Quiet Horizons
Original science fiction stories for adults who like something to follow without having to pay attention. No explosions, no cliffhangers - just good writing, a warm voice, and as much space as you need to drift, or drift to sleep.
Episodes
11 episodes
The Slow Light
At the end of a road that most maps have stopped bothering to name, an old keeper tends a small, unimportant light. It does not guard the famous dangerous water. It marks a modest shoal, for a modest danger, at the edge of the world. But every eve...
The Proportions
Elias Kade is the kind of man who makes lists before he opens doors. He surveys planets for a living — he goes first, measures everything, and files accurate reports. On the planet catalogued as GJ 514c, he lands three kilometers from a set of ...
The Counting Signal
Dr. Priya Anand has worked the night shift at a deep underground neutrino observatory for six years. She chose nights deliberately. Then, at two forty-seven in the morning on a Tuesday in March, the anomaly flag sounds.A story about what...
The Friday Gift
Nora Callahan is thirty-four when she first opens her eyes in her childhood bedroom on a Friday the 13th in 2002—her mother alive, the ceiling crack still there, Gerald the water stain still watching from the corner. She is thirty-four in a six...
The Prior Art
Marcus Webb has spent five years in his Flagstaff garage proving the physics community wrong. When his handmade vehicle finally lifts—quietly, undramatically, perfectly—he and his friend Dolores Vega decide the next logical step is “up.”...
The Long Navigation
Dr. Yusuf Berhane spent thirty years proving that the universe’s own motion could be turned into a navigation system. Now, aboard the starship Threshold, he and a crew of eleven are testing that theory on humanity’s first true interste...
What the Lost Ships Sent
In the quiet orbit of Callisto, Sable Okafor is the Senior Archivist at Meridian Station. Her job is simple and solemn: catch the decades-delayed final transmissions of colony ships declared lost to the void, decode them, and send them home to ...
The Long Quiet Between
Listener WarningThis episode explores profound isolation, existential solitude, irreversible life choices, the permanent separation of consciousness from the physical body, and the psychological weight of traveling alone across interstellar...
The Cartographer of Dying Suns
Maren Solís is eleven years into a solo deep-space survey mission when her instruments find something that shouldn't exist: eighty-one gravitational anomalies clustered around a dead planet, too precisely arranged to be natural, too old to have...
The Man My Father Was
Three weeks after her husband's funeral, Eleanor Marsh begins reading his journals. What she finds is not what she expected: for twenty years, Daniel had been using the time machine in his workshop to visit his dead father - not to change anyth...