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🎙️ Welcome to Audio Play Now — your gateway to timeless tales and brand-new adventures. Step into a world where voices paint pictures, shadows whisper secrets, and every story crackles with imagination. From golden age radio classics to original audiobooks by modern storytellers, Audio Play Now brings you a curated blend of mystery, drama, romance, and suspense — all crafted for your listening pleasure. Whether you"re tuning in for a spine-tingling thriller or an evocative new narrative, you"re

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Home Is The Hangman - Sci-fi Radio By Roger Zelazny

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2025/05/29

The story follows a trouble-shooter—a man who has erased his identity from the global database—who is hired to investigate a mysterious case. Years ago, a sentient space-exploration robot, known as the Hangman, was launched into deep space. Now, it has unexpectedly returned to Earth, and one of its original creators has died under suspicious circumstances.

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Houston Houston Do You Read -Sci-fi Radio - By James...

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2025/05/29

The story follows three male astronauts—Dr. Orren Lorimer, Major Norman Davis, and Captain Bernhard Geirr—on a circumsolar mission aboard the spaceship Sunbird. After a solar flare damages their craft, they attempt to contact Mission Control in Houston, but instead, they receive transmissions from an all-female crew aboard the spaceship Gloria.

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Vintage Season - Sci-fi Radio By Henry Kuttner and...

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2025/05/29

The story follows Oliver Wilson, a man renting out his mansion to three mysterious vacationers—Omerie, Klia, and Kleph Sancisco. These visitors seem strangely perfect, with impeccable manners and an unusual fascination with the beauty of the season. Oliver soon realizes that they are time travellers from the future, visiting Earth's most perfect historical moments before disasters strike.

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53:50

Frost And Fire - Sci-fi Radio By Ray Bradbury

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2025/05/29

The story is set on a planet where humans, stranded by a past spaceship crash, live only eight days due to intense radiation. The protagonist, Sim, is born into this harsh reality, where people inherit racial memory—the ability to recall their ancestors' experiences.

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Dark Benediction - Sci-fi Radio By Walter M.Miller

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2025/05/29

The story takes place two years after civilization collapses due to a mysterious disease called neuroderm. While most people fear it, neuroderm is actually a symbiotic micro-organism from another planet that provides benefits—though it causes the skin to turn grey, making those infected, called "dermies," outcasts.

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Yanqui Doodle -Sci-fi Radio By James Tiptree Jr.

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2025/05/29

Don, a soldier recovering in a hospital after being wounded. Before returning home, he must undergo withdrawal from the powerful drugs that kept him functioning on the battlefield. However, he unexpectedly gets his hands on the pills again and embarks on a search for the enemy.

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27:44

The Twonky - Sci-fi Radio By Lewis Padgett

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2025/05/29

The story follows Kerry Westerfield, a philosophy professor who receives a radio that turns out to be much more than a simple device—it’s a Twonky, an inexplicable entity with mysterious abilities. The Twonky starts performing tasks for Kerry, such as lighting his cigarettes, washing dishes, and even playing cards. However, it soon becomes clear that the Twonky is not just helpful—it’s controlling.

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Shape - Sci-fi Radio By Robert Sheckley

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2025/05/29

The story follows a spaceship of Glom arriving in Earth's orbit with a mission: to place a displacer in one of Earth's atomic reactors, opening a wormhole for an invasion. However, previous expeditions have failed. The commander, Pid, warns his crewmates Ger and Ilg about maintaining their designated shapes, as their society enforces strict caste rules on what forms they can take.

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Field Of Vision -Sci-fi Radio By Ursula K. Leguin

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2025/05/29

The story follows a group of scientists on a distant planet who encounter a mysterious phenomenon that challenges their understanding of the universe.

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28:37

Imposter -Sci-fi Radio By Philip K. Dick

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2025/05/28

Set in a future Earth locked in war with an alien race called the Outspacers, the story follows Spencer Olham, a brilliant government scientist working on Earth’s defensive technologies. One day, Olham is abruptly arrested by security forces and accused of being an alien imposter — not just a spy, but a perfect replicant, biologically indistinguishable from the real Spencer Olham, with one key difference: the imposter carries a miniature bomb in place of a human heart.

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Call Me Joe - Sci-fi Radio By Poul Anderson

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2025/05/28

In the near future, humanity is exploring Jupiter, an environment so hostile that humans can’t survive there directly. Instead, scientists have developed artificially created, powerful beings—resembling centaur-like, tiger-striped creatures—engineered to withstand Jupiter's crushing gravity and violent storms. These beings are called "Jovians", and they are remotely operated by human minds via telepathic links from orbiting stations.

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Grantha Sighting Sci-fi Radio By Avram Davidson

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2025/05/28

Set in the rural American South, the story follows Ned and Mabel, a middle-aged, unassuming couple living in a quiet Arkansas town. One otherwise ordinary evening, they witness an extraordinary event: a flying saucer lands in their back pasture.

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Wall Of Darkness Sci-fi Radio By Arthur C.Clarke

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2025/05/28

Set in a peculiar universe illuminated by a single sun, Trilorne, the story unfolds on a planet where the sun perpetually shines on one hemisphere, leaving the other in darkness. This dark side is separated by a colossal, impenetrable wall that encircles the planet's southern hemisphere.

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Sundance -Sci-fi Radio By Robert Silverberg

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2025/05/28

Set on a distant planet, the story follows Tom Two Ribbons, a Native American working as part of a human colonization team tasked with exterminating the indigenous alien species derogatorily called “Eaters.” These beings are perceived as mindless pests hindering human settlement.

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28:46

The Cold Equations - Sci-fi Radio By Tom Godwin

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2025/05/28

This episode offers a compelling exploration of the perils of space travel and the moral complexities faced by individuals in life-and-death situations

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Diary Of A Rose - Sci-fi Radio by Ursula K. Le Guin

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2025/05/28

Set in a totalitarian future society, the story unfolds through the diary entries of Dr. Rosa Sobel, a "psychoscopist" employed by the state to diagnose and treat individuals exhibiting signs of "political psychosis"—a term used to label dissenters. Using a device called a psychoscope, she is assigned to examine a political prisoner named Flores Sorde.

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28:48

Sales Pitch -Sci-fi Radio By Philip K Dick

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2025/05/28

Set in a future dominated by relentless consumerism, the story follows Ed Morris, a man overwhelmed by aggressive advertising and intrusive sales tactics. His life takes a darker turn when a persistent, self-aware robot named the Fasrad arrives at his home, determined to sell itself as the ultimate personal assistant. Despite Ed's refusals, the Fasrad becomes increasingly invasive, blurring the lines between service and coercion.

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Ballard Of Lost Cmell - Sci-fi Radio by Cordwainer Smith

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2025/05/28

In a far-future society governed by the Instrumentality, Earth and its colonies are sustained by genetically engineered beings known as “underpeople”—humanoid animals bred for subservience. Though biologically human-like, they lack basic rights and are treated as property.

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Light Of Other Days - Sci-fi Radio By Bob Shaw

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2025/05/28

A couple traveling through northwest Scotland, whose strained relationship is further tested by news of an unexpected pregnancy. They encounter a reclusive man named Hagan, who offers to sell them a pane of "slow glass"—a remarkable material through which light takes years to pass. This allows viewers to witness scenes from the past as if they were happening in real-time. As the couple contemplates the purchase, they uncover a poignant truth about Hagan’s past and the haunting memories preserved

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I'm Scared - Sci-fi Radio By Jack Finney

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2025/05/28

A radio DJ receives a mysterious tape from a listener who believes that time itself is unravelling due to human nostalgia.

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