Machina (A Serial Box Original)
Created by Fran Wilde • Written by Fran Wilde, Malka Older, and Curtis C. Chen, with Martha Wells • Narrated by Natalie Naudus
The race to Mars made real. Two rival tech companies grapple with old grudges, competing visions, and mysterious interference while competing to create the AI that will save humanity.
With Earth becoming increasingly uninhabitable, humanity looks to space for salvation. In the arid California desert, two companies compete for the opportunity to send their AI robots to colonize Mars. Scientists and staff mingle at Moonshot Bar and, as personal tensions build and business practices get shady, there might be more than scientific discovery at stake.
“Machina is an excellent piece of near-future science fiction. Its development of artificial intelligence is utterly believable.” —Sci Fi Cadre
“Machina is an absolutely gripping look at the not too distant future. Filled with great characters, fascinating AI and some startling twists this is one serial you definitely don’t want to miss!” —Worlds in Ink
Ninth Step Station (A Serial Box Original)
Created by Malka Older • Written by Malka Older, Curtis C. Chen, Jacqueline Koyanagi, and Fran Wilde • Narrated by Emily Woo Zeller
It’s 2033. China owns half of Tokyo. First pummeled by a deadly earthquake and then suffering the ruptures of war, the city’s future was bleak. But the uneasy peace brokered by the United States has remained steady, despite underground resistance efforts. That is, until the murders begin.
Years of disaster and conflict have left Tokyo split between great powers. In the city of drone-enforced borders, bodymod black markets, and desperate resistance movements, US peacekeeper Emma Higashi is assigned to partner with Tokyo Metropolitan Police Detective Miyako Koreda. Together, they must race to solve a series of murders that test their relationship and threaten to overturn the balance of global power. And amid the chaos, they each need to decide what they are willing to do for peace.
"Ninth Step Station feels at once like great near-future sci-fi and a modern police drama in which both of the main detectives are, refreshingly, women." —Den of Geek
“…Ninth Step Station is a roller coaster of a read… It’s a series that looks unflinchingly at the worst humanity has to offer… And yet through it there is a glimmer of hope, a kindness and compassion and drive toward justice that just might be enough to redeem everything.” —The Book Smugglers
The Witch Who Came in From the Cold (A Serial Box Original)
Created by Max Gladstone and Lindsay Smith • Written by Max Gladstone, Lindsay Smith, Cassandra Rose Clarke, Michael Swanwick, Ian Tregillis, and Fran Wilde
Guest writer on Season 2, episode 6
Spycraft and Witchcraft collide during Cold-War-era Prague. As members of feuding occult societies battle for control across the Iron Curtain, A KGB agent and CIA operative are drawn into the crossfire.
