Escape Pod
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Hugo-nominated science fiction podcast magazine. New stories every week in audio and text. Find us wherever you get your podcasts!
Rejoice, sophont observers, for a new original story is upon us: "Baron Quits The Payloaders" by @renanbernardo.com. Because while space is mostly emptiness, a lot of what isn't emptiness is !!ROCK!!
Escape Pod 1019: Baron Quits The Payloaders
This story starts with a gig. Half a million people from all corners of the galaxy, hands in the air, heads banging to our vibrant noise. You probably saw the venue on some feed already.
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November 13, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Rejoice, sophont observers, for a new original story is upon us: "Baron Quits The Payloaders" by @renanbernardo.com. Because while space is mostly emptiness, a lot of what isn't emptiness is !!ROCK!!
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URGENT! Baron Quits the Payloaders!
My new short story is out at @escapepod.org! 🎸👨🚀⚡
It's my tribute to heavy music and how inspiring it is for me. It's a found family piece about overcoming grief, finding new meanings in life, and dealing with predatory companies.
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My new short story is out at @escapepod.org! 🎸👨🚀⚡
It's my tribute to heavy music and how inspiring it is for me. It's a found family piece about overcoming grief, finding new meanings in life, and dealing with predatory companies.
escapepod.org/2025/11/13/e...
Escape Pod 1019: Baron Quits The Payloaders
This story starts with a gig. Half a million people from all corners of the galaxy, hands in the air, heads banging to our vibrant noise. You probably saw the venue on some feed already.
escapepod.org
November 13, 2025 at 10:19 PM
URGENT! Baron Quits the Payloaders!
My new short story is out at @escapepod.org! 🎸👨🚀⚡
It's my tribute to heavy music and how inspiring it is for me. It's a found family piece about overcoming grief, finding new meanings in life, and dealing with predatory companies.
escapepod.org/2025/11/13/e...
My new short story is out at @escapepod.org! 🎸👨🚀⚡
It's my tribute to heavy music and how inspiring it is for me. It's a found family piece about overcoming grief, finding new meanings in life, and dealing with predatory companies.
escapepod.org/2025/11/13/e...
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CRASHED IN MY BOX
COVERED IN CATNIP
THE PARTY LIFE CHOSE ME
COVERED IN CATNIP
THE PARTY LIFE CHOSE ME
October 9, 2025 at 1:03 PM
CRASHED IN MY BOX
COVERED IN CATNIP
THE PARTY LIFE CHOSE ME
COVERED IN CATNIP
THE PARTY LIFE CHOSE ME
Greetings, sapients! Are you ready for a tale of spaceships, knitting, and the evils of capitalism in space? Whether you are or not, this week we have "Knit Three, Save Four" by @reasie.bsky.social for your eyes, ears, and other sensory organs!
Escape Pod 1018: Knit Three, Save Four
The ship was two days overdue for docking, more or less. As a stowaway, I didn’t have access to status reports. My passive data sniffer patiently checked for the docking station network, telling me…
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November 7, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Greetings, sapients! Are you ready for a tale of spaceships, knitting, and the evils of capitalism in space? Whether you are or not, this week we have "Knit Three, Save Four" by @reasie.bsky.social for your eyes, ears, and other sensory organs!
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Rocky Cornelius is back in a new story about friendship, three dimensional fandom hyperobjects, and trying not to die in the state of Texas!
Hail, sophonts! Today we've got a series story for you, following up on episode 941 from May 2024. "The Love Pyramid: A Rocky Cornelius Consultancy" by @solarshades.club is an Escape Pod original, so go on! Witness it! What're you waiting for?
Escape Pod 1017: The Love Pyramid: A Rocky Cornelius Consultancy
“What do you mean you aren’t fucking?” Rocky Cornelius demanded. “That’s terrible! This is going to throw your whole value prop out of whack!” The trio of button-cute narrative design prodigies glared...
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October 30, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Rocky Cornelius is back in a new story about friendship, three dimensional fandom hyperobjects, and trying not to die in the state of Texas!
Hail, sophonts! Today we've got a series story for you, following up on episode 941 from May 2024. "The Love Pyramid: A Rocky Cornelius Consultancy" by @solarshades.club is an Escape Pod original, so go on! Witness it! What're you waiting for?
Escape Pod 1017: The Love Pyramid: A Rocky Cornelius Consultancy
“What do you mean you aren’t fucking?” Rocky Cornelius demanded. “That’s terrible! This is going to throw your whole value prop out of whack!” The trio of button-cute narrative design prodigies glared...
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October 30, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Hail, sophonts! Today we've got a series story for you, following up on episode 941 from May 2024. "The Love Pyramid: A Rocky Cornelius Consultancy" by @solarshades.club is an Escape Pod original, so go on! Witness it! What're you waiting for?
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I'll be launching a new feature, The Queer AF Short Fiction Reading Club, early in November, and our first story to talk about will be Esther Alter's amazing "Magical Girl Antifa War Machine" from @escapepod.org #994 (May 22, 2025)
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October 30, 2025 at 3:37 PM
I'll be launching a new feature, The Queer AF Short Fiction Reading Club, early in November, and our first story to talk about will be Esther Alter's amazing "Magical Girl Antifa War Machine" from @escapepod.org #994 (May 22, 2025)
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I’M A LITTLE BABY BUT I STILL LIKE TO RUMMAGE IN THE TRASH SOMETIMES 😽
October 27, 2025 at 1:07 AM
I’M A LITTLE BABY BUT I STILL LIKE TO RUMMAGE IN THE TRASH SOMETIMES 😽
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Featuring stories from @clarkesworldmagazine.com, @smallwondersmag.com, @pseudopod.org, @escapepod.org, @lightspeedmagazine.com, @diabolicalplots.com, @flashpointsf.bsky.social, @thefuturefire.bsky.social, @lunastation.bsky.social, and Moonday Mag.
I have some September short science fiction, fantasy, and horror picks for you on this fine October day. reactormag.com/must-read-sh...
Must Read Short Speculative Fiction: September 2025 - Reactor
What a fall, huh? Lemon, it’s October. This season has both flown by and trickled by at a glacial pace. I’m already exhausted and there’s still so much left to go. Fortunately, reading a bunch of shor...
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October 24, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Featuring stories from @clarkesworldmagazine.com, @smallwondersmag.com, @pseudopod.org, @escapepod.org, @lightspeedmagazine.com, @diabolicalplots.com, @flashpointsf.bsky.social, @thefuturefire.bsky.social, @lunastation.bsky.social, and Moonday Mag.
Mellow greetings, all: it's time to press F for another Flashback Friday! Today, for its third appearance in Escape Pod's pages, we have "Valedictorian" by @nkjemisin.bsky.social for your experiential exuberance. Check it out!
Escape Pod 1016: Valedictorian (Flashback Friday)
There are three things Zinhle decides, when she is old enough to understand. The first is that she will never, ever, give less than her best to anything she tries to do. The second is that she will…
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October 24, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Mellow greetings, all: it's time to press F for another Flashback Friday! Today, for its third appearance in Escape Pod's pages, we have "Valedictorian" by @nkjemisin.bsky.social for your experiential exuberance. Check it out!
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I AM SO GOOD AT HIDING
HEE HEE HEE
HEE HEE HEE
October 21, 2025 at 12:03 AM
I AM SO GOOD AT HIDING
HEE HEE HEE
HEE HEE HEE
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Announcement: PodCastle Is Trialling a Six Month Submissions Window!! We will open in November and close in April. See our announcement on the website for details. All our usual Submissions Guidelines still apply.
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Announcement: PodCastle Is Trialling a Six Month Submissions Window - PodCastle
Greetings, writers of fantasy fiction! We at PodCastle are due to open back up to general submissions in November. When we do, instead of our usual one month open period, we plan to open for six month...
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October 19, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Announcement: PodCastle Is Trialling a Six Month Submissions Window!! We will open in November and close in April. See our announcement on the website for details. All our usual Submissions Guidelines still apply.
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Hail, observers! Sometimes a title wins the game from the get-go, and that's certainly true of today's reprint, "Space Pirate Queen of the Ten Billion Utopias" by @ellybangs.bsky.social. So go experience it! Even the trilobites agree!
Escape Pod 1015: Space Pirate Queen of the Ten Billion Utopias
Ursa Major got right the fuck out of our universe on the very afternoon she learned there were other options. It was the lucky break of her life that she just happened to be there, a short sprint from...
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October 16, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Hail, observers! Sometimes a title wins the game from the get-go, and that's certainly true of today's reprint, "Space Pirate Queen of the Ten Billion Utopias" by @ellybangs.bsky.social. So go experience it! Even the trilobites agree!
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SO I SEE YOU’RE EATING BREAD
October 12, 2025 at 8:31 PM
SO I SEE YOU’RE EATING BREAD
Rejoice, sophont observers: part 2 of "Here Instead of There" by @matociquala.bsky.social is now live for all your cliffhanger-resolution needs!
October 10, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Rejoice, sophont observers: part 2 of "Here Instead of There" by @matociquala.bsky.social is now live for all your cliffhanger-resolution needs!
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Hey guess what? My 2023 novelette "Here Instead Of There" is available at @escapepod.org in two parts!
It's about ethics, meteorology, crony capitalism, and some courageous dirtbags.
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It's about ethics, meteorology, crony capitalism, and some courageous dirtbags.
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Escape Pod 1013: Here Instead of There (Part 1 of 2)
Waking up sick in a punk house shouldn’t be a surprise to anybody so I don’t know why it always came as a surprise to me. My head throbbed so bad I couldn’t tell the difference between the hangover…
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October 10, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Hey guess what? My 2023 novelette "Here Instead Of There" is available at @escapepod.org in two parts!
It's about ethics, meteorology, crony capitalism, and some courageous dirtbags.
escapepod.org/2025/10/02/e...
escapepod.org/2025/10/09/e...
It's about ethics, meteorology, crony capitalism, and some courageous dirtbags.
escapepod.org/2025/10/02/e...
escapepod.org/2025/10/09/e...
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Sure, we all know Buckaroo Banzai's wisdom: "no matter where you go, there you are." In case you'd rather be somewhere else, this week we bring you part 1 of "Here Instead of There" by @matociquala.bsky.social, complete with grade-A cursing! Great for wherever in spacetime you find yourself.
Escape Pod 1013: Here Instead of There (Part 1 of 2)
Waking up sick in a punk house shouldn’t be a surprise to anybody so I don’t know why it always came as a surprise to me. My head throbbed so bad I couldn’t tell the difference between the hangover…
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October 2, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Sure, we all know Buckaroo Banzai's wisdom: "no matter where you go, there you are." In case you'd rather be somewhere else, this week we bring you part 1 of "Here Instead of There" by @matociquala.bsky.social, complete with grade-A cursing! Great for wherever in spacetime you find yourself.
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SQUIRL OUTSIDE
I CAN HEAR HIMS BUT NOT SEE HIMS?!!?? WHAT IS HIDING
PROLLY STOLEN GOODS
I CAN HEAR HIMS BUT NOT SEE HIMS?!!?? WHAT IS HIDING
PROLLY STOLEN GOODS
October 6, 2025 at 7:53 PM
SQUIRL OUTSIDE
I CAN HEAR HIMS BUT NOT SEE HIMS?!!?? WHAT IS HIDING
PROLLY STOLEN GOODS
I CAN HEAR HIMS BUT NOT SEE HIMS?!!?? WHAT IS HIDING
PROLLY STOLEN GOODS
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Fiasco am on the Fiasco colour blankie
NO ONE CAN FIND HIMS HERE
Fiasco am... incog... uh... inog... cog... u know. Eggnogito.
NO ONE CAN FIND HIMS HERE
Fiasco am... incog... uh... inog... cog... u know. Eggnogito.
October 4, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Fiasco am on the Fiasco colour blankie
NO ONE CAN FIND HIMS HERE
Fiasco am... incog... uh... inog... cog... u know. Eggnogito.
NO ONE CAN FIND HIMS HERE
Fiasco am... incog... uh... inog... cog... u know. Eggnogito.
Sure, we all know Buckaroo Banzai's wisdom: "no matter where you go, there you are." In case you'd rather be somewhere else, this week we bring you part 1 of "Here Instead of There" by @matociquala.bsky.social, complete with grade-A cursing! Great for wherever in spacetime you find yourself.
Escape Pod 1013: Here Instead of There (Part 1 of 2)
Waking up sick in a punk house shouldn’t be a surprise to anybody so I don’t know why it always came as a surprise to me. My head throbbed so bad I couldn’t tell the difference between the hangover…
escapepod.org
October 2, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Sure, we all know Buckaroo Banzai's wisdom: "no matter where you go, there you are." In case you'd rather be somewhere else, this week we bring you part 1 of "Here Instead of There" by @matociquala.bsky.social, complete with grade-A cursing! Great for wherever in spacetime you find yourself.
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October 2, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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FIASCO WAS IN JAIL
HAD TO YELL
IT CARCERAL STATE
HAD TO YELL
IT CARCERAL STATE
October 1, 2025 at 9:04 PM
FIASCO WAS IN JAIL
HAD TO YELL
IT CARCERAL STATE
HAD TO YELL
IT CARCERAL STATE
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September 29, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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HELLO
WHO WILL COME TRICK-OR-TREAT AT MY HOUSE?
WHO WILL COME TRICK-OR-TREAT AT MY HOUSE?
September 29, 2025 at 11:40 AM
HELLO
WHO WILL COME TRICK-OR-TREAT AT MY HOUSE?
WHO WILL COME TRICK-OR-TREAT AT MY HOUSE?