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 Oct 2026

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10/20/2026

Average data

Episodes: 185

Frequency: every 26 days

Duration: 00:35:32

Top 5 authors

1. Voyage Media (6 shows)

2. Mark R. Healy (4 shows)

3. GZM Shows (2 shows)

4. Bloody FM (2 shows)

5. Night Vale Presents (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (36 shows)

2. Acast (24 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	734	Audioboom	48
2	Welcome to Night Vale	Night Vale Presents	Fiction	383	Megaphone	53
3	Old Gods of Appalachia	DeepNerd Media	Fiction	148	Acast	69
4	EXTRA ANORMAL Details temporarily unavailable	Paco Arias	Fiction	519	Simplecast	53
5	The SCP Experience	Dr. NoSleep Studios	Fiction	570	Megaphone	59
6	National Emergency	The Midnight Mystery	Fiction	12	Acast	69
7	Shelterwood	Bloody FM	Fiction	30	Megaphone	53
8	The Strata	Mark R. Healy	Fiction	163	Megaphone	58
9	The Road of Shadows	Mark R. Healy	Fiction	65	Acast	63
10	Bloodrock Springs	Mark R. Healy	Fiction	17	Acast	63
11	INSOMNIO	Fepo	Fiction	173	Simplecast	58
12	Matt From Nomad’s	Matt Crabtree	Fiction	121	Spotify for Podcasters	48
13	Wolf 359	Kinda Evil Genius Productions, LLC	Fiction	100	Megaphone	74
14	The Warning Woods \| Horror Stories	Miles Tritle	Fiction	262	Megaphone	38
15	Bunker 8	The Midnight Mystery	Fiction	41	Acast	63
16	The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast - Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories	Scott Miller	Fiction	600	Simplecast	58
17	Unobtainium Podcast	Adam Sigel & Dr. Amy Mainzer	Fiction	21	Acast	89
18	The Void	StillGood Audio Fiction	Fiction	43	Megaphone	73
19	The Left Right Game	QCODE	Fiction	11	Megaphone	78
20	DERELICT	Night Rocket Productions	Fiction	44	Megaphone	53
21	End of All Hope	Bloody FM	Fiction	101	Simplecast	68
22	Station 151	Pale Matter \| Realm	Fiction	45	Megaphone	78
23	Archive 81	Dead Signals	Fiction	51	Libsyn	68
24	Cold Shift	Jaran	Fiction	25	Buzzsprout	58
25	Biome	Alex Zoubine	Fiction	25	RSS.com	52
26	Taking Time	Voyage Media	Fiction	10	Megaphone	73
27	Zephyrus One	David Huston	Fiction	15	RedCircle	73
28	Classic Ghost Stories	Tony Walker	Fiction	395	Megaphone	63
29	Mission To Zyxx	Mission To Zyxx	Fiction	164	Simplecast	63
30	TANIS	Public Radio Alliance	Fiction	65	Libsyn	78
31	La Mano Peluda	Radio Fórmula	Fiction	1276	RSS.com	32
32	The Leviathan Chronicles	Leviathan Audio Productions	Fiction	121	Megaphone	84
33	The Silt Verses	Eskew Productions Ltd	Fiction	56	Acast	84
34	Earth, Again	Wildsky Studios	Fiction	9	Buzzsprout	58
35	Relatos por Santiago Segovia	Campus Originals	Fiction	402	Spotify for Podcasters	22
36	Desert Skies	Jared Carter	Fiction	47	Megaphone	54
37	Havoc Town	iHeartPodcasts	Fiction	14	Omny Studio	53
38	Clarkesworld Magazine	Clarkesworld Magazine	Fiction	1196	Libsyn	43
39	DUST	Gunpowder & Sky	Fiction	47	Acast	74
40	How i Died	Audiohm Media	Fiction	80	Megaphone	48
41	Relatos De Horror (Historias De Terror)	Relatos De Horror	Fiction	2203	Acast	43
42	Last Resort	Voyage Media	Fiction	9	Megaphone	58
43	Midst	Critical Role	Fiction	143	Megaphone	68
44	JeffMara Podcast	Jeff Mara	Fiction	1726	Spotify for Podcasters	22
45	Redwood Bureau	Eeriecast Network	Fiction	122	Megaphone	53
46	The Penumbra Podcast	Harley Takagi Kaner and Kevin Vibert	Fiction	224	Acast	79
47	The Natureverse: Becoming Mother Nature	GZM Shows	Fiction	25	ART19	58
48	Spyology Squad	Mr. Jim and Storybutton	Fiction	711	ART19	69
49	Rabbits	Public Radio Alliance	Fiction	25	Libsyn	58
50	Trader's Tales From the Golden Age of the Solar Clipper	Nathan Lowell \| Scribl	Fiction	124	Megaphone	58
51	Red Valley	Kontinue Productions	Fiction	49	Megaphone	48
52	Escape Pod	Escape Artists Foundation	Fiction	300	Libsyn	43
53	I Am In Eskew	David Ward	Fiction	32	Acast	69
54	Expediente No Humano	Fepo	Fiction	51	Spotify for Podcasters	32
55	Within the Wires	Night Vale Presents	Fiction	120	Megaphone	63
56	Care Protocol — An Original Limited Series	Don McDonald	Fiction	5	Acast	69
57	Harry Potter and The Methods of Rationality Audiobook	Jack Voraces	Fiction	137	Podbean	58
58	VAST Horizon	Fool and Scholar Productions	Fiction	38	Megaphone	69
59	Consumed	iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild	Fiction	13	Omny Studio	73
60	Scott Sigler's Galactic Football League (GFL) Series	Scott Sigler	Fiction	312	Megaphone	68
61	The Mistholme Museum of Mystery, Morbidity, and Mortality	Dominic Guilfoyle	Fiction	74	Acast	89
62	WOE.BEGONE	WOE.BEGONE Industries LLC	Fiction	366	Acast	58
63	Nightingale	GZM Shows	Fiction	22	ART19	73
64	Dead Space: Deep Cover	Bloody FM, EA, Motive Studios	Fiction	15	Simplecast	83
65	Dead America - Zombie Audiobook Series	DerekSlatonAuthor	Fiction	259	RedCircle	48
66	Caso 63	Spotify Studios	Fiction	63	Megaphone	59
67	Entombed	Voyage Media	Fiction	11	Megaphone	73
68	Beyond the Dark	Mark R. Healy	Fiction	18	Acast	63
69	Tiny Terrors	Cole Weavers	Fiction	86	Acast	89
70	Slow Read: OUTLANDER	Sarah Stewart Holland & Laura Tremaine	Fiction	27	Substack	53
71	Apollyon	Observer Pictures \| Realm	Fiction	51	Megaphone	63
72	The Program audio series	IMS \| Writing an audio drama sci-fi anthology about history of the future \| Not at AI	Fiction	44	Acast	74
73	The Space Within	Audible	Fiction	11	ART19	53
74	Darth Theorist	The Sonar Podcast Network	Fiction	117	Acast	79
75	The Liberty Podcast	Fool and Scholar Productions	Fiction	92	Megaphone	68
76	EOS 10	Justin McLachlan and PlanetM	Fiction	40	Podbean	58
77	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	683	Acast	43
78	The Liminal Lands	Waymon Alexander	Fiction	94	Spotify for Podcasters	38
79	Hard Drive	Voyage Media	Fiction	12	Megaphone	73
80	Warhammer 40k Lore to Sleep To	Jacob Slebodnik	Fiction	73	Acast	63
81	The Deca Tapes	Lex Noteboom	Fiction	25	Megaphone	69
82	Three Eyed Theorist	The Sonar Podcast Network	Fiction	117	Acast	79
83	The Infected Trilogy	Scott Sigler	Fiction	95	Megaphone	79
84	Are You Afraid of the Dark Universe? with Dylan & Dalton	Dalton Deschain & Dylan Roth	Fiction	81	Unknown	83
85	Our Wars Have Ended	Eskew Productions	Fiction	10	Acast	84
86	The Phenomenon	Luciola Creative	Fiction	33	Libsyn	63
87	Elucidity	Voyage Media	Fiction	20	Megaphone	73
88	The Critshow	Critshow Studios	Fiction	538	Acast	69
89	Ghost Wax	Far and Tall Tales	Fiction	81	Spreaker	69
90	Yuki: Space Assassin	Sadistic Dreamer	Fiction	60	Libsyn	63
91	Rule of Nines	Ryan Weiler	Fiction	25	RSS.com	58
92	The Grimdark Historian: A Warhammer 40K Lorecast	Dr Jason Edwards	Fiction	251	Transistor	83
93	Saate Sefr Podcast \| پادکست ساعت صفر	Amin Matin	Fiction	94	Acast	73
94	Escaping Denver	Escaping Denver / Curiouscast	Fiction	89	Megaphone	53
95	Fever Dreams: A Pulp Collection	Voyage Media	Fiction	27	Megaphone	42
96	Oakbridge - A Sci-Fi Mystery Audio Drama	97toNow Productions	Fiction	31	Podbean	68
97	The Cryptonaturalist	Jarod K. Anderson	Fiction	69	Blubrry	49
98	The Cleansed: A Post-Apocalyptic Saga	Realm	Fiction	40	Megaphone	58
99	Dirt - An Audio Drama	STUDIO5705	Fiction	50	Megaphone	63
100	LifeAfter/The Message	GE Podcast Theater / Panoply / The Message	Fiction	22	Megaphone	79

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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