Escape Pod

This podcast is incredible both as a story podcast and sci-fi podcast. I am almost never disappointed. Every episode posted is so great and I love listening to it. The stories are alway entertaining, thought provoking and often funny. When I finish an episode I am always hungry for more and must download an old one I might not have listened to yet.

I like the concept - voice actors reading sci fi short stories - but I just can’t enjoy it with all the hamfisted political innuendo. Maybe the fault lies with the sci fi community itself, who keep writing about the evils of capitalism and white people, but either way, I just couldn’t stomach more than a few episodes. There’s definitely room for politics in science fiction (as anybody who read the Strugatzky brothers will tell you), but there’s a vast gulf between mocking established tenets of an oppressive communist society and having your characters whine about the perceived evils of the most prosperous civilization in history. It’s simply jarring. AND I’M NOT EVEN AMERICAN