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Podcast title	Escape Pod
Website URL	http://escapepod.org
Description	The Science Fiction Podcast Magazine. Each week Escape Pod delivers science fiction short stories from today\'s best authors. Listen today, and hear the new sound of science fiction!
Updated	Mon, 01 Mar 2010 04:57:22 +0000
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1. EP239: A Programmatic Approach to Perfect Happiness http://escapepod.org/2010/02/2... download (audio/mpeg, 18.91Mb) Description: By Tim Pratt. Read by Stephen Eley. First appeared in Futurismic, April 2009. Opening poem: “Scientific Romance” Audible.com Promotion! Get your free audiobook at: http://audible.com/escapepodsff My step-daughter Wynter, who is regrettably prejudiced against robots and those who love us, comes floating through the door in a metaphorical cloud of glitter instead of her customary figurative cloud of gloom. She enters the kitchen, rises up [...]
2. EP238: Wind From a Dying Star http://escapepod.org/2010/02/1... download (audio/mpeg, 29.56Mb) Description: By David D. Levine. Read by Meg Westfox. First appeared in Bones of the World, ed. Bruce Holland Rogers. After a time she found a small patch of zeren. She spread across it, taking a little solace from its sparkling sweetness. “Zero-point energy” was what Old John called it, but to Gunai and the rest of [...]
3. EP237: Roadside Rescue http://escapepod.org/2010/02/0... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: By Pat Cadigan. Read by Stephen Eley. First appeared in Omni, July 1985. “That’s a long time to wait.” The navigator’s smile widened. He was very attractive, holo-star kind of handsome. People who work for aliens, Etan thought. “Perhaps you’d care to wait in my employer’s transport. For that matter, I can probably repair your vehicle, which will [...]
4. EP236: Still On the Road http://escapepod.org/2010/02/0... download (audio/mpeg, 7.59Mb) Description: By Geoffrey A. Landis. Read by Stephen Eley. First appeared in Asimov’s, December 2008. Turns out, you know, that old dharma bum never made it off the wheel of karma. He had too many attachments, to the road, to words; and if you love the things of the world of Mara too much you fall back into [...]
5. EP235: On the Human Plan http://escapepod.org/2010/01/2... download (audio/mpeg, 20.30Mb) Description: By Jay Lake. Read by Mike Boris (of Mike Boris Audio). First appeared in Lone Star Stories, February 2009. I am called Dog the Digger. I am not mighty, neither am I fearsome. Should you require bravos, there are muscle-boys aplenty among the rat-bars of any lowtown on this raddled world. If it is a [...]
6. EP234: The Secret Protocols of the Elders of Zion http://escapepod.org/2010/01/1... download (audio/mpeg, 31.40Mb) Description: By Lavie Tidhar. Read by Stephen Eley. First appeared in The West Pier Gazette & Other Stories, 2008. It was afternoon, after school has ended for the day. Sash has been working in the hydroponics gardens, helping the adults with the delicate work of picking the buds. It was flowering time, and the ganja plants were at the [...]
7. EP233: Union Dues - The Threnody of Johnny Toruko http://escapepod.org/2010/01/0... download (audio/mpeg, 30.46Mb) Description: By Jeffrey R. DeRego. Read by Stephen Eley. I duck through the door behind her. The place is jammed with customers. “You have any money? I didn’t think to ask Miss Jennifer for any.” TK answers, “don’t worry, just tell me what you want.” “Large with extra sugar and cream.” TK grins and focuses her attention on the line of [...]
8. EP232: Flash Special http://escapepod.org/2009/12/3... download (audio/mpeg, 18.49Mb) Description: This week Escape Pod presents three flash stories: Alloy By Marissa Lingen. Read by Electra Allenton. First appeared in Nature, September 2007. Flare By Kyle Deas. Read by Stephen Eley. My Grandfather’s River By Brenda Cooper. Read by Anna Eley. First appeared in Nature, August 2006. Rated PG. Can get a bit sad in places. Referenced Sites: Cybrosis — A podcast novel by P.C. Haring
9. EP231: Solitary as an Oyster http://escapepod.org/2009/12/2... download (audio/mpeg, 39.39Mb) Description: Editor’s Note: There are significant audio issues in the first half of this file. Alasdair Stuart has volunteered to record it again and we’ll post a corrected version soon. Thank you for your patience. By Mur Lafferty. Read by Alasdair Stuart. Special Closing Music: “Oh Come All Ye Faithful” by Twisted Sister. “Who’s there?” the voice asked, [...]
10. EP230: Candy Art http://escapepod.org/2009/12/2... download (audio/mpeg, 26.65Mb) Description: By James Patrick Kelly. Read by Kathryn Baker. Special Closing Music: “Podsafe Christmas Song” by Jonathan Coulton. First appeared in Asimov’s, December 2002. “They’re uploads, Jennifer.” When I first met Mel, I thought the sleepy voice was sexy. “How can they move in with us when they’re not anywhere?” “They bought a puppet to live in,” I say. [...]
11. EP229: Littleblossom Makes a Deal With the Devil http://escapepod.org/2009/12/1... download (audio/mpeg, 23.81Mb) Description: By S. Hutson Blount. Read by Eugie Foster. Sponsored by SleepPhones - Pajamas For Your Ears From beneath the camouflage of kindling on her back came Grandma Thinkbox’s quiet voice. “You should have something hot to drink, child. Do not make yourself sick.” “Yes, nainai. As soon as I check on Pig.” After Comrade Liu had been evacuated with the [...]
12. EP228: Everything That Matters http://escapepod.org/2009/12/1... download (audio/mpeg, 39.31Mb) Description: By Jeff Spock. Read by Geoff Michelli. Hosted by Norm Sherman (The Drabblecast). Closing music: “Heartache Over Innsmouth” by Norm Sherman. Sponsored by SleepPhones - Pajamas For Your Ears “I have done over fifteen hundred dives,” I said, and let that sink in. The number was astronomical for a guy my age, even for a professional. “I have [...]
13. EP227: His Master’s Voice http://escapepod.org/2009/12/0... download (audio/mpeg, 29.80Mb) Description: By Hannu Rajaniemi. Read by Peter Piazza; courtesy of Starship Sofa. Guest introduction by Paul Graham Raven of Futurismic. First appeared in Interzone, October 2008. Before the concert, we steal the Master’s head. The Necropolis is a dark forest of concrete mushrooms in the blue Antarctic night. We huddle inside the utility fog level attached to the [...]
14. EP226: Pirate Solutions http://escapepod.org/2009/11/2... download (audio/mpeg, 28.85Mb) Description: by Katherine Sparrow Narrated by Sarah Tolbert, Kate Baker, Nate Periat, and Steve Eley The story first appeared in Fast Ships, Black Sails edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer. You could feel their heat. Not a metaphor, I don’t mean that, I mean literally the room grew warmer when they were in it. They were both so [...]
15. EP225: A Hard Rain at the Fortean Café http://escapepod.org/2009/11/1... download (audio/mpeg, 21.53Mb) Description: by Lavie Tidhar narrated by Sarah Tolbert This story originally appeared in Aeon #14. The diner stood off the highway outside a small town optimistically called Hope. Hope was being stuck in the middle of the Northwest and wishing you were someplace, anyplace else. And Hope was also the name on the tag pinned to the dead woman [...]
16. EP224: The Ghost in the Death Trap http://escapepod.org/2009/11/1... download (audio/mpeg, 27.85Mb) Description: by Marjorie James read by Steve Eley Editor’s note: this is a sequel to EP007. Listen to it here. Flies buzzed around the edges of the huge stone block, gathering at the rivulets of blood that ran down to the floor. A bit of what looked like it might be intestine hung off one corner, drawing special attention. [...]
17. T-shirts now available! http://escapepod.org/2009/11/0... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: We are happy to announce that preorders are now being taken for Escape Pod, PodCastle, and Pseudopod t-shirts — nice full color, durable ones, to be shipped in time for Christmas at the latest. Order now from PodDisc.com No polos or coffee mugs yet. Maybe next time. Thanks very much for all your continued patience [...]
18. EP223: The Uncanny Valley http://escapepod.org/2009/11/0... download (audio/mpeg, 38.41Mb) Description: by Nick Mamatas read by Kathryn Baker The trouble with knowing everything there is to know, Stephanie Dowling decided instantly, because that’s how clever she was, was that when there was something unknown out there, she had nobody to consult. And there was something unknown out there, nibbling away at the edge of the economy, and screwing with [...]
19. EP222: Infestation http://escapepod.org/2009/10/2... download (audio/mpeg, 31.21Mb) Description: by Garth Nix read by Geoff Michelli They were the usual motley collection of freelance vampire hunters. Two men, wearing combinations of jungle camouflage and leather. Two women, one almost indistinguishable from the men though with a little more style in her leather armour accessories, and the other looking like she was about to assault the south [...]
20. EP221: Little Ambushes http://escapepod.org/2009/10/2... download (audio/mpeg, 13.97Mb) Description: by Joanne Merriam read by Rachel Swirsky Practically the first thing she did when she took in the alien was to give him a new name. He looked at her outstretched hand long enough to annoy her, and then grasped it with his four opposable fingers and hung on limply until she wrenched her hand out of [...]
21. EP220: Come All Ye Faithful http://escapepod.org/2009/10/1... download (audio/mpeg, 23.41Mb) Description: by Robert J. Sawyer Read by Mike Boris “Damned social engineers,” said Boothby, frowning his freckled face. He looked at me, as if expecting an objection to the profanity, and seemed disappointed that I didn’t rise to the bait. “As you said earlier,” I replied calmly, “it doesn’t make any practical difference.” He tried to get me again: “Damn [...]
22. EP219: Sleepy Joe http://escapepod.org/2009/10/0... download (audio/mpeg, 25.24Mb) Description: by Marc Laidlaw narrated by Ben Phillips originally appeared in The Infinite Matrix 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 between the potted silk ferns and the coffee [...]
23. EP218: Ode To Katan Amano http://escapepod.org/2009/10/0... download (audio/mpeg, 18.05Mb) Description: by Caitlin R. Kiernan narrated by Kim the Comic Book Goddess No one hears when I ease the heavy steel door shut behind me. All the ears in the darkened workshop, all those hundreds and hundreds of ears, but still no one hears a thing. And I stand there for a while, as unmoving as they, not [...]
24. EP217: The Kindness of Strangers http://escapepod.org/2009/09/2... download (audio/mpeg, 35.72Mb) Description: by Nancy Kress narrated by Kate Baker When morning finally dawns, Rochester isn’t there anymore. Jenny stands beside Eric, gazing south from the rising ground that yesterday was a fallow field. Maybe the whole city hasn’t vanished. Certainly the tall buildings are gone, Xerox Square and Lincoln Tower and the few others that just last night [...]
25. EP216: βoyfriend http://escapepod.org/2009/09/1... download (audio/mpeg, 31.14Mb) Description: by Madeline Ashby read by Tina Connolly Violet snapped three photos of herself from various angles, sent them, and waited for her boyfriend’s response. He rang her up—a slow vibrating purr, unlike the staccato door-knocking of her mother’s ringvibe—and said: “Me likey. Now take it off.” Violet frowned. “You were supposed to dig up the backstory on the [...]
26. EP215: Mr. Penumbra’s Twenty-Four-Hour Book Store http://escapepod.org/2009/09/1... download (audio/mpeg, 32.02Mb) Description: By Robin Sloan Narrated by Stephen Eley First appeared at Robin Sloan’s blog, June 8, 2009. IT’S 2:02 A.M. ON A COLD SUMMER NIGHT. I’m sitting in a book store next to a strip club. Not that kind of book store. The inventory here is incredibly old and impossibly rare. And it has a secret—a secret that I might have [...]
*27. DragonCon Meetup** http://escapepod.org/2009/09/0... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: For anyone among the tens of thousands of SF fans attending Dragon*Con in Atlanta this weekend: for the third year, we’re hosting a meetup along with Cunning Minx of the Polyamory Weekly podcast. The meetup’s at 11 AM on Sunday, September 6 at the Gordon Biersch Brewpub at 848 Peachtree Street: View Larger Map Minx has an RSVP [...]
28. EP214: Sinner, Baker, Fablist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast http://escapepod.org/2009/09/0... download (audio/mpeg, 39.74Mb) Description: by Eugie Foster Narrated by Lawrence Santoro Each morning is a decision. Should I put on the brown mask or the blue? Should I be a tradesman or an assassin today? Whatever the queen demands, of course, I am. But so often she ignores me, and I am left to figure out for myself who [...]
29. EP213: A Monkey Will Never Get Rid of Its Black Hands http://escapepod.org/2009/08/2... download (audio/mpeg, 34.80Mb) Description: by Rachel Swirsky Narrated by Alasdair Stuart Papa and Uncle Fomba told me if I didn’t join the army, they’d kill me. They didn’t. They cut off my hands. This was after U.S. forces marched on Syria, but before we invaded Lebanon. On every city block, posters of Uncle Sam entreated every Tom, Duc, and Haroun to get [...]
30. EA Metacast, Aug 2009 http://escapepod.org/2009/08/2... download (audio/mpeg, 12.44Mb) Description: A few announcements.
31. EP212: Skinhorse Goes to Mars http://escapepod.org/2009/08/2... download (audio/mpeg, 28.77Mb) Description: by Jay Lake Read by Mike Boris When I met Skinhorse, my first thought was old. Which was weird. Nobody gets old these days. We all die young, some of us after living a long time, if we’re lucky. He was in Piet’s Number Seven, a bar-cum-caravanserai in an illegal orbit trailing far enough behind [...]
32. EP211: Carthago Delenda Est http://escapepod.org/2009/08/1... download (audio/mpeg, 21.18Mb) Description: by Genevieve Valentine Read by Kate Baker Story originally appeared in Federations. Wren Hex-Yemenni woke early. They had to teach her everything from scratch, and there wasn’t time for her to learn anything new before she hit fifty and had to be expired. “Watch it,” the other techs told me when I was starting out. “You don’t want a [...]
33. EP210: The Hastillan Weed http://escapepod.org/2009/08/0... download (audio/mpeg, 28.39Mb) Description: by Ian Creasey Narrated by MarBelle This story originally appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction (February 2006). “Since we have so many new faces,” I said to the half-dozen volunteers, “I’ll start with a tools talk. Safety points for the spade — the most important is that when you’re digging, you push with the ball of your [...]
34. EP209: On the Eyeball Floor http://escapepod.org/2009/07/3... download (audio/mpeg, 25.85Mb) Description: by Tina Connolly read by Norm Sherman Closing song by Andrew Richardson We’ve got robotic arms to put the eyeballs in. Metal clamps to pulldown the eyelids. Tony, on Four, keeps the grease vats filled. Oil squirts nineteen times a minute to keep the eye sockets from squeaking. Tiny slick needles stitch on the lashes, while millions of [...]
35. EP208: An Almanac for the Alien Invaders http://escapepod.org/2009/07/2... download (audio/mpeg, 28.12Mb) Description: By Merrie Haskell Read by Sarah Tolbert Previously appeared in Asimov’s. In January, there will be an annular solar eclipse, with the path of annularity moving through the Indian Ocean and into Sumatra and Borneo. Two days later, aliens will invade Earth. No spaceships will loom large in blue skies, nor hover over our cities. At night, though, when [...]
36. EP207: Wonder Maul Doll http://escapepod.org/2009/07/1... download (audio/mpeg, 21.33Mb) Description: By Kameron Hurley Read by Kim the Comic Book Goddess Appeared originally in From the Trenches We set down in Pekoi as part of the organics inquisition team, still stinking of the last city. We’re all muscle. Not brains. The brains are out eating at the foreigners’ push downtown, and they don’t care if we whore around the [...]
37. EP206: Rogue Farm http://escapepod.org/2009/07/1... download (audio/mpeg, 27.85Mb) Description: By Charles Stross Recorded at Balticon 43, May 23, 2009 Read by: Joe -Jared Axelrod (of The Voice of Free Planet X) Maddie - J.R. Blackwell (of Voices of Tomorrow) The Farm - Evo Terra and Sheila Dee (of Evo at 11, et al.) Maddie - J.R. Blackwell (of Voices of Tomorrow) Brenda the Barkeep - Dee Reed (of Nobilis Erotica) Wendy the [...]
38. EP 200: All You Zombies http://escapepod.org/2009/07/0... download (audio/mpeg, 24.66Mb) Description: By Robert A. Heinlein Read by Steve Eley I was polishing a brandy snifter when the Unmarried Mother came in. I noted the time—10:17 P. M. zone five, or eastern time, November 7th, 1970. Temporal agents always notice time and date; we must. The Unmarried Mother was a man twenty–five years old, no taller than I am, [...]
39. Worlds of Tomorrow: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind http://escapepod.org/2009/06/2... download (audio/mpeg, 5.76Mb) Description: By Alasdair Stuart Read by Alasdair Stuart Welcome to Worlds of Tomorrow, an occasional feature we’ll be running looking at some of the best in science fiction cinema. From acknowledged classics to forgotten gems we’ll be covering them all. Some of them you’ll have seen, some you won’t, some you’ll agree with me on and some you’ll [...]
40. EP 205: Requiem in D-minor (for prions, whale and burning bush) http://escapepod.org/2009/06/2... download (audio/mpeg, 18.15Mb) Description: By Ian McHugh Read by Frank Key of Hooting Yard First appeared in Hub #24. Kevin switched the audio over to the projector. The lecture hall was filled with outdoor noises. Wind hummed softly over the microphone, cattle lowed nearby, a truck accelerated in the distance. A roan steer staggered around a concreted yard, its mute distress accompanied by [...]