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18th Shadow Radio
by Jon Lee Grafton
Sex, drugs, cyborgs. The 18th Shadow Radio is a dystopian deep-dive into a near-future American cyberpunk universe, circa 2082. A second Prohibition has banned alcohol, citizen observation drones fill the skies and a telepathic moonshiner and his war cyborgs are the only heroes left. Science fiction author, Jon Lee Grafton brings his series to life as he releases a full chapter from The 18th Shadow book series every Tuesday. If you’re a fan of fast-paced, irreverent sci-fi, The 18th Shadow Radio is the podcast for you!
Episodes
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The 18th Shadow Radio - Episode 18 - Voices in the Stream
Sociopathic narcotics detective, Dennis Slopes is meeting with his maker. The Architect is not pleased that Tara Dean remains free and is taking his anger out on his subordinates. Meanwhile, at the other end of the law enforcement spectrum, Deputy Danny Everquist and his holographic girlfriend…
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The 18th Shadow Radio - Episode 17 - The Gauntlet
“The Gauntlet is where drug mules go to die,” says Tara Dean. In September of 2081, Tara is the queen of illegal vodka mules. She, Hugo and a newly faithful and refreshed Virgil Benedict are flying 4,000 liters of moonshine west out of Lawrence down Interstate Hovway 70 to meet their distributor,...
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The 18th Shadow Radio - Episode 16 - Fractures in the Daydream
A traitor tries to worm his way into North America’s biggest illegal vodka still while Dorothy and Tara burn the midnight oil and turn up the heat at home. With Dax, William and Hugo away at The Green Lady Lounge, they are left alone to confront the return of the Coyote pack as they emerge from…
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The 18th Shadow Radio - Episode 15 - The Tether
A skinless, cybernetic dire wolf the size of a bus has just appeared from the shadows and mist beyond the illegal vodka still. The animal’s blue vidorbs dim and brighten, pulsing in rhythm with the fusion reactor embedded in its chest as it analyzes and scans the cowboy standing in front of it.…
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The 18th Shadow Radio - Episode 14 - Meanwhile in Downtown Lawrence
Welcome to the Douglas County, Kansas Sheriff’s Department circa 2080. In this episode we meet several new characters on the law enforcement side of the 18th Shadow holostream, all starting with super-hacker, Danny Everquist and his holographic Russian girlfriend, Dina. Assisted by his annoying...
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The 18th Shadow Radio - Episode 13 - The Courtezans
For the first time in months, Tara Dean is waking up outside of a slaughterhouse. She has escaped being lobotomized, drone-fired tranquilizer darts, the county sheriff and the shredding teeth of the cruel Coyote Pack. Tara Dean is a free woman. The sun is shining, the sheets are soft, the art is...
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The 18th Shadow Radio - Episode 12 - Orientation
This is the first episode of Season Two of The 18th Shadow Radio. We open this season with a deep dive into “the cowboy” character from Phase 01 - Dawn of the Courtezan. William Angevine is a country boy, a hunter and a drinker and a smoker and a cyborg wrangler. He’s also an amnesiac who has…
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The 18th Shadow Radio - Episode 11 - The Puzzle Master
This is the final episode of Season One of The 18th Shadow Radio. Season Two will begin releasing in 8 weeks! In this last episode, we meet The Puzzle Master, Dennis Slopes, chief narcotics detective for the Lawrence police department. We also meet his domestic partner, a cyborg Felix named Mrs....
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The 18th Shadow Radio - Episode 10 - The Prophet of War
The Coyotes are digging deeper, eating their way into the collision sphere containing an unconscious Tara Dean. Within minutes, they will have her blood. But not if William’s Rottweiler’s can get there first, save Tara and fight off the armed law enforcement droves circling above. The car has...
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The 18th Shadow Radio - Episode 09 - Abner Family Pumpkin & Gourd
With an unknown fugitive fast approaching their property line, Dorothy Nichols has to think on her feet. Dax Abner lied to her. She is not employed as a botanist. She is employed as the mercenary manager of four canine war cyborgs, a team of human outlaws she calls her family and an all knowing,...
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The 18th Shadow Radio - Episode 08 - You Just Met the Boss
When the day started, Dorothy Angevine was just another college student hanging out at the local coffee shop perusing the holographic want-ads for a job. When the day ended, she was the future manager of the biggest illegal vodka still on the North American continent.
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The 18th Shadow Radio - Episode 07 - Live Free or Die
Outside the slaughterhouse walls, Tara Dean quickly learns that she has new enemies. Eerie blue eyes lurk in the darkness. A mysterious pack of bloodthirsty cybernetic Coyotes is hunting her. The Coyotes don’t just want blood, they want her blood. Tara has a stolen hover car and an empty highway…
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The 18th Shadow Radio - Episode 06 - Flight Risk
It’s now or never. Tara Dean uses her awakening telepathic powers to seduce a hospital orderly. But even if she is able to escape the brutal Nurse Fossbender, she still has to face a night sky full of drones armed with neurotoxin darts and security guards. Little does she know, the greatest…
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The 18th Shadow Radio - Episode 05 - Why Don't the Eyes Work?
Conform or be lobotomized. If you’re an American alcoholic circa 2080, these are your options. Neither of these scenarios are popular with Tara Dean. She has a supernatural telepathic gift that’s beginning to manifest itself. If she can figure out when her power works and when it doesn’t, she…
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The 18th Shadow Radio - Episode 04 - The Slaughterhouse Rules
Trapped in a slaughterhouse hospital, Tara Dean meets her nemesis, Nurse Marlene Fossbender. This episode takes listeners inside the mind of a sadistic nurse who is willing to bend every rule to serve her own dark needs. Patients in today’s group therapy session were expecting a breakthrough…
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The 18th Shadow Radio - Episode 03 - My Name is Tara Dean
An alcohol criminal finds herself locked in a mental hospital with only 8 hours left before she is lobotomized by a sadistic nurse. Escape by any means necessary is the only option left. Tara Dean has a secret power and she isn't ready to die for it yet.
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The 18th Shadow Radio - Episode 02 - Only Coyotes Know
A cowboy relaxes with his cigarette and Rottweilers against the trunk of a great oak tree upon a hill. Below him, in the valley, he watches the hunters progress across the fields. Killing them isn’t his first choice, but it may be his only choice.
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The 18th Shadow Radio - Episode 01 - The Hunted
A foster father and son go into the Kansas countryside weekend-hunting for moonshiners. They find more than they were bargaining for. Only the one who gets kidnapped will survive.
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Sex, drugs, cyborgs. The 18th Shadow Radio is a dystopian deep-dive into a near-future American cyberpunk universe, circa 2082. A second Prohibition has banned alcohol, citizen observation drones fill the skies and a telepathic moonshiner and his war cyborgs are the only heroes left. Science fiction author, Jon Lee Grafton brings his series to life as he releases a full chapter from The 18th Shadow book series every Tuesday. If you’re a fan of fast-paced, irreverent sci-fi, The 18th Shadow Radio is the podcast for you!
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Sex, drugs, cyborgs. The 18th Shadow Radio is a dystopian deep-dive into a near-future American cyberpunk universe, circa 2082. A second Prohibition has banned alcohol, citizen observation drones fill the skies and a telepathic moonshiner and his war cyborgs are the only heroes left. Science...
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