Science Fiction & Fantasy

Our third podcast for May is “Baroness” written by E. Catherine Tobler and read by Kate Baker.

 

 Clarkesworld Magazine Issue 128 - Baroness by E. Catherine Tobler [38:22m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (33139)

In the Tank, they show Bishop the spider.
It’s the worst thing she’s ever seen; she thought spiders were bad enough when they were an inch long, but this is five inches, orange, triangular, and glossy-wet under the lights. It has pincers like a scorpion, legs like pistons. The spider launches itself at Bishop without hesitating. [...]

Our third podcast for June is “.identity” written by E. Catherine Tobler and read by Kate Baker.

 

 Clarkesworld Magazine Issue 117 - .identity by E. Catherine Tobler [42:41m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (35055)

As with most things, it started small.
In the center of my vision, I perceived the virus as a pinprick of white light. The program was instantly distinguishable because of its color, colors being significant—green was good and red dangerous; white indicated something not entirely understood. I tried to quarantine the unidentified program, but it [...]

Our second podcast for January is “The Abduction of Europa” written by E. Catherine Tobler and read by Kate Baker.

 

 Clarkesworld Magazine Issue 112 - The Abduction of Europa by E. Catherine Tobler [49:24m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (41493)

BOLAJI
Everything blurs.
This morning, I thought it was the condensation of my breath upon the helmet’s convex interior, but it’s something else. Deep space shapes our eyes in ways unknown. Under this pressure, Europa is hazy, distant water plumes fogging the horizon, but closer too, and I think there is an undiscovered crevasse. We should be [...]

In the still of the night, there is the voice.
Am I awake?
It is not a voice as I know voices; it doesn’t speak in words, but in vibrations, audio frequencies penetrating the space which enfolds it (the siren, the woman trapped). It is the sound of a remembered heartbeat, muffled and moving through fluid, muscle, [...]

Our first podcast for June is “Somewhere I Have Never Traveled (Third Sound Remix)” written by E. Catherine Tobler and read by Kate Baker.

 

 Clarkesworld Magazine Issue 105 - Somewhere I Have Never Traveled (Third Sound Remix) by E. Catherine Tobler [37:55m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (35264)

Our fourth piece of audio fiction for October is “Pithing Needle” written by E. Catherine Tobler and read by Kate Baker.

 

 Clarkesworld Magazine Issue 97 - Pithing Needle by E. Catherine Tobler [30:28m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (29202)

We have run toward enough danger to understand this is unique, this conflict will change everything we know. It will change the Nessik, too, but we don’t care about them in this moment, because hundreds of thousands of their young are—
Are eating our—
Blackout.

We came together, armed, prepared, and yet not. They sent an entire division, [...]