A sci-fi comedy-drama putting surreal new spins on classic speculative fiction. When George Orwell and H. G. Wells accidentally double-book a getaway cottage, an argument about tea escalates into an aeon-spanning adventure of time travel and political machination. A full cast audio drama from award-winning writer Robin Johnson.
Publishes | Weekly | Episodes | 15 | Founded | 3 years ago |
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Categories | Comedy FictionFictionScience Fiction |
Halloween special featuring bitter karella's Hugo-nominated microfiction The Midnight Pals!
In a quest to resurrect a Morlock, Orwell and Wells find themselves in a weird metaphysical forest inhabited by historical horror writers, and attempt to im... more
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• 00:00: Preambulatory waffle• 00:16: Crossover special with bitter karella's The Mid... more
Coming this Halloween, a crossover Hugo-nominated twitter microfiction The Midnight Pals! Wells and Orwell sit round the campfire with Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley and H. P. Lovecraft in an uncharacteristically spooky episode of Untrue Stories.
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A supercut of all season 1 episodes for convenient bingeing.
George Orwell has rented a getaway cottage on a remote Scottish island to finish work on his groundbreaking novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Unfortunately, he finds he's been double-booked wit... more
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Amusing historical drama
I am sucker for anything with H.G. Wells time travelling in and this one is very fun. Mayhem, Morlocks and Mary Shelley being iconic.
Historical romp interspersed with clever satirical references. Enjoyed the precise tea specifications from Orwell's Evening Standard Essay.
More than Wells and Orwell, Untrue Stories casts sci-fi and spec-fi authors from across time and space as the real heroes of this chaotic, comedic time-travel tale. There is a surprising amount of satire here, though this is smart writing. The protagonist authors put big ideas about government, society, and human nature into their works and Untrue Stories careens through alternate histories to see how these play out. Clever and amusing, though never taking itself very seriously, this is an audio... more
Mashing these speculative fiction writers together is already a fun idea. But at around episode 3, the story, the jokes and the references really take hold, and then I was throughly enjoying it - I got some of the references, but I’m sure there are plenty I didn’t. A couple of the running jokes are BRILLIANT. I will say that I wish the production was a little better. And it took 2 full episodes to get going. Those reasons are why it loses a star for me. But everything improved with every episode... more
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