By Mike Resnick Read by Patrick Bazile Discuss on our forums. Originally appeared in Asimov’s All stories by Mike Resnick All stories read by Patrick Bazile Rated 10 and up The Homecoming by Mike Resnick I don’t know which bothers me more, my lumbago or my arthritis. One day it’s one, one day it’s the [...]

I recently watched "Our Man Bashir" , and I was reminded just how flimsy the "malfunctioning transporter/holodeck" plot can be. Here's what I mean.

By E. Lily Yu Read by Mur Lafferty Discuss on our forums. Originally appeared in Clarkesworld All stories by E. Lily Yu All stories read by Mur Lafferty Rated 10 and up The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees By E. Lily Yu For longer than anyone could remember, the village of Yiwei had worn, [...]

For years now, we have done our best here at Escape Pod to bring you audio renditions of the Hugo-nominated short stories. Our original reason was to allow the Worldcon voters to have access to all the nominated stories, as some stories wouldn’t be easy to find (eg, it was in the January issue of [...]

What do you do if the first two sequels to your 1986 cult film bomb at the box office? If you're lucky, you have a moderately-successful TV series run for six years and then try to make another movie. And fail miserably.

By S. Hutson Blount Read by Mat Weller Discuss on our forums. Originally appeared in The Fifth Dimension All stories by S. Hutson Blount All stories read by Mat Weller Rated 15 and up for language and violent imagery This episode has been brought to you by Audible. Visit http://AudiblePodcast.com/escapepod for a free trial membership*. [...]

I think we all remember the tragedy that was the second Highlander film. I certainly do. I mean, I'd just seen it two days prior. When the third film came out, I decided I liked the story enough to see Highlander III in theaters. Now, 18 years later, I'm watching it again.

By Lavie Tidhar Read by Alasdair Stuart Discuss on our forums. Originally appeared in Strange Horizons All stories by Lavie Tidhar All stories read by Alasdair Stuart Rated 17 and up for language and sexual imagery This episode has been brought to you by Audible. Visit http://AudiblePodcast.com/escapepod for a free trial membership*. Audible® Free Trial [...]

By Catherynne M. Valente Read by Marguerite Croft Discuss on our forums. Originally appeared in Federations All stories by Catherynne M. Valente All stories read by Marguerite Croft Rated 13 and up simply because kids likely won’t be into a story about wine. Golubash (Wine-Blood-War-Story) by Catherynne M. Valente The difficulties of transporting wine over [...]

By Ferrett Steinmetz Read by Mur Lafferty Discuss on our forums. Originally appeared in Asimov’s All stories by Ferrett Steinmetz All stories read by Mur Lafferty Rated 15 and up for violence “Run,” Bakri Says By Ferrett Steinmetz “I just want to know where my brother is,” Irena yells at the guards. The English words [...]

With the end of Harry Potter and the impending end of Twilight, studios were looking for the next big book-to-movie hit. They found it with The Hunger Games . But did the movie live up to the book, or even its own hype?

By N. K. Jemisin Read by Mur Lafferty Discuss on our forums. Originally appeared in Weird Tales All stories by N. K. Jemisin All stories read by Mur Lafferty Rated 15 and up for language The girl was perfect. Her framing, the engine at her core, the intricate web of connections holding her objects together, [...]

By George R. Galuschak Read by Mat Weller Discuss on our forums. Originally appeared on Strange Horizons All stories by George R. Galuschak All stories read by Mat Weller Rated 15 and up for language Counting Cracks By George R. Galuschak Four of us, jammed into my sister’s Ford Festiva, going to kill the monster. [...]

Hey everyone! We’ve had some staff changes here at Escape Pod, and that’s thrown some things off schedule, and for that I take full responsibility and apologize. But we’re getting back on track, and here’s what you can expect in the next few days and weeks: Stories from George R. Galuschak, N.K. Jemisin, Ferrett Steinmetz, [...]

I wrote a book in 2007, and in it my main character used a BlackBerry because, at the time, it was the best phone I could get my hands on. Five years later, it's going to be published, and now no one would even think of buying my MC's phone unless they had to.

You may have heard of the Wizard of Oz sequel Return to Oz , but despite its cult following, not that many people have seen it. Still, if you can get your hands on it, it's a decent film with exceedingly-creepy imagery and a couple of worthy villains.

A retrospective of a wildly-popular and quite-beloved show wouldn't be complete without a top episodes list. So here's the second part of my top-25 Buffy the Vampire Slayer episodes: 10 through 1.

By Jay Lake Read by Josh Roseman Discuss on our forums. Originally appeared on Tor.com All stories by Jay Lake All stories read by Josh Roseman Rated 13 and up for content The Speed of Time by Jay Lake “Light goes by at the speed of time,” Marlys once told me. That was a joke, [...]

A retrospective of a wildly-popular and quite-beloved show wouldn't be complete without a top episodes list. So here's the first part of my top-25 Buffy the Vampire Slayer episodes: 25 through 11.

The gold standard for musical episodes is Joss Whedon's "Once More, With Feeling", a sixth-season episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer . The soundtrack to it was released the same year as the episode (2002). But how does that soundtrack hold up if you're not watching the episode at the same time?

The fashions may not hold up; the slang and pop-culture references might be dated; the effects in the early seasons are definitely iffy. But the storytelling will make Buffy the Vampire Slayer worth watching even twenty, thirty, or fifty years later.

Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli present "The Secret World of Arrietty", a film for kids that I found surprisingly average, given its pedigree. Still, if you have young children, they'll enjoy it.

By Ursula Pflug Read by Christiana Ellis Discuss on our forums. Originally appeared in Anthology Series: Tesseracts # 3, 1991 All stories by Ursula Pflug All stories read by Christiana Ellis Rated 13 and up for language This episode has been brought to you by Audible. Visit http://AudiblePodcast.com/escapepod for a free trial membership*. Audible® Free [...]

By James L. Cambias Read by Mur Lafferty Discuss on our forums. Originally appeared in All-Star Zeppelin Adventure Stories, edited by David Moles, 2004 All stories by James L. Cambias All stories read by Mur Lafferty Rated all ages. Zeppelins! The Eckener Alternative by James L. Cambias The Hindenburg swung gently on the mast at [...]

By Craig DeLancey Read by Rajan Khanna Discuss on our forums. Originally appeared in Analog All stories by Craig DeLancey All stories read by Rajan Khanna Rated 15 and up for language, drug abuse Asteroid Monte by Craig DeLancey “You don’t look like an omnivore.” I was supposed to spend the next several years working [...]

I have a problem with graphic novels. Actually, I have four. In the second part of my two-part article, I'll tell you about the rest of them.

I have a problem with graphic novels. Actually, I have four. In the first part of my two-part article, I'll tell you about a couple of them.

By James L. Sutter Read by Wilson Fowlie Discuss on our forums. Originally appeared in Apex Magazine in December, 2009 All stories by James L Sutter All stories read by Wilson Fowlie Rated 15 and up for language, drug abuse Overclocking by James L. Sutter They’re waiting for him when he comes out of the [...]

By Ferrett Steinmetz Read by Dave Thompson Discuss on our forums. An Escape Pod Original! All stories by Ferrett Steinmetz All stories read by Dave Thompson Rated 15 and up for language, brief sexual imagery, brief violent imagery Devour By Ferrett Steinmetz “I want some water,” Sergio says.  The bicycle chains clank as he strains [...]

By Keffy R. M. Kehrli Read by Mur Lafferty Discuss on our forums. Originally appeared in InterGalactic Medicine Show. All stories by Keffy R. M. Kehrli All stories read by Mur Lafferty Rated 13 and up The Ghost of a Girl Who Never Lived By Keffy R. M. Kehrli I am Sara’s second body. My [...]

Click here for the epub version. Hello everyone, Can we talk about Fringe for a second? It’s somehow managed to survive to a fourth season on Fox, which is a feat in and of itself. But it’s also managed to keep the monsters of the week new and interesting, even when they’re new iterations of [...]

It appears that reports of science fiction’s death have been greatly exaggerated. There is a great deal of quality science fiction available online, even more than we can reasonably list. These new stories listed below are those that have appeared during January (so far) in ‘SFWA Qualifying’ online magazines.  Plenty of outstanding science fiction to [...]

Stieg Larsson's novel of murder, intrigue, history, and hacking, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo , has been adapted into two films -- a Swedish one and an American one. Despite having the same source material, they're very different movies. Find out just how different in the second part of this two-part review.

Stieg Larsson's novel of murder, intrigue, history, and hacking, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo , has been adapted into two films -- a Swedish one and an American one. Despite having the same source material, they're very different movies. Find out just how different in this two-part review.

By Zachary Jernigan Read by Matt Franklin of Fly Reckless Discuss on our forums. Originally appeared in Asimov’s, April 2011 All stories by Zachary Jernigan All stories read by Matt Franklin Rated 17-and-up for violence, language, and sexual imagery. Pairs by Zachary Jernigan I had been practicing turning myself into a knife. Between star systems [...]

I wanted to let people know that we’ve changed the submission guidelines slightly- we used to have a $300 cap on payments, but that is no more! We want short stories between 2,000 and 6,000 words. The sweet spot’s somewhere between 3,500 and 5,000 words. We pay $.05 a word for new fiction at this [...]

Although I liked Wicked , I didn't really care for the next two books in Gregory Maguire's "Wicked Years" series. The conclusion, Out of Oz , just came out, and I figured it was worth taking a look. Perhaps I should've just learned my lesson.

By Randy Henderson Read by Roberto Suarez Discuss on our forums. An Escape Pod Original! All stories by Randy Henderson All stories read by Roberto Suarez Rated 13-and-up for language. Surviving the eBookalypse by Randy Henderson I entered the City Public Library wearing my plastic replica chainmail and sword, and my suede “book jacket” with [...]

By Judith Tarr Read by Mur Lafferty Discuss on our forums. First published in DINOSAURFANTASTIC from DAW edited by Mike Resnick and Martin H. Greenberg, 1993 All stories by Judith Tarr All stories read by Mur Lafferty REVENANTS by Judith Tarr Janie wanted to pet the pterodactyl. “Here’s the auk,” I said. “Look how soft his feathers are. Look at [...]

Poppies and Chrome by Sylvia Hiven Rabbi Aaron Meets Satan by Tim Lieder Fine-Tuning the Universe by Merrie Haskell narrated by Mat Weller, author Richard E. Dansky, and Mur Lafferty Discuss on our forums. Appropriate for teens and up due to erotic imagery and language.

We are completely aware of the backlog of submissions and are going to spend January tackling it. We are closed for submissions until February. Since we hadn’t made an official blog post about it till today, the stories that have arrived before noon, Jan 3, Eastern Standard Time, will still be considered.

Click here to get the epub version. Dear Faithful Listeners And Readers— Happy 2012! It’s looking to be a very exciting year at Escape Pod, and we’re delighted you’re still hanging out with us! We had a lot of fun bringing you different things in 2011, from our first audio drama at the end of [...]

It is easy to love a book when it has been cruel to you. Myths of Origin by Catherynne M. Valente is a hard book, and one that will encourage most readers to put it down. It contains four short novels, each of which will challenge the reader to make sense of its elaborate metaphors [...]

By James Patrick Kelly Cast: Becca- AB Kovacs Sam- Pamela L. Quevillon Mel Gibson- John Cmar Discuss on our forums. An Escape Pod Original! All stories by James Patrick Kelly All stories read by AB Kovacs, Pamela L. Quevillon, John Cmar Appropriate for older teens and up due to erotic imagery and war criminal comeuppance. [...]

By Catherine H. Shaffer Read by Mur Lafferty Discuss on our forums. First published in Analog, 2006 All stories by Catherine H. Shaffer All stories read by Mur Lafferty Nothing objectionable in this episode, except it may not be appropriate for the younger folk, as the story does discuss Santy Clawr. Long Winter’s Nap by [...]

Escape Artists is doing another donation drive, and giving you a load of holiday stories by Mur Lafferty in exchange for your support! Just like we did with the Alphabet Quartet, you can donate $50 or subscribe for $5 a month and get twelve audio stories! Five were previously published on Escape Pod (many of [...]

This time on Science Future: Various stepping-stones to human augmentation. Science fiction inspires the world around us. It inspires us to create our future. So we look to the future of science to find our next fiction. We look to Science Future. The Science Future series presents the bleeding edge of scientific discovery from the viewpoint of the [...]

By DK Latta Read by Josh Roseman Discuss on our forums. First published in Prairie Fire, 1999 All stories by DK Latta All stories read by Josh Roseman Marking Time on the Far Side of Forever by D.K. Latta I sit beneath the dark green sky, overlooking the valley that has changed much over the [...]

By J. Daniel Sawyer Read by Paul Haring Discuss on our forums. An Escape Pod original! All stories by J. Daniel Sawyer All stories read by Paul Haring Rated 17 and up for language, and mild sexual situations Chicken Noodle Gravity by J. Daniel Sawyer I hate to start out this way, but before we [...]

Human who like juvenile humor, poop joke, and self-deprecating retelling of life of mythical creature should read "Bigfoot: I Not Dead" by Bigfoot, as retold by Graham Roumieu. It contain many funny words about what Bigfoot been doing past few years, since last Bigfoot book released. (And not worry: entire review not written in Bigfoot dialect.)

The hero is cornered by the bad guys! Thinking quickly, she pulls out a brace of throwing knives. She flips the knives at two of her attackers. They go down, one clutching the knife embedded in his chest, the other lying still with a knife in his eye. Stop doing this. Writers, moviemakers, everyone — [...]

The assassination of JFK was a watershed event in human history, one that many people believe should never have happened. In Stephen King's new novel, 11/22/63 , we learn that, no matter what we think should've happened, history is a pretty powerful force and it doesn't want to be changed.

By Ray Tabler Read by Mur Lafferty Discuss on our forums. An Escape Pod original! All stories by Ray Tabler All stories read by Mur Lafferty Rated 10 and up for blaster violence. Honor Killing by Ray Tabler You would think that after all the years I’ve spent schlepping cargoes around the galaxy I’d have [...]

Click here for the epub version. Hello everyone, You know that column you run into every now and then on how time always seems like it’s going faster as you get older? The one where you can kind of tell that the columnist suddenly realized he hadn’t actually written their weekly twelve column inches and [...]

By Jay Werkheiser Read by Paul Haring Discuss on our forums. First appeared in Analog All stories by Jay Werkheiser All stories read by Paul Haring Thanksgiving Day By Jay Werkheiser Kev’s stomach curled around emptiness, embracing it as a constant reminder that the colony’s Earth food was almost gone. Another three months, four at [...]

Astronomy Cast is one of the most informative and entertaining science podcasts that I have found to date. The chemistry between the hosts would be enough to make me keep listening, even if the subject matter wasn’t fascinating. Astronomy Cast episodes are short and focused, usually on a single aspect of the larger universe in [...]

I found In Time to be an enjoyable film, but if you haven't seen it yet, I'd wait for it to come out on DVD. The genre hook, while interesting, isn't exactly new, and there's a bit too much heavy-handed moralizing about haves and have-nots.

Before the internet, before television, before jets and superhighways shrank the world to a manageable size and science gave us the tools to understand it, men of substance and education created wunderkammer. These rooms showcased curiosities, genuine artifacts and forgeries, from around the world. Their creators did not distinguish between plant and animal, ancient artifact [...]

Rosemary Kirstein’s remarkable book, The Steerswoman, exists in the place between science fiction and fantasy. It looks like a fantasy novel, and uses the familiar story of an improbable band of heroes on a quest through a fantasy kingdom as a backdrop, but its core is made of the hardest science fiction. The underlying story [...]

When I first saw the Voyager episode "The Gift", I thought Janeway had done a good thing saving a human from the Borg. Now, fourteen years later, I wonder just what the hell Janeway -- and the writers -- were thinking.

By Gwendolyn Clare Read by Mur Lafferty Discuss on our forums. First appeared in Warrior Wisewoman 3 All stories by Gwendolyn Clare All stories read by Mur Lafferty Driving X by Gwendolyn Clare Carmela wouldn’t have stopped if she had known that the kid was still alive. She spotted the body lying under a creosote [...]

By Ian Creasey Read by Josh Roseman Discuss on our forums. First appeared in Asimov’s All stories by Ian Creasey All stories read by Josh Roseman The Prize Beyond Gold by Ian Creasey Three days before the race, when Delroy had finished warming down from a training run, his coach summoned him for a talk. [...]

Every cop series has an obligatory "get stuck doing cop stuff while on vacation". In Terry Pratchett's latest novel, Snuff , Commander Samuel Vimes goes on vacation and ends up doing a whole lot of it. Also, his son discovers the wonders of poo.

By Marc-Anthony Taylor Read by Barry Haworth Discuss on our forums. First appeared in British Fantasy Society Winter Journal 2010/2011 All stories by Marc-Anthony Taylor All stories read by Barry Haworth This one isn’t for the kids, because of references to sex workers and acts. Boxed In by Marc-Anthony Taylor My sister had me boxed when I [...]

You can download the ePub version here. Hello everyone, and happy November! It’s NaNoWriMo month, and a lot of professionals don’t like it. They say it’s misleading to tell newbies that the career that pros have taken years to perfect can be achieved in 30 days. They say that December 1 marks the day that [...]

By Laura Anne Gilman Read by Mat Weller Discuss on our forums. First appeared in ReVISIONS from Daw Boooks All stories by Laura Anne Gilman All stories read by Mat Weller This one isn’t for the kids, because of language and heavy content. Site Fourteen “Nereus Shuttle Four to Gateway Station, you have control.” Robinachec nodded confirmation [...]

Changing Planes by Ursula K. Le Guin is a book based on a little pun — the idea that the relentless hostility of airports to the human mind can, at times, drive a person out of our plane of reality and into another. While waiting to change planes, then, one might find one’s self actually [...]

Science Future looks once again to scientific discoveries and science fiction to determine if there is intelligent life among the stars, including our own planet, and if we'll ever travel to them.

By Cory Doctorow Read by Grant Baciocco Discuss on our forums. First appeared in Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories Music by Clockwork Quartet All stories by Cory Doctorow All stories read by Grant Baciocco This one is a long one! This is considered appropriate for kids 12 and up – it’s [...]

The concept of a TV-show being based on a literary work is stretched pretty thin when it comes to Haven being based upon Stephen King's The Colorado Kid .

By Nancy Fulda Read by Marguerite Kenner Discuss on our forums. First appeared in  Asimov’s March 2011 issue All stories by Nancy Fulda All stories read by Marguerite Kenner Movement By Nancy Fulda It is sunset.  The sky is splendid through the panes of my bedroom window; billowing layers of cumulous blazing with refracted oranges [...]

Science fiction always runs the risk of getting caught up in pointless details. City of Ruins by Kristine Kathryn Rusch is one of those science fiction novels that spends too much time looking down at its feet and not enough time staring up at the wondrous ideas that it is proposing. Half explore-the-ancient-machine, half first-contact, [...]

After listening to all eight Harry Potter soundtracks pretty much in a row, here's my ordered list of which ones I think are better than the others.

In a time of thousand-page fantasy epics, a little book like Genevieve Valentine’s Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti is easy to overlook. I recommend making the effort to track it down. Mechanique is a beautifully written book. Genevieve Valentine says more with hints and suggestions than some authors can say in a thousand [...]

By Robert T. Jeschonek Read by Josh Roseman Discuss on our forums. First appeared in PS Showcase #3: Mad Scientist Meets Cannibal All stories by Robert T. Jeschonek All stories read by Josh Roseman Playing Doctor By Robert T. Jeschonek The problem with having a crush on your mad scientist boss is, every day she [...]

Books like The Cloud Roads by Martha Wells are why I love fantasy literature. In The Cloud Roads, Wells has built a world where people aren’t just divided by color and language, but by species and life-cycle. In a surprisingly short time, Wells touches on the kinds problems that a world like hers would have, [...]

Alexandre Desplat's soundtrack for Deathly Hallows 2 provided a fitting musical end to the Harry Potter saga. I especially enjoyed what I'm calling Cycles -- the Battle Cycle, the Snape Cycle, and the Harry Cycle, to be precise.

Take the tried-and-true story framework of Harry Potter and set it at a school for super-villains and you've got H.I.V.E. , a young adult novel by Mark Walden. I found it pretty funny, and think it's worth a read.

You can download the ePub version here. This is the October issue, so I guess I should be sounding all spooky in the editor’s note, but That Holiday Which Must Be Feared is a month away, so instead why don’t we talk about reinvention. I’m not that great at waiting out long serialized stories, and [...]

By T. L. Morganfield Read by Mat Weller Discuss on our forums. First appeared in Greatest Uncommon Denominator #3 All stories by T. L. Morganfield All stories read by Mat Weller Rated appropriate for 15 and older due to language. Night Bird Soaring By T. L. Morganfield On his sixth birthday, Totyoalli’s parents took him [...]

I was very pleased with Alexandre Desplat's soundtrack for the first part of Deathly Hallows. Not surprising, given that he did a lot of the same things Patrick Doyle did in Goblet of Fire -- my favorite of the eight.

Science fiction inspires the world around us. It inspires us to create our future. So we look to the future of science to find our next fiction. We look to Science Future. The Science Future series presents the bleeding edge of scientific discovery from the viewpoint of the science fiction reader, discussing the influences science and [...]

By Saladin Ahmed Read by Rajan Khanna Discuss on our forums. First appeared in Apex Magazine All stories by Saladin Ahmed All stories read by Rajan Khanna Special thanks to Hugo award winning Starship Sofa for allowing us to use Rajan Khanna’s narration that originally ran November 17, 2010. Rated appropriate for 15 and older [...]

Although I didn't like the film almost at all, and although Half-Blood Prince was my least-favorite of the books, I definitely got some enjoyment out of Nicholas Hooper's soundtrack. He quite redeemed himself after Order of the Phoenix with this one.

Another helping of flash! Jenna’s Clocks by T. F. Davenport (narrator Jean Hilde-Fulghum) Wetware Woes by J. J. DeBenedictis (narrator Mur Lafferty) End of the World or Not, I Still Have Feelings by Daniel Morris (narrator- Barry Haworth) The Best Cover Band in the Universe by Andrew Fazzari (narrator- John Anealio) – Honorable Mention for [...]

Nicholas Hooper, though a talented composer, seems to have swung and missed with his Order of the Phoenix soundtrack. It wasn't a character in the film, and it wasn't a complete work of art, although it did have some pretty cool cues.

By Lavie Tidhar Read by Christian Brady Discuss on our forums. First appeared in Interzone, 2010 All stories by Lavie Tidhar All stories read by Christian Brady Rated inappropriate for seventeen and younger due to language and violence. The Insurance Agent By Lavie Tidhar The bar was packed and everyone was watching the Nixon-Reagan match. [...]

For the first time in the Harry Potter series, we had a start-to-finish soundtrack that was a truly complete work of art. Patrick Doyle's Goblet of Fire soundtrack is, without a doubt, my favorite of the eight.

In The Magician King , Lev Grossman's return to the magical world of Fillory continues lampooning and lampshading the fantasy tropes we've all put in our fiction, and if the plot is a little weak, the storytelling makes up for that.

You can download the ePub version here. Greetings dear listeners! I just returned from WorldCon where I met several listeners, thanks to everyone who came by to say hi! I was able to solicit stories from some pros and talk to some authors about their upcoming work – we’ve got an original piece from James [...]

If you like science, CSI, stories that take place in Antarctica, or lots-of-people-crammed-into-a-small-space-slowly-going-mad, then you'll enjoy Fade to Black . But the main character we were supposed to like was the one I disliked the most, and there was just too much for me to overlook in terms of tropes and internal monologuing.

By Vylar Kaftan Read by Mur Lafferty Discuss on our forums. First appeared in Helix, 2007 All stories by Vylar Kaftan All stories read by Mur Lafferty Rated inappropriate for seventeen and younger due to language and violence. [Note- we do not have the ebook rights, but you can read it at Transcriptase!] Kill Me [...]

The average science fiction novel takes one or two interesting ideas from recent history and modern science and extrapolates them forward for fun and enlightenment. In River of Gods, however, Ian McDonald found a place for a little bit of everything in the caldron of India’s future. Artificial intelligence, climate change, extreme body modification, alien [...]

While Prisoner of Azkaban doesn't have my favorite overall soundtrack of all the Potter films, it's my favorite of the John Williams scores, and it has one of my favorite tracks of all eight films on it, "Finale".

Low Town by Daniel Polansky wants to be an action-packed noir mystery novel set in a fantasy world. It succeeds at some of these things. While Low Town gets off to an awkward start with a summary of the grim and gritty world and our grim and gritty protagonist, it earned its first laugh on [...]

By Mike Resnick and Lezli Robyn Read by Dave Thompson Discuss on our forums. First appeared in September, 2009 Asimov’s All stories by Mike Resnick and Lezli Robyn All stories read by Dave Thompson Rated appropriate for teens and up due to language, alcohol dependence, and discussing death of loved ones. Soulmates by Mike Resnick [...]

While Chamber of Secrets is a darker film than the first Harry Potter, the soundtrack was still too juvenile to really pass on the feeling of peril in the danger sequences -- especially since the film had so many mood-lightening moments.

First the list, from the Hugo blog (Congrats to all the winners): BEST NOVEL Blackout/All Clear by Connie Willis (Ballantine Spectra) BEST NOVELLA The Lifecycle of Software Objects by Ted Chiang (Subterranean) BEST NOVELETTE “The Emperor of Mars” by Allen M. Steele (Asimov’s, June 2010) BEST SHORT STORY “For Want of a Nail” by Mary [...]

By Douglas Smith Read by Wilson Fowlie Discuss on our forums. All stories by Douglas Smith All stories read by Wilson Fowlie Rated Inappropriate for the younger ones, due to words of a naughty nature. Radio  Nowhere by Douglas Smith On the anniversary of the worst night of his life, Liam stood outside the darkened control room [...]

Science fiction inspires the world around us. It inspires us to create our future. So we look to the future of science to find our next fiction. We look to Science Future. The Science Future series presents the bleeding edge of scientific discovery from the viewpoint of the science fiction reader, discussing the influences science and [...]