Science Fiction

Stories set in space, the distant future, or other distant locales.

484 – Chiron’s Doom with Jeffrey Nils Gardner

Jeffrey is a director, audio artist, and sound designer with Audacious Machine Creative, creators of such incredible podcasts as Unwell: A Midwestern Gothic Mystery, World Gone Wrong, and their newest show, The Harbingers. We sat down to explore a cursed monument and witness the death of a group of explorers in Chiron’s Doom by Nick Bate.

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483 – Starlight Riders with Shenuque Tissera


Shenuque is a Queer Sri Lankan actor, writer, comedian, and co-owner of Many Sided Media. You can catch them on tour right now for their new stand-up special Wait, What’s Sri Lanka?, as well as on the new Perils & Princesses season of My First Dungeon.

We sat down to play Starlight Riders by friend of the show Cesar Capacle, a card-based RPG of heists in outer space. A group of galactic outlaws have been screwed over. It’s time to take back what’s owed to them.

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481 – Troika! with Luke Taylor (TheLukeMan)

Luke is a podcaster and Twitch streamer who hosts Fortnite Talk Show, in which he jumps into random Fortnite channels and chats with his fellow players like a talk show. He also hosts the show STORES, a podcast about the universal experience of going to stores.

We sat down for a science-fantasy adventure in Troika!, a science-fantasy roleplaying game where you and your cosmopolitan group of fellow travellers explore the ends of the multiverse.

A skeleton buys a house. It goes badly from there.

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480 – Hardcore Ecologist with Emily Hartford

480 – Hardcore Ecologist with Emily Hartford

Emily is one of the creators of Metra: A Climate Revolution With Songs, an original musical fiction podcast about how we change the world. The podcast weaves ancient myth, transformative magic, and memorable music to tell the story of a dangerous climate future, and the fight for the world we deserve.

In that same vein, we sat down to play Hardcore Ecologist, a game of wandering the weird Wastes, Wilderness and Ruins of the future world, making an inventory of the new life that has developed here in the centuries after a massive climate change cataclysm, surveying for specimens.

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476 – Dead Belt with Ty

Ty is the host of Side Character Quest, a 2-player actual play podcast in which every adventure follows the unique story of a single character in a larger, interconnected fantasy world.

We sat down to play Dead Beltan RPG of space cowboys digging into derelict spaceships. Can our heroes collect their payload and get home safely before the terrors of space kill them before they can cash their check?

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468 – Against Time & Death with Michael Turrentine

Michael is one of the stars of World Gone Wronga fictional chat show about friendship at the end of the world, in which two best friends talk about life in a world of werewolves, humming kudzu, body snatchers, and a million other crises all at once. We sat down to play Against Time And Deathan epistolary roleplaying game of agents on opposite sides of a multiversal war, and the slowly developing forbidden relationship between them.

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465 – Shitty Ensigns with Dan Ludwig

Dan is one half of Breaking Mayberry, an anti-nostalgia podcast about watching old TV (starting with, as the title suggests, The Andy Griffith Show) and figuring out how it broke your grandparents’ brains.

After last week’s episode all about analyzing TV and talking about storytelling, we wanted to spotlight the fun and goofiness of old genre TV. And we couldn’t have found a better example than Shitty Ensigns, an RPG about poorly equipped Starfleet ensigns bumbling their way through missions.

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462 – Bound Together with Velvet the Dragon

Velvet is an actual play performer and cast member on Athraplaya tabletop RPG AP podcast exploring the lesser-trod paths of JRR Tolkien’s Middle-Earth through play (and aso, a literal dragon). We embarked on a winding journey of our own through the doomed landscapes of K Ramstack’s Bound Togethera game about exploring two people’s relationships as they outrun the end of the world.

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459 – Disposable Bags of Meat with Chris Farnell

Chris is the author of the Fermi’s Progress series, a darkly comic sci-fi adventure about a spaceship doomed to obliterate every planet it takes off from. The latest novel, Fermi’s Wake 4. Overview Effect, just released, and you get it on sale now. We sat down for a delightfully horrifying Fermi-themed adventure in Disposable Bags of Meata horror TTRPG about unprepared, ordinary people surviving against impossible odds through luck, grit, and determination.

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SPECIAL EPISODE: Galactic with Ify Nwadiwe, Nala J. Wu, Dusty Hill, and Catrina Dennis [Episode 2: Gameplay]

Our special two-part playthrough of Galactic continues, as our heroes stare down the Mandate and leap into battle!

You can find the Galactic & Going Rogue crowdfunder on Kickstarter, live now through the end of June: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/galacticgoingrogue/galactic-and-going-rogue-two-ttrpgs-of-war-among-the-stars?ref=dwc59l

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