DJ Burnham
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Welcome aboard AD ASTRAL, presenting the short science fiction stories of DJ Burnham in a triannual transmission. Let us take you on a voyage far into outer, and inner-space. Together, we will visit strange and alternative worlds, experience alien cultures, weird experiments, future dystopias and mysterious lifeforms, leap through the looking-glass of quantum reality, cheat death and embrace life to the full. Our growing crew of voice actors and foley artists are working to make your trip an unforgettable adventure into the unknown. (Individual explicit ratings reflect occasional mild violence and sexual references. Strong language and graphic content tends to...
Seven lucky sevens on a casino moon: just the escape your sensible side would advise against.
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An alien invasion becomes a tense negotiation through blacked-out screens, atomized missiles, and one dangerously candid answer.
"The Radical Intergalactic Travel Agency" turns an alien invasion into a controlled test of language, nerve, and political instinct. After every home vid screen goes black, President Sam Walker is left facing Ziton, Commander-in-Chief of the RITA, while Earth's nuclear reply is…
A family move to Tilios gives interstellar science a warm, domestic scale.
Ad Astral Episode 8 gives a family relocation across forty light years a notably domestic shape, using Nanny and Gramps' move to Tilios to ask what home, age, and practical care can mean.
A hairdryer failure sends a space voyage into deadpan chaos, broken systems, and overdue beauty appointments.
Ad Astral's second part of ICS Indulgence plays its space voyage as a comic systems failure. A hairdryer mishap uncovers broken comms, trouble with the vid screen, and a beauty therapist swamped by appointments.
An old guitar makes a future-world encounter feel quietly startling.
Pandemonium opens episode 7 of Ad Astral, DJ Burnham's quarterly podcast transmission of short stories, with a new story made for the show. It brings Paul Hunter, an octogenarian guitarist, into contact with Afti, from a generation that has never seen live playing.
An asteroid cluster turns scientific caution into a test of grief and responsibility.
An asteroid cluster turns into a question of judgment, as Sam and Senator Paradrew weigh fleets, space mines, and the risk of altering a path they still do not fully understand.
A household repair call opens into particle clouds, smoke rings, and prehistoric trouble on GASBRID.
A repair visit veers into the uncanny when John Smith opens an aluminium flight case, inhales a revolving white sphere of particles, and starts sending miniature smoke rings into Mrs Tresgrave's food processor, refrigerator, oven, microwave, and food cupboards.
Classic stories, patiently brought into the room.
Queer Filipino desire, told close to the skin.
Compact stories with craft beneath the surface.
This episode introduces a science fiction short story called 'Dream Girl' by DJ Burnham, featuring voice actors and original music, as part of a quarterly storytelling podcast.
This episode features an exclusive new science fiction short story called 'Heaven Scent' about a chief inspector working with an alien from planet Yefti.
This episode of the Ad Astral podcast features DJ Burnham's science fiction short stories, with updates on gardening activities, award nominations, and listener engagement.
This episode is the second part of a two-part series in the Ad Astral science fiction podcast, featuring DJ Burnham's short stories and dedicated to the memory of his father and a friend.
This episode introduces a new actor, Roy Weird, and promotes listener engagement and subscription for the Ad Astral science fiction podcast.
This episode of Ad Astral promotes the author's Kindle book promotions, introduces a new Facebook page for listener engagement, and apologizes for a delayed schedule due to illness.
This episode introduces a science fiction podcast featuring DJ Burnham's short stories, with promotional content and acknowledgments.
This episode of Ad Astral features an ambitious two-part science fiction story with 18 voice actors, including new collaborators Ty and Gina Bardi, who also produce a comedy podcast.
This episode introduces Ad Astral's 30th installment, featuring DJ Burnham's short stories, with promotional updates and a Blade Runner 2049 review.
This episode of Ad Astral features an exclusive short story called 'Starglow' about a band falling apart due to the lead singer's behavior before she undergoes a radical character shift.
This episode of the Ad Astral podcast features DJ Burnham's short story 'Home in Time for Christmas' and includes a dedication to Barry Floodgate, a former contributor who passed away.
This episode features DJ Burnham reading his science fiction short story 'Door to Door' while promoting his Kindle books at discounted prices.
This episode features DJ Burnham's exclusive short story 'Dance of the Mirrored Souls' about journalist Roger McIver witnessing a Hindu ritual in Kerala, India and receiving a mysterious gift.
This episode features a futuristic audio drama adaptation of DJ Burnham's short story 'Borrowed Time', inspired by Samuel Beckett, where two voices wait for a doctor in the dark.
This episode of Ad Astral features DJ Burnham's new short story 'The Visit' with voice actors and original music.
This episode of the Ad Astral science fiction podcast humorously addresses a fictional copyright infringement claim from an alien entity regarding a musical composition.
This episode of the Ad Astral podcast features the premiere of DJ Burnham's previously unpublished short story 'On the Feast of Stephen,' set during Christmas in the Wren household.
This episode provides updates on the host's short stories being featured in podcasts and anthologies, including news about Starship Sofa's 100th show and the publication of 'Thank You, Death Robot'.
This episode features DJ Burnham's short story 'The Frontiersman', written in 2015 on Naxos, as a piece of escapist science fiction during the pandemic.
This episode of Ad Astral shares news about the host's books being available on digital platforms and reflects on the influence of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy on the podcast and sci-fi comedy.
This episode features the short story 'One True Path,' a tongue-in-cheek science fiction tale about alien evangelists assessing Earth's dominant species for spiritual uniformity.
Ad Astral Episode 1 introduces DJ Burnham's short science fiction stories, starting with Bid.
Ad Astral episode 36 presents DJ Burnham's short story 32B, written during the January 2021 lockdown in Brighton.
Episode 27 of Ad Astral features DJ Burnham's short story The Writer of Future Dreams, written in 2010 on a beach in Greece.
Ad Astral Episode 2 presents DJ Burnham's science-fiction story about the Radical Intergalactic Travel Agency, which hijacks every television broadcast on Earth.
Ad Astral Episode 8, “Aftershock,” follows the battlecruiser Kraken after hundreds of Telsian attack ships emerge from a hyperspace gate only two kilometres away.
Ad Astral's "The Lighthouse Keeper" follows astrophysicist Professor Sam Blixo after the Chaos Cluster, an unpredictable group of almost eighty rocks, destroys spacecraft in the solar system.
Episode 26 of Ad Astral opens with host DJ Burnham welcoming listeners and encouraging recommendations and subscriptions.
In episode 15 of Ad Astral, host DJ Burnham shares a personal story about attending Monty Python's Spamalot in Brighton, where he was called on stage.
DJ Burnham’s “Hierarchy” follows a twelve-month war in which identical soldiers march through a cratered battlefield while remote manipulators control them as human marionettes.
This mini-episode of Ad Astral announces award nominations and cast news while teasing upcoming science fiction content.
DJ Burnham’s “February the 29th” follows Jeeva, a 20-year-old orphan working anonymously as an office cleaner before her leap-year birthday.
DJ Burnham's Jackpot follows Titch Pleonica, a new arrival who wins Casinos admission with a one-in-six die roll and immediately receives a free taxi ride.
DJ Burnham's Ad Astral episode "Pandemonium" imagines a late-21st-century music industry where machines compose commercially optimized songs.
Ad Astral Science Fiction Podcast presents D.J.
Ad Astral Science Fiction Podcast Episode 32, "ICS Indulgence Part Two," continues DJ Burnham’s story about an intergalactic cruise ship observing the Protos-Electros conjunction.