Built for sci-fi fans, this list highlights 100 podcasts covering the stories, tools, and conversations that matter most to this audience. Top picks include Pod Save America, StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson, and The Magnus Archives.
Pod Save America
Pod Save America is a no-b******t conversation about politics hosted by former Obama aides Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett, Dan Pfeiffer, and Tommy Vietor....
StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson
Science, pop culture, and comedy collide on StarTalk Radio! Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist and Director of New York's Hayden Planetarium, and ...
The Magnus Archives
“Make your statement, face your fear.” The Magnus Archives is an award winning weekly horror fiction audiodrama podcast examining what lurks in the...
The NoSleep Podcast
The NoSleep Podcast is a multi-award winning anthology series of original horror stories, with rich atmospheric music to enhance the frightening ta...
EXTRA ANORMAL
Podcast Extra Anormal es el rincón donde lo inexplicable cobra vida. Desde los rincones más oscuros del misterio hasta las dimensiones ocultas del ...
Midnight Burger
When Gloria took a waitressing job at a diner outside of Phoenix, she didn't realize she was now an employee of Midnight Burger, a time-traveling, ...
Welcome to Night Vale
Twice-monthly community updates for the small desert town of Night Vale, where every conspiracy theory is true. Turn on your radio and hide. Never ...
Old Gods of Appalachia
In the mountains of central Appalachia, blood runs as deep as these hollers and just as dark. Since before our kind knew these hills, hearts of unk...
The SCP Experience
The SCP Experience™ is an immersive science fiction podcast set in the SCP Foundation universe, adapting classified containment files, anomalous te...
Worlds Beyond Number
An epic, improvised storytelling podcast where Brennan Lee Mulligan, Erika Ishii, Aabria Iyengar, and Lou Wilson hang out together, play games, bui...
The Dale Jr. Download
NASCAR’s 15-time Most Popular Driver and winner of two Daytona 500s, Dale Earnhardt Jr., hosts his very own podcast, The Dale Jr Download on Dirty ...
The Strata
In a dystopian city, an ageing courier is forced to go into business with an underworld ganglord in order to pay for the treatment that keeps him a...
The Infinite Monkey Cage
A witty, irreverent look at the world through scientists' eyes, guest hosted by Adam Rutherford and Jess Fostekew.
Wolf 359
Life's not easy for Doug Eiffel, the communications officer for the U.S.S. Hephaestus Research Station, currently on Day 448 of its orbit around re...
The White Vault
Explore the far reaches of the world’s horrors in the audio drama podcast The White Vault. Follow the collected records of a repair team sent to Ou...
Caso 63
Toda gran historia, tiene un gran final. Año 2062: inmersos en una realidad apocalíptica debido a las secuelas de Pegaso, un grupo de científicos y...
Unobtainium Podcast
The Unobtainium Podcast is hosted by Adam Sigel, a Hollywood writer-producer, and Dr. Amy Mainzer, an astrophysicist. Together, they explore the sc...
Station 151
Station 151 is Antarctica’s first and only astronomical radio observatory. Built by the Telders Corporation at an estimated cost of $200M USD, the ...
Dr. Creepen's Dungeon
Dr. Creepen's Dungeon is a weekly hour-long podcast presenting the very best in contemporary horror, fantasy and sci-fi fiction. It comes out every...
Alice Isn't Dead
A truck driver searches across America for the wife she had long assumed was dead. In the course of her search, she will encounter not-quite-human ...
We're Alive
We're Alive is an award-winning audio drama that follows a group of Survivors in a post-apocalyptic Los Angeles now ruled by the "Infected."It begi...
The Lovecraft Investigations
Julian Simpson's mystery thriller/horror fiction series, based on several works by H.P. Lovecraft and his Cthulhu Mythos.
We Fix Space Junk
'We Fix Space Junk' follows seasoned smuggler Kilner and reluctant fugitive Samantha as they travel the galaxy, dodging bullets and meeting strange...
DERELICT
Something has been found at the bottom of Earth's ocean. An ancient artifact that can only be described as a giant door, inset into the sea floor. ...
Archive 81
Archive 81 is a fiction podcast about horror, cities, and the subconscious. New episodes will be released every other Wednesday. Start from "01 - A...
Midst
Taking place several decades after the events of Midst and Moonward, UNEND focuses on a supernatural ship and a remarkable crew set forth on a...
Mission To Zyxx
An improvised science fiction sitcom following a team of ambassadors as they attempt to establish diplomatic relations with planets in the remote a...
The Left Right Game
Tessa Thompson stars as an idealistic young journalist trying to make a name for herself by following a group of paranormal explorers, obsessed wit...
The Delta Flyers
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The Truth
The Truth makes short, cinematic stories meant to be listened to closely, like short films for your ears. Each episode is a brand new story wi...
Last Resort
A troubled influencer looking for rest and rejuvenation at a private wellness resort gets more than she bargained for when a mysterious sound cause...
The Black Tapes
The Black Tapes is a weekly podcast from the creators of Pacific Northwest Stories, and is hosted by Alex Reagan. The Black Tapes Podcast is a seri...
Every Single Sci-Fi Film Ever*
The Every Single Sci-Fi Film Ever* podcast looks back at more than a century of films, beginning in 1902 and working towards the future. Each episo...
Limetown
Ten years ago, over three hundred men, women and children disappeared from a small town in Tennessee, never to be heard from again. In this podcast...
LeVar Burton Reads
The best short fiction, handpicked by the best voice in podcasting and presented in 3D immersive audio. In every episode, host LeVar Burton (Roots,...
The Penumbra Podcast
At the Penumbra, you might follow Juno Steel, a brooding, sharp-witted private eye on Mars, as he tangles with an elusive homme fatale, tracks dang...
The Leviathan Chronicles
Welcome to Leviathan Audio Productions, home of The Leviathan Chronicles, The Rapscallion Agency, The Invenios Expeditions, and more! At the heart ...
DUST
New to DUST? Start with Season Three: CHRYSALIS, starring Corey Hawkins, Toni Collette, and more!DUST is the premier destination for immersive scie...
TANIS
Tanis is a bi-weekly podcast from the Public Radio Alliance, and is hosted by Nic Silver. Tanis is a serialized docudrama about a fascinating and s...
Gardeners' Corner
The weekly gardening programme for keen gardeners, with the latest advice, news and visits to gardens large and small around the province. Presente...
Matt From Nomad’s
We are going to talk about conspiracies, true crime, the supernatural, historical facts, sprinkled in with some animal facts, and everything in bet...
Galactic Horrors
Original dark science fiction stories, told as standalone narrated episodes. Ships, stations, labs and border worlds; deep-space missions, black pr...
Desert Skies
On a lonely highway between life and the next life there's one last stop that we all have to make. Desert Skies Astral Plane Fuel and Service Stati...
Our Fake History
A podcast about myths we think are history and history that might be hidden in myths! Awesome stories that really (maybe) happened!
End of All Hope
A fictional podcast following three survivors as they trek across the country trying to survive an alien invasion.
Biome
Short fiction. Big worlds. Every Tuesday.From ancient forests to far off alien worlds, Biome brings you thrilling new Science Fiction, Fantasy, and...
Taking Time
Time travel exists... but it's too dangerous and unreliable to try with anyone valuable. TAKING TIME is a comedy/drama/sci-fi podcast that's IDIOCR...
Marvel's Wolverine: The Lost Trail
Following the events of Marvel’s “Wolverine: The Long Night,” Logan (Richard Armitage) returns to New Orleans in search of redemption, only to disc...
The Program audio series
A science fiction anthology set in a future in which Money, State, and God became fused into a single entity called the Program. Each episode is a ...
The Bright Sessions
The Bright Sessions is a science fiction audio drama that follows a group of therapy patients. But these are not your typical patients - each has a...
Rabbits
When Carly Parker's friend Yumiko goes missing under very mysterious circumstances, Carly's search for her friend leads her headfirst into a ancien...
Entropy Rising
Entropy Rising is a science fiction podcast and futurism podcast that explores the real science behind the future of humanity.Hosted by Jacob Hyatt...
Relic Radio Sci-Fi (old time radio)
Relic Radio Science Fiction brings you old time radio stories from sci-fi's greatest writers, as well as original stories for shows like Dimension ...
Within the Wires
An immersive fiction podcast told through found audio from an alternate universe. Each season is a standalone story set in the same world. Written ...
Red Valley
A mystery drama about the limits of experimental science, confronting your own past, present & future, & trying to remember the level sel...
From Now
A famed lost spaceship, the USS HOPE, returns to Earth after vanishing thirty-five years prior. The lone survivor (Richard Madden) disembarks myste...
I Am Echo
When a sheltered young woman, Catherine, finally moves away from home for college, she begins to investigate her family to finally get at the answe...
Gom Jabbar: A Dune Podcast
Gom Jabbar is the ultimate guide to the Dune universe for both longtime fans and newcomers. Join hosts Abu and Leo as they dive deep into every asp...
Imaginary Worlds
Imaginary Worlds sounds like what would happen if NPR went to Comic-Con and decided that’s all they ever wanted to cover. The host Eric Molinsky sp...
ars PARADOXICA
When an experiment in a time much like our own goes horribly awry, Dr. Sally Grissom finds herself stranded in the past and entrenched in the activ...
Sanctuary
Starring Lily Rabe (American Horror Story). A woman wakes up on a future terraformed Mars, only to discover her husband has become the dictator of ...
Tumanbay
A vast empire threatened by rebellion. A fiction podcast on an epic scale set in the most powerful city on earth... Visit www.tumanbay.com to see f...
VAST Horizon
Nolira is an agronomist tasked with establishing agriculture in a new solar system, but when she wakes up on a now- empty colony ship, the whole of...
LifeAfter/The Message
From GE Podcast Theater and Panoply, The Message and its sequel, LifeAfter, take listeners on journeys to the limits of technology. In The Message,...
Conversations with Ghosts
Conversations with Ghosts is an audio drama about loss, history and the things we leave behind, brought to you by the creators of Archive 81. The p...
EOS 10
Doctors in space, a deposed alien prince, a super gay space pirate and a fiery nurse who'll help you win your bar fight. #audiofiction from @justin...
SFF Addicts
SFF Addicts is a weekly sci-fi, fantasy and writing craft podcast co-hosted by authors Adrian M. Gibson, M.J. Kuhn and Greta Kelly, bringing you in...
The Deca Tapes
Recordings have surfaced of ten people that are locked into the same space together. We don’t know where they are, or if they'll get out. But the a...
StarShipSofa
The Audio Science Fiction Magazine See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/starships...
C'est plus que de la SF
C’est plus que de la SF (https://www.cestplusquedelasf.com/) est un podcast hebdomadaire sur la science-fiction avec des auteurs, des scénaristes,...
The Cipher
When 16-year-old Sabrina cracks the cryptic Parallax, she’s recruited to track down a serial killer... who might not be from this world. Starring A...
The Phenomenon
When a supernatural threat drives mankind to the point of extinction, survivors around the globe struggle to endure in a world with just three rule...
The Strange Case of Starship Iris
In 2189, Earth narrowly won a war against extraterrestrials. The Strange Case of Starship Iris is about what comes after. It's a story of outer spa...
The Sandman Podcast
ECW legend and Hardcore Icon The Sandman provides insights on his wild professional wrestling journey. Joined each week by host Brian W. Tosh and h...
Oz 9
It's Spring 2142 (a Tuesday), and Gated Galaxies has launched its 400 Oz-8000 ships, each carrying 50,000 "resting guests" to, hopefully, a new hom...
Hard Drive
Starring Priah Ferguson (STRANGER THINGS). In the near future, a young woman inherits a hard drive of her dead grandfather's memories, and discover...
The Twilight Zone Podcast
Join Tom Elliot in the Rondo award winning Twilight Zone Podcast. A journey through Rod Serling’s classic television series. With reviews, intervie...
Among the Stars and Bones
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...
Case 63
CASE 63 IS OUT NOW Season Two of Case 63 transports us back to 2012 where Eliza Beatrix Knight wakes confused and naked in a bathroom at JFK airpor...
Girl In Space
Nothing fancy here — just the simple audio diary of a girl in space. Also, there’s this weird and potentially ominous light in the distance that se...
The Edge of Sleep
When a night watchman finishes his shift at work, he is terrified to discover that everyone in the world who went to sleep the previous night has d...
Deviser
DEVISER is a Sci-Fi Horror Audio Drama, created by Harlan Guthrie. In this series Son wakes up aboard a spaceship bound for earth in an effort to r...
SOLAR
SOLAR, starring Stephanie Beatriz, Tony Award winner Alan Cumming, Academy Award winner Helen Hunt and Jonathan Bangs, is a journey to the heart of...
The Orbiting Human Circus
Discover a wondrously surreal world of magic, music, and mystery. This immersive, cinematic audio spectacle follows the adventures of a lonely, sta...
Syntax
A science fiction, horror audio drama podcast that follows Silas Caldwell, a linguist, who finds himself employed by VINCULA, a biotech company wit...
The Call of the Void
In the bustling streets of New Orleans, a tour guide and a palm-reading outcast team up to unravel the mystery behind cases of sudden insanity bese...
The Doctor Who Audio Dramas
The Doctor Who Audio Dramas is the world’s longest running family friendly production of Doctor Who. Started in 1982, this series spans eight Docto...
How this list is built
Shows are selected from PodSEO topic associations and matched AI recommendations. They are ordered by their average PodSEO score over records dated since seven days ago, with ties ordered by show name. The score combines podcast-platform search visibility, editorial placements, and chart performance, with adjustments for Apple listing status. AI recommendations help identify candidates; their frequency does not determine the order. Each list includes up to 100 shows with an Apple Podcasts ID and updates when regenerated.
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