An armada of audio fiction for you, featuring: The Nebulous Saga & 1865 + 6 season finales, 3 complete series, and 5 new seasons coming soon! 🎧🤩 — The End #33

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Featured Audio Fiction

These are my personal recommendations for great-sounding audio fiction. As with all things in life, YMMV.

The Nebulous Saga — Dramatized scifi from Jane Maree & Magnus Carlssen

• Series complete as of 18 Apr 2023
• 6 episodes
• Listening time: 0h 58m
• 🏴‍☠️✨🐙

Treasure Planet meets Hamlet in this quest for vengeance and truth through the depths of space, from the minds of Jane Maree and Magnus Carlssen.

Deep in interstellar space, the notorious pirate Captain Dolion of the Nebula stalks his prey. For ten years he has pursued the Nova Alliance in his vengeance for the deaths of his parents. Ten years he has hunted. Ten years he has dreamed of only one thing: Death to the Nova Alliance.

Meeting Jesse Kieffer, cursed with mysterious powers, will force him to come to terms with his humanity and risk losing — or gaining — the only thing he has left to live for.

1865 — Dramatized historical fiction from Airship

• Season 2 finale released 6 Jul 2021
• 2 seasons, 26 episodes
• Listening time: 14h 31m
• 🇺🇸⚔️⚖️

April 15, 1865. President Lincoln is dead and the country in turmoil.

Secretary of War Edwin Stanton takes control, determined to bring the assassin to justice — but the hunt for John Wilkes Booth isn’t all that grips Stanton.

Lincoln’s successor, Vice President Andrew Johnson, is likely to bend to southern interests and undo the very progress for which Lincoln died. Edwin Stanton must employ every bit of political wile he can muster to secure the future of the freed slaves, and the nation.

Consumed by his conviction, Stanton will betray his friends, his honor, and the very constitution he is sworn to protect, all to steer the country towards justice.

Season Finales & Finished Series

Our collective cup of recently-wrapped audio fiction overfloweth today. And I even pushed a few to next week. Whew!

Uncontacted — Dramatized scifi from Jacob Levy

• Series complete as of 19 Apr 2023
• 3 episodes
• Listening time: 2h 20m
• 🏝️👨‍🔬🚢

After an island mysteriously appears in the South Pacific, a scatterbrained anthropologist and his former partner must uncover its origins and investigate its inhabitants, who appear to be living in the wrong century.

HUMAN-B-GON — Dramatized scifi comedy from Fable & Folly

• Season 1 finale released 18 Apr 2023
• 11 episodes
• Listening time: 6h 24m
• Season 2 starts Oct 2023
• 🧍🐝🚫

Excited about the AI Takeover? Lol at a future where robots capture stray humans. Warning: violence and stupidity.

The Royals of Malibu — Dramatized fiction from Diversion Audio & Pod People

• Season 1 finale released 17 Apr 2023
• 13 episodes
• Listening time: 6h 21m
• Season 2 starts Sep 2023
• 🌆💵💦

Through circumstances she can barely believe, a wealthy father of two sons plucks a teenage orphan out of poverty and welcomes her into their posh lifestyle a world away in elegant Malibu.

Experiment 31E — Narrated multigenre from Lauren Triola

• Season 1 finale released 17 Apr 2023
• 12 episodes
• Listening time: 6h 33m
• 👩‍🔬⚗️🧟

In an alternate version of the Victorian era, a scientist seeks to perfect her formula and find a suitable specimen for testing while unexpected threats rear their heads as her own motives lurk in the dark.

Hallway to Nowhere — Dramatized scifi horror from Leslie Gideon

• Series complete as of 15 Apr 2023
• 6 episodes
• Listening time: 0h 30m
• 🚶‍♀️🚪😶

A microfiction horror podcast about isolation, escape, and that which is almost familiar.

Intra Quest — Dramatized fantasy from iHeartRadio

• Season 1 finale released 7 Apr 2023
• 10 episodes
• Listening time: 8h 48m
• 🤣🤯😈

In a distant future, long after the apocalypse was forgotten and the history of civilization lost, three adventurers, a smooth-talking leader, a big-hearted brute, and an analytical savant, embark on a quest that could save the world.

Mindstream — Dramatized multigenre anthology from Mindstream Players

• Season 2 finale released 9 Mar 2023
• 12 episodes
• Listening time: 6h 22m
• Season 3 starts Jun 2023
• 🎭🎙️🗣️

Original audio fiction and new versions of classic radio shows in many genres.

Tune Tales — Dramatized kids & family from Rainbow Valentine Studios/Thessaly Lerner

• Season 1 finale released 2 Mar 2023
• 5 episodes
• Listening time: 1h 13m
• Season 2 starts Oct 2023
• ❤️🌈🥳

A musical story-based podcast for kids exploring the world of classic kids’ songs. In each episode, our heroes, the girl band Kit’n’Tenders, meet famous characters from classic kids’ songs, like, The Muffin Man, Twinkle the Little Star, Miss Mary Mack, etc. — all played by real celebrities!

Harry Strange TOS — Dramatized supernatural thriller from Tony Sarrecchia

• Series complete as of 25 Dec 2020
• 3 seasons, 52 episodes
• Listening time: 29h 28m
• 🕵️‍♂️😈🧛🏻‍♀️

This award-winning radio drama tells the tale of a private investigator whose beat takes him into the supernatural. Harry’s adventures bring him face-to-face with demons, succubi, vampires, and all manner of ‘unnatural’ and the occasional ‘natural’ evil.

New Seasons Coming Soon

Presented by Radio Drama Revival, one of the internet’s longest-running anthology audio drama shows, with the goal of showcasing the diversity and vitality of modern audio fiction.

Returning on 26 Apr 2023

Spaceships, a dramatized scifi comedy from Afterscape & Filip Momirovski, returns for Season 2.

• 10 current episodes
• Listening time: 3h 55m
• ☠️🌌🚀

Returning on 28 Apr 2023

Where the Stars Fell, a dramatized urban fantasy from Caldera Studios, returns for Season 3.

• 19 current episodes
• Listening time: 8h 44m
• ⚔️🌲🕊️

Returning on 1 May 2023

LEGENDS UNIVERSE, a narrated thriller from Joe Fields, returns for Season 2.

• 6 current episodes
• Listening time: 1h 49m
• 🤼🪑🐌

Returning on 7 May 2023

Wake Of Corrosion, a dramatized scifi series from Shadow & Static, returns for Season 3.

• 21 current episodes
• Listening time: 9h 45m
• 😱🔥🪖

Returning on 15 May 2023

Residents of Proserpina Park, a dramatized urban fantasy comedy from Angela Yih, returns for Season 3.

• 20 current episodes
• Listening time: 4h 23m
• 🏞️🧚🐶

Are you an audio fiction creator? Submit your show, and we’ll add it to a future issue!

And that’s it for the audio fiction shows in the most recent issue of The End, the newsletter that shines a light back on audio fiction shows when they’ve reached the finale of a season or the conclusion of the series.

More information, including how you can get your audiobook, audiodrama or fiction podcast highlighted in a future issue, visit TheEnd.fyi.