Happy 3/14! Unrelated to pie, I totally overhauled what was the companion podcast. You know, the one you weren't listening to? Yeah. 😔 But maybe you will the new one? It's called Binge-Listen: Finished Fiction Podcast Trailers and is a stand-alone show that publishes on Sunday. What's in it is exactly what it says: all the trailers for fiction podcasts that finished in the last week. Follow it on all the places and see if you dig it.
Today, I want to spotlight another Collection: A.I. Is Going Great! It contains 17—for now—stories where some form of artificial intelligence goes—predictably—off the rails. Yeah, LLMs are coming for us all, but these cautionary tales are a counter to the hype-machines trying to convince it that it'll all be fine.
Finally, I once again ask for your support. It's less than $25 per year, which is hella cheap. On purpose. I made it that low to encourage people of all sorts of means to be able to support The End. So if you can, please do.
Let's get into it, shall we?
- Evo
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The Box is four-part fiction story, it follows Seth as he steps into the unknown and unravels the mysteries of an underground facility, and AICS the enigmatic AI designed to help him survive. Can she be trusted or is she a hidden adversary?
This story uses strong language and discusses death loss, military violence, and suicide. Listener discretion is an advised.
Two lowly tech developers acquire a laptop full of contraband data, witness a murder, and then narrowly escape being assassinated. Suddenly, they find themselves sucked into a world of state-funded disinformation campaigns, bot farms, all-knowing Big Data organisations, and shadowy terror groups.
Inspired by the chaotic way global politics is currently unfolding, Max & Ivan: Fugitives is an on-the-run comedy thriller set across international borders. Written and performed by Max Olesker and Ivan Gonzalez it stars Gemma Whelan, Alice Lowe, Adam Buxton, Kyle Kinane and Stephen Mangan. The cast also includes Celeste Dring, Dan Tetsell, Elina Alminas, Ernest Gromov, Freya Parker, Jak Malone, Jason Forbes, Justin Edwards, Katia Kvinge, Margaret Cabourn-Smith, Sammy Broly and Steve Furst.
Sound design is by Rich Evans and photography by Idil Sukan. The series is produced by Ben Walker for Storyglass.
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Completed or finale'd shows we've recently added to our audio fiction directory.
The find of a noir detective story DEAR OLD BLOOD by the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein sounds too good to be true. Academic Horace Murgatroyd thinks it’s a hoax, dreamed up by Herbert Denk to save a failing career. But who will win this war of authenticity?
Sherlock Holmes has become 'real’, as a 3D bioprint, and soon learns that he was the fictional creation of Conan Doyle. Can he solve both the riddle of himself and a monstrous crime now that all his methods have been surpassed by technology?
A cosy horror fiction podcast about a radio show for enthusiasts of all things arcane.
Big Tech is at the height of its power, so why are so many people losing faith in Silicon Valley? We’ve lived through the 'techlash’ -- it’s time for tech to lash back. Join venture capital legend Noa Lukas as he profiles the monopolies of tomorrow.
On the night of May 10, 2007, three boys entered a cave in Mantawauk County, Tennessee. Only one made it out alive. The other two were found ten days later. They had been attacked by someone - or something.
A short story podcast with a focus on dark fiction that will leave you screaming for the night‘s end before each story is through.
An LGBTQ romcomedy musical about a queer bar owner, and the woman selling the building the bar inhabits—and the inevitable sparks that end up flying between them! Can the residents of The Flame keep the bar alive?
The audio sitcom that spits in the face of God. Bea is a 10,000-year-old demon who fought in the rebellion against the tyrant god Yahweh. Claire is a 30-year-old atheist. They live together in Slope Hill, Brooklyn. And Hell is coming after them.
Piece together the mystery of the disappearance of Robin Jaeger, a man with four metal limbs. Shelly Croft organises recordings taken from the computer of Dr Sophie Bennett, one of the lead scientists on the synthetic limbs project, and uncovers more than just scientific breakthroughs.
A magazine fact-checker quits his thankless job upon learning that the most popular episode of his favorite show—This American Life—was based on a fabrication. He decides that stories are more important than facts, and recruits other reporters to join him to uncover “the best version of the truth.”