38. BONUS Birthday Episode! Sci-Fi Snacks is One: Birthdays
It's our Birthday! Celebrate a whole year of science fiction short stories and snacks.This week's story: Birthdays, by Fred Saberhagen. Published in Galaxy MagazineThis week's snack: Birthday Cake Bis...
17 Apr 26min
37. Unlikeable Women and Alternate Universes: Some Desperate Glory
If you could live your life over and over, with all your memories could you stop the end of the universe? This week's story: Some Desperate Glory, by Emily TeshHugo Award Arthur C. Clarke Award Finali...
2 Apr 54min
36. Megafauna and Fatherhood from Beyond the Grave: Uncertain Sons
Grounding your weird fiction with a throughline that cuts right through all the horror to the humanity at all has me crying while reading this week's award-nominated novelette.This week's story: Uncer...
26 Mar 31min
35. Naughty Goats and Joy: Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200
When a farmhand robot appears at Tantie Merle's house as a gift, she doesn't realize she is on the precipice of change, for not only her life, but the world. This week's story: Tantie Merle and the Fa...
12 Mar 31min
34. Bodybuilders and Superheros: If You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God with the Informal You
In which gym bros save their community and fall in love.This week's story: If You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God with the Informal You, by John Chu. Published in Uncanny Magazine Hugo Awar...
5 Mar 29min
33. The Art and Beauty of Being Known: Negative Scholarship on the Fifth State of Being
When medical information is controlled by a conglomerate, and knowledge behind a paywall can be the difference between life and death, one 'doctor' goes to great lengths to learn and know her alien pa...
26 Feb 32min
32. Anthropomorphizing and Archives: The Portmeirion Road
What if the knowledge to your survival would cost you your friend? And what if that friend was a robot?This week's story: The Portmeirion Road, by Fiona Moore. Published in Clarksworld2024 BSFA Award ...
19 Feb 33min
31. Exorcisms and Climate Fiction: What Any Dead Thing Wants
In the gray space in between terraforming and colonization, an exorcism crew captain confronted by a human ghost has to grapple with his purpose.This week's story: What Any Dead Thing Wants, by Aimee ...
19 Feb 28min
