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A page of fiction podcasts Dan has found worthwhile. Non-fiction at Podcasts

As I go back through, I'll also add the "didn't land with me", but even where I'm not super enthusiastic: just because it didn't land with me doesn't mean it shouldn't land with you. I'm a complex weird set of cultural quirks, and I find some interpersonal behaviors things I want nothing of where others might find them cathartic, and verse-vicea.

Queue Jumpers

Some full story arcs, some ongoing, some I'm not sure of, but things I'll listen to first.

Girl in Space
It's been a while since season 1, I'm eagerly awaiting season 2.
Absolute No Adventures
Sig is the chosen one. He just wants to run his bakery. Fate has other ideas. Fun found family.
Nobilis Reed presents: AudioThrust
The successor to Nobilis Erotica, has become a teaser for the Patreon campaign (which I'm a proud supporter of)
Where the Stars Fell
The Antichrist and her Guardian Angel end up as roommates in a rural Oregon town, trying to avert the rapture. With lots of references to Jewish folklore and mythology.
Wolf 359
orbiting a strange star light years from earth, a dysfunctional crew with shifting goals and loyalties has to learn how to work together to deal with alien contact.
Midnight Burger
a time traveling dimension spanning diner carries a crew of found family saving the universe. And, yes, the fact that two of the protagonists are old-timey preachers from a staticky radio deals with religion in a way that those traumatized by Christianity can likely still enjoy.
Victoriocity
a detective comedy podcast in a clockwork Even Greater London.
Fawx & Stallion
at 224b Baker Street, across the street from 221b made famous by Holmes and Watson, a detective agency struggles in the shadow of the greats.
Metamor City
a fantastic city in which shapeshifters, vampires, and other fantastic creatures scheme for dominance.
The Kingmaker Histories
queer alt fantasy steampunk-ish hilarity.
Life with Althaar
the creators promise they're going to finish it (but you might want to hold at Episode 30), and I'm waiting with bated breath, but... starts as "alien whose form causes humans to spontaneously vomit ends up with human rooomate" sitcom, somewhere in there gets deeply emotionally impactful, and then becomes dark political parable that's gripping. The Amelia Project
It's an agency that fakes deaths for people who want to start life anew. Don't wanna spoiler, but it gets historical.
Today's Lucky Winner
queer ND fart and dick jokes, with the daughter of Death and a bizarre cosmology.
Parkdale Haunt and Woodbine
horror, from Toronto residents who love their city
Super Suits
in a world of super heroes and super villains, the young new associate at the biggest law firm in Megalopolis fights for justice, or at least their clients.
Fearless Fred Presents: Mud 79
Star Wars fan fic about what it's like in the trenches fighting for the empire. Completed story at episode 32. Amazing sound design.
The Metamor City Podcast and The Raven & the Writing Desk
As I understand it, Metamor Keep was a shared universe about a medieval role playing type world, Metamor City is Chris Lester's bringing that forward to a modern metropolis, with all of the power struggles set against "the Curse", any human who stays too long without protection is changed by it. Some seek this out. Along side the other thinking, lots of discussion of which bodies we're most comfortable in.
Electromancy
"An audio adventure about magic, friendship, and overthrowing an imperialist state."
Starship Q Star
"When a tone deaf space agency sends the "first all non-men crew" on a PR mission to Mars, they inadvertently end up the last six humans in the galaxy."
Alba Salix, Royal Physician
a young woman tries to keep the kingdom of Farloria together
Spaceships
farce, in a universe where the humans have gone extinct, sentient spaceships search for meaning.
Forgive Me!
a young priest with his own secrets listens to confessions in a dysfunctional town. Catholic protagonist and characters, but I'm still able to enjoy it.
Candy Claus, Private Eye
Santa's bastard daughter, Candy, "a death-metal-loving, peppermint-schnapps-swilling PI" works to solve the North Pole's first murder in half a millenium. Good sendup of toxic positivity, lots of laugh out loud.
Click Click Boom Boom
A wedding photographer and a DJ are dragged into romance and dark happenings.
Dark Ages
I'm bummed that this one seems to have disappeared from the net, though it's apparently still on Spotify, the tale of a plucky band keeping their magic infested museum alive.

Enjoyed

Some are completed, some ongoing, I enjoyed these, but I'll let episodes from these wait while I listen to the ones above. Feels a bit like this is under-playing some of these, I think some of these are great, but I'm not grabbing you by the shirt collar and yelling "these are great!" like the ones above.

Contentment Corner
Soap opera comedy set in a small town in North Dakota in the '80s.
Moonbase Theta, Out
rebel outpost on the moon!
Re: Dracula
a fantastic reading of Dracula.
Wooden Overcoats
in the small village of Piffling Vale, on a small island in the Channel Islands, two funeral parlors compete for customers, with quirky characters, fantastic voice acting, and great writing.
Vigil
enjoyed it, but it's paused...
Unwell, a Midwestern Gothic mystery
horror-adjacent, with sensitive exploration of age related dementia and a strong sense of place. (See also _Our Fair City_ from the same team; in a subterranean complex in a post apocalyptic Hartford Connecticut, HartLife NFP provides "all the life you'll ever need").horror-adjacent, with sensitive exploration of age related dementia and a strong sense of place. (See also Our Fair City_ from the same team; in a subterranean complex in a post apocalyptic Hartford Connecticut, HartLife NFP provides "all the life you'll ever need").
The Imperfection
a group of people who know they've got a struggle keeping track of reality go in search of their missing therapist.
Bubble
Comedy podcast about monster killers in a gig economy living in a corporate bubble city
Managlitch City Underground
pirate radio broadcasts from a city full of imprbabilities.
Divorce Ranch
in 1949, hard-boiled uptight detective goes to investigate a disappearance at a Reno divorce ranch.
Gay Future
It's 2062, everyone is gay, Mikey and his friends suspect not all is well and set off to find the Lost City of Straight.
Christiana Ellis: Space Casey
"... the story of a fast-talking con-artist, 200 years in the future, who steals the wrong spaceship and finds herself thousands of light years from home"
This Kaiju Life
An ordinary IT guy working the trenches for a kaiju containment agency
The Strange Case of Starship Iris
Pretty much love the found family being nice to each other in the face of extreme peril of this.
Last Dance
Very dark fantasy, took me a couple of episodes to start to like it, and having finished the first season I'm ... it's got good sound design, although a few times I was a little confused until the context of the dialog brought me back, the acting is top notch, it's just dark.
14 Days with Felicity
In the wake of the 2019 College Admissions Scandal, so many pop culture jokes that were largely beyond me 'cause I didn't get the references.
ars Paradoxica
Time travel and the Cold War.
The Hidden Almanac
"Be Safe, and Remember: You Are NEVER Alone.", in the vein of Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac, but... not.

Still making up my mind

Some are just in my podcatcher and I haven't gotten there yet, some I listened to an episode or three but others jumped the queue

  • Deep Space Radio - just haven't gotten into this one enough to say yet.
  • My Amazing Woman - cute premise, so far feeling a little too "cutesy married couple playing with gender tropes that don't nad on me".
  • Madison on the Air - funny send-up of old time radio meets modern influencer jokes.
  • Breaker Whisky - short surreal dispatches from someone on CB radio in a 1970s devoid of people. Haunting, deep, short episodes.
  • Eeler's Choice
  • In Media Res

Shorts

Novels & paid fiction

These probably originally ran as podcasts, and may be available online for free, but I was most recently listening to them on Patreon feeds.

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