Aug 29, 2025

Once, a colossal egg floated in space.  It was the size of a planet, and it orbited the twin stars of a system somewhere in a galaxy far from our own.

Genre: Mythology, Science Fiction

Excerpt:
Many things have hatched from many eggs. Some terrible. Some wonderful. Some massive.  Some minuscule. Was there not...

Aug 22, 2025

An astrobiologist gathers and assembles clues from across time to help solve a cosmic mystery that threatens to doom Earth. 

Genre: Science Fiction, Mythology

Excerpt:
From the depths of the cosmos they come…warping all around them as they go.

Time. Matter. Energy. Will.

Shifting between the unknowable and...

Aug 15, 2025

A merchant vessel enters a system with rigid laws about visitors, and almost succeeds in making a lucrative delivery, when it encounters a potentially deadly obstacle.

Genre: Science Fiction

Excerpt:
We had obtained the means of shielding certain sections of engineering and the crew quarters. Cargo, I was happy...

Aug 8, 2025

An excited apprentice attempts to make a planet for the first time, having watched the making of hundreds. But watching is not the same as doing.

Genre: Science Fiction, Science Fantasy

Excerpt:
Nebulous gases shimmered as they swirled past me. Particles crashed and fused. Vapors thickened into plasma and then...

Aug 1, 2025

Following their queen and captain into exile, the crew of the Echidna build an experimental engine, to keep surviving and striving, and to one day establish a new colony. 

Genre: Science Fiction

THIS IS EPISODE #400. I have put out 400 podcast episodes by my lil old self. Mwahaha! Tell me this means I cannot...