LIGHTSPEED MAGAZINE - Science Fiction and Fantasy Story Podcast (Sci-Fi | Audiobook | Short Stories)

This episode features "On an Unusual Kind of Spatially Distributed Haunting" by Bogi Takács (©2025 by Bogi Takács) read by Janina Edwards, and "The Girlfriend Experience" by C.Z. Tacks (©2025 by C.Z. Tacks) read by Justine Eyre. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode features "The Place I Came To" by Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko (©2025 by Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko ) read by Stefan Rudnicki, and "Apeiron" by Cadwell Turnbull (©2025 by Cadwell Turnbull) read by Janina Edwards. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode features "Beginning Before and After The End" by Jake Stein (©2025 by Jake Stein) read by Stefan Rudnicki, and "Last Meal Aboard the Awassa" by Kel Coleman (©2025 by Kel Coleman) read by Justine Eyre. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode features "Anti-Capitalism vs. the Man of Flowers" by Naomi Kanakia (©2025 by Naomi Kanakia) read by Roxane Hernandez, and "To Access Seven Obelisks, Press Enter" by V.M. Ayala (©2025 by V.M. Ayala) read by Mirron Willis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode features "The Dream Tourists" by Sarah Langan (©2025 by Sarah Langan) and "Savannah and the Apprentice" by Christopher Rowe (©2025 by Christopher Rowe), both read by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode features "Dad went out to get the milk" by Osahon Ize-Iyamu (©2025 by Osahon Ize-Iyamu) read by Mirron Willis, and "Feast of Famine" by Adam-Troy Castro (©2025 by Adam-Troy Castro) read by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode features "Five Dispatches from Conflict Zone W-924/B Five Dispatches from Conflict Zone W-924/B Regarding Post-battle Deployment of A. Thanatensis" by David Anaxagoras (©2025 by David Anaxagoras) and "It Might Be He Returns" by Fatima Taqvi (©2025 by Fatime Taqvi) both read by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode features "Finding Love in a Time Loop: A How-To Guide" by Leah Cypess (©2025 by Leah Cypess) and "You Knit Me Together in My Mother's Womb" by Paul Crenshaw (©2025 by Paul Crenshaw), both read by Justine Eyre. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode features "Un-Pragmagic: A Tyler Moore Retrospective" by Spencer Nitkey (©2025 by Spencer Nitkey) read by Stefan Rudnicki, and "Domestic Disputes" by Naomi Kanakia (©2025 by Naomi Kanakia) read by Judy Young. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"How to Win Against the Robots" by Katherine Crighton (©2025 by Katherine Crighton) read by Judy Young, and "A Dish Best Served Cold Or An Excerpt From The Cookbook Of The Gods" by Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe (©2025 by Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe) read by Mirron Willis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode features "What Else, What Else, in the Joyous City? " by sadoeuphemist (©2025 by sadoeuphemist) and "The Lord of Mars" by Meghan McCarron (©2025 by Meghan McCarron) both read by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode features "All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt" by Marissa Lingen (©2025 by Marissa Lingen) read by Roxanne Hernandez, and "A Week at the Raven Feather Salon" by Carrie Vaughn (©2025 by Carrie Vaughn) read by Susan Hanfield. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"My Mother, the Supervillain" by Benjamin Blattberg (©2025 by by Benjamin Blattberg) read by Roxanne Hernandez, "See Now the Misfortune of the Thinking Tenax" by Lowry Poletti (©2025 by Lowry Poletti) read by Stefan Rudnicki, and "When the Faerie King Toured the Human Realm" by Vanessa Fogg (©2025 by Vanessa Fogg) read by Susan Hanfield. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode features "Eyes Grown Thick on the World" by Will McMahon (©2025 by Will McMahon) and "The Twenty-One Second God" by Peter Watts (©2025 by Peter Watts) both read by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode features "The Meaning We Seek" by Nancy Kress (©2025 by Nancy Kress) and "Ninnagan Says Remember" by Jonathan Olfert (©2025 by Jonathan Olfert), both read by Paul Boehmer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode features "Where Are They Now?" by Meg Elison (©2025 by Meg Ellison), and "Through the Machine" by P. A. Cornell (©2025 by P. A. Cornell) both read by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode features "The Temporal Displacement of the Graves" by Russell Nichols (©2025 by Russell Nichols) read by Janina Edwards, and "The Price of Manners" by Martin Cahill (©2025 by Martin Cahill) read by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode features "Shadows on the Pavement" by R. P. Sand (©2025 by R. P. Sand) read by Justine Eyre, "Rthing it Up: An Oral History" by Gene Doucette (©2025 by Gene Doucette) read by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode features "TALK: “The Siren Song of the Otherworld Goggles”" by Dominica Phetteplace (©2025 by Dominica Phetteplace) "The Other River" by Jon Lasser (©2025 by Jon Lasser), both read by Alison Belle Bews. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode features "Meditations from the Event Horizon" by Deborah L. Davitt (©2025 by Deborah L. Davitt) read by Stefan Rudnicki, and "The Potter, His Daughter, and the Boy with Tribal Marks on his Face" by Oyedotun Damilola Muees (©2025 by Oyedotun Damilola Muees) read by Mirron Willlis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode features "The Price of Miracles" by Nigel Faustino (©2025 by Nigel Faustino) and "Does Harlen Lattner Dream of Infected Sheep? Part II" by Sarah Langan (©2025 by Sarah Langan), both read by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode features "To Navigate the Night" by Rich Larson (©2025 by Rich Larson) read by Alison Belle Bews, and "Does Harlen Lattner Dream of Infected Sheep? Part I" by Sarah Langan (©2025 by Sarah Langan) read by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Instructions for Good Boys on the Interplanetary Expedition" by Rachael K. Jones (©2025 by Rachael K. Jones) and "The Lexicon of Lethe" by Sunwoo Jeong (©2025 by Sunwoo Jeong) both read by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode features "The Shift" by Nina Kiriki Hoffman (©2025 by Nina Kiriki Hoffman) and "Message In a Babel" by Adam-Troy Castro (©2025 by Adam-Troy Castro), both read by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode features "Those Who Seek To Embrace The Sun" by Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe (©2025 by Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe) read by Stefan Rudnicki + "Memories of Temperance" by Anya Ow (©2025 by Anya Ow) read by Katharine Chin Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode features "Pure of Heart" by Jake Kerr (©2025 by Jake Kerr) read by Roxanne Hernandez, and "Dekar Druid and the Infinite Library" by Cadwell Turnbull (©2025 by Cadwell Turnbull) read by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode features "My Girlfriend Is a Nebula" by David DeGraff (©2025 by David DeGraff) read by Stefan Rudnicki, and "What We Don’t Know About Angels" by Kristina Ten (©2025 by Kristina Ten) read by Judy Young. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode features "Books to Take at the End of the World" by Carolyn Ives Gilman (©2025 by Carolyn Ives Gilman) read by Stefan Rudnicki,, and "Some to Cradle, Some to Eat" by Eugenia Triantafyllou (©2025 by Eugenia Triantafyllou) read by Judy Young. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode features "Standardized Test" by Seoung Kim (©2025 by Seoung Kim) read by Stefan Rudnicki, and "It Holds Her in the Palm of One Hand (Part 2)" by Lowry Poletti (©2025 by Lowry Poletti) read by Susan Hanfield. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode features "An Omodest Proposal" by Andrew Dana Hudson (©2025 by Andrew Dana Hudson) read by Stefan Rundicki, and "It Holds Her in the Palm of One Hand (Part 1)" by Lowry Poletti (©2025 by Lowry Poletti) read by Susan Hanfield. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode features "After the God Has Moved On" by Kate Elliott (©2025 by Kate Elliott), and "Chickenfoot Soup" by Marika Bailey (©2025 by Marika Bailey) both read by Janina Edwards. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode features "I Eat The Sky For Us" by Vijayalaxmi Samal (©2025 by Vijayalaxmi Samal) read by Janina Edwards, and "Dyson Spheres of the Vaba Cluster" by Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko (©2025 by Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko) read by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode features "The Exquisite Pull of Relentless Desire" by Will McMahon (©2025 by Will McMahon) read by Caleb Mose, and "Bone And Marrow, Woven Into Song" by Neon Yang (©2025 by Neon Yang) read by Stefan Rudnicki). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode features "A Heap of Petrified Gods" by Adelehin Ijasan (©2025 by Adelehin Ijasan) read by Caleb Mose, and "Tell Them A Story To Teach Them Kindness" by B. Pladek (©2025 by B. Pladek) read by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode features "Three Birds That Came Out of Grayson Huff and a Bunch More That Fell from the Sky" by David Anaxagoras (©2024 by David Anaxagoras) read by Stefan Rudnicki, and "Get Hyped!" by Gene Doucette (©2024 by Gene Doucette) read by Roxanne Hernandez. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode features "Sleeping Beauty and the Restless Realm" by Lincoln Michel (©2024 by Lincoln Michel) read by Mirron Willis, "The Godhood of Ima Day" by Cressida Blake Roe (©2024 by Cressida Blake Roe) read by Roxanne Hernandez, and " What We Plan To Do To You" by Adam-Troy Castro (©2024 by Adam-Troy Castro) read by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episodes features "Inside the House of Wisdom" by Tamara Masri (©2024 by Tamara Masri) read by the author, and "Ol' Big Head" by Melissa A. Watkins (©2024 by Melissa A. Watkins) read by Mirron Willis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode features "Ancestor Code Error" by Ai Jiang (©2024 by Ai Jiang), and "The Ones Who Come At Last" by P.H. Lee (©2024 by P.H. Lee), both read by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode features "The Last Word" by Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe (©2024 by Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe) read by Justine Eyre, and "Antyesti for a Dead Ganesa (Pt 2)" by Ashok K. Banker (©2024 by Ashok K. Banker) read by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode features "The Oracular Manifestation of Human Consciousness Offers Three Provocative Verbs, Separated by Commas" by Aimee Ogden (©2024 by Aimee Ogden) read by Stefan Rudnicki, and "We Will Bring Siege to the Bastion of Sin that Cries Out in Your Prayer" by Hammond Diehl (© 2024 by Hammond Diehl) read by Justine Eyre. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode features "Babywings" by Isabel Cañas (©2024 by Isabel Caña), read by Justine Eyre, and "Antyesti for a Dead Ganesa (Pt 1)" Ashok K. Banker (©2024 by Ashok K. Banker), read by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An excerpt from the unfinished memoirs of Sullivan Kingsley. Text was dictated to and recorded by a Kvasir ScrivenerTM. Any poetic editorializing can be assumed in accordance with the spirit of Mr. Kingsley’s intentions, as interpreted by a conjured instance of the severed hand of Kvasir, Norse god of poetry, peacemaking, and beverage production. | © 2024 by by Philip Gelatt & JT Petty. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I’m not telling you this to convince you of my innocence. The verdict has already been reached, the seal of my fate has been affixed. | © 2024 by Russell Nichols. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gallam didn’t look at the clothes the family provided until he had already prepared the body. “Prepared” was putting it mildly: the man was covered in wounds—blade wounds? Bite wounds? Gouges, rips, punctures, slices. | © 2024 by Kenneth Schneyer. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This month's Lightspeed Science Fiction Short Shots episode features "The Life You've Given Me, Rusty" by P.A. Cornell (© 2024 by P.A. Cornell), narrated by Stefan Rudnicki, and "Hot Hearts" by Lyndsie Manusos (© 2024 by Lyndsie Manusos), narrated by Janina Edwards. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This month's Lightspeed Fantasy Short Shots episode features "Zekelo's Barterhouse & Emporium" by Patrick Hurley (© 2024 by Patrick Hurley), narrated by Stefan Rudnicki and "Caesura" by Ashlee Lhamon (© 2024 by Ashlee Lhamon), narrated by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mother whispered to us about the beings on Earth she regretted creating; the ones whose only merits are their minds, but their minds rot so easily. | © 2024 by Ai Jiang. Read by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Talis had a problem. They’d copied the spell incorrectly, in a fury, after seeing photos of their ex with a new date in “their” spot. | © Jae Steinbacher. Narrated by Roxanne Hernandez. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Every date followed the same pattern. After the dinner and drinks, and the long moonlit walk along the canal, Jules would casually remark that the hangar was not far from here, and would they like to come see? | © 2024 by Sagan Yee. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This month's Lightspeed Science Fiction Short Shots episode features "GaaS" by Meg Elison (© 2024 by Meg Elison), narrated by Alison Belle Bews and "The Mote in Bird's Eye, or Note Attached to a Frozen Corpse Retrieved from Deep Space" by Jon Lasser (© 2024 by Jon Lasser), narrated by Roxanne Hernandez. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices