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The Science Fiction Podcast Magazine. Each week Escape Pod narrates fun science fiction and fantasy short stories, with commentary and review. We're also the first paying market in podcasting. Listen today, and hear the new sound of science fiction!

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Escape Pod Flash: The Sincerest Form

By W.G. Hopkins Read by Alasdair Stuart Bars of light crossed my desk, carved from the sun by the open window. The scent of hot asphalt rose from the path that led to the capitol buildings. Beside me, Dr. Singh motioned for the guards to bring in Dr. Norman Terriault. He looked pale. I motioned for him to [...]...

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[ Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:52:02 +0000 ]

EP194: Exhalation

2009 Hugo Nominee! By Ted Chiang. Read by Ray Sizemore (of X-Ray Visions). First appeared in Eclipse 2, ed. Jonathan Strahan. Narration first appeared at and produced by Starship Sofa. Special thanks to Tony Smith and Ray Sizemore for their kind permission to resyndicate this award nominee. Audible.com Promotion! Get your free audiobook at: http://audiblepodcast.com/escapepod But in the normal course of [...]...

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[ Fri, 10 Apr 2009 05:00:49 +0000 ]

Escape Pod Flash: Grandpa?

By Edward M Lerner Read by Ben Phillips The lecture hall was pleasantly warm. Behind Prof. Thaddeus Fitch, busily writing on the chalkboard, pencils scratched earnestly in spiral notebooks, fluorescent lights hummed, feet shuffled. A Beach Boys tune wafted in through open windows from the quad. “And so,” he continued, “travel backwards in time would violate causality, [...]...

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[ Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:00:22 +0000 ]

EP193: Article of Faith

By Mike Resnick. Read by Stephen Eley. First appeared in Baen’s Universe, October 2008. “I’m sure,” I said. “Somehow, lunch seems pretty trivial after you’ve been thinking about God all morning.” “God, sir?” “The Creator of all things,” I explained. “My creator is Stanley Kalinovsky, sir,” said Jackson. “I was not aware that he created everything in the world, nor that [...]...

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[ Fri, 03 Apr 2009 02:30:36 +0000 ]

Escape Pod Flash: A Preference for Silence

By Lucy A. Snyder Read by Ann Leckie Veronica was a spaceworthy lass with a definite preference for silence and a sensitivity to detail. She’d never lost her tea in zero gee and had always been the first to note when the coffee maker needed cleaning or when the fluorescent lights would flick-flicker in [...]...

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[ Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:56:33 +0000 ]

EP192: Sumo21

By Daniel Braum. Read by Stephen Eley. Audible.com Promotion! Get your free audiobook at: http://audible.com/escapepodsff “Oh great Emperor,” the gyoji said, continuing the ritual. “These two honorable warriors can not agree who will step aside, and who will join the sacred battle to return you to us. We would gladly send all our sons, but the Council of Infinite Japans says there [...]...

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[ Sat, 28 Mar 2009 23:00:14 +0000 ]

Escape Pod Flash: Beachcomber

By Mike Resnick Read by Elie Hirschman Arlo didn’t look much like a man. (Not all robots do, you know.) The problem was that he didn’t act all that much like a robot. Rated PG. Contains hopes that will never be fulfilled. ...

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[ Mon, 23 Mar 2009 05:01:27 +0000 ]

EP191: This Is How It Feels

By Ian Creasey. Read by FNH (of The Cthulhu Podcast). First appeared in Asimov’s, March 2008 Guest Host: Tony Smith (of Starship Sofa) Nathan’s eyes stung as he remembered how Jenny used to do just that: the same jump down the stairs, the same windmilling of her arms as she landed…. The grief swept over him like a [...]...

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[ Thu, 19 Mar 2009 05:00:57 +0000 ]

Escape Pod Flash: It Was Death By a Bullet, But I Was Killed By a Woman

By Michael Bekemeyer Read by Alasdair Stuart (of Pseudopod) I have a special skill. I am a part of a small group of people on this planet that can do special things with their minds. You have your mind readers, your empaths — and you have people like me who can control things through telekinesis. I [...]...

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[ Mon, 16 Mar 2009 05:01:46 +0000 ]

EP190: Origin Story

By Tim Pratt. Read by Stephen Eley. Special closing music: “Skullcrusher Mountain” by Jonathan Coulton. Audible.com Promotion! Get your free audiobook at: http://audible.com/escapepodsff He didn’t call himself The Aerialist at first. The newspapers came up with that later. He called himself Kid Kangaroo of all things, because of the jumping from rooftop to rooftop, even though I made fun of [...]...

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[ Thu, 12 Mar 2009 07:30:26 +0000 ]

Escape Pod Flash: My Angel Gabriel

By J. R. Blackwell Read by Ann Leckie (of PodCastle) “Becky.” Typed Rachel “I had to ban him. I’m sorry. He was a bot, a spider, a program. He wasn’t human.” Becky’s green words glowed on her screen almost immediately. “He talked to me! Every day! What do you mean he wasn’t human?” Rachel exhaled; this was going to [...]...

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[ Mon, 09 Mar 2009 05:01:55 +0000 ]

EP189: The Botox School of Acting

By Liz Shannon Miller. Read by Dani Cutler (of Truth Seekers). Guest Host: Jeffrey R. DeRego Audible.com Promotion! Get your free audiobook at: http://audible.com/escapepodsff Only the best gain acceptance. Harry cannot be bought. Twice a year, he attends the fashion shows, looking for an unknown to transform, but most of the time they come to him — the beautiful, the [...]...

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[ Wed, 04 Mar 2009 07:00:37 +0000 ]

EP188: 29 Union Leaders Can’t Be Wrong

By Genevieve Valentine. Read by Chris Lester (of Metamor City). First appeared in Strange Horizons, November 2007 Guest Host: Jeffrey R. DeRego Audible.com Promotion! Get your free audiobook at: http://audible.com/escapepodsff “This is normal,” the doctor says, and, “Give yourself time, it’s key,” and, “The hospital psychiatrist will be speaking to you about some support groups.” “What about Marlene?” “She’s speaking with one...

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[ Fri, 27 Feb 2009 05:36:11 +0000 ]

EP187: Summer in Paris, Light from the Sky

By Ken Scholes. Read by Alex Wilson (of Telltale Weekly). Adolf Hitler came to Paris in June 1941 feeling the weight of his years in his legs and the taste of a dying dream in his mouth. He spent most of that first day walking up and down the Champs Elysées, working the stiffness out of [...]...

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[ Sat, 07 Feb 2009 23:05:06 +0000 ]

EP186: Chrysalis

By Mary Robinette Kowal. Read by Cunning Minx (of Polyamory Weekly). Sponsored by CONTAGIOUS, by Scott Sigler. People ask me if I ever get involved with the subjects of my documentaries. I have a difficult time imagining that they would ask my male colleagues the same question, but they seem to expect women to be more emotional. In response, I tend [...]...

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[ Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:05:48 +0000 ]

EP185: Union Dues - All About the Sponsors

By Jeffrey R. DeRego. Read by Stephen Eley. Sponsored by CONTAGIOUS, by Scott Sigler. I suck in my chest and tighten the buckles before getting lightheaded. I don’t have to wear the costume anymore, but it seems disrespectful to leave it in the closet for this one last mission. I get the boots on and struggle with the [...]...

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[ Fri, 02 Jan 2009 08:00:00 +0000 ]

Escape Pod Flash: Standards

by Richard K. Lyon Read by Frank Key (of Hooting Yard) After careful examination of your manuscript no 113785, Corbamite, An Insulator Against Gravity, the editors of Review of Physics have concluded that it is not suitable for publication in this journal. This decision is final and further correspondence on this subject will serve no useful purpose. Since [...]...

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[ Tue, 30 Dec 2008 02:26:46 +0000 ]

EP184: As Dry Leaves That Before the Wild Hurricane Fly

By Mur Lafferty. Read by Christiana Ellis (of Christiana’s Shallow Thoughts, et al.). Special Closing Music: “Chiron Beta Prime,” by Jonathan Coulton. Comet and Cupid were fifteen, and took after their father, both spending the most time in the workshop tinkering with Father’s tools. Christmas was coming soon and they were preparing their yearly trip to the [...]...

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[ Thu, 25 Dec 2008 05:01:32 +0000 ]

Escape Pod Flash Fiction Contest, Honorable Mention: Silence

by Rachel Swirsky. Read by Ann Leckie. � Whatever the midwife told you, it’s not true. I cannot walk through walls. I cannot conjure a chicken and make it�dance or start a fire with my fingers. I cannot shape familiars from�fog or examine entrails to see if a man will die. I cannot resurrect�your [...]...

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[ Sat, 06 Dec 2008 05:00:28 +0000 ]

Escape Pod Flash Fiction Contest, Honorable Mention: Hello, I Love You

by Katherine Sparrow. Read by Rachel Swirsky. “Junk DNA? I’ll junk your DNA!” Sofia glared at Zorg. “Apologies. It is only, don’t you find it interesting? Most of it is unused–” “Junk? You supercilious aliens come to Earth to rein snottiness on us lowly humans? How sublime. I suppose your DNA is full of Porsches?” Rated PG. ...

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[ Fri, 05 Dec 2008 05:00:33 +0000 ]

Escape Pod Flash Fiction Contest, Honorable Mention: The Way Before

By Anna Schwind Read by Ann Leckie When Chasca turned eleven, her father took her to a ship farm, to choose her vessel.� She stood on the observation deck, evaluating the herd.� Chasca selected the farthest ship.� It faced away from the others and bumped the edges of the corral.� She understood.� Rated �G. ...

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[ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 05:00:11 +0000 ]

Escape Pod Flash Fiction Contest, Honorable Mention: Hoarding Colored Rags

by Jared Axelrod (of The Voice of Free Planet X). Read by Mike Swirsky. I remember your touch, your taste, the way your mouth curled slightly�when you said my name. Rated PG.� ...

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[ Wed, 03 Dec 2008 02:00:11 +0000 ]

Escape Pod Flash Fiction Contest, Honorable Mention: From Liquid to Glass

By J. R. Blackwell. Read by Rachel Swirsky (of PodCastle). He smelled like new cars and�cologne, he moved with a measured rhythm. His mouth tasted like mint�toothpaste. She looked over his shoulder through the white light of�the window. She was sweating into her sheets, her breath silent, and�her lips thin and tight. Rated R. Contains sex [...]...

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[ Mon, 01 Dec 2008 05:00:02 +0000 ]

Escape Pod Flash Fiction Contest, Third Place: Karakuri

By Gideon Fostick. Read by Dave Leckie. Bill had no heart for this�Karakuri, left behind in the empty house when�his love had gone. Small and exquisite, propped at an angle on the�tatami floor mat, it was the toughest puzzle he’d known.� Rated PG. Contains puzzles. ...

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[ Sat, 29 Nov 2008 13:00:26 +0000 ]

Escape Pod Flash Fiction Contest, Second Place: Skyscrapers

by Rachel Swirsky read by Ann Leckie Summers, I sleep on rooftops. Under smokestacks, beside stairs, in the�sudden green of precarious gardens. Rated PG. Contains mythical figures. ...

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[ Fri, 28 Nov 2008 18:00:54 +0000 ]

EP Flash Fiction Contest Winner: Mission to Dover

by Gideon Fostick. Read by Lyle Merithew.� Escape Pod sends its congratulations to Gideon Fostick for winning first place in the Escape Pod flash fiction contest for stories under 300 words. Professor Seiferd materialized in full command of his faculties. He oriented�immediately on the white cliffs of Dover, towering over the English Channel.�He felt the weight [...]...

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[ Wed, 26 Nov 2008 21:40:21 +0000 ]

EP Metacast #4

In which more is said about the hiatus. Referenced Sites: Eulogy for Bicky Eley PodCastle ...

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[ Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:41:51 +0000 ]

EP183: Beans and Marbles

(Update: Reposted with editing mistakes corrected. My apologies for the errors.) By Floris M. Kleijne. Read by Stephen Eley. First appeared in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, August 2005. When Flight Control assigned us utility privileges, I don’t think they expected me to brew espresso in the centrifugal head. But the weight of the espresso machine was well within the parameters [...]...

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[ Sun, 09 Nov 2008 20:35:00 +0000 ]

EP182: The Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham

By H.G. Wells. Read by Alasdair Stuart (of Pseudopod). “I must tell you, then, that I am an old man, a very old man.” He paused momentarily. “And it happens that I have money that I must presently be leaving, and never a child have I to leave it to.” I thought of the confidence trick, and [...]...

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[ Sat, 01 Nov 2008 22:15:13 +0000 ]

EP181: Resistance

By Tobias S. Buckell. Read by Stephen Eley. First appeared in Seeds of Change, ed. John Joseph Adams Audible.com Metatropolis Promotion! Download the first story from Metatropolis free at: http://audible.com/metapod The man opened the pack all the way to reveal a small arsenal of guns, grenades, explosives, and — oddly — knives. Very large knives. He looked up at Stanuel. [...]...

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[ Sat, 25 Oct 2008 23:00:44 +0000 ]

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