Welcome to a world where extraordinary superhumans lead (mostly) ordinary lives – one where the superheroes did their jobs too well by ridding the world of supervillains.
All of them. That made it easier for human authorities to deal with regular criminals.
But, what do superheroes do in a world without supervillains (who are no longer trying to kill them and/or conquer the world)? How does any superhuman fit into human society … and how do humans live with them on an equal footing?
Can they?
These are the stories of people caught up in SuperHuman Times.
SuperHuman Times is an anthology podcast in the style of classic radio theatre created in 2006 by Lance Woods and produced by the multiple award-winning Prometheus Radio Theatre. This site provides links to all of the series’ episodes, as well as access to PDFs of short prose adaptations of select episodes and unproduced scripts with original stories.
Thanks for stopping by to keep up with the Times.
Enjoy the show!
| True North MP3 PDF In the series’ pilot episode, a young man discovers the secrets of his parents’ superheroic pasts, as well as a few unsuspected truths about his own “origin story”. | Risk Management Act I MP3 Act II MP3 Act III MP3 Nataliya Tzone, the world’s greatest sorceress-turned-security expert must decide if she can trust her inexperienced but gifted daughters, Nicoleta and Violeta, with security arrangements for an exhibition of magical artifacts. Needless to say, where magic is involved, something disappears. | Close Encounters MP3 PDF After years of writing about other women finding the perfect man, a romance novelist finds the man of her dreams … but not in the way she expected, as he leads her to a revelation from her past. |
| Servant Problem MP3 PDF Butler Nigel Cabot, once man Friday to supervillain safecracker “Knuckles” MacNee, is remembered by his late ex-employer in an unexpected way – unfortunately, it arrives as he’s planning an important affair for his current employer. | Dashing Act I MP3 Act II MP3 Act III MP3 A debonair, arrogant, superhuman film actor must switch identities with a nerdy special effects expert when the nerd experiences amnesia and believes himself to be the actor’s super-spy character. Their mission: find out who’s trying to damage the actor way beyond his ability to heal. | Once Upon a Times MP3 PDF The SuperHuman Times reporter Kevin Dunbar is sent on an assignment to find someone his publisher encountered during his own reporting days – but he’ll have to go back 40 years to do it. |
| Executive Privilege Madame Speaker, the President of the United States. | Flight Risk A retired superhuman flight instructor is recruited by the government to observe and train a suspected assassin how to fly, with unexpected results. (Note: This story precedes the events of the novel Heroic Park.) | No Good Deed A researcher who’s desperate to test his revolutionary serum on a human subject gets advice from an unexpected volunteer: a dying ex-supercriminal. |
| Nothing to See Here A superhuman once renowned for his heroics using invisibility has stayed invisible for 30+ years following a tragic loss, but a visiting psychiatrist tries to convince him to “return”. |  | Print the Legend Times reporter Kevin Dunbar accompanies a superhuman friend to a comic-book convention to help negotiate a book deal for her, meets a beautiful artist who harbors an unusual family secret and becomes a murder suspect when a superhuman he wrote unflattering things about turns up dead. (Note: This story precedes the events of the novel Heroic Park.) |
Wow!
There’s even a novel!
Read the first five chapters!
SuperHuman Times 