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Escape Pod 575: Red Kelly Owns the Moon
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Nobody remembered how Red Kelly got his hands on the moon. He picked up a lot of things back then. You had to, working at the Westinghouse on a brazier’s pay. Red played cards, ran numbers around town…
on Mar 29
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Escape Pod 413: Why I Left Harry’s All-Night Hamburgers
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Harry’s was a nice place — probably still is. I haven’t been back lately. It’s a couple of miles off I-79, a few exits north of Charleston, near a place called Sutton. Used to do a pretty fair amount…
on Mar 18
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Escape Pod 973: Forever the Forest
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It is known that the Rootless are only ever leaving. Always moving on, never embracing soil long enough for connection. A life tumbled and tossed, and if it touches ours, it is only by chance…
on Jan 8
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Escape Pod 974: Once Abandoned
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Sappel whistled as he walked to the construction site, the sound echoing off nearby buildings in a muffled way. It was early spring, and the city was bursting with the vibrant green of new growth.
on Jan 4
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Escape Pod 967: Code Switching (Part 2 of 4)
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Continued from Part 1) [JEAN-MICHEL] JEAN-MICHEL FEAT. KINSLEY CHASE Lòske jounalis sa yo gade m— Hold up. Let me say that again. I’ll wait. Y’all go grab y’alls paper an’ pen.
on Nov 20
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Escape Pod 966: Code Switching (Part 1 of 4)
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INTRO: ALL I’M EVER GON’ DO IS STAY BLACK AND DIE JEAN-MICHEL FEAT. KINSLEY CHASE Kinsley Chase sits on manman mwen plastic-covered couch. The InTell HumbleBrag subprogram Stanford Sutton Industries…
on Nov 10
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Escape Pod 701: Martian Chronicles (Part 2 of 2)
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I didn’t go back to the Junior Colonists’ Lounge for a whole week. Instead, I spent the time with my dad, who seemed pleasantly surprised that his son wanted to hang out with him. It made me feel bad…
on Oct 17
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The plan must have come to Rog fully formed that first morning, as he stepped off the elevator into the lobby of Szilliken Sharpenwright and saw the old soldier newly stationed there in his omnichair…
on Oct 9
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Escape Pod 700: Martian Chronicles (Part 1 of 2)
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They say you can’t smell anything through a launch-hood, but I still smelled the pove in the next seat as the space-attendants strapped us into our acceleration couches and shone lights in our eyes…
on Sep 28
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Escape Pod 953: Sturdy Ladders and Lanterns
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As a freelance marine behavioral researcher most of Natalia’s jobs went something like this: She swam around in some large but controllable environment with a cephalopod, paying attention to its body…
on Aug 9
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Escape Pod 951: The Scientist Does Not Look Back
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Feb. 17, 3:40 AM. Audio notebook for new project: revival of a clinically dead patient, 36 year old male, died of hypothermia and shock. The technician at the morgue hesitated when releasing him to me.
on Jul 29
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Escape Pod | The Original Science Fiction Podcast
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The Original Science Fiction Short Story Podcast
on Jun 2
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Escape Pod 939: Variant Cover: Pantone Sunset
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Stacey reads a comic book. It’s about a robot lady, but not like her. This robot lady has exposed gears and metal rods in her arms and wears a metallic bikini as she solves crimes.
on May 15
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Escape Pod 938: Chug the Tea Leaves, Chuck the Ads
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I wake up to a message and a certain intuition that my first ad of the day will be for Bubble Fresh. I can almost see it, flashing through my MindzEye, just in time for me to grab a pack at the…
on Apr 26
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Motors whining, the machine squats down next to the bed, holding its arms out parallel to the ground. The metal fingers ball up into fist-shaped handholds. The robot has transformed into something…
on Apr 3, 2024
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Escape Pod 100: Nightfall | Escape Pod
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“Of the six suns, only Beta is left in the sky. Do you see it?” The question was rather unnecessary. Beta was almost at zenith, its ruddy light flooding the landscape to an unusual orange as the…
on Mar 29, 2024
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Escape Pod 930: Fulfillment in Purpose
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Eland was resetting his mother’s balancing sculptures when Hexben ran in from the storage room. The robot tilted its long head down while still making eye contact, managing a look of consternation…
on Mar 4, 2024
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Every morning at ten to ten, Dot powered on. Its hands lay flat against the thick glass of the reading room window, which let the photoreceptors on its palms feast on the sun. The window overlooked a…
on Mar 1, 2024