2017 Parsec Awards Finalists

Finalists for the 2017 Parsec Awards, honoring excellence in speculative fiction podcasting, have been announced. Winners will be announced during a virtual streaming ceremony in November.

Best Speculative Fiction Comedy/Parody Podcast

• Are You Scared of These Stories?
• GnomeMatter: Cadavorue & Macoy in 2016
• Kakos Industries
• Nerdy Show: Nerdcasting the Multiverse: Thanksgiving Special 
• Star Wars Best in Galaxy Season 3
• Wynabego Warrior The Tale of John Waynnabe

Best Podcast about Speculative Fiction Content Creation

• Audio Drama Production Podcast
• Calliope Writing Coach Podcast
• Lightning Dogs: The Official Paw’dcast
• Two Gay Geeks
• Stage Nine

Best Speculative Fiction Fan or News Podcast (Specific)

• Aggressive Negotiations: A Star Wars Podcast
• Back to the Future Minute
• Beyond Westworld
• Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
• Trek Geeks: A Star Trek Podcast

Best Speculative Fiction Magazine or Anthology Podcast

• Brick Moon Fiction
• Escape Pod
• Seminar
• The Theatre of Tomorrow
• The Wicked Library

Best Speculative Fiction Fan or News Podcast (General)

• The 602 Club
• The Faculty of Horror
• MegaPodTastic
• Nutty Bites
• Piper’s Picks TV

Best Fact Behind the Fiction Podcast

• decipherSciFi
• Meta Treks: A Star Trek Philosophy Podcast
• Universe Today’s Guide to Space
• Planetary Radio
• Talk Nerdy

Best Speculative Fiction Video Story

• Country Bear Collector Show
• Grant’s Advent Calendar
• The Uncle Interloper Show

Best New Speculative Fiction Podcaster/Team

• Aural Traditions: Crosswired
• Beyond Westworld
• Lesser Gods
• MarsCorp
• Synesthesia Theatre

Best Speculative Fiction Audio Drama (Long Form)

• Radio Icebox Season 02: Rise of the Sirens, Jeffrey Adams
• Our Fair City, Ansel Burch, Clayton Feits, Jim McDoniel, David Rheinstrom, Frank Sjodin, Mark Soloff, Stephanie Spence
• The Byron Chronicles, Eric L. Busby
• Uncanny County, Alison Crane, Todd Faulkner, William Franke, & Nicole Greevy
• MarsCorp, Tom Dalling, David Knight, David Price
• We’re Alive: Lockdown, Kc Wayland

Best Speculative Fiction Story: Large Cast (Short Form)

• “The Black Madonna”, John C. Alsedek & Dana Perry-Hayes (Suspense)
• “Jinx of the Jellicoe Jasper”, John C. Alsedek & Dana Perry-Hayes (Suspense)
• “A Good Guy With A Magic Sword”, Jared Axelrod (The Voice of Free Planet X)
• “Genie”, Maia Brown-Jackson (Return Home)
• “Hooves in the Dirt”, Jeff Heimbuch (Return Home) 

Best Speculative Fiction Story: Small Cast (Long Form)

• The Black: Outbreak, Paul E Cooley
• “The Woman in the Sky”, Robert Isenberg (The Adventures of Elizabeth Crowne)
• “Things Unseen”, Chris Lester (The Raven and the Writing Desk)
• Sable, Lane Lloyd
• The Alien Adventures of Finn Caspian, Jonathan Messinger

Best Speculative Fiction Story: Small Cast (Short Form)

• “True Horror”, Jeffrey Bridges (Seminar)
• “The Lost Library”, K. B. Goddard (The Lift)
• “Shadows”, K. B. Goddard (The Wicked Library)
• “The Ghosts Of Christmas Eve: Tiny Tim”, David Parkin (The Junto Presents)
• “The Jack Of Lanterns”, David Parkin (The Junto Presents)

Best Speculative Fiction Story: Small Cast (Novella Form)

• Six Stories, Told at Night, KT Bryski
• The Gray Area, Edward Champion
• The Alien Adventures of Finn Caspian, Jonathan Messinger

Best Speculative Fiction Audio Drama (Short Form)

• “Abduction at Willow Woods”, John Ballentine (Campfire Radio Theater)
• “Woods Ferry”, John Ballentine (Campfire Radio Theater)
• “Anything Helps”, Jon Holland (The Theater in Your Mind)
• “The Last Will Be First”, Tristan Riddell & The Girl (Punch It: Writing in Pop Culture)
• “Driver For The Dead”, David Parkin (The Junto Presents)