Escape Pod, Podcastle, Pseudopod, and Cast of Wonders

Tag Area: Radio/Audio Series
Novelette

Rescue Party


Only a smidgen of unimportant time phenomena in the first paragraph of this ominous first contact story. —Michael Main
But Alveron and his kind had been lords of the Universe since the dawn of history, since that far distant age when the Time Barrier had been folded round the cosmos by the unknown powers that lay beyond the Beginning.
Pen-and-ink drawing of a military tank with wings.
  • Science Fiction
  • Time Phenomena
Short Story

“—All You Zombies—”


A 25-year-old man, originally born as an orphan girl named Jane, tells his story to a 55-year-old bartender who then recruits him for a time-travel adventure. —Michael Main
When I opened you, I found a mess. I sent for the Chief of Surgery while I got the baby out, then we held a consultation with you on the table—and worked for hours to salvage what we could. You had two full sets of organs, both immature, but with the female set well enough developed for you to have a baby. They could never be any use to you again, so we took them out and rearranged things so that you can develop properly as a man.
A man wearing only a skirt stands on a spaceship while firing a ray gun upward
                at another ship.
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

Marley and Marley


Somewhat jaded 28-year-old Marley comes back through time to take care of 12-year-old orphaned Marley. —Michael Main
He told me all the horrible things that would happen if I broke any Time Laws. Worlds would collapse. I would turn inside out. Important people would die and important things wouldn’t happen.
Two spirits emerge on a stone wall behind a young woman.
  • Science Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel