starship iris – Question of Smoke

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Hey all, big happy news! I’m going to be part of the writing team for season two of Jessica Best (@idiopathicsmile)’s The Strange Case of Starship Iris!

For those of you who are like ‘um okay what’s a starship iris,’ Starship Iris is a sci-fi podcast full of scrappy found families out to Fight the System, jokes about the gender binary, and saving the day with applied linguistics.

Doesn’t that sound awesome? Spoilers: it is awesome.

Eight of the first season’s ten episodes are up on Spotify, Google Play, iTunes, however you like to listen to things. It’s part of the Procyon Podcast Network (procyonpodcasts.com, @procyon-podcast-network), which is making diverse, eclectic audio drama content for fans, by fans.

If that’s got you excited (I’M EXCITED) and you want to see more Starship Iris content like fan art, behind-the-scenes details, or vignettes about the crew and world, check out @iriscasefiles, the official Starship Iris tumblr, or @thevoicefromthestars, which is run by the fantastic Ishani Kanetkar, who voices the sarcastic and pathos-tastic Arkady Patel.

Jess Best and Starship Iris also have a Patreon (patreon.com/starshipiris), which gives you access to episode scripts annotated by the cast and crew, additional vignettes, and behind-the-scenes podcast episodes. I’ve been a Patreon backer of the show for awhile now, and it’s totally worth it.

Also if they reach (if we reach??) the next stretch goal for Patreon funding, then they (we???) will create three “mini-episodes” in between seasons one and two. I am particularly excited about this possibility because I may have written one of those mini-episodes as part of the application process. I’d love to see it made.

But go listen to the show, folks. It’s free. It’s beautiful. It warms my heart and I bet it’ll warm yours.

See ya for season two 😉