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Bringing to listeners science fiction and fantasy stories, recorded in a style that's part radio broadcast and part audiobook. Featuring original music by Edwin Wendler (used with permission).

Charles Logan


    • Feb 5, 2015 LATEST EPISODE
    • infrequent NEW EPISODES
    • 15m AVG DURATION
    • 50 EPISODES


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    Night Train to Paris (Part 3)

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 5, 2015 15:24


    The suspensful conclusion to David Gerrold's tale of a mysterious journey through darkness. Winner of the 2013 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Short Fiction.

    Night Train to Paris (Part 2)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 30, 2015 17:54


    Part two of David Gerrold's tale of a mysterious journey through darkness. Winner of the 2013 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Short Fiction.

    Night Train to Paris (Part 1)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 23, 2015 14:45


    Writer David Gerrold takes us on an unsettling journey through darkness. Winner of the 2013 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Short Fiction.

    A Princess of Mars (Chapter 28)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 31, 2012 5:47


    Above me shone the red eye of Mars holding her awful secret, forty-eight million miles away.

    A Princess of Mars (Chapter 27)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 30, 2012 13:58


    I traveled with awful velocity for my errand was a race against time with death.

    A Princess of Mars (Chapter 26)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 30, 2012 16:24


    A wild cry of exultation arose from the Heliumite squadron, and with redoubled ferocity they fell upon the Zodangan fleet.

    A Princess of Mars (Chapter 25)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 30, 2012 13:07


    "Zodanga has fallen," I cried. "Look!"

    A Princess of Mars (Chapter 24)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 29, 2012 19:22


    I fell beside a huge monster who was engaged with three antagonists, and as I glanced at his fierce face, filled with the light of battle, I recognized him ...

    A Princess of Mars (Chapter 23)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 29, 2012 14:53


    As I sped through the air the screeching of the bullets around me convinced me that only by a miracle could I escape ...

    A Princess of Mars (Chapter 22)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 28, 2012 25:31


    "Too late, too late," she grieved. "O my chieftain that was, and whom I thought dead, had you but returned one little hour before--but now it is too late, too late."

    A Princess of Mars (Chapter 21)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 23, 2012 25:19


    Driving my fleet air craft at high speed directly behind the warriors, I soon overtook them ...

    A Princess of Mars (Chapter 20)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 18, 2012 24:11


    "And so good-night, my friend," he continued, "may you have a long and restful sleep--yes, a long sleep."

    A Princess of Mars (Chapter 19)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 17, 2012 12:57


    As the brutes, growling and foaming, rushed upon the almost defenseless women I turned my head that I might not see the horrid sight.

    A Princess of Mars (Chapter 18)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 16, 2012 11:17


    Laughing and chattering like the idiot I was fast becoming I fell upon his prostrate form my fingers feeling for his dead throat.

    A Princess of Mars (Chapter 17)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 16, 2012 20:56


    He had all the cold, hard, cruel, terrible features of the green warriors, but accentuated and debased by the animal passions to which he had given himself over for many years.

    A Princess of Mars (Chapter 16)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 15, 2012 25:06


    "Have none of me if it is your will, but that you must aid me in effecting your escape, if such a thing be possible, is not my request, but my command."

    A Princess of Mars (Chapter 15)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 10, 2012 23:11


    "I know that I can trust you, and because the knowledge may someday help you or him or Dejah Thoris or myself, I am going to tell you the name of my father ..."

    A Princess of Mars (Chapter 14)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 5, 2012 21:51


    He was soon streaming blood from a half dozen minor wounds, but I could not obtain an opening to deliver an effective thrust.

    A Princess of Mars (Chapter 13)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 4, 2012 15:36


    As my arm rested for an instant upon her I felt a thrill pass through every fiber of my being such as contact with no other mortal had even produced ...

    A Princess of Mars (Chapter 12)

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 29, 2011 14:20


    "You are a prisoner and yet you give commands which must be obeyed; you are an alien and yet you are a Tharkian chieftain."

    A Princess of Mars (Chapter 11)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 22, 2011 17:40


    "I am of another world," I answered, "the great planet Earth, which revolves about our common sun and next within the orbit of your Barsoom, which we know as Mars."

    A Princess of Mars (Chapter 10)

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 15, 2011 27:29


    ...I saw the blow aimed at her beautiful, upturned, pleading face, and ere the hand descended I was halfway across the hall.

    A Princess of Mars (Chapter 9)

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 4, 2011 11:27


    "Say what you please to Tars Tarkas, he can mete out no worse fate to me than a continuation of the horrible existence we are forced to lead in this life."

    A Princess of Mars (Chapter 8)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 17, 2011 15:56


    The great warship ... soared majestically into the air, her decks and upper works a mass of roaring flames.

    A Princess of Mars (Chapter 7)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 14, 2011 15:05


    Sola's duties were now doubled, as she was compelled to care for the young Martian, as well as for me.

    A Princess of Mars (Chapter 6)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 1, 2011 12:24


    Scarcely had the blow descended when I was confronted with a new danger.

    A Princess of Mars (Chapter 5)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 29, 2011 11:50


    He wheeled instantly and charged me with the most appalling speed I had ever beheld.

    A Princess of Mars (Chapter 4)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 28, 2011 16:36


    I swung my fist squarely to his jaw and he went down like a felled ox.

    A Princess of Mars (Chapter 3)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 22, 2011 19:02


    I opened my eyes upon a strange and weird landscape.

    A Princess of Mars (Chapter 2)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 20, 2011 12:48


    I closed my eyes, stretched out my arms to the god of my vocation ...

    A Princess of Mars (Chapter 1)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 19, 2011 17:49


    I am a very old man; how old I do not know.

    A Princess of Mars (Foreword)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 18, 2011 8:52


    In submitting Captain Carter's strange manuscript to you in book form, I believe that a few words ... would be of interest.

    Two-Handed Engine (Part 6)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 14, 2011 17:15


    "Quis custodiet," Hartz thought. The old problem. And the answer was: Nobody.

    Two-Handed Engine (Part 5)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 12, 2011 16:31


    In a way it was worse, having hope.

    Two-Handed Engine (Part 4)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 11, 2011 14:10


    "But that two-handed engine at the door / Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more."

    Two-Handed Engine (Part 3)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 9, 2011 12:08


    "Not for me. I'm safe. I'm protected. It hasn't come for me."

    Two-Handed Engine (Part 2)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 8, 2011 14:26


    "It's true. I'll show you. I can pull a Fury off any victim I choose."

    Two-Handed Engine (Part 1)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 7, 2011 8:59


    Ever since the days of Orestes there have been men with Furies following them.

    A Gnome There Was (Part 6)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 28, 2011 15:56


    "By Kronos, Nid, Ymir and Loki, you'll have cause to regret this!"

    A Gnome There Was (Part 5)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 26, 2011 8:37


    "We'll strike, and the Emperor can't do a damn thing about it!"

    A Gnome There Was (Part 4)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 24, 2011 14:23


    "Ever heard of a union?" Crockett asked, his gaze intent.

    A Gnome There Was (Part 3)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 20, 2011 9:56


    "After you've been here a century, you're allowed one mud bath a day."

    A Gnome There Was (Part 2)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 17, 2011 12:44


    "Well, you're a gnome now. It's the Nid Law."

    A Gnome There Was (Part 1)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 15, 2011 9:24


    Tim Crockett should never have sneaked into the mine on Dornsef Mountain.

    The Twonky (Part 6)

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 4, 2011 11:43


    Kerry's face had a blank, dazed look. His pupils were dilated, and he seemed to recognize Fitzgerald only slowly.

    The Twonky (Part 5)

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 3, 2011 13:09


    The robot, then, was not merely a servant. It was a censor.

    The Twonky (Part 4)

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 2, 2011 7:56


    Kerry began to feel a general unwillingness to go home. A hobgoblin was waiting for him.

    The Twonky (Part 3)

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 1, 2011 9:25


    'I bought it as a radio. And-and-the damn thing seems almost alive to me.'

    The Twonky (Part 2)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 31, 2011 13:08


    'My new radio,' Kerry told Fitzgerald carefully. 'It's washing the dishes.'

    The Twonky (Part 1)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 30, 2011 6:44


    Joe went back into the shop and found a vacant bench. He began to build a Twonky.

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