#post-apocalyptic audio drama

[joncronshawauthor]

🧟‍♂️🎸 Listen to Punks Versus Zombies - A Post-Apocalyptic Survival FREE Audiobook (Episodes 1-32) 🎸🧟‍♀️

🧟‍♂️ Survive the Zombie Outbreak with Tommy and His Punk Rock Band 🎸Join Tommy and his bandmates as they fight their way from Berkeley, California, to Philadelphia in a desperate attempt to reunite with his family. But zombies aren’t the only danger lurking in this terrifying new world. As they journey across the ruins of America, they’ll face unimaginable challenges and discover the true power…

[thesolarpunkworkshop]

Found an odd pilot for a solarpunk audiodrama or radioshow on spotify. Gave it a listen and it's not bad, wonder what other people think.

[tranthologies]

S3 EP12: HURT, RIP, TEAR

"Hurt, Rip, Tear" by Kayla Bell is out NOW!

Welcome to the trans apocalypse, baby! In a wasteland as rad as this, everyone looks to different ways to hold onto civilization. So what happens when someone who clings to the past meets someone who has long buried theirs? I don’t know, but there’s a bear and a chainsaw arm! It’s kickass! ELECTRIC GUITAR RIFF

Written by Kayla Bell Directed by Corrin Cacioppo Edited by Alex Abrahams Music by Miri Newman Art by Samantha Cooke

Zoey Davis as the Narrator Jenna Rose as Hamlet Moira-Juliet Scott as Daisy Grave Alex Abrahams as Jaxx Ripper

[arthurdrakoni]

Listen to The Books of Thoth on Spotify.

I recently discovered you can share a podcast episode directly on Tumblr like this. So, here is the first episode of my audio drama anthology The Books of Thoth. Oh, and keep an eye out. Episode two will be premiering in the near-ish future. But for now, journey 100 million years in the future. Come join some squids who are holding a paleontology conference regarding some human fossils.

[monotonebunker]

Episode one premiers with The Operator idly discussing the food of the past and how it was before the End, and how it compares to now, so long after. And a discovered tape gives insight on how things once were for our Operator, before.

[weareatomicshenanigans]

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[skyfullofpods]

C is for Copperheart!

Set in an alternate 2015, 18 years after a global nuclear ‘mishap’, survivors are waiting out the end of nuclear winter in underground bunkers. A closely-guarded secret in US Reconstruction Bunker GL51 starts behaving strangely, leading to twists and bends in reality.

[screamingeyepress]

Ready for some twisted humor? 💥 Meet Dr. Mary, Tiffany Teagarden, and the strangest cast of characters as they take you on a bizarre adventure in Twisted Pulp Radio Hour Episode 001. 💣 Atomic bombs, fused bodies, and a whole lot of chaos. Catch it now! 🔗 https://www.screamingeyepress.com/podcasts/twisted-pulp-radio-ep1/

[joncronshawauthor]

Listen to Punks Versus Zombies (1-24) - FREE zombie survival audiobook

🎸 Punk’s Not Dead…But The World Is! 🧟‍♂️ Join Tommy’s Thrilling Fight for Survival! 🎤 Brace yourself for an adrenaline-fueled, gore-soaked adventure as Tommy and his punk band battles hordes of undead while on tour! 💀 When a zombie apocalypse strikes, Tommy, Laila, and Micky must navigate a crumbling world fraught with danger at every turn. Can they make it back home to Philly alive? 🌎💥 This…

[bookperusing]

Soooooooo excited for this!!!

A year has passed since the collapse of New Olympus, a space society created decades prior by the earth's governments looking to start a new life on an exoplanet. Doomed to fail from the start, New Olympus' citizens feared the end of the world once and witnessed the collapse of their safe haven a second time, left scattered in makeshift camps across the galactic wasteland, with no intent to return to the ruins of their former colony. However, one haphazard crew of survivors embarks on a brave—or foolish—journey to search for a still-missing friend amidst the wreckage.

SPACE SPECKS is a post-apocalyptic sci-fi audio drama about the second end of the world and the people who refused to end along with it. Created for the 2024 @podcastjam, the pilot episode will release May 25th, 2024. You can find the transcript for this episode here.

[aclickbaittitle]

What do Fiction Podcasts have to say about the future?

Whenever you write a story set years from now, how you construct the world around it creates a new way to see the future, a fictional image to a reality we could be headed towards.

Fiction podcasts love to play within the sci-fi genre, and the thousands of audio dramas they have given us new pictures of what our world could look like in the next century (or a few years closer).

In this article I want to analyze the settings in the following shows: Hello from the Hallowoods, Desperado and The Strange Case of Starship Iris.

Hello From the Hallowoods

Hello From the Hallowoods welcomes us to a world ravaged by black rains and capitalism’s greed. After a natural (but man-made) disaster involving acid rain and flooding the world’s successions gave birth to two different types of beings: those who prefer to dream in a company’s “Prime Dream” and those who stay awake to continue living.

Even though the world is post-apocalyptic on paper, it never feels like it. Rather it is enchanted, there are woods where gods, revenants, devils, giants and zombies fall in love with themselves and with each other, places where community is found.

This, I attribute this to the fact that most characters don’t lament a nebulous “end of the world”, since this is the world they have always been living in and they are going to make the best of it: find family, friends, lovers, build homes and destroy bigots.

You leave the world of Hello From the Hallowoods knowing that even a doomed world is worthy of being awake for.

Desperado Podcast

Desperado Podcast also takes us to a world that was looted, but this time mainly by religious colonialism. 

Neo-colionalism has made itself tangible through genocides and direct targeting to believers that worship other than the “Old man in the Sky”.  In its first episode a community in México which revere La Catrina (a goddess in the show inspired by a popular figure in mexican art) is wiped out by the crusaders. 

From there our protagonist Elio is the sole survivor of his people, however all is not lost as he teams up with Talia (the chosen of Baron Samedi) and Shinji (whom I believe is a death kami?).

Elio now literally carries the memories of his community as the vessel for her goddess. Likewise in Desperado, the magic of the characters is the legacy their ancestors gave them, and it is what keeps them alive in the violent world. 

Though if we are ever to worry that our protagonist could fall into its clutches, the structure of the world soothes our preoccupations. You see, it is the characters within the story that are narrating their own experiences to the audience so we know that after all the pain, they ended up safe.

What Desperado tells us about the future is that, even with the ongoing genocides, white-washing of our culture, and neo-colonialism in general we will end up victorious in the end, and that our history will be forever within our memory.

The Strange Case of Starship Iris

The Strange Case of Starship Iris, is the most sci-fi audio drama out of the bunch. It follows the crew of the Rumour, a smuggler's ship, as they try to uncover the dark secrets of the Federation and evade persecution.

As with the other two properties, the future is not an easy world, but our characters are making the most of it.

In a post-war galaxy, the crew of the Rumour is smuggling space-ship parts, medicine, and erotic magazines until they find a help alarm coming from the Starship Iris and rescue biologist Violet Liu. From there they are involved in a mystery which, if the truth comes to life, they could be charged with treason against the Intergalactic Republic. 

Throughout the two seasons of the podcast, Violet Liu and company heal together the scars that the war and its result: the Intergalactic Republic left them. They fight against the government not only through robberies, infiltration, and coordinated efforts with rebel groups but also by eating latkes, drinking, singing shanties, and getting gay jewish married.

To conclude

if queer podcasts are telling us something about the future, it is that it may be equally messed up as the present but that queer, disabled people of color will exist beyond the end of the world and that even in the bleakest of futures we will continue to love and thrive.

[roykaplanpod]

Roy Kaplan is here!

Yes, you heard me right, Roy Kaplan: Out of Sight is finally ready for launch, complete with a proper (and actually correct) release date: December 28, 2024. I did say that I was going to get this ready for launch by the end of the year!

If you don't know what Roy Kaplan (or Roy Kaplan, Private Investigator if you prefer) is, it's a paranormal cyberpunk detective audio drama taking place in a (very low-key) post-apocalyptic future. It features the titular Roy Kaplan--private investigator, ex-burglar, and psychic--as he puts his wits to the test to solve all kinds of cases with the occasional assist from his ghost roommate, Wes. Stylistically, it draws significant inspiration from old time radio shows such as Richard Diamond and hardboiled detective fiction of the 1930s-50s.

This first season, Out of Sight, consists of twelve all-original mysteries, each 30-40 minutes long. It will be releasing on Saturdays every two weeks, with Patreon supporters able to hear episodes a week early.

Roy Kaplan is hosted on Pinecast, which means you should be able to listen to it on any podcast aggregator that supports RSS feeds. It'll also be available on common podcast apps like Spotify and Amazon Podcasts (right now Apple Music is having some hiccups, so we'll see what happens with that). It's also available on YouTube, if you like getting your podcasts through there.

Alternately, you can listen directly in your browser at my website, where you will also find the full voice credits and transcripts and writer's commentary blog posts if you're into that sort of thing. You can subscribe to my newsletter if you'd like to get notified of Out of Sight updates directly in your email.

I will have more to say about the show (about things like how to support production and whether season 2 will happen) but for now, season 1 is cooking and it's nearly ready to serve!

If you want more information about Roy Kaplan, the best place for information is the main page on my website, which will have all the links to everything else.

(For the trailer credits and transcript, that is also on my website.)

Happy listening, and I'll see you on the other side!

[sarosenna]

My next Audio Fiction I Love article is out!

@camlannpod by Ella Watts and @tincanaudio has been one of the most exciting shows to premiere in 2024, and I certainly hope we'll be getting more. It's a beautiful story with stellar acting and distinctive sound design and music that has made me weep and shout several times over.

Here's the description:

One day, every apocalypse happened at once. Follow three survivors and their dog as they try to understand what happened to the world, and build a home from the ashes. ​Camlann is a post-apocalyptic fantasy series about the necessity of hope for survival. Dai, Morgan, Perry and their noble wolfhound Gelert venture out into the Welsh countryside to escape the devastation that hordes of folkloric monsters have wrought among the cities. Not to mention the "Knights of the Round Table", a former university rugby team turned maniacal feudal lordship on the hunt for their Sir Peredur, and the witch Morgan Le Fay.

Read about it here.

You can also read my previous recommendations on my Medium.

[monotonebunker]

Monotone Bunker is a post apocalyptic urban fantasy audio drama where there is a mysterious mostly monotone individual broadcasting on broken down radios across the world. No one knows who this person is, where they are in the world, but they still keep the radios tuned to the proper channel to hear what this individual has to say. On rare occasions, those in the world may find old tapes of before the world fell to what it has become, with a familiar voice on them.

Bite Sized ramblings from a private individual who seems lost in time.

Episode 0 can be found Here, more is on the horizon.

[weareatomicshenanigans]

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[skyfullofpods]

E is for Elaine's Cooking for the Soul!

A post-apocalyptic comedy, hosted by Elaine Martinez. Each week Elaine prepares a recipe with a fellow survivor, in her dental clinic. They must make do with rations, and avoid the now-illegal bread.