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Rising science fiction podcasts climbing the charts this week
34 Science Fiction podcasts climbing Apple Podcasts' charts this week, all free to listen to and with an episode out in the last month.
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How this list is made
- Science Fiction shows
- Up 3 places or more on Apple Podcasts' charts in the last week, or new to them
- Not in the top 10 of any of Apple Podcasts' charts, now or a week ago
- An episode out in the last month
- Fastest climbing first, for where each started
The list
Fastest climbing first
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1. Fever Dreams: A Pulp Collection
- Length
- 35 min
- Releases
- Monthly
- Episodes
- 29
- Since
- 2022
An anthology of pulp fiction stories - horror, crime, sci-fi, thriller - unified by a pulp theme, these stand-alone stories are edgy, dark, twisted, and…
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2. Metropolis
- Length
- 51 min
- Releases
- Monthly
- Episodes
- 16
- Since
- 2024
A murder mystery in neon utopia. An audio drama, by Lux Radium. While ace reporter Nan Kanally and the rest of the world struggle through post-war poverty…
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3. Earth, Again
- Length
- 47 min
- Releases
- Weekly
- Episodes
- 10
- Since
- 2026
Ten years after humanity was forced back to a permanent pre-electric age, sixteen-year-old Liv learns her pacemaker battery is failing. Her father Robert — a…
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4. Project: Long Night
- Length
- 38 min
- Releases
- Weekly
- Episodes
- 7
- Since
- 2026
Project: Long Night releases on audio platforms everywhere on October 3rd, 2026. Kale and HR are ordinary young men working for Armistice Technologies until the…
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5. Our Fair City
- Length
- 15 min
- Releases
- Weekly
- Episodes
- 113
- Since
- 2012
Our Fair City is a campy, post-apocalyptic audio drama, produced by HartLife NFP in Chicago, IL. Learn more at www.ourfaircity.com
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6. Sci Fi x Horror
- Length
- 57 min
- Releases
- Weekly
- Episodes
- 262
- Since
- 2021
Welcome to my Sci-Fi x Horror podcast channel. This podcast is for the Science Fiction and Horror enthusiast. SFXH will air classic OTR dramas including X-Minus…
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7. How i Died
- Length
- 24 min
- Releases
- Every two weeks
- Episodes
- 81
- Since
- 2019
Bodies are piling up in the strange town of Springfield, and forensic pathologist Jonathan Spacer intends to find out why. But, Jon isn’t without his own…
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8. Beneath Ceaseless Skies Audio Fiction Podcasts
- Length
- 31 min
- Releases
- Monthly
- Episodes
- 300
- Since
- 2013
Audio podcasts of short stories from Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine.
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9. Baron Sordor's Theatre of the Doomed
- Length
- 1 hr 9 min
- Releases
- Weekly
- Episodes
- 18
- Since
- 2023
Baron Sordor's Theatre of the Doomed is a horror audio drama that transports listeners back to the golden age of live radio plays. Paying homage to 1960s…
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10. Among the Stars and Bones
- Length
- 44 min
- Releases
- Every two weeks
- Episodes
- 25
- Since
- 2019
A team of xenoarchaeologists travel to distant worlds searching for traces of a now-vanished alien race. Each season brings a new site, new secrets and new…
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11. Classic Dystopian Audiobooks: Free Public Domain Apocalypse, Survival & Totalitarian Fiction
- Length
- 3 hr 13 min
- Releases
- Twice a week
- Episodes
- 48
- Since
- 2026
Classic Dystopian Audiobooks is a curated collection of public domain dystopian fiction, apocalyptic worlds, survival stories, authoritarian societies…
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12. The Pod Universe with Dylan & Dalton
- Length
- 1 hr 37 min
- Releases
- Every two weeks
- Episodes
- 37
- Since
- 2025
Writers Dalton Deschain and Dylan Roth first joined together to create Are You Afraid of the Dark Universe? a podcast in which they pitched new installments…
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13. Strange Horizons
- Length
- 49 min
- Releases
- Weekly
- Episodes
- 767
- Since
- 2013
Speculative fiction and poetry, literary criticism, and interviews from award-winning Strange Horizons magazine, updated weekly on Mondays/Tuesdays. Find us…
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14. The Natureverse: Becoming Mother Nature
- Length
- 20 min
- Releases
- Weekly
- Episodes
- 26
- Since
- 2018
Volume I of The Natureverse: Becoming Mother Nature introduces us to troubled 13-year-old Chloe Lovejoy, who prematurely inherited the mantle and awesome…
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15. After the Apocalypse
- Length
- 29 min
- Releases
- Monthly
- Episodes
- 142
- Since
- 2020
After the Apocalypse is a complete five-season post-apocalyptic science-fiction audio drama about what happens after everything familiar disappears. The story…
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16. Cold Shift
- Length
- 16 min
- Releases
- Weekly
- Episodes
- 27
- Since
- 2026
Warm company from a cold and strange place. These are transmissions from Jaran, the facility manager at the Deep Earth Anomaly Department, East Antarctica…
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17. Agents of the Inquisition: A Warhammer 40K RPG
- Length
- 50 min
- Releases
- Weekly
- Episodes
- 78
- Since
- 2025
Interrogator Morgan Rhalls is hauled out of prison and assigned a team of hand-picked operatives to lead on a mission ordered by Roboute Guilliman himself…
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18. The Stargazer Initiative
- Length
- 53 min
- Releases
- Weekly
- Episodes
- 5
- Since
- 2026
The Stargazer Initiative is a cinematic science fiction audio drama that blends character driven storytelling, mystery, horror, hope, and authentic queer…
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19. The Apocalypse Will Be Podcasted
- Length
- 29 min
- Releases
- Weekly
- Episodes
- 40
- Since
- 2025
Welcome to the ultimate fan dive into Dungeon Crawler Carl ! We are kicking things off with book 7: This Inevitable Ruin - breaking down every chapter with wild…
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20. Of Mechs and Men: A Battletech Book Club
- Length
- 2 hr 1 min
- Releases
- Every two weeks
- Episodes
- 132
- Since
- 2022
A podcast about love and war in the 31st century. Join three friends each week as they attempt to share their love of the Battletech stories & fiction a few…
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21. 3 Science Fiction Stories by Frank Herbert
- Length
- 2 hr 31 min
- Releases
- Daily
- Episodes
- 103
- Since
- 2025
Explore the captivating realms of imagination and intellect with "3 Science Fiction Stories by Frank Herbert," where profound themes of humanity, technology…
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22. The Void
- Length
- 22 min
- Releases
- Weekly
- Episodes
- 45
- Since
- 2025
What do you know about the dark? When you look into the shadows, do you feel them watching back? In the town of Milton, the darkness isn't just in your head, it…
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23. The MODUS Files - A Fallout Audio Drama Podcast Series
- Length
- 1 hr 31 min
- Releases
- Monthly
- Episodes
- 109
- Since
- 2020
Learn the history of the new Enclave in Appalachia. After Reclamation Day, the Vault 76 residents found themselves in a world they no longer recognized. Some…
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24. Crush Depth
- Length
- 24 min
- Releases
- Weekly
- Episodes
- 8
- Since
- 2026
Agents ‘Nubby’ Merrick and Samantha Winters investigate a harrowing murder aboard a US espionage submarine, the USS Snapper. What they find will shake the…
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25. Biome
- Length
- 19 min
- Releases
- Weekly
- Episodes
- 26
- Since
- 2026
Short fiction. Big worlds. Every Tuesday. From ancient forests to far off alien worlds, Biome brings you thrilling new Science Fiction, Fantasy, and the weird…
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26. Deep Dream State
- Length
- 24 min
- Releases
- Weekly
- Episodes
- 48
- Since
- 2024
Deep Dream State is a full-cast monster romance and desire horror audio drama by Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns. As the originating work of desire horror, it…
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27. The Liberty Podcast
- Length
- 43 min
- Releases
- Every two weeks
- Episodes
- 92
- Since
- 2017
Welcome to the world of Liberty – serialized sci-fi tales told audio drama podcasts. For centuries the colony of Atrius has been cut off from humanity and…
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28. SADISTIC
- Length
- 29 min
- Releases
- Daily
- Episodes
- 188
- Since
- 2024
All original. Mostly horror. New episodes every Wednesday and Sunday. Written and edited by Jon Saks. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more…
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29. Within the Wires
- Length
- 17 min
- Releases
- Weekly
- Episodes
- 122
- Since
- 2016
An immersive fiction podcast told through found audio from an alternate universe. Each season is a standalone story set in the same world. Written by Jeffrey…
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30. Entombed
- Length
- 25 min
- Releases
- Twice a week
- Episodes
- 12
- Since
- 2024
Indiana Jones meets Back To The Future in this action-adventure audio drama. The son of a famed adventurer, who has never lived up to his father's reputation…
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31. Yuki: Space Assassin
- Length
- 17 min
- Releases
- Every two weeks
- Episodes
- 62
- Since
- 2020
An Erotic Fiction podcast. The daring (and sexy) adventures of a femme fatale just making her way through a wild Galaxy. Inspired by the feel of '80s and '90s…
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32. Black Flare
- Length
- 1 hr 17 min
- Releases
- Every two weeks
- Episodes
- 52
- Since
- 2024
A Delta Green actual-play podcast. Delta Green is a Lovecraftian-horror, X-files-like tabletop role playing game. If that sentence made no sense to you, just…
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33. Anunnaki Origins Podcast
- Length
- 47 min
- Releases
- Daily
- Episodes
- 179
- Since
- 2025
Step back into the cradle of civilization, where ancient Mesopotamia gave rise to myths, gods, and mysteries that still echo through history. The Anunnaki…
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34. Get Into Gate: A Stargate Podcast
- Length
- 59 min
- Releases
- Weekly
- Episodes
- 365
- Since
- 2016
Get Into Gate is the Best Stargate podcast of all time - as voted by at least one listener...
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