48 episodes

For over a century, a united humanity’s focus was the construction of a massive alien device: The Lariat. Its blueprints were dreamed by a handful of gifted humans who could hear alien voices as they slept. It is miles long, built in close orbit of the sun, and it promises to be a gate to a vast alien civilization. It promises to end humanity’s galactic isolation.

It will open, and a newly promoted Captain Claire Campana’s ship will be key to the ceremony, once it is repaired in the World Navy’s shipyards near the sun. But there is dissent. A member of the black market mob known as the Boliver family begins to doubt the Lariat’s true purpose. And then there are the fragments in time. The 1960s, the 1990s, 2012, where innocent people oblivious to this future live their lives. They connect, somehow, to each other, to the future, to the Lariat.

Mindframe is a genre bending piece of science fiction that weaves seemingly disconnected people through various time streams into one important moment. The moment that changes all of human destiny. The moment the Lariat closes.

MindFrame Podcast Written by David J. Moton and Produced By Brent Van Tassel

    • Fiction
    • 5.0 • 135 Ratings

For over a century, a united humanity’s focus was the construction of a massive alien device: The Lariat. Its blueprints were dreamed by a handful of gifted humans who could hear alien voices as they slept. It is miles long, built in close orbit of the sun, and it promises to be a gate to a vast alien civilization. It promises to end humanity’s galactic isolation.

It will open, and a newly promoted Captain Claire Campana’s ship will be key to the ceremony, once it is repaired in the World Navy’s shipyards near the sun. But there is dissent. A member of the black market mob known as the Boliver family begins to doubt the Lariat’s true purpose. And then there are the fragments in time. The 1960s, the 1990s, 2012, where innocent people oblivious to this future live their lives. They connect, somehow, to each other, to the future, to the Lariat.

Mindframe is a genre bending piece of science fiction that weaves seemingly disconnected people through various time streams into one important moment. The moment that changes all of human destiny. The moment the Lariat closes.

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    • 4 min
    PRELUDE

    PRELUDE

    The old man lingered in the liminal place that presaged sleep, that space where reality had variable density and fluctuating tactile strength. Moments of clarity, of skies with a blue so sharp they caused him to ache, were interspersed with vagaries, memories, haunting scars and echoes of the psyche in which he was intruding. This...

    • 12 min
    Prelude: Sit Down

    Prelude: Sit Down

    Welcome to our very first “Sit Down” episode of the Mindframe Podcast. In this episode, we focus on the show’s Prelude. These unique episodes are not part of the primary story line. Instead, they are a casual conversation between our host Zach Smith, the author David Moton, and the producer Brent Van Tassel. Zach asks...

    • 42 min
    Prologue

    Prologue

    Childhood is gone. Illusion is abolished. The world is laid bare, full of unpolished people and unfulfilled destiny. But that is not your concern. Because on your piece of paper there will always be written orders. There are only the orders and the following of the orders. There is only the Lariat, and its closing,...

    • 28 min
    Prologue: Sit Down

    Prologue: Sit Down

    This episode of the Mindframe Podcast is another of our “Sit Downs.” This time, we focus on the space opera action of the show’s Prologue. In these episodes, our host Zach Smith sits down with the author of Mindframe, David Moton, and the producer, Brent Van Tassel. We have a casual, often funny, conversation about...

    • 46 min
    Chapter One: Josephine

    Chapter One: Josephine

    A coat of paint hid burn marks. Makeup hid frown lines. The light of noon hid terrible moon lit shadows. Josephine had to move on. On this episode of Mindframe, we get to chapter one, the first of the chapters about Josephine. She is a widow, grieving the loss of her husband to a horrible fire...

    • 21 min

Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5
135 Ratings

135 Ratings

Disphuckinguy ,

Wegan veener

David, this podcast and your ability to paint the canvas that is my mental landscape makes my vegan appendage even harder than it typically is in comparison to standard omnivores’ member. Thank you for devoting your life to entertaining my mind and in certain chapters of this show, even more than that. All jokes aside you got me into reading, and that my good sir is no easy feat.

zeke71126 ,

Top notch

Love the show! I can’t wait for the next episodes!

TboneATL ,

And I thought I didn’t like sci-fi...

I am really enjoying this podcast. I started listening because I’m a fan of The Sofa King Podcast and was looking for something new to listen to. I have to admit, it took me a little while to get into it, but I am now fully on board. So much so, that I’m going to become a Patreon, so I can listen to the discussion episodes.

I’m not generally an a**kiss, but I want to say that I’m really proud of Dave for being capable of writing such an in-depth and intricate story. I honestly don’t know how anyone can take the time and have the ability, not just to have an idea for a story, but to be able to go through the process of fleshing out so much detail and creating a whole new world. Not to mention being brave enough to then show that world to the world. Dave is awesome and so is the show!

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