Analog Science Fiction & Fact
Episodes
Episode 14: The Robot and the Winding Woods by Brenda Cooper
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For many years, Grace and John have maintained the Winding Woods Campground, where visitors are few but life is comfortable, quiet, and happy. Out of ...
Episode 13: Lady Ballistic: Fast and Accurate Cleaning by Alex Jablokov
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sirina is a house cleaner who’ll take care of your typical dust, cobwebs, and all other varieties of filth, but if you’re dealing with anything th...
Episode 12: Last Dam Standing by Dawn Vogel
11 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Cara Blake is a retired engineer who’s been out of work for about two decades. She lives in the mountains, alone, well above the overflowing riv...
Episode 11: It Eats Metal by Mark Ferguson
13 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Missing dogs, bushes growing metallic berries, and university researchers vanishing without a trace. These are but some of a few incidents surrounding...
Episode 10: Second Chance by Sakinah Hofler
03 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After Toya Smith is killed by police during a traffic stop, doctors at a unique facility manage to preserve her consciousness and transfer it to a new...
Episode 9: Bad Cop, No Donut - by Ryan Hunke read by Glen Melin
25 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When two South Philly cops walk into a Nepalese bakery, one starts grilling the owner, Missus Singh, about rogue robots that might be helping her, whi...
Episode 8: Expert Witness by Leonard Richardson
20 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The elsp are a species of megafauna who have been driven to the brink of extinction by environmental threats and reluctance to reproduce. When a wave ...
Episode 7: Mariposa de Hierro - Matt McHugh
19 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Rosalina has just begun working at a migrant camp with her parents when before long a swarm of small, bee-like machines starts following her wherever ...
Episode 6: For Every Bee, a Hive - by Benjamin C. Kinney
21 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Tamar is on a mission to salvage usable technology from a space debris field. Her routine assignment turns dicey when her crew mates vanish, and a for...
Episode 5: The Eiffel Tower of Trappist-1d by Jeff Reynolds
17 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
With Earth long destroyed by war and ecological disaster, Ernie, Kate, and Harv are humans who have started new lives on a far-flung exoplanet. With s...
Episode 4: Fly Straight and Don't Get Eaten - by Vera Brook
29 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Before he goes away to college, all Noah wants to do is relax, play video games with his friends, and practice for an upcoming tournament. His mother,...
Episode 3: The Carina Nebula by Kelsey Hutton
31 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Meadow is a curious teenager who has spent her entire life on a large space ship. She thirsts for adventure, or at least a break from her overbearing ...
Episode 9: Double Feature: A Place for Pax & Collateral Damage
17 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For our May/June issue, we have a special treat for our listeners—a double feature! First up is “A Place for Pax” read and written by Colin Matt...
Episode 8: What Women Want - Katherine Tunning
03 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Laxi is an alien visitor from the noble house of vlarg who doesn’t like to conquer planets by force—at least not at first. Invasion and domination...
Episode 7: The Area Under the Curve by Matt McHugh
17 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In Matt McHugh’s newest tale, Emi and Zieka are elite candidates that fought as hard as they could for a spot on the generation ship. Could leaving ...
Episode 6: Maximum Efficiency by Holly Schofield
23 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
K3RA is an android programmed to pursue efficiency in everything it does, from working factory floors to killing its designers’ enemies. When it en...
Episode 5: Taking the Waters by Tim McDaniel
03 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Tim McDaniel’s “Taking the Waters,” a scientist must negotiate for our planet’s future. See how she does in our newest podcast from the Sep...
Episode 4: My Nascent Garden & Risky Harvest DOUBLE FEATURE
12 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our July/August podcast is a special double feature: First, Melanie Harding-Shaw reads "My Nascent Garden," in which an AI navigates a complicated rel...
Episode 3: Bounty 1486 by Wendy Nikel
11 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Delia Serrano is a crack disposal engineer for the CosmoSweep Coropration. On a typical workday, she’s catching bits of space junk and sending them ...
Episode 2: Nirvana or Bust by Michael Swanwick
08 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Why are Huiling and her metal exoskeleton—and research partner—being hunted by the Feds? And the state? And where does a long-ago lover fit into t...
Episode 13: Splitting a Dollar by Meghan Hyland
18 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"Amy" and "Brad" are two thieves who don’t see eye to eye. Amy wants to change the world, and Brad wants to start over, wealthy and isolated. What e...
Episode 12: Moon Unit by Bill Frank
24 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
While life on Earth may not always be safe or easy, traveling the space ways comes with its own host of hazards. There’s space junk. Sub-zero temper...
Episode 11: Room to Live - Marie Vibbert
05 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone wants to talk to a human, not a chatbot. But when you are the human on the other end of the customer service phone number, with frustrating c...
Episode 10: Mandatory Arbitration by Leonard Richardson
23 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jer is the governor’s nestling and his Consortium colony’s legal administrator. When the judicant shows up and starts questioning how things are r...
Episode 9: Pilgrimage by Michael Adam Robson
30 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Mal and the others must continue walking and following god, no matter how tired their claws and tentacles get. But how long must the pilgrims walk? An...
Episode 8: The Shadow of His Wings by Ray Nayler
10 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Separated from their group’s camp on his brother’s orders, a lonely Bashim lulls himself to sleep by practicing English with Top Hat Avatar, his h...
Episode 7: The Last Compact - Brian Rappatta
26 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The parent company is pulling its funding from the database of gods. All of the museum exhibits and their artificial intelligences will be shut down; ...
Episode 6: Ghost Strike by Brenda Kalt
24 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The assignment is straightforward: All Zu has to do is salvage some previously mined ore now lost in space, and the mountain of debt he owes to his em...
Where There's Life by John J. Vester
31 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
For fourteen fourteens of cycles in the mostly dry tunnels of Mars, Eldest Split and Companion have spent all of their energy on just staying alive. M...
"On the Changing Roles of Dockworkers” by Marie Vibbert & “The Mad Cabbage” by Céline Malgen.
24 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
For our July/August issue, we have a special double feature for you. First you’ll be hearing “On the Changing Roles of Dockworkers” read and wri...
Candida Eve by Dominica Phetteplace
27 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Susana never expected the first manned mission to Mars to begin the way it did: her crew gone, Earth in crisis, and she the sole engineer to see every...
One Basket by C.C. Finlay read by Farah Naz Rishi
20 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Fourteen-year-old asteroid-dweller Alaya longs for excitement and a glimpse of the sky. In “One Basket,” her grandmother offers her a chance at bo...
"The Greatest Day" by Eric Choi
23 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Fresh from the pages of our 90th anniversary issue is this exciting piece of alternate history, written and read by Eric Choi, that envisions a differ...