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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. Audible.com Promotion! Receive your free audiobook at: http://audible.com/escapepodsff “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 [...]

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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 [...]

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(Updated 5/30: Corrected misspelled name in the title. Sorry, Cat.) By Cat Rambo. Read by Stephen Eley. First appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction, March 2008. “Sometimes we don’t realize that what we want isn’t good for us,” the man said, speaking for the first time. He stared intently at Kallakak. “Dominance rituals do not work well on me,” [...]

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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, [...]

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If you’re as much a fan as I am of J.C. Hutchins’s SF thriller trilogy 7th Son, you’ll be jazzed to hear about 7th Son: OBSIDIAN, the new short fiction audio anthology set in the 7th Son universe. The anthology has stories from some of the top names in podcasting, including Mur Lafferty, Scott [...]

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2008 Hugo Nominee! By Ken MacLeod. Read by Stephen Eley. First appeared in The New Space Opera, ed. Gardner Dozois & Jonathan Strahan. When you’re as old as I am, you’ll find your memory’s not what it was. It’s not that you lose memories. That hasn’t happened to me or anyone else since the Paleocosmic Era, the Old Space [...]

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2008 Hugo Nominee! By Michael Swanwick. Read by Cheyenne Wright (of Arcane Times and Girl Genius). First appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction, April/May 2007. That Winter, Will le Fey held down a job working for a haint politician named Salem Toussaint. Chiefly, his function was to run errands while looking conspicuously solid. He fetched tax forms for the alderman’s [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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By Jeffrey R. DeRego. Read by Nuri (of CandyCorn Studios and Artist Alley). Closing Music: “Juzt Mizunderztood” by Norm Sherman. My head throbs. I think about the mess in the fridge, the heaps of crap in the flat while I force the clumps of wet clothes into the dryers. As far as I know I am the only Union [...]

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By Robert Silverberg. Read by Stephen Eley. This much is reality: Schwartz sits comfortably cocooned — passive, suspended — in a first-class passenger rack aboard a Japan Air Lines rocket, nine kilometers above the Coral Sea. And this much is fantasy: the same Schwartz has passage on a shining starship gliding silkily through the interstellar depths, [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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A Film By Stanley Kubrick. Reviewed by Jonathon Sullivan

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PodCastle, our fantasy fiction podcast, has finally launched with its first episode. Rachel and company are presenting “Come Lady Death,” one of the earliest and strongest stories by legendary fantasy writer Peter S. Beagle. You should go straight over to PodCastle.org and follow the subscription links — but just to let you know what you’re [...]

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By Jeremiah Tolbert. Read by Stephen Eley. I am the lover. I am the chef. I am the preterite priest. I am the secret, unknowable ingredient. You may taste me a thousand times, but never hold my essence on your tongue or capture it in your memory. I am the flavor of ecstasy. Taste me and [...]

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By Matthew Wayne Selznick. Read by Scott Sigler (of Earthcore, Ancestor, Infected, The Rookie). Yarborough led them through the impromptu village of broad white tents, rows of outhouses, sensor towers, and heavy weapons installations that had obliterated the turf of the athletic field. They stopped at the fence on the edge of the hilltop. “You can get a pretty good look [...]

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Here’s a special prerelease of a new podcasting first: a full comic book distributed exclusively via podcast! Ecru debuts today from Particle 9 Productions, distributed by Outcast Multimedia. The first issue features art by Chasen Grieshop and an original story by Earl Newton (of Stranger Things). We’re pleased to deliver this special preview edition [...]

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By Neal Asher. Read by Stephen Eley. Seated on a bollard, the man contemplatively removed his pipe, as if to tamp it down or relight it. Instead, he placed it stem down in the top pocket of his shirt, then reached up and pressed his fingers against his cheekbone and forehead. His face came away from his hairline, round behind [...]

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