Michael Hanson
50 episodes listed below
Speculative fiction where reality gives way.
Mind Webs - Moonlight Radio is a measured anthology of science-fiction suspense, built around literary narration rather than conversation. Its stories begin in recognizable places, then let one impossible detail widen into dread, wonder, or philosophical dislocation.
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Mind Webs - Moonlight Radio is a narrated anthology of speculative fiction with a distinctly literary temperament. It is quiet at first. The stories often open on a concrete surface: a city street, a lawn, a landing roof, a ruined coast, a room where someone is thinking too hard. From there, reality begins to lean. A small perceptual error becomes a private crisis. A city girl feels the pavement give way and finds herself among grass, sun, and butterflies. Another character hears of sand appearing after an impossible beach vision, and the explanation that once seemed sensible begins to fail. The program returns often to that moment when the mind can no longer keep the ordinary world intact. It does not hurry the collapse. It watches it happen. In a cited story, homecoming arrives through vast interstellar spaces, yet the familiar building below feels charged with suspicion. In another, the remains of Earth are measured by stars, compass, instinct, and the terrible persistence of physical law. Nature Boy turns domestic perception inward, making a mother's unseen actions part of a more unstable field of thought. Carcinoma Angels opens with a child discovering the world as an apparently limitless field, already shadowed by the title's illness imagery. The result is science fiction less interested in machinery than in altered recognition. Its suspense is cerebral, bodily, and atmospheric at once. Listeners should expect formal narration, careful scene setting, and a mood of moral and cosmic unease. The show is not built around hosts, guests, or topical debate. It works like a shelf of strange stories read aloud in a dim room, each one asking what remains when common sense loses its authority.
Made for: For listeners who want narrated science fiction with literary texture, patient suspense, and philosophical unease. It suits those drawn to uncanny perception, altered realities, and classic anthology storytelling.
What sets it apart: The show stands apart through its composed, story-first narration and its preference for slow recognition over spectacle. Its tension rises from objects, rooms, bodies, and thoughts becoming quietly unreliable.
A surreal sci-fi series exploring speculative concepts, dreams, and philosophical what-ifs. Each episode is a cerebral journey into the mind’s deepest questions.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Michael Hansen turns speculative short stories into lucid radio readings that preserve their strange premises, mounting unease, and sharply delivered reversals.
Mind Webs - Moonlight Radio gives speculative short fiction a clean radio-reading frame, with Michael Hansen introducing each author and source before yielding to the story.
A dead torch, monstrous claws, and Michael Hanson calmly reading while your pulse files a complaint.
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A city routine opens onto a shared, uncanny crossing into another place.
Marion Zimmer Bradley's "The Day of the Butterflies" starts in the city, then slips into a green place of grass, hyacinths, and butterflies. Diana feels that change before she can explain it, which gives the opening its pull.
A patient machine tale where durability looks less like triumph than maintenance.
Mind Webs gives "The Eternal Machines" the hush of a maintenance log that has started to feel like a creed. Roscoe watches an automated shuttle land on a dusty gray world, then returns to the museum he has built from modified machines and patient upkeep.
A slow-burn Bradbury reading that lets the nursery's calm turn unsettling.
This MindWebs reading of Ray Bradbury's The Veldt begins inside a soundproofed, too-comfortable home and then tightens around George and Lydia Hadley's worry about the nursery.
A rigid future bends toward a shared hallucination, and the ship's reality starts to crack.
Subjectivity is a stern future-history fable about a government that refuses to accept the limits of faster-than-light travel and pushes its crew toward an unsettling shared reality.
A slow-burn night walk that turns logic into a trap.
Robert Armstrong's lone walk through a dark world becomes a tight study of nerve, logic, and self-deception after he loses his torch and is left with memory, distance, and the uneasy sense that the night is not empty. Arthur C.
Diana trusts the city.
This episode presents a fictional story about a character named Arthur observing his mother's unusual activities, blending reality and imagination.
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A narrator returns home to a futuristic skyscraper after interstellar travel, feeling uneasy despite the familiar setting.
A surreal sci-fi audio drama that begins with a parody advertisement before delving into speculative concepts.
A man named Crane navigates a post-apocalyptic landscape, relying on instinct and a compass to find the seacoast.
A surreal sci-fi series that blends speculative concepts with philosophical questions, presented as a cerebral journey.
A surreal sci-fi series exploring speculative concepts, dreams, and philosophical what-ifs through cerebral journeys.
This episode reads Judith Merrill's 1948 sci-fi story 'That Only a Mother,' exploring themes of motherhood and nuclear weaponry.
Roscoe watches another shuttle come down.
The nursery is silent at first.
Humanity has hit a stone wall.
Robert Armstrong's torch fails.
A retired nurse marries a tall government official named Fritz Reis, and they encounter a tense situation involving children and a broom handle in a park.
A surreal sci-fi series exploring speculative concepts, dreams, and philosophical what-ifs through cerebral journeys.
A reading of Bob Shaw's classic sci-fi story 'Light of Other Days' about a surreal journey through a land of slow glass.
A surreal sci-fi series exploring speculative concepts and philosophical questions through narrative.
A surreal sci-fi audio drama exploring speculative concepts and philosophical questions through a narrative about a woman's body and aging.
A surreal sci-fi series exploring speculative concepts, dreams, and philosophical what-ifs.
A sci-fi story about astronauts stranded on a green world after rocket trouble.
A surreal sci-fi series exploring speculative concepts and philosophical what-ifs through narrative storytelling.
A surreal sci-fi series exploring speculative concepts through narrative fiction.
This episode presents Avram Davidson's science fiction short story "Or All the Seas with Oysters" from the Hugo Winters anthology edited by Isaac Asimov, beginning with a scene in a bike shop.
A surreal sci-fi series exploring speculative concepts, dreams, and philosophical what-ifs.
A reading of Arthur C.
A surreal sci-fi series exploring speculative concepts, dreams, and philosophical what-ifs through cerebral narratives.
A surreal sci-fi audio drama exploring speculative concepts and philosophical questions through narrative.
A reading of R.A.
A surreal sci-fi series exploring speculative concepts, dreams, and philosophical what-ifs.
A reading of Philip K.
Dixon realizes he is being followed by mysterious figures during his trek to a signal station in a tense, atmospheric setting.
This episode features a science fiction short story titled 'Happily Ever After' about a man celebrating his marriage in a space cab with an android pilot.
This episode features a reading of Edward Macken's science fiction story 'The Unremembered' from the 1965 anthology edited by Donnelly Wolheim and Terry Carr, beginning with a domestic scene involving Mrs.