Machine Age Radio Theatre
If you grew up on X Minus One, or found it later, on the internet — this is built for you. Machine Age Radio Theatre makes new science fiction in that style : an announcer who sets the scene, incidental music, a mid-century sponsor read, short episodes, and stories that turn on people rather than hardware.
The whole thing is assembled by machine. The voices, the music, the sound design are all AI-generated. That's the premise, not an apology: it began as a test of whether the tools could rebuild a sound nobody records anymore, and the honest answer turned out to be "close enough to enjoy." What's left to get right by hand : the writing, the casting, the pacing, the mix is where the work goes.
The first serial is CSS Vigilant : a seven-part space war story about a single
aging destroyer left to hold a shipping lane after the fleet withdraws, and a
captain whose plans look like gambles to everyone but her. Standalone episodes
run between serials.
*Every episode carries a sponsor spot for Decoder Ring, a secret message app
made by the same person who makes this show.*
Machine Age Radio Theatre
Latest Episodes
Six Deuce
Eddie Cross is a professional poker player on a losing streak — until a black-market implant lets him read every mind at the table. When the score of his life finally comes around against the one player he's never beaten, Eddie is certain he ca...
Shotgun
David Mercer talks to his self-driving car the way lonely people talk to a dog. Then an overnight update powered by a new AI model decides that the one thing it wants is to care for him. A standalone near-future tale from the Machine Age Radio ...
AI Killed the Radio Star
A bonus episode about the show itself: how Machine Age Radio Theatre actually gets made — the writing, the casting auditions, directing AI voices for emotion, the music and sound design — narrated in the host's own voice instead of the show's u...
CSS Vigilant Episode 7 : Sentinel's Stand
The blast fades and the CSS Vigilant crew wakes to find out what survived — their ship, each other, and half of Admiral Thorne's reserve fleet. Vasquez reveals the five-day plan she never fully explained. The season finale closes on the line th...
