The Sky Machine

31/10/2022

Just passed the 10,000 download milestone!

21/02/2021

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A sequel is being planned!

09/12/2020

Episode 7 out now. Tune in at skymachine.podbean.com

08/12/2020

Episode 6 is now out! Follow the story at skymachine.podbean.com

30/10/2020

12/10/2020

Chapter 3 of the new scifi podcast The Sky Machine is now available at skymachine.podbean.com

David and Susan's field trip to a climate research station takes a sudden and dramatic turn. Who would have thought that time could be so deadly?

12/10/2020

Chapter 3 of the new scifi podcast The Sky Machine is now available at skymachine.podbean.com

David and Susan's field trip to a climate research station takes a sudden and dramatic turn. Who would have thought that time could be so deadly?

07/10/2020

Were we being watched, perhaps, as possible subversives? Were our calculations and warnings about climate change so politically dangerous?

There was something - insectile about those guards. Black shapes, a collection of angular shadows strapped together. The sense of deadly craftsmanship in the weapons and the body armour. Yes. Like insects, at first, standing by the hotel doors, later that day - in the afternoon, as we visited local attractions and study centres in organised trips - they rode in white SUVs behind our coaches.

Once we got over the surprise, they were less obvious, less intrusive. They stood calmly, watching as we got on with the business of saving the planet by procedure and by vote.

Supposedly.

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07/10/2020

Listen to the new science fiction story podcast: The Sky Machine. Climate engineering, conspiracy theories - and a strange ride on the big wheel. Episodes 1 & 2 are on
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07/10/2020

He sighed. ‘Susan, these conferences are like a microcosm of our entire discipline. And that itself is like - something that has a dense core of specialist knowledge, then some hazier, less well-defined exterior, and finally, a few random ideas and memes buzzing around the periphery. Your group - well, you are outside the periphery. Far outside. You appreciate that?'

I nodded.

'You believe that it's possible to manipulate the weather. To reverse global warming, even. And that governments are working on projects to do just that - to control the climate.'

'That's an exaggeration,' I replied, 'we never say "control".'

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Episodes 1 & 2 available now.

07/10/2020

The Sky Machine is a new scifi podcast story. Episodes 1 & 2 are now available on skymachine.podbean.com
Follow this strange and frightening journey into a world of conspiracy theories and climate engineering.

06/10/2020

Armed guards at a climate change conference. A strange ride on a big wheel. And a cloud formation specialist locked in a garage. Episodes 1 & 2 of this new scif story podcast are on skymachine.podbean.com

05/10/2020

Modern Zen tales and a personal tragedy combine in episode 2 of The Sky Machine. Listen to this new science fiction thriller podcast at skymachine.podbean.com

05/10/2020

Academic debate isn't on the agenda when a respected cloud specialist is approached by a young colleague at an important climate change conference. What is she running from? For answers, listen to skymachine.podbean.com

05/10/2020

Why does a child's weather station and a deadly trip to Everest occupy the mind of a respected climatologist? And why is he stuck in a garage? The answers are in The Sky Machine. Episodes 1 and 2 on skymachine.podbean.com

05/10/2020

When you're attending the world's most important climate change conference you expect some security. But you can have too much of a good thing. skymachine.podbean.com
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28/09/2020

28/09/2020

In the second episode of The Sky Machine, events at the world's most important climate change conference bring David Forresrer and Susan Leistrammer to a place where conspiracy theories and the world's most important climatology resource have become entwined.
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28/09/2020

The climate is changing. More than a storm is coming. When cloud formation specialist David Forrester and oceanographer Susan Leistrammer meet at a conference, they trigger events that plunge them into a world they never imagined.
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28/09/2020