The Oyster’ Is The Hopepunk Fiction Podcast That We All Need Right Now

The Oyster’ Is The Hopepunk Fiction Podcast That We All Need Right Now

The Oyster wants to free your body by trapping your mind.



The Paragon Collective

As 2020 comes and goes, and we're still not gathering in large groups and still screaming inside our hearts, I wanted to take a moment to acknowledge the fiction podcast The Oyster, that for me, best represents the hopepunk future that is getting so many of us through this seemingly never-ending pandemic.

It's an epic science-fiction adventure set in a not too distant future where climate change has ravaged the planet and forced the government to move humanity underground into a place called New Eden. Unfortunately, this government, called the ministry, didn't have enough resources to take everyone with them and so to solve this problem they used a system that assigned a number to each person based on their supposed productivity and worth to society. Those that didn't reach an arbitrary minimum number were cast aside in a traumatic event known as “The Sorting”.

Enter our hero. Logan Browning stars as Hannah Ori who was assigned by the ministry to interview people and record their memories from before the Sorting in order to help humanity go back to the