Apple Podcast Rankings - USA - Science Fiction

Discover the Top 100 Podcasts in USA

Explore the latest data-driven rankings of the top 100 podcasts in USA. Our comprehensive analysis covers the best Apple Podcasts across various categories, providing insights into the most popular shows, episode lengths, publication frequencies, and leading hosting services. Whether you're a podcast creator or an avid listener, find the top-ranked podcasts that everyone is tuning into right now.

Podcast charts from 20 Sep 2026

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09/20/2026

Average data

Episodes: 192

Frequency: every 23 days

Duration: 00:36:10

Top 5 authors

1. Voyage Media (6 shows)

2. Mark R. Healy (4 shows)

3. Scott Miller (2 shows)

4. QCODE (2 shows)

5. Night Vale Presents (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (41 shows)

2. Acast (21 shows)

3. Libsyn (7 shows)

4. Simplecast (6 shows)

5. Spotify for Podcasters (5 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The NoSleep Podcast	Creative Reason Media	Fiction	730	Audioboom	48
2	Welcome to Night Vale	Night Vale Presents	Fiction	380	Megaphone	53
3	Old Gods of Appalachia	DeepNerd Media	Fiction	144	Acast	69
4	EXTRA ANORMAL Details temporarily unavailable	Paco Arias	Fiction	519	Simplecast	53
5	The SCP Experience	Dr. NoSleep Studios	Fiction	561	Megaphone	59
6	The Strata	Mark R. Healy	Fiction	163	Megaphone	58
7	Matt From Nomad’s	Matt Crabtree	Fiction	107	Spotify for Podcasters	48
8	The Road of Shadows	Mark R. Healy	Fiction	68	Megaphone	69
9	Unobtainium Podcast	Adam Sigel & Dr. Amy Mainzer	Fiction	19	Acast	83
10	Wolf 359	Kinda Evil Genius Productions, LLC	Fiction	100	Megaphone	74
11	The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast - Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories	Scott Miller	Fiction	536	Simplecast	58
12	The Warning Woods \| Horror Stories	Miles Tritle	Fiction	259	Megaphone	38
13	National Emergency	The Midnight Mystery	Fiction	10	Acast	69
14	Last Resort	Voyage Media	Fiction	9	Megaphone	63
15	The Leviathan Chronicles	Leviathan Audio Productions	Fiction	121	Megaphone	84
16	DUST	Gunpowder & Sky	Fiction	47	Acast	74
17	DERELICT	Night Rocket Productions	Fiction	44	Megaphone	53
18	Bloodrock Springs	Mark R. Healy	Fiction	23	Megaphone	58
19	The Left Right Game	QCODE	Fiction	11	Megaphone	78
20	INSOMNIO	Fepo	Fiction	167	Simplecast	58
21	Mission To Zyxx	Mission To Zyxx	Fiction	163	Simplecast	73
22	Bunker 8	The Midnight Mystery	Fiction	40	Acast	63
23	Ghost Wax	Far and Tall Tales	Fiction	76	Spreaker	69
24	La Mano Peluda	Radio Fórmula	Fiction	1252	RSS.com	32
25	TANIS	Public Radio Alliance	Fiction	65	Libsyn	78
26	Archive 81	Dead Signals	Fiction	51	Libsyn	68
27	Taking Time	Voyage Media	Fiction	10	Megaphone	73
28	Desert Skies	Jared Carter	Fiction	47	Megaphone	54
29	Clarkesworld Magazine	Clarkesworld Magazine	Fiction	1196	Libsyn	43
30	Station 151	Pale Matter \| Realm	Fiction	40	Megaphone	78
31	The Void	StillGood Audio Fiction	Fiction	58	Megaphone	79
32	Classic Ghost Stories	Tony Walker	Fiction	391	Megaphone	63
33	The Silt Verses	Eskew Productions Ltd	Fiction	56	Acast	84
34	Relatos De Horror (Historias De Terror)	Relatos De Horror	Fiction	2188	Acast	43
35	The Penumbra Podcast	Harley Takagi Kaner and Kevin Vibert	Fiction	222	Acast	79
36	Harry Potter and The Methods of Rationality Audiobook	Jack Voraces	Fiction	137	Podbean	58
37	Rabbits	Public Radio Alliance	Fiction	25	Libsyn	58
38	Spyology Squad	Mr. Jim and Storybutton	Fiction	709	ART19	69
39	Trader's Tales From the Golden Age of the Solar Clipper	Nathan Lowell \| Scribl	Fiction	124	Megaphone	58
40	Escape Pod	Escape Artists Foundation	Fiction	300	Libsyn	43
41	Redwood Bureau	Eeriecast Network	Fiction	120	Megaphone	53
42	Weird Tales Reborn — Classic Horror & Weird Fiction	Scott Miller	Fiction	3	Simplecast	58
43	Relatos por Santiago Segovia	Campus Originals	Fiction	375	Spotify for Podcasters	22
44	Midst	Critical Role	Fiction	141	Megaphone	68
45	End of All Hope	Bloody FM	Fiction	99	Simplecast	68
46	Scott Sigler's Galactic Football League (GFL) Series	Scott Sigler	Fiction	307	Megaphone	68
47	Expediente No Humano	Fepo	Fiction	42	Spotify for Podcasters	32
48	Biome	Alex Zoubine	Fiction	20	RSS.com	52
49	WOE.BEGONE	WOE.BEGONE Industries LLC	Fiction	360	Acast	58
50	JeffMara Podcast	Jeff Mara	Fiction	1695	Spotify for Podcasters	22
51	Caso 63	Spotify Studios	Fiction	63	Megaphone	59
52	The Deca Tapes	Lex Noteboom	Fiction	25	Megaphone	69
53	The Program audio series	IMS \| Writing an audio drama sci-fi anthology about history of the future \| Not at AI	Fiction	44	Acast	74
54	Darth Theorist	The Sonar Podcast Network	Fiction	85	Acast	79
55	Within the Wires	Night Vale Presents	Fiction	120	Megaphone	63
56	The Mistholme Museum of Mystery, Morbidity, and Mortality	Dominic Guilfoyle	Fiction	74	Acast	89
57	Warhammer 40k Lore to Sleep To	Jacob Slebodnik	Fiction	69	Acast	63
58	The Other Stories \| Sci-Fi, Horror, Thriller, WTF Stories	Hawk & Cleaver \| A Digital Story Studio bringing you the best new stories to watch, read, sniff, and absorb.	Fiction	679	Acast	43
59	Apollyon	Observer Pictures \| Realm	Fiction	49	Megaphone	63
60	Fever Dreams: A Pulp Collection	Voyage Media	Fiction	27	Megaphone	42
61	The Natureverse: Becoming Mother Nature	GZM Shows	Fiction	22	ART19	78
62	Dirt - An Audio Drama	STUDIO5705	Fiction	50	Megaphone	63
63	Entombed	Voyage Media	Fiction	11	Megaphone	73
64	Nightingale	GZM Shows	Fiction	19	ART19	73
65	How i Died	Audiohm Media	Fiction	78	Megaphone	53
66	The 21CD Podcast	The 21CD Podcast	Fiction	181	Audioboom	32
67	Saate Sefr Podcast \| پادکست ساعت صفر	Amin Matin	Fiction	93	Acast	73
68	EOS 10	Justin McLachlan and PlanetM	Fiction	40	Podbean	58
69	I Am In Eskew	David Ward	Fiction	32	Acast	69
70	Three Eyed Theorist	The Sonar Podcast Network	Fiction	85	Acast	79
71	ars PARADOXICA	ars PARADOXICA	Fiction	49	Libsyn	N/A
72	The Liberty Podcast	Fool and Scholar Productions	Fiction	90	Megaphone	73
73	Trap Street	Tony Martinez and Michael P. Greco	Fiction	28	Megaphone	59
74	SADISTIC	Be Afraid	Fiction	169	Acast	48
75	Galactic Horrors	Galactic Horrors	Fiction	756	Acast	53
76	Consumed	iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild	Fiction	13	Omny Studio	73
77	Earth, Again	Wildsky Studios	Fiction	5	Buzzsprout	58
78	Care Protocol — An Original Limited Series	Don McDonald	Fiction	3	Acast	69
79	Starship Excelsior: A Star Trek Fan Audio Drama	Excelsior Productions	Fiction	64	Feedburner	63
80	I Am Echo	Voyage Media	Fiction	22	Megaphone	73
81	Dead America - Zombie Audiobook Series	DerekSlatonAuthor	Fiction	251	RedCircle	48
82	Birds of Empire	QCODE	Fiction	33	Megaphone	63
83	The Call of Cthulhu Mystery Program	Omniverse	Fiction	66	ART19	83
84	Escaping Denver	Escaping Denver / Curiouscast	Fiction	89	Megaphone	53
85	Our Wars Have Ended	Eskew Productions	Fiction	9	Acast	84
86	The Third Threat	Voyage Media	Fiction	16	Megaphone	63
87	Darmok and Jalad at Podcast: Star Trek TNG rewatch	Pickaxe	Fiction	43	Megaphone	52
88	Are You Afraid of the Dark Universe? with Dylan & Dalton	Dalton Deschain & Dylan Roth	Fiction	81	Unknown	83
89	Beyond the Dark	Mark R. Healy	Fiction	19	Megaphone	59
90	The Infected Trilogy	Scott Sigler	Fiction	94	Megaphone	84
91	Yuki: Space Assassin	Sadistic Dreamer	Fiction	59	Libsyn	63
92	Hello From The Hallowoods	William A. Wellman	Fiction	233	Buzzsprout	57
93	VAST Horizon	Fool and Scholar Productions	Fiction	38	Megaphone	69
94	Red Valley	Kontinue Productions	Fiction	48	Megaphone	53
95	The Grimdark Historian: A Warhammer 40K Lorecast	Dr Jason Edwards	Fiction	251	Transistor	83
96	SAYER	Adam Bash	Fiction	110	Unknown	43
97	Amaryllis	Acorn Arts and Entertainment	Fiction	1	Spotify for Podcasters	58
98	Terrores Nocturnos	Terrores Nocturnos	Fiction	395	Megaphone	58
99	LifeAfter/The Message	GE Podcast Theater / Panoply / The Message	Fiction	22	Megaphone	79
100	Crush Depth	J.D. Henning	Fiction	2	RedCircle	48

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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