Moonbase Theta, Out season 1 is a high watermark in modern podcast audio drama. DJ Sylvis’ scripts, and the central idea are an elegant piece of narrative Judo that makes a small cast and tight focus a storytelling asset. Better still it’s a show that tightens and tightens down until a reveal that flips everything on …
We live in the Middle. Ghosts live in the Below. Think of the Below as here, just…sadder. More mournful. Angrier. Sometimes. The two worlds barely touch but when they do, something needs to be done. It usually ends up being done by Taylor (David Devereux). Taylor can travel between the two worlds with relative ease …
The Stellar Firma Corporation are very good at building custom worlds. So much so that lawsuits are down to a statistically manageable amount! Now’s a perfect time for a new clone and David 7, clone PA to a planet designer is born. Innocent. sweet, weirdly sticky, David 7 is paired with Trexel Geistman. Many, all …
The audiobook of Unidentified Funny Objects 6 is ALLIIIIIVE! Marguerite and i worked our tails off for this one and there are some brilliant stories in here. My favorites are Marguerite reading “Twenty-Nine Responses to Inquiries About my Craigslist Post: Alien Spaceship for Sale. $200, You Haul” by Tina Connolly and me on ‘A Crawlspace Full of Prizes’ by Bill …
Wegfo Here’s the full list. Here’s the official press release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Escape Artists Make The British Fantasy Award Finals Award-winning genre fiction podcasts PseudoPod and PodCastle have made the shortlist for the British Fantasy Society Best Audio award. The award, debuting last year, went to the audio adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s Anansi Boys. …
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Leah Moore and John Reppion are part of that elite cadre of writers who seem physically incapable of turning in bad work. Endlessly versatile, always grounded and always with an eye on the rich and strange. Sally Jane Thompson is right there with them too, an artist whose work I’ve known and admired for years and who has an effortless …
This is a piece about the developing situation with the Parsec awards. There is a flotilla of issues here and I’ll do my best to address each one. First off, some basic principles. If you have an issue with these, you’re not going to like the article, and I’d suggest you walk away now: I …
So the Hugo Awards shortlist just went live and, well, Marguerite put it best: For the first time in our 14 year existence, ESCAPE ARTISTS HAS A HUGO NOMINATION!!!! ESCAPE POD IS A FINALIST FOR SEMIPROZINE!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! (Click on the amazing logo for our press kit) A huge thank you to the voters for the …
The Screwfly Solution by James Tiptree Jr is as close to perfect as short fiction gets. It’s also one of these pieces it’s best to come to entirely uninformed. So, click here to go and listen to PsuedoPod Episode 400, where a constellation of some of our finest narrators bringing this all time classic to life. …
Women In Horror Month: Short Story Saturday: The Screwfly Solution