Hello everyone! I’m Alasdair. I’m a podcaster, voice actor, RPG designer, columnist, critic and fiction writer. My big job is as the owner of Escape Artists,. What’s Escape Artists? I’m glad you asked! We publish the longest running short genre fiction podcasts on the planet. Started over a decade ago, we produce weekly podcasts that …
Last week I talked about EA and the Hugos. This week, I thought I’d give you the list of our eligible stories. Every link is clickable, everything is free so whether you’re voting or not do please click through and have a listen. Special thanks to the magnificent Tad for putting this together. Cast of …
Artemis Rising 2 is go! The first stories are up and I’ll run a roundup of them here next week. Know what else is up? This amazing work by Galen Dara was commissioned specially for AR2. We love it and we’re delighted to be able to offer it for sale until March 31st through Society …
In our first 2016 metacast, we present the Escape Artists (EA) stories that ran in 2015, which are eligible in the upcoming Hugo nomination season. Update: all of our editors (Graeme Dunlop and Rachael K. Jones at PodCastle, Shawn Garrett at Pseudopod, Marguerite Kenner at Cast of Wonders and Norm Sherman at EscapePod) are themselves …
For Your Consideration: Escape Artists Stories Eligible for the 2016 Hugos
Welcome back! This week we’ve got steampunk, It Follows esque inevitable horror, magic bones, Dance Dance Revolution, the world’s best and worst way to time travel and a wizard in the backyard. Let’s get started, shall we? Episode 517: Budo by Tade Thompson and read by Suyi Davies Okungbowa The story of a very unusual traveler and the …
It’s a huge week at Escape Artists this week, so let’s jump straight in. With a new section! Teaser image! We’ve commissioned a special piece of art for the upcoming Artemis Rising 2 season. It’s stunning work from a Hugo-nominated artist. We’ll be offering prints for a limited time. Much more on this soon… Episode …
It’s a busy week at Escape Artists Central, as usual. We’ve got new episodes for you from three shows, a festive treat from a fourth and a reminder that Mothership Zeta Issue 1 is still available with issue 2 coming soon too. The Winter Festival by Evan Berkow, read by Kate Baker Originally intended for …
Cast of Wonders, Marguerite’s award winning YA podcast and the fourth arm of the Escape Artists fleet, has just reopened to submissions! The new guidelines tell you everything you need to know and are here. And the Christmas episode, Marley and Cratchit by David Steffen and read by my dad, Ian Stuart, is available here.
Last weekend, as well as co-running the awesome redcloak team with Marguerite, I was on a panel at Fantasycon. ‘Sounds Like A Good Story’, designed by Richard Webb, did a great job of letting us talk about the attractions of audio fiction of all sorts and it was a really fun hour. It was also …
Hi everyone, over here you’ll find a three part meta cast we recorded at Worldcon in Spokane: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 There’s all kinds of great stuff in all three and you should listen to each one but before I bury the big story altogether, we’re bringing aboard a new show! Cast of …