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Despite living on Earth for almost 30 years, Simon Armstrong knows he is not of our world. Still, with his interplanetary mission almost over, he’ll soon be saying goodbye to a life he’s struggled to navigate and the humans he doesn’t much like. The only creature he’ll likely miss will be Merle, the antisocial cat he shares his home with.

Decades of spiralling drug resistance have unleashed a global antibiotic crisis. Ordinary infections are untreatable, and a scratch from a pet can kill. A sacrifice is required to keep the majority safe: no one over 70 is allowed new antibiotics. The elderly are sent to hospitals nicknamed ‘The Waiting Rooms’, hospitals where no one ever gets well. Twenty years after the crisis takes hold, Kate begins a search for her birth mother, armed only with her name and her age.

The time is the distant future. Earth has been rendered uninhabitable by terrible storms during which its only city, Center, constructed around a natural cave system, is sealed from the outside. Mischa, a young thief whose capabilities are enhanced by hereditary mutation, is trying to escape with her drug addicted brother from the dominance of her uncle. When a starship arrives, commanded by the twin alien pseudo-sibs, Subone & Subtwo, Mischa seizes her chance.

The Jehovahs have always been a tight-knit family and one of the biggest names in universal property development. The driving force behind them is the old boy, God, although in recent millennia he has ceased to play an active role and has become something of a recluse. Now tragedy has struck the House of Jehovah.

In the title story, an engaged couple working in distant corners of the galaxy plan to arrive on Earth simultaneously and walk down the aisle together. But small incidents wreak havoc on their vast journeys, pushing the date of their wedding far into the future. As centuries pass on Earth and the land and climate change, one thing is constant: the desire of the lovers to be together. Through two pairs of interlinked stories stories, Kim explores the driving forces of humanity - love, hope, creation, destruction, and the very meaning of existence.

Borealis Four has fallen under the sway of an insidious Chaos cult and its dense jungle terrain makes it the ideal battlefield for the infamous Colonel Straken and his platoon...or so it seems.

Amadeus of Alpha Centauri governs Artemis Mining Station. He is charged with overseeing the traumatized populations of Earth and Mars who are sentenced to slave in the mines. He does so with a devilish charm and an iron fist. Trinity of Earth is a member of an insurgency, who are launching a desperate, explosive ploy to evict their sworn enemies out of the Core forever. Jonas of Proxima heads the investigation into the bombings.

Kip Garrity’s father is the only family he has left. After a viral catastrophe known as the Outbreak destroys human civilization, Kip and his family lock themselves inside their fortified home while the infected rise from the ashes of the old world.

The audio drama adaptation of the 2012 novel “Waiting in the Silence” by Rosalyn Berne. On the island of Nantucket a woman named Oriana disconnects herself from the ubiquitous, conscious AI known as “VISHNEW.” To protect her unborn child from a court-mandated in utero connection of the fetus to VISHNEW, Oriana attempts to hide. But VISHNEW’s gaze is everywhere so her flight to freedom is dubious. An eerily prescient, post-apocalyptic tale about AI in a world ravaged by climate change, where a woman’s fertility becomes a currency.

A PC gaming podcast where adults discuss adult things such as, but not limited to, video games, game design, world building, memes, and other random nonsense.

It’s about the story of an android, a woman, and a young boy’s quest to stop the building of a sentient supercomputer that just might be the Biblical Beast. And it's the tale of an android girl who falls inexplicably in love and a Christian man’s dilemma about how to handle it. 

Anime is something that we all enjoy and appreciate, and something that we love talking about. Sometimes we just want to appreciate and analyze art. Sometimes we are in the mood for entertainment. Sometimes we find ourselves bogged down by life’s worries and need a form of escape. Anime is our drug of choice, when everything else outside in real life, or even just the mainstream media is overwhelming. This podcast is a fun and safe place to share our thoughts about anime. Relax and listen to our silly, yet thought-provoking discussions as we loiter our time away in the Anime Waiting Room.

Nick and the boys return from the summer's last hunting trip to find the streets empty, the beachfront and park abandoned, and the windows of their own homes boarded shut. The hunters have become the hunted, in an apocalyptic plague that pits man against beast - very tiny beasts. And Nick is determined to keep his strength, courage and family alive during what could very well be the last winter of their lives.

When three childhood friends Ola, Jennet, and Sikat get posted on an asteroid mining station in deep space, they know it’s going to be difficult. There’s a reason why the corporation is paying them enough to retire in their 20s. However, they don’t expect the trouble to start so soon after their arrival...nor do they expect to face the possibility of slow, agonizing death.

once a week a couple average players discuss thier highlights and lowlights in the game of hunt showdown.

Game Phreeks is a YouTube channel that offers weekly let’s plays and features the podcast The Waiting in Queue Podcast discussing video games, pop culture, and life. Join two professional let’s players as they share their experiences and insights by professional lets players, podcasters, cooks, card graders, lovers, millionaires, pro athletes, race car drivers, pilots, philanthropists, and models!

Game Phreeks is a YouTube channel that offers weekly let’s plays and features the podcast The Waiting in Queue Podcast discussing video games, pop culture, and life. Join two professional let’s players as they share their experiences and insights by professional lets players, podcasters, cooks, card graders, lovers, millionaires, pro athletes, race car drivers, pilots, philanthropists, and models!

Cyclops is Waiting for Me is our weekly podcast series where we are going back and watching EVERY-SINGLE-EPISODE of the original 1992 X-Men: The Animated Series in their original intended script order building up to the release of X-Men 97’, originally coming in 2023. In the mean time, we'll be covering all other X-Men animated episodes. This is a recap show so there will be spoilers. Theme Music by Ron Wasserman (ASCAP) & Rod Kim (ASCAP)

Waiting for Martin is set in a nebulous future-never in which catastrophic environmental change has returned ancient beings to Earth, as well as raining down a disastrous helping of new ones. A family of children try to make their way home to their older brother, who is their guardian, when a bit of environmental fallout gets in their way.

Dragonomy’s: Waiting for DragonsStep into a world where past and present collide, where hidden messages, ancient promises, and forgotten dragons connect generations across time.In Dragonomy’s: Waiting for Dragons, we travel back in time to follow young Suki Warren on a journey that transforms not just her fate, but the future itself. Sail alongside Suki as she finds a powerful legacy — one she’s willing to risk it all for.Jump forward to the present day, where Emily Blackwell finds a hidden secret filled with ancient promises, hidden messages, and a spark tying past and present ...