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Short fiction that takes you everywhere—from distant worlds to dark dungeonsNebula Award nominee Jake Kerr presents a new short story twice a week in this stunning fiction podcast that runs the gamut of the best genre fiction, from fantasy to science fiction and from touching drama to laugh-out-loud humor. Kerr, who spent years as a radio station disk jockey, narrates the stories himself and includes thoughtful commentary on why he wrote the stories and what they mean to him.About Your Writer & HostRadio DJ. Record company executive. Silicon Valley business development consultant. Digital ...

No one can be trusted when nothing is real.Ender's Game meets The Matrix in this mind-bending science fiction audio drama from the writer of the popular Thieves Guild podcast. In a near future of decaying cities and gray skies everyone has escaped to the wondrous life of virtual reality. Including the criminals.And the most dangerous criminal in the world is Sunday, the leader of the terrorist group the Order of Days, whose sole mission is to destroy the false paradise of VR and return people to the land of reality.While on a simple reconnaissance job, young FBI agent Gabby Kane stumbles ...

Welcome to the beta test. Try not to break everything.Dee & Dean - A LitRPG SeriesWhen hackers Dee and Dean are banished to Reality 1.0, they discover what every gamer dreams of - a world with visible stats, leveling systems, and quantifiable magic. But this isn't just another fantasy realm; it's the primitive beta version of existence itself, complete with glitched physics, corrupted code, and system admins who want them contained. Armed with their unique abilities - Dee's Code Vision and Dean's Probability Sight - they must navigate a world where dungeon crawling meets debugging, and where ...

The world has abandoned magic, but magic hasn’t abandoned the world.From Jake Kerr, the Nebula-nominated writer of the popular Thieves Guild epic fantasy podcast, comes the story of an alternate history where the industrial revolution destroyed the world's reliance on magic. In 1938 Manhattan, where magic is practically forgotten, young Tommy Black lives in an apartment with his reclusive grandfather. Until one day on a walk to their favorite restaurant they are attacked by ominous shadow creatures. Shocked to find out that his grandfather is a formerly famous archmage that wields a magical ...

Some secrets are worth dying for. Some are worth killing for.From Nebula, Sturgeon, and StorySouth Award nominee Jake Kerr comes an epic fantasy story in the spirit of pulp fiction classics--a serial adventure that grows in scope every week. The Thieves Guild tells the story of Ralan, a street rat who quickly rises to become the guildmaster of the seemingly powerless and symbolic Thieves Guild. This full cast fantasy audio drama features a rich world of geographical conflict, political intrigue, swashbuckling adventure, secret societies, and heroic feats. The Thieves Guild is the story of a ...

In the best science fiction audiobooks, the futuristic settings, the sense-of-wonder, and the characters immerse you in a world that leaves reality behind. But with so many new science fiction audiobooks released each month, how do you know which one to commit your time to?That's where we come in.The First in Scifi podcast is your chance to discover your next favorite science fiction audiobook. In each episode we present a first chapter from a new or upcoming science fiction audiobook. If you love it, we'll provide links to the books and audiobooks. And if you don't like it? Well, there are ...