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19 Nocturne Boulevard

19 Nocturne Boulevard

Award-winning anthology of audio dramas, in the realm of the strange, speculative and supernatural.

A Reader's History of Science Fiction

A Reader's History of Science Fiction

Astrophysicist and SF enthusiast Alex Howe explores how classic books, movies, and TV influenced the development of the genre and continue to do so today, with book recommendations for each episode.

Adventures in SciFi Publishing

Adventures in SciFi Publishing

We bring science fiction and fantasy authors to your ears one podcast at a time. We also interview editors, industry experts. and we give our own takes on books, writing, and the publishing industry.

The Adventures of Flash Gordon

The Adventures of Flash Gordon

Old time radio show of the adventures of Flash Gordon and his companions Dale Arden and Dr. Hans Zarkov.



Alan & Jeremy vs. SF

Alan & Jeremy vs. SF

A monthly SF and short story discussion podcast where we dive in deep and see what we can learn about ourselves and the world. Every month we cover a different short story with a guest.

Apex Magazine Podcast

Apex Magazine Podcast

Every month we present a new work of audio fiction from leading writers in the fields of science fiction and dark fantasy.

Baen Free Radio Hour

Baen Free Radio Hour

A weekly dose of Baen news, contests, suggestions for developing writers and readers, and, above all, lively discussion with a galaxy of authors, artists, and scientists all around the Baen Books universe.

Beneath Ceaseless Skies

Beneath Ceaseless Skies

Select stories from Beneath Ceaseless Skies are available as MP3 audio files.



Cast of Wonders

Cast of Wonders

Cast of Wonders is the leading voice in young adult speculative short fiction, founded in 2011. Every week we present short stories from some of today's best genre fiction writers.

Clarkesworld

Clarkesworld

Free online science fiction, fantasy and horror from Clarkesworld Magazine.

The Coode Street Podcast

The Coode Street Podcast

The Coode Street Podcast is the BSFA-nominated science fiction and fantasy podcast hosted by Gary K. Wolfe and Jonathan Strahan. It features discussion on topics related to SF and fantasy.

Cosmic Chronicles

Cosmic Chronicles

Embark on an extraordinary journey through the captivating world of science fiction. This channel is dedicated to exploring the realms of sci-fi literature, movies, and shows that have shaped our imaginations and influenced our culture.



The Dark Verse

The Dark Verse

Testaments Scrawled in Hidden Places and on Nether Things. Join M. Amanuensis Sharkchild in a unique world of horror and fantasy fiction that will follow you to the visions of your sleep.

Dead Robots' Society

Dead Robots' Society

The Dead Robots' Society, a gathering of aspiring writers podcasting to other aspiring writers, hoping to help each other along the way to the promised land of publication.

The Drabblecast

The Drabblecast

Short Stories At the Far Side of Weird - Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror and Everything In-Between - Narrated and Produced by Norm Sherman

The Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine

The Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine

The Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine is what its name says it is. We produce audio files of fiction stories for people to listen to.



Escape Pod

Escape Pod

Escape Pod is the premier SF podcast magazine, co-edited by Mur Lafferty and Divya Breed. Every week we bring you short stories from some of today’s best science fiction authors.

The Fantastic Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs

The Fantastic Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs

Actor David Stifel narrates Edgar Rice Burroughs novels, including the Mars Series.

The Functional Nerds

The Functional Nerds

Functional Nerds is a podcast from author/blogger Patrick Hester and musician/blogger John Anealio focusing on science fiction and fantasy media: television, film, comics, and more.

The Future and You

The Future and You

A multiple-interview podcast about two hours long, produced monthly. Hosted by the author and futurist, Stephen Euin Cobb.



Galactic Suburbia

Galactic Suburbia

Alisa, Alex and Tansy bring you speculative fiction news, reading notes and chat from the galactic suburbs of Australia

Geek's Guide to the Galaxy

Geek's Guide to the Galaxy

Geek's Guide to the Galaxy covers fantasy and SF in literature, film, graphic novels, and video games, as well as related topics such as science, technology, and critical thinking.

Giant Fire Breathing Robot

Giant Fire Breathing Robot

Giant Fire Breathing Robot is your source for geeks, games, and gamma rays. Read opinions on what’s going on in the world of board games, video games, anime, role-playing games and more.

The H. P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast

The H. P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast

In each weekly podcast, we discuss a specific H.P. Lovecraft story – what it’s about, how it reads, why it may have been written and what other works of art it’s influenced. We regularly have talented guest readers and contributing composers for our music sections.



Hadron Gospel Hour

Hadron Gospel Hour

Part sci-fi audio adventure, part sketch comedy with a dash of new music. HGH follows the self-obsessed Dr. “Oppenheimer” Valdini, who has torn a rift in the fabric of the multiverse.…

The Horror!

The Horror!

Be afraid! Be very afraid. Old Time Radio is filled with ghost stories, mosters, creatures who walk the earth and other tales of the unexplained. Join us as we explore these stories from the depths of hell itself. But leave those lights on!

I Should be Writing

I Should be Writing

Writing interviews and how-tos from a SF writer who's still learning.

If This Goes On (Don't Panic)

If This Goes On (Don't Panic)

Bringing hope to the world through Speculative Fiction. Interviews with writers, gamers, creators, and activists with co-hosts Cat Rambo, Alan Bailey, Diane Morison, and Rachel Renee.



Ladies of the Fright

Ladies of the Fright

For writers and readers who like it dark. We talk about our horror and other dark-themed books. In-depth literary analysis of dark fiction. Conversations with authors, editors, and other industry professionals.

The Legendarium

The Legendarium

The Legendarium exists primarily as a book club for fantasy and sci-fi, both the classics and the new classics.Tolkien, Brandon Sanderson, Robert Jordan, and more.

Lightspeed

Lightspeed

Our podcast features audiobook-style recordings of four of the eight stories we publish each month in Lightspeed.

The Magnus Archives

The Magnus Archives

The Magnus Archives is a weekly horror fiction anthology podcast examining what lurks in the archives of the Magnus Institute, an organisation dedicated to researching the esoteric and the weird.



Old Gods Of Appalachia

Old Gods Of Appalachia

Old Gods of Appalachia is an eldritch horror fiction podcast set in an Alternate Appalachia, a world where these mountains were never meant to be inhabited.

The Once & Future Nerd

The Once & Future Nerd

The Once And Future Nerd is a serial audioplay about three high school students from modern-day Pennsylvania who find themselves trapped in a world of wizards, elves, and feudal intrigue.

PodCastle

PodCastle

PodCastle is a weekly fantasy podcast producing audio performances of fantasy short fiction, including all the subgenres of fantasy. PodCastle launched on 1 April 2008 as part of Escape Artists, Inc. with Rachel Swirsky as founding editor and Ann Leckie as assistant editor.

PseudoPod

PseudoPod

PseudoPod is the world's premier horror fiction podcast. For over a decade, PseudoPod has been bringing you the best short horror in audio form, to take with you anywhere. Pseudopod is for mature audiences only. Hardly any story on PseudoPod is suitable for children. We mean this very seriously.



Reading Rangers

Reading Rangers

Book club podcast featuring in-depth discussion of some of the most compelling works of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. From classics to new wonders, our crew of geeks gives up their evening to share their totally intelligence responses to the latest book club pick.

Relic Radio Science Fiction

Relic Radio Science Fiction

Relic Radio Science Fiction brings you old time radio stories from sci-fi's greatest writers, as well as original stories for shows like Dimension X, X Minus 1, 2000 Plus, Beyond Tomorrow, and much more! Travel through space and time as they saw it all those years ago.

The Roundtable Podcast

The Roundtable Podcast

The Roundtable Podcast invites writers to workshop their stories with some pretty remarkable people. Each episode is a no-holds-barred dialog about how to transform raw inspirations into a strong and engaging story.

Science Fiction Book Review Podcast

Science Fiction Book Review Podcast

Luke reads a science fiction book, makes some notes, thinks about the book for a few days, then records a review and puts it up on the feed. Then he reads another book.



SciFi Dig

SciFi Dig

SciFi Dig is a podcast about science fiction, fantasy, horror, comics and everything in between. The show is a single host host show with many contributors from the SciFi Dig community.

The Scifi Diner

The Scifi Diner

In this Science Fiction Podcast, we share interviews, reviews, and opinions on popular and perhaps not so popular Science Fiction TV shows and movies. Test your geek cred with trivia.

SF Crossing the Gulf

SF Crossing the Gulf

Karen Burnham and Karen Lord discuss contemporary hard science fiction and Caribbean literature.

SF in Translation

SF in Translation

SF in Translation is a science fiction, fantasy, and horror podcast dedicated to the exploration of the translation of speculative fiction. Hosted by Rachel Cordasco.



SF Signal Podcast

SF Signal Podcast

The mp3 audio companion to sfsignal.com, where we interview notables in the field of speculative fiction and say incredibly intelligent things. Mostly. Usually. OK, accidentally.

SF Squeecast

SF Squeecast

SF Squeecast is a periodic podcast in which a group of Science Fiction and Fantasy professionals squee about things Sfnal, in a neverending panel discussion of vague positivity.

SFFaudio

SFFaudio

Our goal is to tell the world about the cool stuff we were listening to. We think audio is the best medium for Science Fiction literature and drama. We’re not against the dead tree, cathode ray, and celluloid versions, we just know them to be the inferior medium for transmission of story, mood, and ideas.

Signal Boost

Signal Boost

Signal Boost is a short science fiction, fantasy, and horror interview and discussion podcast. Our interviews focus on boosting the work of a diverse range of authors, writers, artists, and more. Our discussions look at issues of inclusivity and diversity in the SF/F/H community.



The Skiffy and Fanty Show

The Skiffy and Fanty Show

Hugo-nominated science fiction, fantasy, and horror podcast featuring interviews with authors, discussions on genre-related topics, and more. Led by an intrepid crew of super geeks and starring an inclusive cast of guests, S&F is certainly *someone’s* definition of a great SF podcast. We hope it’s yours.

Slice of Sci-Fi

Slice of Sci-Fi

All things science fiction, fantasy and horror media: television, film, comics, and new media such as fan films, audio dramas, online animated comics and more.

Speculate!

Speculate!

Speculate! is a podcast for writers, readers, and fans, run by Gregory A. Wilson and Bradley P. Beaulieu. Speculate! will be sharing podcasts of fiction reviews, author and artist interviews and writing technique.

Starship Sofa

Starship Sofa

Take a voyage on the Science Fiction podcast StarShipSofa if you dare! Travel into the deepest realms of the classic Sci-fi and science fiction world. Calling at such science fiction destinations as Philip K Dick, Alfred Bester, John Brunner and all the other great Sci Fi writers out there.



Sword & Laser

Sword & Laser

The Sword and Laser is a science fiction and fantasy-themed book club, video show and podcast, started by Veronica Belmont and Tom Merritt. The main goal of the club is to build a strong online community of sci-fi / fantasy buffs, and to discuss and enjoy books of both genres.

Take Me to Your Reader

Take Me to Your Reader

The idea was simple: take old, cheesy science fiction movies, most of which are based on written works, and discuss them from the ground up. Read the book/story, watch the movie, watch any remakes, and give it all a thorough talking through.

Tales to Terrify

Tales to Terrify

Tales to Terrify is a weekly horror-themed podcast hosted by award-winning horror writer, Lawrence Santoro. Tales... is produced by Tony C. Smith, the owner-host of the Hugo Award winning StarShipSofa.

This Is Horror

This Is Horror

The This Is Horror Podcast is a weekly show for readers, writers, and creators. We interview writers, artists, publishers, editors, and creatives every week.



The Tolkien Professor

The Tolkien Professor

Founded in order to connect with other people who are eager to be included in a thoughtful literary conversation about the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. Since July 2009, listeners have downloaded more than 1,200,000 lectures.

Tor.com Podcasts

Tor.com Podcasts

For over a year, Tor.com has brought you excellent short fiction on our site, but now we’re making the audio of these stories available to you in podcast form. We’ll be bringing you both new fiction and our archived stories, so don’t worry if you’ve missed anything archived on the site.

The Writer & the Critic

The Writer & the Critic

The Writer and the Critic is a monthly podcast devoted mostly to speculative fiction books, reviews and the odd bit of idle gossip. Hosted by Kirstyn McDermott and Ian Mond.

Writers & Illustrators of the Future Podcast

Writers & Illustrators of the Future Podcast

Contest judges, winners, and industry pros share their amazing life stories and proven tips for writing and illustrating. Listen to these interviews on the Writers & Illustrators of the Furure Podcast.



Writing Excuses

Writing Excuses

Fantasy novelist Brandon Sanderson, science-fiction cartoonish Howard Taylor and horror writer Daniel Wells discuss writing techniques in a fast-paced, 15 minute format. Fifteen minutes long, because you're in a hurry, and we're not that smart.

X Minus One

X Minus One

Countdown for blast-off. From the far horizons of the unknown come transcribed tales of new dimensions in time and space. Adventures in which you will live in a million could-be years on a thousand maybe worlds.