Escape Pod - Podcast Rankings and reviews

I listen to escape pod while I’m doing repetitive work in the lab, and I love it because it brings me joy and sadness and great new worlds while I am also doing my own science. Almost every story is a banger. I love that they make an active effort to include marginalized voices as authors, narrators, and editors, it’s music to my soul.

The mothership of the Escape Artists podcast family. The variety in the back catalog is amazing, all consistently high quality SciFi. With the sister podcasts, Podcastle (fantasy) and PseudoPod (horror), there are hours and hours of auditory joy.

Episodes contain thoughtful stories, with unique characters and delightfully unusual scenarios, that are narrated by clear and engaging voice actors. The team involved in curating the stories, narrators, hosts, and quotes of the day really put together a beautiful experience. Thank you!

Edit: I read some previous reviews that complain about the “LGBTQ agenda” or whatever…as an LGBTQ agenda enthusiast, I really deeply enjoy and appreciate the diverse characters on the stories selected for this podcast. Thank you, again!

The stories are reliably thought-provoking and engaging but the audio quality is all over the place. Sometimes great and others so bad that I have skipped stories that I know I would have loved otherwise. This is a five-star podcast with two-star audio. I rounded up and hope they find a way to fix the audio soon.