Hey, folks! A lot of people (particularly on Twitter) seem to ask for podcast recommendations, and instead of coming up with something on the fly, I thought I’d make a list for handy referral that I could just share in those situations! So here’s what the discriminating Monkey is listening to:
Fiction With Something More
- Greater Boston – truly in a category by itself and quite possibly my all-time favourite – deeply touching stories in a social narrative with an absolutely literary scope
Sci-Fi
- This Planet Needs a Name – the softest, most wonderful cure to gloomy views of the future
- The Pasithea Powder – Politics and moral ambiguity and friendship framed in a sci-fi thriller
- Oz-9 – silly and wonderful
- The Strange Case of Starship Iris – touching emotion and all-around kick-ass adventure
- Civilized – Absolutely flawless (and improvised – how?) dark comedy
- Vega, a Sci-Fi Adventure Podcast – narrative ramped-up awesomeness
- Relativity – an immersive space-based mystery that keeps you on the edge of your seat (now complete!)
- Lost Terminal – A little satellite carrying a little AI has lost contact with Earth. What to do then?
- Seren – a complex, hearbreaking dystopian journey that you’ll be utterly enveloped in (and want so much to save her from)
- It Was Never Just About The Revolution – intense and touching and just at the beginning of the journey
- Windfall – immersive and just the right balance of adventure and personal story
- The Pilgrimage Saga – honestly has a bit of everything! If you love sci-fi, you’ll find something to connect with in this show
- and of course, Moonbase Theta, Out – our kinda-dystopian emotional queer sci-fi drama with tardigrades and Dairy Milk
People With Powers
- The Beacon – the most charming exploration of powers and personal connections
- The Path Down – Navigating the transition to adulthood isn’t any easier with powers mixed in – life is hard enough as it is!
- Love & Luck – the most amazing queer romance – I’ll let you discover the powers part on your own
- The Van – kids with powers in an awfully dramatic situation
- With Caulk and Candles – this kinda slides between genres, but there’s some potential power going on here, and you should listen!
Fantasy (both traditional and contemporary / urban, mostly comic)
- Alba Salix – the absolute classic
- Sidequesting – a gentle lovely look at taking the path less traveled
- The End of Time and Other Bothers (an improvised fantasy RPG)
- Saffron and Peri – starts out as traditional fantasy and goes ALL over the place, hilariously
- Mount Olympus University – Mythological, mostly Greek, light and fun
- Modern Fae – Mythological, a bit darker and spanning more mythos, still awesome
- A Ninth World Journal – post-apocalyptic, set in the world of Numenera
- Natural Toonie – An actual play D&D podcast set in a fictionalized fantasy Newfoundland – how could you get more Canadian?
- Wizard Seeking Wizard – Wizards looking for relationships … of all sorts
Horror-ish
- Nightlight – Black horror read and produced by Black talent
- Punishment Island – immersive dark paranormal stories set in Kampala, Uganda
- Hi Nay – Supernatural / horror fiction in Toronto with a Filipino twist
- SCP Archives – kind of a creepypasta anthology thingy – it’s creepy in the best of ways
- Archive 81 – found footage audio horror
- Station Blue – atmospheric isolation horror
- Supernatural Sexuality with Dr. Seabrooke – okay, not really horror at all, but really touching and honest love and sex talk – with monsters
One of a Kind
- The Far Meridian – parallel worlds with amazing characters and a gentle exploration
- Caravan – weird and wonderful paranormal western with strong queer elements
- Great and Terrible – Fantastic microfiction gothic fiction – and check out everything else A.R. Olivieri is doing, too – you’ve got time!
- The Cryptonaturalist – strange creatures and nature poetry
- Victoriocity – detective comedy alternate world awesomeness
- Y2K – A touching story of long-distance friendship in the year 2000
- Me and AU – Queer romance that’s both about fanfiction and … becomes fanfiction as well – in the best ways
- The Atomic Library – Post-apocalyptic in the most amusing ways
- And MonkeyTales, our anthology series of one-off hopepunk stories
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