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I've been listening to so much audio fiction lately. I know I'm not exactly on the right server for this, but does anyone have any recs?

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@blytherenay My favorite active audio dramas are:

- 90 Degrees South
- Unwell

I’m looking forward to more from:

- Within the Wires
- Midst
- The Strange Case of Starship Iris
- Palimpsest
- SPECTRE
- How I Died
- Girl in Space

Past favorites include:

- Wolf 349
- ars Paradoxica
- Badlands Cola (hopefully will do another season)

Hopefully there’s something in there you’ll enjoy!

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@mrawdon I love this! Thank you so much!!

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@blytherenay I really enjoyed Within the Wires. It's an alternate timeline story told through found audio. It's really fun. I also love Alice isn't Dead, which is a mystery road trip.

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@ItzyG That's 2 people who've mentioned Within the Wires. I'll bump that one up in my list for sure. And I love a mystery road trip! Subjective Truth is a great little indie podcast that has a similar theme.

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@blytherenay We've loads of recommendations, plus a list of recently-completed shows and new seasons coming soon with every issue of The End, the weekly newsletter that shines a light back on audio fiction shows after they've reached the finale of a season or the conclusion of the series.

Check out the archives on the site, or dig into the list of prior recommendations. All at theend.fyi

theend.fyiThe End | Listen To Finished Audio FictionThe End sends you weekly updates of complete audio fiction—either at the series or season level—ready for you to listen to and enjoy at your pace. If you love fiction podcasts, audiodramas, radio plays, or audiobooks, This is what you've been waiting for!
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@theendupdates Sub. Scribed. Thank you so much!!

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@blytherenay what are some recent ones you enjoyed? I can probably help recommend some more like those.

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@horrificnathan I like indie stuff over high end production things. Listening to Forgive Me right now (and love Windfall by the same folks). Just got finished with Two Flatearthers Kidnap a Freemason and Less is Morgue was one of all-time favs, so I like the weird stuff. 😆 I love a horror as well.

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@blytherenay let's see...
You might enjoy:
@midnightburger
Tiny Terrors by Cole Weavers (who also did The Town Whispers)
Desert Skies by Jared Carter
@wireland_ranch
@hellgatecity

If you wanna go a little harder into the horror, Harlan Guthrie, the creator of @malevolent, just released a new limited series: Deviser. It's really good.

I'd be remiss not to shout the one I work on with @Jeremy, The Storage Papers, but based on the ones you mentioned that may not hit just right for ya.

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@horrificnathan Always happy to see a little self promo! Thank you for this. I'm going to queue these up to check out soon!

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@blytherenay also @TheNightPost !

I really gotta try to reign it in. Let me know when you need more again lol.

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@blytherenay I’ve been a huge audiobook person since before audible was acquired by amazon, so I’m loving these replies!
Also, I should be on whatever the “right server” is for this.

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@blytherenay Oh, did you ever listen to ilovebees? There was a reorder of it put together that’s more audiofic style than the original arg: halo.bungie.org/misc/ilb_reord

halo.bungie.orgI Love Bees - Reordered by Webshift
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@josephholsten You're blowing my mind right now. I have been a HUGE Halo fan in the past and I've never even heard of this. Perhaps because it came out just a year or two before I fell into my Halo hole. I will def be digging into this. Thank you!!

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@blytherenay Blythe, you might try tagging @AudioFiction / @chirp.social to get some helpful replies.

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@blytherenay I love audio drama podcasts!

Some of my favorites are:

- Wolf 359 - sci-fi space opera about a small research crew orbiting a mysterious star. Slow build plot, comedy that develops into drama, with some of my FAVORITE character development of anything ever
- ars Paradoxica - Cold War time travel story with some of the most interesting time travel technology and effects I've seen in fiction.
- Arden - a fictional "true crime" murder mystery, GREAT characters.

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@blytherenay
- Greater Boston - a magical-realism/slipstream mosaic of a story about politics, ghosts, & building community - and the Boston subway system seceding to become its own underground train city. Brilliant characters also.
- The Pasithea Powder - sci-fi. Two friends, one a war hero and one a war criminal, reunite after a devastating space war, & uncover government secrets that put the fragile post-war peace in jeopardy. Bisexual disasters & a lovely slow-burn difficult f/f romance.

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@blytherenay and some short self-contained mini-series that are excellent:

- Janus Descending - sci-fi/horror. The story of a two-person expedition to an alien planet and how it went so, so wrong. Lyrical narration, chilling reverse-chronological structure that slowly unveils what happened.
- Roguemaker - sci-fi mystery. An interstellar passenger flight gets sabotaged, and the passengers and crew, ejected into space in escape pods, have to determine who, and why, and what everyone's hiding.