Premiumbeat.

After being sucked into a wormhole, created when Luki used Len’s unfinished hyper dry modification to the ship’s clothes dryer, the crew of the Hyper Nova are stranded on a strange planet called Atma, which is being smothered in lost laundry. The local inhabitants, who are ungulate like creatures with three legs, believe that the Hyper Nova is was sent from the great sky herd in answer to their pleas to stop the down pour of unwanted hoof warmers. Opick, the herd leader, is convinced that Luke could not possibly be the sky Alpha they have been waiting for and holds him captive. Len, Zara and ADA are then forced to improvise a way to negotiate a solution. Program Notes And Credits Background audio textures and sound effects: Mars: The Planets Suite licensed from Premiumbeat. Sound FX and background textures from SoundSnap.

This month we present to two short stories. In first one called, Perspectives, a routine mission is suddenly changed by a chance encounter in depth space. This story evolved out of a one of David’s writing assignments at school. In our second story, entitled, The Mission, the leader of a multi-generally space craft reports their research findings after nearly 50 years of silence. This story grew out a conversion around Steven Hawking’s comments on the possibility of Alien Life, made at NASA’s the 50th anniversary. Program Notes And Credits Background audio textures and sound effects from soundsnap.com. Opening and closing music from Premiumbeat.

A heavy rain storm breaks Way Station’s heat wave, but along with the storm two strange customers appear at the Europa Café. They appear to know more than they should and this spooks Maya. After hearing about them Tim tells Maya about some other odd happenings then is spooked himself by an unexpected message. Program Notes And Credits Background audio textures and sound effects from SoundSnap Opening and closing music from Premiumbeat. Episode album cover image from Fotolia.

A passing celestial being is trapped by earth's gravity and dragged reluctantly to its surface in the middle of a Moscow winter. Stranded in the body of a dog the alien being is forced to intervene in the early Russian Space program in order to get a ride home. The story is loosely based on the Sputnik 2 mission that carried a dog named Laika into space on November 3, 1957. Program Notes And Credits Background audio textures and sound effects from soundsnap.com. Opening and closing music from Premiumbeat.

Life on board the Hyper Nova begins to settle down into a routine until a number of random events collide with one of Len’s pet projects causing the ship and its crew to get sucked into a hole in space. As they start repairs Luki encounters the angry local inhabitants of a strange alien world. Program Notes And Credits Background audio textures and sound effects: Mars: The Planets Suite licensed from Premiumbeat. Sound FX and background textures from SoundSnap.

Time can seem to slow down when there is nothing to do, and this was particularly true for Abeo who had been forced to endure a summer without her friends on a lonely research station. Her father and the other adults were too distracted by some unusual observations too pay attention to Abeo. One day she finds a mysterious friend her own age in a field, and her summer begins to pass quickly, but the visits of her new companion have unexpected consequences. Program Notes And Credits Background audio textures and sound effects from soundsnap.com. Opening and closing music from Premiumbeat.

Maya and Tim work at the Europa Cafe in Way Station - a place out of time where things are run by steam, trains are the main means of transportation and adults don't seem to remember what really happened in the past. One night Tim discovers someone has been breaking into one of his personal online projects and so begins an adventure that takes them both into a hidden world of intrigue. Program Notes And Credits Background audio textures and sound effects from SoundSnap Opening and closing music from Premiumbeat. Episode album cover image from Fotolia.