Podcasts | These Fantastic Worlds

Akycha falls through to a hidden cave, on an Alaskan mountain-top. There, she discovers ancient giants, a custodian and time distorted. Custodian of Giants Alaska. Mount Sanford. Akycha ignored her f…

Elections and lockdowns… Intermission This week sees a short break while greater distractions overtake our lives. Next week, all returns to normal. if you’d like to listem or read to some recent epis…

Discoveries at two ends of history and civilisation determine very similar futures. A journey into space takes a unexpected turn. Discoveries 2040 saw the first mission to the solar system around Kep…

They arrived to protect us, but we treated them shamefully. Quantum Loop It had happened very quickly when the Ozone layer across the entire planet collapsed. The fierce heat of the sun melted the po…

In this election, the winner takes it all. The prisoner, brother of the New President, receives an unexpected visit. Peak Democracy In the simple cell, the prisoner, lying on the unfamiliar, narrow b…

A new bio-tech program offered total surveillance, and eternal life to the world. But there were consequences. Lifer Sometime in the not too distant future. For its own protection humankind adopted a…

A visit to the the psychotherapist brings back memories and dreams to Alex Hunter, whose past rears up into the present. The Good Doctor It was late evening in winter, with the darkness already settl…

Maria is snatched, from her home, by the State Militia, and her father seems to be responsible.  Complicit The knock came in the middle of the night. The door smashed in, and Maria was grabbed by the…

A field, a death and a return. Josefina is the last surviving member of her family, and now she’s home for the funeral of the father she’s always hated. Corn Field Josefina had come home from the cit…

An ancient species from the beginnings of the universe contemplates a strange debate between an old woman and a young man from the past. Age The year is 5055, at least it would be if earth years were…

A late night trip through the Pando Forest brings Jas and Cody to a Crossroads Hotel for some respite and a truly warm welcome. Crossroads Hotel It was past midnight and the two of them scrambled thr…

The last human in the universe finds there’s more to life than living when she plunges to her death from her starfighter. Cosmic Hall The year is 3020. Pýri’s starfighter hurtled from the deathmatch,…

The Warrior Priests bring gifts and religion to a planet that has no use for either. How long will it take them to overcome the guardians of the land? Righteous The Ten Brothers of the Illuminated Or…

She walks along Main Street, and shouts, but nobody answers, all avoid her gaze. What is the shame hidden within the townsfolk? Lost Voice She slithered down the filthy hill, scattering crushed cans …

Moloch and Gadreel lead the last vestiges of humanity in their escape from deep underground. But now they can break out, should they? Break Out “From the Beginning Times after the Fall there is a tal…

In this Utopian city just six masks were left for his daily choice – sad, content, amused, neutral, angry, happy, but something has gone awry, and they’re not quite sure what it is… The Daily Mask As…

The Big Man and his big truths, a fable of power, ignorance and his election to the most powerful office in the land. The Big Man The Big Man was the biggest man in the biggest country in the world. …

A good bookseller knows exactly what a customer needs… Bewildered It is always said that a good bookseller knows exactly what a customer needs… Cass finally gave in. He seemed to have passed the Anti…

She fled from the temple into the mountainside, the voice still in her head. But was it really her curiosity that set the destruction in motion? The Voice Xi Wang shivered on the mountainside, cowed …

Was family lunchtime ever like this? The family gathered, dressed on their fine white clothes, but Patsy bears a frustrated frown… “Can’t you see what’s happening around you?” Patsy yells, inside her…