Random Science-fiction Podcasts

The only hour of radio that’s neither an hour, nor on radio. These are Science fiction and fantasy stories from the intimidating collection of the Story Keeper. SILENCE! Each episode is written by a different author and performed in front of a live audience by members of the Collapsing Horse ensemble. Come in and wonder at the variety, the virtuosity, the vernacular, and the venereal. Welcome to the Collapsing Horse Science Fiction Radio Hour! Presented by DMC Radio. You can support the show at https://www.patreon.com/dmcradio Get us on iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.

Categories: Arts

Tags: collapsing, collapsing horse, Comedy, drama, fantasy, horse, play, radio play, Sci-Fi, science-fiction, scifi, storykeeper

At the Penumbra, you might follow Juno Steel, a brooding, sharp-witted private eye on Mars, as he tangles with an elusive homme fatale, tracks dangerous artifacts of an ancient alien civilization, and faces his three greatest fears: heights, blood, and relationships. Or you might enter the world of the Second Citadel, where the merciless Sir Caroline must corral a team of emotionally distraught all-male knights to defend their city against mind-manipulating monsters…even the ones they’ve fallen in love with. These audio dramas and more await you in the Penumbra, dear traveler. We hope you enjoy your stay. (Start with “1.01: Juno Steel and the Case of the Murderous Mask” or “1.09: Second Citadel – The Head of the Janus Beast.”) The Penumbra is created and produced by Harley Takagi Kaner and Kevin Vibert. Follow us on Twitter (@thepenumbrapod), Tumblr (@thepenumbrapodcast), or Facebook (The Penumbra Podcast). You can find all of our transcripts here. If you would like to view trigger warnings or SFX attributions, you can scroll to the end of the appropriate episode transcript: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/2/folders/1bnWLw5dTW4l9A0bmOMzEiy6XqqsXHHi_

Categories: Arts, Comedy, Fiction

Tags: audio drama, audio fiction, drama, fantasy, high fantasy, horror, Noir, radio, radio play, Sci-Fi, science-fiction

If fairy tales came to life, there’s only one place that they could find a home… Las Vegas! A full-cast serial audio drama.

Categories: Fiction

Tags: audio drama, Fairy tales, fantasy, old time radio, OTR, radio drama, Sci-Fi, science-fiction, scripted podcast

America After Midnight is an anthology series of audio dramas that use horror, the surreal, and the uncanny to explore the darkest corners of the American psyche. Trigger warning: These stories are full of uncomfortable content and populated by flawed, desperate, and doomed humans who usually do and say the wrong thing… with tragic consequences.

Categories: Arts, Fiction

Tags: audio drama, creepy pasta, horror, MYSTERY, no sleep, Playwright, radio drama, science-fiction, theater, thriller

Coming to you from the Tarkio Tech Campus, the If You Want It podcast will focus on Northwest Missouri events, people, issues, and conversation topics. We will also discuss items in pop culture, both past and present. We’ll have a variety of topics and guests.

This podcast is here for you….If you want it.

Categories: Society & Culture

Tags: alcohol, art, Atchison, bands, Comedy, documentary, dorks, drugs, fairfax, fantasy, horror, interview, jokes, local politics, music, News, Northwest Missouri, Rock Port, science-fiction, SPorts, Tarkio

Your hosts Andrew and Joe review, rate, and rant about pop culture, piracy, and present world events

Categories: Leisure, Society & Culture, TV & Film

Tags: anime, comics, Current Events, fantasy, friendship, manga, Movies, Politics, Sci-Fi, science-fiction, television, tv

Join Spencer and Tyler as they discuss the latest content and news coming out of the galaxy far, far away, as well as explore the Expanded Universe! Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theyreonlylegends/support

Categories: Fiction

Tags: Books, comics, commentary, Movies, News, opinion, Sci-Fi, science-fiction, Spencer Koprowski, Star Wars, They’re Only Legends, Tyler Gray

The Time Bubble is the only podcast where the guests get to travel in time! If you could live any three days of your life over again, which would you choose? If you could be anyone else for a day, past or present, who would it be? And if you could go anywhere in space and time, where would you go?

Categories: Society & Culture

Tags: alternate universe, coming of age, History, Jason Ayres, nostalgia, reincarnation, science-fiction, time-travel, travel, Turn back time

When the greatest inventor on Earth disappears, it’s up to his disaster-prone son and his Frankenstein daughter to save the world… then accidentally destroy it… then save it again.

Categories: Fiction

Tags: Comedy, Funny, Hello From The Magic Tavern, inventor, mad science, Sci-Fi, science-fiction, wacky

Burroughs’ second book in the classic Barsoom series, The Gods of Mars is a scientific fiction novel following the adventures of John Carter as he returns to Mars after a ten year hiatus in the hope of being reunited with his wife, child and the Red Martian people. First published as a five-part serial in a pulp magazine in the course of 1913, the novel was later published as a whole in 1918. A tale of audacity, honor, optimism, and perseverance, Burroughs successfully builds on to the previous book allowing a broader view of the Red Planet. The novel begins as John Carter returns to Barsoom after his involuntary absence of ten years and finds himself in the Valley Dor, or the Barsoomian afterlife from which no one is permitted to leave. However, the Valley Dor is anything but a spiritual haven and instead Carter discovers that it is a ruse, forged by the Therns, a race of self-proclaimed gods. For eons they have deceived Barsoomians into believing that the pilgrimage to the Valley Dor is a journey to paradise, although in reality most visitors are either killed or enslaved by the Therns. Accompanied by friend Tars Tarkas, the pair tries to escape from the place, and are aided by the confusion caused by an attack by the Black Pirates of Barsoom upon the Therns. Taking advantage of the present mayhem, Carter and his accomplices are able to hijack a Black Pirate flier, killing most of the Pirates in the process and saving a Thern captive. Carter learns that the Black Pirates or the “First Born”, also see themselves as gods therefore clarifying their hatred for the Therns. The Red Planet finds itself in a time of crisis, immersed in religious and schismatic conflict, and it is up to Carter to not only participate but maneuver a planetary scale revolution. Burroughs continues his fast moving plot full of action and twists, as the endearing hero must prevail through many obstacles and bring order between the inhabitants, while ultimately reuniting himself with his family. The Gods of Mars is an exciting installment in the Barsoom series which continues to pave the way for science fiction as its protagonist faces his greatest challenges and deadliest dangers to date.

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Tags: Adventure, audio books, audiobook, ebooks, Edgar Rice Burroughs, fiction, free audio books, Literature, Loyal Books, loyalbooks.com, science, science-fiction, The Gods of Mars

A narrative play RPG podcast set in post-climate catastrophe New York City, in the year 2101. With Jenn de la Vega, Nick Guercio, Shannon Odell, and Bijan Stephen. GM’d by Mike Rugnetta with troublemaker Taylor Moore.

Categories: Fiction, Society & Culture

Tags: capitalism is bad, Comedy, cyberpunk, dystopia, games, roleplay, roleplaying, rpg, Sci-Fi, science-fiction, Shadowrun, tabletop, Tabletop Games

Join Matt as he explores for the first time why is Star Trek the cultural phenomenon that it is today. But since there are over 740+ hours of Star Trek Episodes and 13 movies, Brent’s challenge will be to find the best 150 or so that best represent what Star Trek is, the story of Star Trek, and paint Gene Roddenberry’s vision of the Future.

Categories: Fiction, TV & Film

Tags: Discovery, DS9, ent, lower decks, picard, roddenberry, Sci-Fi, science-fiction, star trek, TNG, tos, tv, VOY

Garrett Putnam Serviss (1851-1929) was an astronomer, popularizer of astronomy, and early science fiction writer. Serviss showed a talent for explaining scientific details in a way that made them clear to the ordinary reader. Serviss’s favorite topic was astronomy, as shown by the fact that of the fifteen books he wrote, eight are devoted to that science. He unquestionably was more widely read by the public on that topic than anyone prior to his time. In his private life Serviss was an enthusiastic mountain climber, describing his reaching the summit of the Matterhorn at the age of 43 as part of an effort “to get as far away from terrestrial gravity as possible.” Five of Serviss’s books are science fiction (a term not invented when he wrote).

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Tags: audio books, audiobook, ebooks, fiction, free audio books, Garrett P. Serviss, Loyal Books, loyalbooks.com, science-fiction, The Moon Metal

Ever since the castle first appeared in the sky above the city of Windfall, its residents have been building upward. Now the city consists of towers where the wealthiest residents live at the top while the poor eke out a living on the ground. Our podcast follows Cas, Shaima, and Argus, three brothers who live with their Uncle Vern after being orphaned during the grounder rebellion twenty years earlier. They find themselves drifting apart as Argus, the youngest, falls hopelessly in love with the much-older Helina, a foreign merchant haunted by her past; Cas, the middle brother, works in secret for the local crime boss; and Shaima, the oldest, struggles to keep their uncle’s scrap shop from going under. When Cas’s best friend, Kendall, is offered a position with the Wolfpac, Windfall’s military cult that acts as the city’s police, Cas is forced to decide where his loyalties lie. Meanwhile, something sinister looms over the city itself, threatening the lives of all who live in Windfall, from the wealthiest residents to the ground-level poor. Start at Episode 1.00.

Categories: Arts, Fiction

Tags: audio drama, audio fiction, drama, Sci-Fi, science-fiction, sound design, windfall

An early science fiction novel written by the second most translated author, French writer Jules Verne, the classic tale depicts an incredible sea expedition on board a state-of-the-art submarine. First published in 1870 and a part of the Voyages Extraordinaires series, the novel is regarded as one of the most thrilling adventure stories and one of Verne’s greatest pieces of work. Immersed in themes of exploration, avant-garde technology, and man’s insatiable desire for knowledge and scientific progression, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea has been an influence for many writers as well as an inspiration for numerous film adaptations. The novel kicks off when rumors spread about sightings of a mysterious sea monster, initially thought to be a giant narwhal. This instigates the United States government to organize an expedition in hopes of hunting down and destroying the ravaging creature. Consequently, French marine biologist Pierre Aronnax is invited to join the expedition, who takes with him his trusted servant Conseil, along with expert harpooner Ned Land, and accordingly the trio set about the search. Following a lengthy pursuit, the ship finally finds and attacks the monster but to no avail, as the impact hurls the three men into the water. In an attempt to grasp the hide of the monster, the men come to a startling discovery as they realize the supposed monster is in fact a submarine. The men are then captured and brought inside the futuristic vessel, which they later find out is named Nautilus, and meet its enigmatic commander and creator, Captain Nemo. So begins the journey on board the Nautilus, as its three coerced guests travel across all the world’s seas visiting different underwater locations while witnessing the most bizarre, yet gripping marvels of the oceanic depths. Shipwrecks, giant squids, sharks, lost cities, coral reefs, whirlpools and an eccentric captain are just some of the obstacles separating the trio from their freedom. An exhilarating subaqueous adventure through unseen wonders, Verne’s detailed and prophetic imagination propels the novel and secures its position as a literary classic and a pristine model for science fiction enthusiasts.

Categories: Arts, Society & Culture

Tags: Adventure, audio books, audiobook, ebooks, fantasy, fiction, free audio books, Jules Verne, Literature, Loyal Books, loyalbooks.com, science, science-fiction, Sea stories, travel, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

What Next? is a “choose your own adventure” style podcast where listeners either get to vote on what happens next in the story or on an aspect of the main character when a new story starts. Stories are fictional, and written by Jake Stowell, author of The Gauntlet. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jake-stowell0/support

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Tags: Adventure, choose your own adventure, dog, fantasy, fiction, science-fiction, superhero, vote

Something has been found at the bottom of Earth’s ocean. An ancient artifact that can only be described as a giant door, inset into the sea floor. It becomes known as the Vault. A gigantic enigma, buried and forgotten…nineteen thousand feet down. To study the artifact, the galaxy’s most powerful corporation, Maas-Dorian, has built a massive, self-contained, secret laboratory base surrounding it, named FATHOM. It’s objective: unlock the secrets of the artifact and discover what it holds.​ But some mysteries should remain buried. And some doors should never be opened….The story of DERELICT begins with season one, FATHOM, a narrative podcast experience from award winning science fiction author J. Barton Mitchell, and produced by Night Rocket Productions. Website: derelictpodcast.com

Categories: Arts, Fiction

Tags: fiction, horror, narrative, Sci-Fi, science-fiction, scifi, Space, syfy

One dark and stormy night, a stranger arrives in West Sussex at a village inn. He is heavily clad in an overcoat and his face is wrapped in bandages. He takes a room at the inn, but refuses to socialize with anyone. He stays cooped up in his room all day and night, working with strange chemicals and apparatus. Suddenly, strange events begin to happen in the village. Mysterious burglaries and fires break out, culminating in a destructive rampage across the peaceful countryside. The stranger is the keeper of a terrible secret… The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance (to give the book its full title) by HG Wells was published in 1897. Written in novella form, this bizarre science fiction tale was first published in Pearson’s Weekly as a serial and later compiled into a single book. Based on scientific theories of optics and physics, this story instantly caught the imagination of readers and has been regularly adapted to film, television and radio since it first made its appearance more than a hundred years ago. Herbert George Wells’ writing career owes itself to an accident suffered in childhood. As an eight year old boy, he was once confined to bed with a broken leg. His father, a professional cricketer and failed businessman, regularly brought him books from the local library so that he could pass the time. His father’s financial troubles compelled his mother to go to work as a lady’s maid in a local mansion, while the children were put to work as apprentices with various local tradesmen. For Wells, this was one of the most unhappy, yet also the most profitable times in his life. The mansion where his mother worked had an enormous library where the child continued to read and educate himself. At eighteen, he went to work as a teacher in a residential school. His career flourished after that, and he won a scholarship to work under the great biologist, Thomas Huxley in London. He began writing science fiction stories in 1895 with the publication of The Time Machine, where he proposed the concept of selective time travel. Several other extremely popular Sci-Fi novels and short stories followed, interspersed with romantic stories, novels, ghost stories, film scripts, articles, satirical novels, historical and political treatises and non-fiction papers. Wells was an extremely prolific writer and continues to inspire generations of writers even today. The Invisible Man is a book that evokes great interest among readers of all ages and is an important landmark in the history of Sci-Fi writing. More great books at LoyalBooks.com

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Tags: Adventure, audio books, audiobook, ebooks, fiction, free audio books, H. G. Wells, Literature, Loyal Books, loyalbooks.com, science, science-fiction, The Invisible Man