{"podcast":{"title":"Galactic Horrors","slug":"galactic-horrors-6264033","podcast_index_feed_id":6264033,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/66477018b68429001342b9a2","website_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/galactic-horrors","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/66477018b68429001342b9a2/show-cover.jpg","author":"Galactic Horrors","episode_count":748,"summary":"Original dark science fiction stories, told as standalone narrated episodes. Ships, stations, labs and border worlds; deep-space missions, black projects, quarantined facilities and forgotten sectors where the plan makes sense on paper right up until it doesn’t. These are slow-burn, grounded stories about technology, secrecy and the people caught in the gap between what was promised and what actually happens. If you like quiet dread, institutional cover-ups and futures that feel uncomfortably plausible, this is your channel. All stories, artwork, and thumbnails are original to Galactic Horrors. We do not accept submissions. Disclosure: This show includes AI-generated elements. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-13T06:20:52.540919+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/galactic-horrors-6264033"},"episode":{"title":"60 Astronauts Entered The Singularity Engine. Only One Body Came Back","slug":"60-astronauts-entered-the-singularity-engine-only-one-body-came-back","published_at":"2026-09-08T08:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/galactic-horrors-6264033/60-astronauts-entered-the-singularity-engine-only-one-body-came-back","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/galactic-horrors-6264033","url":"https://shows.acast.com/galactic-horrors/episodes/60-astronauts-entered-the-singularity-engine-only-one-body-c","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/66477018b68429001342b9a2/e/6a85ca758b730c47c14b8f92/media.mp3","summary":"Sixty astronauts entered the Singularity Engine. One man came back carrying all of them. Flight neuropsychologist Dr. Hale chose the crew, and now he is the only person who knows them well enough to tell one mind from another. The recovery team can extract each surviving personality from Commander Jack Weston and transfer it into a cloned body. Hale has one job: authenticate the man before the procedure begins. But every extraction makes the minds left inside Weston harder to separate. Memories migrate. Childhoods change owners. Men wake with pieces of lives they never lived, while the boundaries between the remaining identities begin to collapse. Then Hale finds signatures that belong to no one on the crew manifest. With military officials demanding results and families waiting for husbands and fathers to return, Hale must decide what counts as proof of a person when memory, personality, and even grief can be copied. Because if something else crossed the Singularity Engine with the crew, the safest way out may be to become indistinguishable from the people it studied. 🔗 Official Links: The only place to get daily and bonus Galactic Horrors stories with no ads or interruptions is Patreon: 📡 Join Patreon: https://patreon.com/GalacticHorrors Galactic Horrors stories are also available as eBooks on Amazon, with new releases every week: 📚 eBooks: https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B0H2F5M2B3/allbooks 📖 Written by Galactic Horrors ⚠️ Content Ownership Notice All stories, artwork, thumbnails, and animations featured on this channel are original creations of Galactic Horrors. I do not accept or feature submissions from other creators. Unauthorized reproduction, redistribution, or re-uploading of any content from this channel, in any form, is strictly prohibited and constitu…","meta_description":"Sixty astronauts entered the Singularity Engine. One man came back carrying all of them. Flight neuropsychologist Dr. Hale chose the crew, and now he is t…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3659,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/galactic-horrors-6264033/episodes/60-astronauts-entered-the-singularity-engine-only-one-body-came-back/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/galactic-horrors-6264033/60-astronauts-entered-the-singularity-engine-only-one-body-came-back.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}