It's Storytime with Wil Wheaton

It's Storytime with Wil Wheaton

You may recognize Wil Wheaton's name from his acting work in television shows like The Big Bang Theory, Leverage, and Star Trek: The Next Generation, or 1985's timeless classic, Stand By Me. You may recognize his voice from one of the many audio books he's narrated, including number one New York Times bestseller, Ready Player One, John Scalzi's award-winning Collapsing Empire Trilogy, or even his own bestselling memoir, Still Just A Geek. Beginning on March 26th, Wil brings you It's Storytime with Wil Wheaton, a weekly audiobook podcast, featuring stories that Wil loves, pulled from the pages of Uncanny, Lightspeed, On Spec, and others. You're going to meet authors you don't yet know you love, including some who are being narrated for the very first time. Listeners will travel through time, meet some gods, watch people fall in and out of love, and more, brought to life by Wil's remarkable narrative voice.

Episodes

July 15, 2026 49 mins
Wil sits down with Andrea Chapela. Wil previously read Andrea’s story, As One Listens to the Rain, on the show which dropped on May 20, 2026 It's Storytime was produced in 2025 by Traveler Enterprises, Inc., who holds the copyright. Our producer is Harris Lane. Our Story Producer and Director is Gabrielle de Cuir. Our Content Editor is Michael Thomas. Our Podcast is mixed, edited, and mastered by Alex Barton of PhaseShift AV...
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Wil sits down with Maria Dong. Wil previously read Maria’s story, The Frankly Impossible Weight of Han, on the show which dropped on April 1, 2026.  To learn more about the author, please visit: https://www.mariadong.com/ It's Storytime was produced in 2025 by Traveler Enterprises, Inc., who holds the copyright. Our producer is Harris Lane. Our Story Producer and Director is Gabrielle de Cuir. Our Content Editor is Mi...
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July 1, 2026 60 mins
"Anchorage" by Samantha Mills, narrated by Wil Original Publication Credit: Uncanny Magazine, Issue 36, September/October 2020 To learn more about this author, visit: https://samtasticbooks.com/ It's Storytime was produced in 2025 by Traveler Enterprises, Inc., who holds the copyright. Our producer is Harris Lane. Our Story Producer and Director is Gabrielle de Cuir. Our Content Editor is Michael Thomas. Our Podcast is mixed, ed...
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June 24, 2026 42 mins
Wil sits down with Lavie Tidhar. Wil previously read Lavie’s story, The Portal Keeper on the show which dropped on May 13, 2026.  To learn more about the author, please visit: https://lavietidhar.wordpress.com/  It's Storytime was produced in 2025 by Traveler Enterprises, Inc., who holds the copyright. Our producer is Harris Lane. Our Story Producer and Director is Gabrielle de Cuir. Our Content Editor is Michael ...
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"If the Martians Have Magic" by P. Djèlí Clark, narrated by Wil Original Publication Credit: Uncanny Magazine Issue Forty-Two It's Storytime was produced in 2025 by Traveler Enterprises, Inc., who holds the copyright. Our producer is Harris Lane. Our Story Producer and Director is Gabrielle de Cuir. Our Content Editor is Michael Thomas. Our Podcast is mixed, edited, and mastered by Alex Barton of PhaseShift AV. Special thanks to ...
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June 10, 2026 55 mins
Wil sits down with Daniel H. Wilson. Wil previously read Daniel’s story "SuperMAX" on the show which dropped on March 18, 2026.  To learn more about the author, please visit: https://www.danielhwilson.com/  It's Storytime was produced in 2025 by Traveler Enterprises, Inc., who holds the copyright. Our producer is Harris Lane. Our Story Producer and Director is Gabrielle de Cuir. Our Content Editor is Michael Thoma...
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June 3, 2026 52 mins
“Teeth" by Kemi Ashing-Giwa, narrated by Wil Original Publication Credit: Kaleidotrope (2025) It's Storytime was produced in 2025 by Traveler Enterprises, Inc., who holds the copyright. Our producer is Harris Lane. Our Story Producer and Director is Gabrielle de Cuir. Our Content Editor is Michael Thomas. Our Podcast is mixed, edited, and mastered by Alex Barton of PhaseShift AV. Special thanks to Wes Stevens and Christophe...
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Wil sits down with Mary Robinette Kowal. He also reads a piece of her flash fiction, “With Her Serpent Locks”  Content warning: the episode contains sounds of rumbling and thunder, and mention of snakes. To learn more about this author, please visit: https://maryrobinettekowal.com/ It's Storytime was produced in 2025 by Traveler Enterprises, Inc., who holds the copyright. Our producer is Harris Lane. Our Story ...
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"As One Listens to the Rain" by Andrea Chapela, narrated by Wil Original Publication Credit: Uncanny (2022) translated by Emma Törzs Original Spanish published by Editorial Almadía (2020) as part of the short story collection “Ansibles, perfiladores y otras máquinas de ingenio” It's Storytime was produced in 2025 by Traveler Enterprises, Inc., who holds the copyright. Our producer is Harris Lane. Our Story Producer a...
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"The Portal Keeper” by Lavie Tidhar, narrated by Wil Original Publication Credit:  Uncanny Magazine, 2022 (text) Uncanny Magazine, 2022 (audio) The Year’s Best Fantasy: Volume 2 (text and audio) Podcastle, 2024 (audio) To learn more about the author, please visit: https://lavietidhar.wordpress.com/  It's Storytime was produced in 2025 by Traveler Enterprises, Inc., who holds the copyright. Our producer ...
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May 6, 2026 47 mins
"Phoenix Tile" by Guan Un, narrated by Wil Original Publication Credit: Khoreo (including audio version): https://www.khoreomag.com/fiction/phoenix-tile/  To learn more about the author, please visit: https://guanun.com/  It's Storytime was produced in 2025 by Traveler Enterprises, Inc., who holds the copyright. Our producer is Harris Lane. Our Story Producer and Director is Gabrielle de Cuir. Our Content Editor is Mic...
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"To Carry You Inside You" by Tia Tashiro, narrated by Wil Today, we are going to visit a future where child actors are still exploited, still used up and discarded, facing an adult life without purpose, that they were never prepared for, because nobody cared what happened to them past an arbitrary age.We will meet a young woman who is doing her best to assemble the pieces of a stolen childhood into a fulfilling adult life. It isn'...
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"Bird-Girl Builds a Machine" by Hannah Yang, narrated by Wil Today, we have a beautiful story for you that is all about love, specifically the kind of love we have for our children. And when we're finished, I think you'll want to hug your kids, or reach out and tell them you love them. I know that I did. This is: Bird Girl Builds A Machine. Original Publication Credit: Clarkesworld Magazine To learn more about the author, plea...
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April 15, 2026 33 mins
"Heathman Ldg" by Brian Evenson, narrated by Wil A splashing fountain in the center court of a mall with fully stocked stores but no shoppers, muzak cheerfully playing for an audience of none. A paper ticket in your hand, in an airport departure lounge that hasn't seen a passenger in fifty years, the board still updating flight information, with whirling letters. The front desk in the empty hotel lobby, an abandoned ciga...
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"The Nine Scents of Sorrow" by Jordan Taylor, narrated by Wil This week's story features one of history's memorable, real-life villains, and while this isn't her story, directly, when she tells it, she is the hero, and so very, very justified. And as much as I hate it, I gotta tell you that she isn't wrong.  Original Publication Credit: Uncanny Magazine Issue 35, July 2020 To learn more about the author, please visit: https...
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"The Frankly Impossible Weight of Han" by Maria Dong, narrated by Wil As long as we've existed, humans have told each other stories to understand and interpret the world around us. There are as many different myths about the sun and the moon as there are different cultures and mythmakers, in some places, even the wind gets a name and a backstory from the ancient artists who sought to understand our natural world.I've always been d...
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“End of Play” by Chelsea Sutton, narrated by Wil To learn more about the author, please visit: https://www.chelseasutton.com/ To purchase The Body audiobook, please click here: https://bit.ly/3NZd3DT Audio excerpt courtesy of Simon & Schuster Audio from The Body by Stephen King, read by Wil Wheaton. Copyright © 1982 by Stephen King. Used with permission of Simon & Schuster, Inc.  It's Storytime was prod...
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March 18, 2026 67 mins
"SuperMAX" by Daniel H. Wilson, narrated by Wil One of the biggest lies set into the foundation of America is that we are the land of the free, a nation of fair and impartially adjudicated laws that seeks not to punish, but to rehabilitate, the almost two million of our citizens we imprison, some of them in conditions so horiffic, they shock the conscience.Let's imagine a future together, one in which crime and punishment are hand...
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March 11, 2026 42 mins
"Notes From a Pyre" by Amal Singh, narrated by Wil In just a moment, I will take you to the far future, where we will meet a dead man who spent his life traveling the universe, chronicling the grieving and funerary practices of extra-terrestrial species. It turns out that death, and grief, and loss, aren't just human conditions; they are literally universal experiences. His grandson, no stranger to his own grief and loss, has pick...
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“The God of Minor Troubles” by Megan Chee, narrated by Wil This is a re-release from season one of the podcast. We have also added the original Coda from Wil to the back of the episode, which is a weekly Patreon exclusive for every episode.  To learn more about the author, please visit:  https://meganchee.carrd.co/ It's Storytime was produced in 2025 by Traveler Enterprises, Inc., who holds the copyright. O...
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