Podcast appearances and mentions of adam troy castro

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 "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 episode features "Wait, Our Lord the Flayed One Comes" by Tania Chen (©2024 by Tania Chen) read by Roxanne Hernandez, and "Amelia's Story" by Adam-Troy Castro (©2024 by Adam-Troy Castro) read by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

[…] Rappelée à l’ordre par Matignon, la Salle 101 fait amende honorable et accepte de parler avec tout le monde, la preuve : Les fils enchevêtrés des marionnettes, jolie nouvelle d’Adam Troy Castro. Roman de Ronce et d’Épine, joli roman de Lucie Baratte, The Big Book Of Cyberpunk, jolie anthologie composée par Jared Shurin. Tout […]

This month's Lightspeed Fantasy Short Shots episode features "The Terrible Secret of The Immortal Bards" by Adam-Troy Castro (© 2024 by Adam-Troy Castro), narrated by Stefan Rudnicki and "A Superior Knot" by Ash Huang (© 2024 by Ash Huang, narrated by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Main fiction: "Blood Relations" by Adam Troy-CastroSofanauts: Just search in your favourite podcast app for us! Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/sofanauts/id1740911381 Spotify Podcasts: https://open.spotify.com/show/0OK9R9yAKasMqcjcJ0BSatPatreon for AD Free and Extra Content: https://www.patreon.com/SofanautsAdam-Troy Castro made his first non-fiction sale to Spy magazine in 1987. His books to date include four Spider-Man novels, three novels about his profoundly damaged far-future murder investigator Andrea Cort, and six middle-grade novels about the dimension-spanning adventures of young Gustav Gloom. Adam's works have won the Philip K. Dick Award and the Seiun (Japan), and have been nominated for eight Nebulas, three Stokers, two Hugos, one World Fantasy Award, and, internationally, the Ignotus (Spain), the Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire (France), and the Kurd-Laßwitz Preis (Germany). The audio collection My Wife Hates Time Travel And Other Stories (Skyboat Media) features thirteen hours of his fiction, including the original stories “The Hour In Between” and “Big Stupe and the Buried Big Glowing Booger.” In 2022 he came out with two collections, his The Author's Wife Vs. The Giant Robot and his thirtieth book, A Touch of Strange. Adam was an Author Guest of Honor at 2023's World Fantasy Convention and will be Guest of Honor at Heliosphere in 2025. Adam lives in Florida with a pair of chaotic paladin cats.This story first appeared in Or Else The Light: Dystopia Triptych #3, 2020.Narrated by: Kaila MolesKaila Moles is a Pacific Northwest native who relocated to Tucson, AZ in 2019. She is a mother to one beautiful daughter and spends her days working with her patients who struggle with trauma. She is a psychotherapist who specializes in trauma, addictions, and postpartum diagnoses. In her free time, she enjoys baking, dancing, and writing music and poetry. This is her first narration of a short story.Fact: Looking Back At Genre History By Amy H SturgisSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/starshipsofa. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

[…] Totalement focus sur son COPIL, la Salle 101 benchmark plusieurs œuvres de qualité, dont des vieilleries comme elle, regarde : Cristal, vieille bande-dessinée de Maric & Marcello. Thanatopolis, vieux recueil de Lucius Shepard. La marche funèbre des marionnettes, nouveau texte d’Adam Troy Castro. Fais comme nous, deviens réac. « Plus ça va et plus je […]

This week we discussed Lost Ark Dreaming, written by Suyi Davies Okungbowa and narrated by Emeka Emecheta, Nneka Okoye, Ore Apampa-Araba, Délé Ogundiran, Nene Nwoko, Ike Amadi. We also shared some of our recent short fiction listens in our Short Fiction Spotlight. Lost Ark Dreaming [Audible] The Scourge Between Stars [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Audible] The Deep [ Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Audible]  The Space Between Worlds [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] /  [Audible] Short Fiction Spotlight: “Over a Long Time Ago” written by Nisi Shawl, narrated by Alison Belle Bews [Lightspeed] - May 2024 (Issue 168) ”Old People's Folly” written by Nora Schinnerl, narrated by Tatiana Grey [Escape Pod 935] / [Escape Pod 936] ”Tell the King” written by Natalia Theodoridou, narrated by Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko [Beneath Ceaseless Skies] - Issue 401, Feb 22, 2024 “The Three Thousand, Four Hundred Twenty-Third Law of Robotics” written by Adam-Troy Castro, narrated by Stefan Rudnicki [Lightspeed] - March 2024 (Issue 166) ”Doctor Souvenir” written by Elly Bangs, narrated by Summer Fletcher [Beneath Ceaseless Skies] - Issue 400, Feb 8, 2024 ”The Cat that Worked from Home” written by Dan Peacock & Rachel Peacock, narrated by Mike Boris [Cast of Wonders 583]

If a robot stands alone in a field, staring into the forlorn distance as it obeys the last order it was given by a human, that order being, “Don't move until we come back for you,” which it can remember uttered with a cruel sneer by a man who has taken a cruel dislike for it, the kind of man who will not be coming back.... | © 2024 by Adam-Troy Castro. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Posit a man. He could be any man. She could be a woman. They could be any human being anywhere on the spectrum. The story would play out the same. This is, however, entirely the creation of a writer who has written plenty of formidable women, and so he exerts authority for this one time and says that this is a man, | © 2024 by Adam-Troy Castro. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The two of us, myself and this man I did not know, sat at a table in a windowless white cell with an indefinite light source. I was afraid, as afraid as a human being can be. I remembered every step that had brought me here and I did not consider this a place of safety. | © 2023 by Adam-Troy Castro. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Main fiction: "I am the Grass" by Jeff SomersJeff Somers (www.jeffreysomers.com) began writing by court order as an attempt to steer his creative impulses away from engineering genetic grotesqueries. He has published nine novels, including the Avery Cates series and the Ustari Cycle series, as well as over fifty short stories, including “Ringing the Changes,” which was selected for inclusion in Best American Mystery Stories 2006. He is a contributing editor at Writer's Digest Magazine, which also published his book on the craft of writing Writing Without Rules. He lives in Hoboken with his wife, The Duchess, and their cats. He considers pants to always be optional.This story is original to StarShipSofa.Narrated by: Mike BorisMike's a long-time fan of the show and is always happy to record a story for the “Sofa.” He narrated Adam Troy Castro's “Of A Sweet Slow Dance in the Wake of Temporary Dogs” 600-some episodes ago in 2009 (Aural Delights 87). He's an IT consultant and e-learning narrator over in the Colonies, and his neighbors still think the soundproof booth in his basement is for recording…so far, so good. He's got a wife, kids, cats and all that…. Okay, that's enough about Mike—let's get to today's show!Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/starshipsofa. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week we're talking to award-winning sci-fi writer and cat dad extraordinaire Adam Troy-Castro! Join us for a wide-ranging conversation that covers everything from the obligatory hilarious cat tales to a consideration of why it is that writers in certain genres (we're looking at you, Neil Gaiman and Stephen King!) are drawn to cats as writing companions. Check it out now! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Main Fiction: "With Frank and Lucinda Brewer at the East Pole" by Gregory Norman BossertGregory Norman Bossert is an author and filmmaker based just over the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco. He started writing in 2009 on a dare and has no intention of stopping anytime soon. His story “The Telling” won the 2013 World Fantasy Award; other stories have appeared everywhere from Asimov's Science Fiction to the Saturday Evening Post. When not writing, he wrangles spaceships and superheroes for the legendary visual effects studio Industrial Light & Magic.This story originally appeared in The Unquiet Dreamer: A Tribute to Harlan Ellison, 2021.Narrated by: Mike BorisMike's a long-time fan of the show and is always happy to record a story for the “Sofa.” He narrated Adam Troy Castro's “Of A Sweet Slow Dance in the Wake of Temporary Dogs” 600-some episodes ago in 2009 (Aural Delights 87). He's an IT consultant and e-learning narrator over in the Colonies, and his neighbors still think the soundproof booth in his basement is for recording…so far, so good. He's got a wife, kids, cats and all that…. Okay, that's enough about Mike—let's get to today's show!Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/starshipsofa. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I take the hammer in my right hand and raise it up over my head to bring down, screaming, against the left hand I have placed flat on the tabletop. My knuckles do not break. My skin does not tear. I do not scream in agony. Instead, my left hand flattens like soft rubber, the imprint of the hammer's head clearly visible in what is supposed to be human flesh. The sight is worse than any pain could possibly be. | Copyright 2022 Adam-Troy Castro. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki.

I take the hammer in my right hand and raise it up over my head to bring down, screaming, against the left hand I have placed flat on the tabletop. My knuckles do not break. My skin does not tear. I do not scream in agony. Instead, my left hand flattens like soft rubber, the imprint of the hammer's head clearly visible in what is supposed to be human flesh. The sight is worse than any pain could possibly be. | Copyright 2022 Adam-Troy Castro. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki.

This much was clear. At some point in my future, I would have access to a time machine. This was a ridiculous sentence and a tragically irrelevant concern while my wife Judi was on the floor and possibly dying, but there it was: nonsense, in the presence of death. This was the central tragic absurdity of the day. My future self had materialized in the corner of the room, as solid as a blow to the face, and it was not even my most important concern. | Copyright 2022 by Adam-Troy Castro. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki.

Main Fiction: "Hellscraper" by Chris R. YoungThis story is original to StarShipSofa.Join Chris on a haphazard journey through his own head as he encounters idiot villains, talking animal detectives, quirky multi-dimensional office staff, time traveling thugs bent on plagiarism, and stories that may or may not mean something. He's written a few short stories, novellas and novels over the years, including the story "A Talk With Death" (Paperclips: New Writers from Strathclyde, 1992), the novel Tokyomares (self-published, 2003) and his Jake Jones novellas The Old Mice Killer (2017) and The Coffee Cup Killer (2020). He's also written a few film scripts, including Tough Gig (2006), Ripped (2012), and Remote Crime Scene (2020). He's currently working on Jake Jones's next adventure The Luminari, and an amusing script called What The Maid Sawed. Follow his blog at https://chrisryoungauthor.blogspot.comNarrated by: Mike BorisMike is a freelance e-learning narrator from Indianapolis, Indiana who credits the StarShipSofa for kicking off his reasonably successful side-hustle in voice work. His first recording for someone other than his wife was Adam Troy-Castro's “Of A Sweet Slow Dance in the Wake of Temporary Dogs” for Aural Delights number 87 way back in June 2009…before he got a decent microphone.He's got a website: MikeBorisAudio.com, so pop on over and say “Hi” and then hire him.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/starshipsofa. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

My visitor gazes at our family bookshelves. I perceive right away that this is less the helpless bibliophile's habit of scanning the titles of any shelf encountered in the wild, than an exercise in measuring me, of finding the best means of approach. We are in the family living room, a welcoming space with, among other things, three double bookcases. It is not an extraordinary book collection to find in the home of people who read. | Copyright 2021 by Adam-Troy Castro. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki.

My visitor gazes at our family bookshelves. I perceive right away that this is less the helpless bibliophile's habit of scanning the titles of any shelf encountered in the wild, than an exercise in measuring me, of finding the best means of approach. We are in the family living room, a welcoming space with, among other things, three double bookcases. It is not an extraordinary book collection to find in the home of people who read. | Copyright 2021 by Adam-Troy Castro. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki.

She sank to the ground on a world without name. We were far from home, farther than we had ever gone, maybe farther than anyone had ever gone. It was so far away, or at least so strange for some undefinable local cause, that we could have filled volumes with all the alterations in the way things worked; in the ways that light worked, in the way that time worked, in the way that mass worked. We spoke of bringing back word to the learned of my world and hers. We talked of making our names. | Copyright 2021 by Adam-Troy Castro. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki.

When they ordered me down off my pedestal, I had nowhere else to go. Life as a statue is easy. They make you ascend the pedestal, turn you to stone, remove your ability to move, and leave you to watch the turn of the seasons in a world you cannot touch or care about, anymore. You can only stand in the public garden where all the convicted are placed, and you watch with dull and distant interest at the visitors who stroll past. | Copyright 2021 by Adam-Troy Castro. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki.

You have just been attacked by a Kharbat. It has sprung on you from hiding, in some place where you foolishly imagined yourself safe; and even as its many glittering fangs sink deep into the flesh and bone of your shoulder, you know that any attempt to save yourself is futile, that you were always fated to perish in this way, and this beast was always fated to usher you screaming into the world of the dead. What is a Kharbat? I don’t know. Why am I asking you? I am the world’s leading expert. | Copyright 2021 by Adam-Troy Castro. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki.

Our next original Drabblecast-commissioned story for HP Lovecraft month installment, “The Wallpaper Out of Space!” by Adam-Troy Castro read by Jacob Boris. All right, so it’s Cheryl’s kid, okay? I didn’t know she had a kid until we were two months in and already deeply involved, and then she tells me she has a sixteen […] The post Drabblecast 436- The Wallpaper Out of Space appeared first on The Drabblecast.

Amber needed a book. It was The Estates of Sarah Holliday, a delicate comedy of manners following a young woman's trials and tribulations in 1870s New England, and it was the most obscure novel by one Charlotte Winsborough, a fussy and now almost completely forgotten nineteenth-century author Amber had chosen for her dissertation. Winsborough had enjoyed three decades of critical and commercial success in her own time, and was by about 1900 lionized as a female Twain. | Copyright 2020 by Adam-Troy Castro. Narrated by Pandora Liane Kew. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Amber needed a book. It was The Estates of Sarah Holliday, a delicate comedy of manners following a young woman’s trials and tribulations in 1870s New England, and it was the most obscure novel by one Charlotte Winsborough, a fussy and now almost completely forgotten nineteenth-century author Amber had chosen for her dissertation. Winsborough had enjoyed three decades of critical and commercial success in her own time, and was by about 1900 lionized as a female Twain. | Copyright 2020 by Adam-Troy Castro. Narrated by Pandora Liane Kew.

The year I turned five, my father got taken out by a giant robot. I was present and I took it very personally. You honestly don’t expect that kind of thing when you’re a kid, not even if you’ve seen the giant robot from a distance every day of your life and have been taught what random carnage the giant robot got up to. I had grown to that tender age knowing that the giant robot killed people at the rate of one a day. | Copyright 2020 by Adam-Troy Castro. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki.

Listen. The world ended thirty seconds ago. You greet this whisper with incredulity. After all, here you are, living and breathing. The people around you are living and breathing. You might be drinking coffee in lying in bed trying to decide whether to get up. You are reminding yourself of all the little life tasks awaiting you, things that need to be taken care of in order for you to continue going about your day. Thoughts of the apocalypse are a thousand miles away. Lunacy, they seem. | Copyright 2020 by Adam-Troy Castro. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki.

Hello. Thanks for coming. I know I was a bit mysterious on the phone. This is my house. I live here because a house should be an expression of the individual, and nothing in my life has defined me as an individual more than my hatred for Luke. Yes, the same Luke. You were married to Luke for a while, weren't you? Yes, I know you endured a couple of years of that. I know how he sucked you in and made you his, and then, once he had you under his roof, revealed for the first time who he really was. | Copyright 2020 by Adam-Troy Castro. Narrated by Gabrielle de Cuir. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hello. Thanks for coming. I know I was a bit mysterious on the phone. This is my house. I live here because a house should be an expression of the individual, and nothing in my life has defined me as an individual more than my hatred for Luke. Yes, the same Luke. You were married to Luke for a while, weren’t you? Yes, I know you endured a couple of years of that. I know how he sucked you in and made you his, and then, once he had you under his roof, revealed for the first time who he really was. | Copyright 2020 by Adam-Troy Castro. Narrated by Gabrielle de Cuir.

Time is best described as the thing that must crawl by before even the most unlikely events finally get around to happening. A lot of it had passed in the little village we now visit, drifting down its cobblestoned streets like loose papers carried away by the wind, before the most unlikely of all developments had finally occurred. Samael, the junk collector, had fallen in love. Nobody had ever expected this, in large part because Samael was as dull and unimaginative a man who had ever lived. | Copyright 2020 by Adam-Troy Castro. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki.

Time is best described as the thing that must crawl by before even the most unlikely events finally get around to happening. A lot of it had passed in the little village we now visit, drifting down its cobblestoned streets like loose papers carried away by the wind, before the most unlikely of all developments had finally occurred. Samael, the junk collector, had fallen in love. Nobody had ever expected this, in large part because Samael was as dull and unimaginative a man who had ever lived. | Copyright 2020 by Adam-Troy Castro. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki.

Both girls saw the big black house behind the big black gates and started shouting in excitement: Fernie, because she loved the idea of living in a haunted house, and Pearlie because she loved the idea of living in any house that was black and mysterious...   Invite your shadow along to book club for gothic middle grade adventure "Gustav Gloom and the People Taker" written by Adam-Troy Castro and illustrated by Kristen Margiotta. It's the spooky, silly story of Fernie, our plucky heroine; Gustav, who might be the loneliest boy in the world; and a crazy night in a house full of shadows (and a monster or two).    Share your thoughts, suggest a read, or guest-host an episode - drop me a line at spookysistersbookclub@gmail.com, and stay safe out there, spooky friends! -- * Theme: Magical Transition by Kevin McLeod * Additional sound effects from zapsplat.com and music clips by Alan Silvestri and Malvina Reynolds

Gorman was on foot, crossing a frozen continent. It was not Antarctica. That was light years away, and so over. Nobody went there anymore. This continent he had chosen for his latest adventure was bigger, broader, colder, deadlier, nastier. It was not fun. Every step was an occasion for regret. He was probably going to die. He was glad he came. | Copyright 2020 by Adam-Troy Castro. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki.

Gorman was on foot, crossing a frozen continent. It was not Antarctica. That was light years away, and so over. Nobody went there anymore. This continent he had chosen for his latest adventure was bigger, broader, colder, deadlier, nastier. It was not fun. Every step was an occasion for regret. He was probably going to die. He was glad he came. | Copyright 2020 by Adam-Troy Castro. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki.

For today's question, we visited this small town of about 1700 people. As per our practice of the last six decades, they perceived us as a television news crew, and were compelled to speak truthfully, without artifice, self-consciousness, or concern for the regard of their friends and family. All the interviews took place at the same instant, and all were immediately wiped from memory an instant later, returning the participants to their daily routines. | Copyright 2020 by Adam-Troy Castro. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For today’s question, we visited this small town of about 1700 people. As per our practice of the last six decades, they perceived us as a television news crew, and were compelled to speak truthfully, without artifice, self-consciousness, or concern for the regard of their friends and family. All the interviews took place at the same instant, and all were immediately wiped from memory an instant later, returning the participants to their daily routines. | Copyright 2020 by Adam-Troy Castro. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki.

Ellis Neider met his soulmate. The End. That's his story. The rest is annotation. We would almost skip that part, were it not for the stone knowledge that any love story not about masturbation does require at least two characters. The object of his affection does deserve something approaching equal time. Ellis was a guy. Some men are guys, other men are dudes. Ellis was a guy. As a child, he was a little guy. As an adult, he was a bigger guy. Like most guys, he gave off the vibe that he knew the universe operated by a certain set of rules. | Copyright 2019 by Adam-Troy Castro. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki.

Ellis Neider met his soulmate. The End. That’s his story. The rest is annotation. We would almost skip that part, were it not for the stone knowledge that any love story not about masturbation does require at least two characters. The object of his affection does deserve something approaching equal time. Ellis was a guy. Some men are guys, other men are dudes. Ellis was a guy. As a child, he was a little guy. As an adult, he was a bigger guy. Like most guys, he gave off the vibe that he knew the universe operated by a certain set of rules. | Copyright 2019 by Adam-Troy Castro. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki.

There is a man locked in the dollhouse. He is not a doll-sized man. He is a full-sized man. The structure is designed for miniatures, and he is trapped inside it, knees up against his chest, head scraping the ceiling. He only fits because the architects of the little house equipped it with a palatial foyer, the kind that, in real houses, is designed to make visitors gape at the sheer magnificence of the space. The effect is lost on the full-sized man. To him, it's more like a cabinet. | Copyright 2019 by Adam-Troy Castro. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There is a man locked in the dollhouse. He is not a doll-sized man. He is a full-sized man. The structure is designed for miniatures, and he is trapped inside it, knees up against his chest, head scraping the ceiling. He only fits because the architects of the little house equipped it with a palatial foyer, the kind that, in real houses, is designed to make visitors gape at the sheer magnificence of the space. The effect is lost on the full-sized man. To him, it’s more like a cabinet. | Copyright 2019 by Adam-Troy Castro. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki.

Forecasters are predicting an average season, with between nine and fifteen named storms. Two to four of them could be major hurricanes, category 3 or higher. On this episode of Intersection, we chat to meteorologist Bryan Karrick and Seminole County emergency manager Alan Harris about preparing for storm season: what to put in your emergency kit, how to plan for an evacuation, and what to expect after a hurricane passes through And FPREN meteorologist Jeff Huffman talks to Jared Moskowitz, Florida’s new director of the state’s division of emergency management, about what’s changed since Hurricane Michael.  Science fiction author Adam Troy Castro has 27 books under his belt, and not just in the sci-fi genre. Castro has also written a ...

He has a superhero name. It's as stupid as every other superhero name. It's not something you can comfortably call another person in casual conversation. Just try to have a normal-sounding talk with some of the guys in the Liberty Force. “So, hello, uh, Pile-Driver Man. And, how are you doing, Dynamic Woman?” You can't. You honestly can't. You need to have a superhero name, and so he has one, bestowed upon him by others when he lagged too long in coming up with one for himself. It still seems vainglorious to him. | Copyright 2019 by Adam-Troy Castro. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki.

Hector Ortiz sat on the edge of his cot, smoking a cigarette, because why not. For as long as he cared to remember, “why not?” had been the chief consideration on any of the few life decisions permitted to him, which did not extend much beyond personal habits like smoking. On Death Row, even if you're not constitutionally partial to smoking, you almost certainly smoke anyway, in part because you have no reason not to, and in part because it is something to do with your hands. | Copyright 2019 by Adam-Troy Castro. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hector Ortiz sat on the edge of his cot, smoking a cigarette, because why not. For as long as he cared to remember, “why not?” had been the chief consideration on any of the few life decisions permitted to him, which did not extend much beyond personal habits like smoking. On Death Row, even if you’re not constitutionally partial to smoking, you almost certainly smoke anyway, in part because you have no reason not to, and in part because it is something to do with your hands. | Copyright 2019 by Adam-Troy Castro. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki.

Her name was Robyn Howlett, and she was twenty-two years old. Robyn was an alien creature to me, product of conditions wholly at odds with those that produced my kind. She spoke in a language I had never heard. Nevertheless, I understood everything she said. It is the nature of my kind to understand everything that is spoken in our presence, a necessary adaptation given that we are often summoned by creatures as alien to us as we are to them, creatures who often cannot expand their minds enough to even perceive us. | Copyright 2018 by Adam-Troy Castro. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Drabblecast presents “Night of the Living POTUS” by Adam-Troy Castro. Every President Elect has “the briefing.” You know the one. The President opens a binder and learns the awful truths of the world. They all have to learn the same lesson. This is the story of one President who learns the horrifying truth and […] The post Drabblecast 389 – Night of the Living POTUS appeared first on The Drabblecast.

Kayn knew he was being rejected by the orgynism for almost a full year before it fully expelled him. He could easily live a million years past this humiliation and never understand what he had done to deserve such a rejection from the collective that had loved him so well, for so long. He had been one of the orgynism's founders, the man who had provided its organizing principles and solicited the first participants. | Copyright 2018 by Adam-Troy Castro. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki.

We lost a bet back in March, so we've got Darren & Mindy of The Rants Macabre back on our show! This time, we're talking about "Red Rain" by Adam-Troy Castro, as well as the 2009 film Carriers! Music: Eyes Gone Wrong Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Reaching Out Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Show Notes: Adam-Troy Castro - Red Rain (via Nightmare Magazine) Go listen to The Rants Macabre!

Hello, there! If you have received this telepathic mailing, you are a member of the species currently self-designated Homo sapiens, as evolved on the planet locally known as Earth, orbiting the sun locally known, for some reason that escapes us, as Sol. Most of your kind is already aware of the legal proceedings just completed in Session 3,975,216.7b of the Exalted High Tribunal of the Interstellar Commission on the Minimum Standards for Worthiness of Indigenous Cultures. | Copyright 2018 by Adam-Troy Castro. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki.

Have you ever found yourself on a midtown sidewalk on some warm July day when a plummeting body splattered on the pavement, directly in front of you? Close enough to feel the explosive shockwave of hot liquid air, pelting your trousers with meat pellets the size of quarters? Have you ever staggered backward, sodden with gore and spitting out substances you could not stand to identify, half-blinded because some of it got in your eyes, the screams of other pedestrians rising all around you, the smell of blood and shit hitting like a second assault almost as bad as the first? | 2018 by Adam-Troy Castro. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It was only then that she woke up in her nice warm bed and discovered that her entire adventure in the land of Nys had been nothing but a dream. Everything she had experienced from the very beginning, starting with the ancient soothsayer with the parchment skin and beclouded eyes appearing at her door to brush those gnarled fingers against her cheek and murmur, “Yes, you are the one, you are the chosen one, you are the one destined to defeat the great evil.” | Copyright 2018 by Adam-Troy Castro. Narrated by Gabrielle de Cuir.

The mansion is a study in architecture at war with itself. It's not just the windows that don't match and the turrets that don't overlook anything and the roof that sits flat here while looming at impossible angles there. Nor is it just the exterior walls that, seen from one angle, seem rotted and decrepit and about to collapse, and seen from another, gleam like jewels. Nor is it the gnarled skin of the columns that support the overhang at the front entrance, or the glistening scarlet door that seems poised to open until you see that it's not a real door at all. | Copyright 2018 by Adam-Troy Castro. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The city surrounded him while he slept. He had been fleeing it for four days. Long before its walls became visible, it was a grayish smudge on the horizon, beneath which the air shimmered in silent testimony of its radiant heat. It was one of about ten living cities he knew of and he had avoided it for as long as he could, staying out of their usual migratory paths, contenting himself with the company of the small tribes who had also managed to keep out of the reach of the cities, living on roots and the small animals that fell to his bow. | Copyright 2018 by Adam-Troy Castro. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki.

By Adam-Troy Castro & Alvaro Zinos-Amaro, from Issue #239 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Michael J. DeLuca.And with that I gave up so many things, so many golden sunrises and so many lingering sunsets.More info »

Pretty much everybody made peace with it very early on in the process. It wasn't the most pleasant prospect in this world, or any other. But it had been explained to us in the most rational and persuasive terms imaginable, in sentences so simple that even the dumbest among us were capable of getting it; and once we swallowed that pill and incorporated it into our daily lives, it really didn't make much of a difference in the scheme of things. We were adults about it. But that doesn't make much of a difference when your four-year-old daughter looks up at you with her big brown eyes and asks you, “Daddy? Why are the space men going to grind us into hamburgers?” | Copyright 2017 by Adam-Troy Castro. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki.

Many years ago, in Shangdong Province, there lived an unfortunate farmer by the name of Dou Zhuo. Like most of us who walk this teeming Earth, he was trapped in the circumstances that fortune had provided him. He owned a patch of land that supported crops only after backbreaking effort, and then with results that betrayed its resentment of the demands he put on it. His cucumbers were bitter, his cowpeas difficult to boil, his leeks over-pungent, his pak choi stiff, and his edible amaranth hardly deserving of its name. | Copyright 2017 by Alvaro Zinos-Amaro and Adam-Troy Castro. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki.

It was her zipper that drew me to her. She was beautiful enough, according to what most people seemed to consider beauty. She had a black buzz cut, the kind of body that gives the impression of lankiness even on someone petite, a complexion pale as milk, and an overbite that made sure that a sliver of teeth was always visible even when her bee-sting lips were mostly shut. Everything about her face seemed tentative, as if placed there by a designer who knew just how much any given feature needed before it gained enough prominence to overpower the others. | Copyright 2017 by Adam-Troy Castro. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In war, soldiers get eaten up and spat out. In this episode's story, "Her Husband's Hands" by Adam-Troy Castro, a woman's soldier husband is killed in combat, but brought back via digital backup to operate what is left of his body, the eponymous hands. Episode 7 features another first for AE Reads Skiffily; after reading the scifi story, Mona and AE discuss some of its content and weigh in on issues the brought up in the story, such as whether a copy of you can really be youand how people respond to grief. You can see the show notes in my blog post if you would like to follow up on the pieces mentioned in this discussion (http://aeusoes1.blogspot.com/2017/06/ae-reads-skiffily-episode-7-her.html#show_notes) You can also read along to the story here: http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/her-husbands-hands/ Follow this science fiction podcast on Facebook (@SkiffilyPodcast) and Twitter (@SkiffilyPodcast). If you have Instagram, feel free to follow Mona (@sewagainsthegrain) and myself (@SkiffilyPodcast).  "Her Husband's Hands" Copyright © 2011 Adam-Troy Castro, reproduced with permission from the author.

The Alternative Truth Anthology Writers Visit Madame Perry's Salon The book, Alternative Truths, is an anthology which explores this mad and often hilariously confusing time where the most powerful man in the world is an orange-faced, fly-haired, bombastic billionaire golf-course developer and Reality TV host married to a foreign super model. Stories range from the alt-past to a variety of future dystopias, from the humorous to the kinky and to the scatological.  Some stories are humorous, showing POTUS getting his comeuppance.  Some stories are tales of horror, showing what might happen "if this goes on."   The stories range from allegory to adventure, from parody to parable.  A uthors include Jim Wright, Adam-Troy Castro, Rebecca McFarland Kyle, Diana Hauer, and two-score other writers.  Although editors Phyllis Irene Radford and Bob Brown timed Alternative Truths to come out in time for President Trump's 100th day in office, some of these stories will be read for years. 

It took James Washington forever, almost literally forever, to remember that his wife and children were as dead as he was. For a while, he barely even realized that he was dead himself. Heaven, for lack of a better word, is bliss, and as anybody who has known euphoria can tell you, bliss doesn't always allow room for rational thought. | Copyright 2017 by Adam-Troy Castro. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki.

Negelein is at his workstation working on the Lafferty file when the bone spear arcs over the sea of cubicles and strikes just above his right ear, penetrating his skull with a wet crunch. Oblivion is not quite instantaneous; his neurons all fire at the moment his brain goes soggy with blood, giving him, in his last instant, an overwhelming taste of peppermint. | Copyright 2017 by Adam-Troy Castro. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki.

Time travel back to a 1995 mall food court lunch as future Eating the Fantastic host Scott Edelman talks about his first job at Marvel Comics, how he broke into writing for Tales from the Darkside, and the beginnings of Science Fiction Age magazine, while Adam-Troy Castro reveals how he created the first story in the first issue of that magazine, as well as how a cab ride he feared he wouldn't survive turned into one of his most memorable works of fiction.

They hate me. They have told me this, again and again, starting from almost the first day of the mission, and continuing every day since then, carrying their hostility well outside the confines of the solar system and into the realm of bentspace. Their hatred does not quite extend to the realm of murder, at least not yet; but it does include telling me every day, in every possible way, that they find my presence intolerable. | Copyright 2017 by Adam-Troy Castro. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki.

Eavesdrop on Adam-Troy Castro as we talk about the epiphany caused by his first viewing of Night of the Living Dead, how he handled a heckler during his early days doing stand-up comedy, the history behind the novel he almost wrote spinning off from the classic TV show The Prisoner, and much more. We even, for reasons you will learn, had cause to sing a few bars of the Johnny Cash classic "Folsom Prison Blues."

This is your haunted house. The realtor was very perceptive the day you first came by, looking for a home that would provide more than mere shelter, a haven that would instead be an expression of your love of eccentricity and strangeness for its own sake, a place special and unique. She saw in the two of you young professionals a pair of people with the right proportion of rationality and imagination, the kind of folks who would be delighted by spooky old legends without being frightened off by them. | Copyright 2016 by Adam-Troy Castro. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The world's greatest assassin lives on a private island. That's so much a given that you must have known it already. You've seen all those movies about master thieves, brilliant scammers, unflappable secret agents, dangerous people who live on their own tropical islands and must be lured into one last job. He was the source of the cliché. | Copyright 2016 by Adam-Troy Castro. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki.

He's harder to find than most. I have the basis for comparison because I've gotten to all of them sooner or later, from the big names to the obscurities. There are some who give up so thoroughly, and disappear so completely, that it's as if they never existed at all. This guy's far from the worst. He's an old man now, twenty years removed from his last novel and ten from his last short story; he's no longer a member of HWA or SFWA, and the agency that used to handle his interests now has him in their estate file. | Copyright 2016 by Adam-Troy Castro. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The journeyer was still a young man when he embarked on his search for the all-powerful witch Cerile. He was bent and gray-haired a lifetime later when he found a map to her home in the tomb of the forgotten kings. The map directed him halfway across the world, over the Souleater mountains, through the Curtains of Night, past the scars of the Eternal War, and across a great grassy plain, to the outskirts of Cerile's Desert. | Copyright 1995 by Adam-Troy Castro. Originally published in 100 WICKED LITTLE WITCH STORIES, edited by Stefan Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg, and Martin H. Greenberg. Reprinted by permission of the author. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki.

Phil called the toll-free number he'd been given, and after the usual twenty-minute hold time, reached a human being who explained that the tow truck driver really did have the right to haul away his car. It didn't matter that the car had been parked in his driveway or that it had been completely paid for, and it certainly didn't matter that it was the only form of transportation he and his wife had for getting back and forth from work. | Copyright 2014 by Adam-Troy Castro. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki.

Seguro que todos habéis oído hablar de casas encantadas, tesoros embrujados y espadas hechizadas que hacen sufrir desgracias sinfín a quienes se las encuentran. Pero seguro que no sabíais que un episodio de un podcast también puede estar maldito.Pues sí, queridos oyentes, pues sí. Para grabar esta entrega hemos tenido que vencer a demonios del inframundo, invasores extraterrestres y un par de dioses vengativos. Pero lo hemos conseguido. Cuando ya nuestras fuerzas flaqueaban, cuando ya casi habíamos perdido todas las esperanzas, finalmente conseguimos juntarnos los cinco con tiempo, salud y alcohol para charlar largo y tendido.¿Cinco? ¿Hemos dicho cinco? ¿Pero los VerdHugos no eran cuatro? ¿Acaso no sabemos ya contar? ¿Es que todavía no nos hemos puesto de acuerdo sobre si dos más dos son cuatro o no? ¡No, no es eso! Lo que pasa es que como nuestra aspiración es trabajar menos que el que subtitula las películas de Charlot, hemos conseguido liar a Leticia Lara, de Fantástica Ficción, para que nos haga el podcast.A lo largo de casi tres horas (nuestro récord hasta ahora), hablamos principalmente de dos temas: la vida, obra y milagros del tristemente fallecido Iain Banks; y nuestras impresiones sobre las recientes nominaciones a los Premios Nebula. Esperamos que os guste... ¡y cuidado con la maldición!(Podéis descargar el episodio desde archive.org y pronto desde iVoox e iTunes) EnlacesEnlace al resumen del Especial Iain Banks en Fantástica FicciónEnlace al resumen de nominaciones para los Nebula 2013 en Fantástica Ficción Recomendaciones de Los VerdHugos y su invitadaLeti1. Los tejedores de cabellos, de Andreas Eschbach2. Una asombrosa aventura de Jules, de Emile BravoPedro1. Steering the Craft, de Ursula K. Le Guin2. Danza de Tinieblas, de Eduardo VaquerizoElías1. The Bohr Maker, de Linda Nagata2. Her Husband Hands and Other Stories, de Adam-Troy CastroJM (relatos)1. Water, de Rameez Nam2. Mar Pacifico, de Greg Mellor3. The Fairy Library, de Tim PrattMiquel1. Todos los Cuentos, de Cristina Fernández Cubas2. Iris, de Edmundo Paz SoldánCréditosMúsica: Bitches of your souls (The Saurs) Logotipo: Javier Hansard

Clutch has killed somebody recently. This goes without saying. For as long as Clutch can remember, he has always killed somebody “recently.” If not within the last few hours, then certainly within the last few days. He may have gone as long as a couple of weeks without, from time to time, when circumstances conspired against him. But never as long as a month, no, not for living memory. | 2014 by Adam-Troy Castro. Narrated by Paul Boehmer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Monica's new baby was like a lot of new babies these days in that she was born a cube. She had no external or internal sexual organs, or for that matter organs of any kind, being just a warm solid filled with protoplasm. But she was, genetically at least, a girl, and one who resembled her mother as much as any cube possibly could. That wasn't much in that she had no eyes, no nose, no mouth, no chin, no hair, nothing that could be charitably called a face or bodily features, not even any orifices larger than pores. | ©2014 by Adam-Troy Castro. Narrated by Gabrielle de Cuir.

Lost WorldCon 2012 panel about committing to a series with Mary Robinette Kowal, Jason M Hough, Elizabeth Moon and Adam Troy Castro.Promo from NuttyBites. 

The boy looked like any other boy his age, except that, thanks to him, there had been for some time now no other boys his age, or of any other age. The elimination of all others had transformed him into the entirety of a subset that had once numbered billions. He was now the platonic ideal of his type, not just a boy, but the boy. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki.

From the very beginning—which I guess is also the middle and the end if you follow the bent logic involved and arrange events by some scheme other than strict chronological order—there was never any way of knowing which one of us, my wife or myself, was going to invent time travel. Narrated by Rajan Khanna.

Coming Up This week is the start of a two week special dedicated to Bram Stoker Awards™. We are over the next two weeks going to play all six of the short stories nominated in the SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN SHORT FICTION category. This week sees us play the following… Fiction: Graffiti Sonata by Gene O’Neill 05:25 (Dark Discoveries #18) Fiction: Her Husbands Hands by Adam Troy Castro 26:40 (Lightspeed Magazine, October... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

They opened the box and showed her Bob's hands, resting side by side on a white pillow. The left one lay palm-down, the right one palm-up. The one that was palm-up twitched and waggled fingers at Rebecca when it saw her. Narrated by Kathe Mazur.

Event Registration Online for StarShipSofa Stories Vol 3 – The Making Of… Coming Up Fact: Everything by Morgan Saletta 04:00 Fact: StarShipSofa Stories Vol 3: The Making Of… Tony C Smith 19:36 Main Fiction: Arvies by Adam Troy Castro 29:00 Fact: FilmTalk by Dennis Lane 01:00:00 How To Run A Con by Michael Swanwick

Coming Up This Week 00:40 Fact Article: Science News by J.J. Campanella 02:53 Interview: Adam Troy Castro 25:00 Main Fiction: Just a Couple of Highly Experimental Weapons Tucked Away Behind the Toilet Paper by Adam Troy Castro 33:35 Fact Article: Film Talk By Rod Barnett 01:19:00 Serial: The Barrens Pt2 by F. Paul Wilson 01:28:20 Narrator: Morgan Sterling,  Amy H. Sturgis.

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