Compass & Codex
Adventure history and adventure science — fiction stories for boys.
Compass & Codex is a serialized storytelling podcast for boys ages 8–14 and the families who read with them. Every episode is a chapter of an ongoing story: fire ant scouts, Roman legions, pirates, and more — told with real biology, real history, and real stakes.
We explore the unknown, every time.
Current series:
- Colony in Danger (fire ant adventure fiction)
- Eagle's Edge (Roman historical fiction).
New chapters every week.
Subscribe and start from Chapter 1.
Hosted by Reed Sterling.
For fans of Watership Down, Redwall, the Warriors series, Empires of the Undergrowth, and anyone who wants adventure fiction that respects the reader.
Compass & Codex
Latest Episodes
Brickhaven: CH 1 | Boy Wakes Up Inside His Own LEGO World | A LEGO Fan Fiction Adventure Story
Max built a LEGO town called Brickhaven. Every wall, every street, every guard. Then he woke up inside it — one-and-a-half inches tall. And they closed the gates.Brickhaven Ep.1 follows Max across the vast landscape of his bedroom floor...
Colony in Danger: CH 9 | Trapped in Beetle Territory | Fire Ant Adventure Story
Fire ants don't enter beetle territory. Cinder Marlowe just did — and now his whole team is locked in a hollow log while the beetles prepare to use them as bait at dawn.This fire ant adventure story follows Cinder, Blaze, Thistle, and S...
Treasure Island: CH 1 | A Scarred Pirate Moves Into a Cliffside Inn | Classic Pirate Adventure Audiobook
Jim Hawkins has never left the Admiral Benbow Inn. Then Billy Bones arrives.He’s a weathered, scar-faced pirate who takes the corner table by the window and never takes his eyes off the road. He pays in strange foreign c...
Eagle's Edge: CH 1 | Roman Recruit Swears 25 Years to Caesar's Army | Roman History Boys 8-14
Marcus Aemilius Corvus is sixteen years old and about to swear twenty-five years of his life to Caesar's army. Once the sacramentum passes his lips, he belongs to Rome.In this episode, Marcus arrives at the legion camp outsid...
Iron Rails & Ruin: CH 1 | A 14-Year-Old Engineer Drives a Steam Train Through a Montana Blizzard | Steampunk Adventure Audiobook
Three senior engineers refused to take this route tonight. That left Gunnar Harlan.He’s fourteen years old, running his late father’s steam engine through a Montana blizzard in 1879. The Widow-Maker knows every inch of this mount...
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