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* May 2, 2024

Genres: Artificial Intelligence, Dystopia, Robot, Superhero, Technology

ESCAPE POD 939: VARIANT COVER: PANTONE SUNSET

* Author : Marie Vibbert
* Narrator : Rebecca Wei Hsieh
* Host : Alasdair Stuart
* Audio Producer : Adam Pracht

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ALTERNATE COVER: PANTONE SUNSET

BY MARIE VIBBERT

Stacey reads a comic book. It’s about a robot lady, but not like her. This
robot lady has exposed gears and metal rods in her arms and wears a metallic
bikini as she solves crimes. The colors are otherworldly. Sometimes the red
ink bleeds sideways or the blue shifts toward the bottom of the page. Stacey
loves the feeling that every image is made of transparent layers. She imagines
soft films of yellow, red, and blue gently wafting down onto the black and
white.

Stacey isn’t supposed to be reading the comic book. Her existence is devoted to
the proper display and peddling of women’s casual separates for the upscale
consumer. When she isn’t in the window posing, she is assisting customers or
straightening stock–which means undoing the chaos the customers do to the shop.
They do a lot. The comic book itself had been left by a customer, on a pedestal
displaying the new winter sweaters, with a half-drunk coffee and some cheese
doodles. (Continue Reading…)

* April 25, 2024

Genres: Technology

ESCAPE POD 938: CHUG THE TEA LEAVES, CHUCK THE ADS

* Author : Tim Chawaga
* Narrator : James Kaku Pierson
* Host : Mur Lafferty
* Audio Producer : Summer Brooks

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CHUG THE TEA LEAVES, CHUCK THE ADS

BY TIM CHAWAGA

I wake up to a message and a certain intuition that my first ad of the day will
be for Bubble Fresh.

I can almost see it, flashing through my MindzEye, just in time for me to grab a
pack at the newsstand. Bubble Fresh Gum on my morning commute always means it
will be a good day. The question is what kind of good, and the answer is in the
flavor: Spearmint for promotion, Juicymint for romance.

(Continue Reading…)

* April 18, 2024

Genres: Aliens, Space

ESCAPE POD 937: PUNK VOYAGER (FLASHBACK FRIDAY)

* Author : Shaenon K. Garrity
* Narrator : Nathaniel Lee
* Hosts : Valerie Valdes and Norm Sherman
* Audio Producers : Summer Brooks and Mat Weller

Escape Pod 937: Punk Voyager (Flashback Friday) is an Escape Pod original.

A copious amount of harsh language.

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PUNK VOYAGER

BY SHAENON K. GARRITY

Punk Voyager was built by punks. They made it from beer cans, razors, safety
pins, and a surfboard some D-bag had left on the beach. Also plutonium. Where
did they get plutonium? Around. f*** you.

The punks who built Punk Voyager were Johnny Bonesaw, Johnny Razor, Mexican
Johnny D-bag, Red Viscera, and some other guys. No, asshole, nobody remembers
what other guys. They were f***ing wasted, these punks. They’d been drinking
on the San Diego beach all day and night, talking about making a run to Tijuana
and then forgetting and punching each other. They’d built a fire on the beach,
and all night the fire went up and went down while the punks threw beer cans at
the seagulls.

Forget the s*** I just said, it wasn’t the punks who did it. They were f***ing
punks. The hell they know about astro-engineering? Truth is that Punk Voyager
was the strung-out masterpiece of Mexican Johnny D-bag’s girlfriend, Lacuna, who
had a doctorate in structural engineering. Before she burned out and ran for
the coast, Lacuna was named Alice McGuire and built secret nuclear submarines
for a government contractor in Ohio. It sucked. But that was where she got the
skills to construct an unmanned deep-space probe. Same principle, right? Keep
the radiation in and the water out. Or the vacuum of space, whatever, it’s all
the same s*** to an engineer.

(Continue Reading…)

* April 11, 2024

Genres: Apocalyptic, Technology

ESCAPE POD 936: OLD PEOPLE’S FOLLY (PART 2 OF 2)

* Author : Nora Schinnerl
* Narrator : Tatiana Grey
* Host : Tina Connolly
* Audio Producer : Adam Pracht

Old People’s Folly originally appeared in Future Science Fiction Digest, Sept.
2021.

Homophobia. Parental abuse.

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OLD PEOPLE’S FOLLY (PART 2 OF 2)

BY NORA SCHINNERL

(…Continued from Part 1)

Kite was still curled into a bundle of blankets in front of the stove when Setti
woke. The old woman sniffed, torn between surprise and annoyance. She’d have
figured him for a quitter, sneaking out before dawn to escape the work. That’s
what she’d have done when she was his age. Not like Setti was in any shape to
chase after him. But he’d stayed and now she was stuck with him, just like she
was stuck with her ghost. There was a thought to cheer her up in the morning.

“Ey, boy.”

The bundle of blankets stirred, then Kite woke with a start. The bruise on his
face looked worse in the harsh morning light, his cheek all swollen and purple.
From the way he winced, it wasn’t the only one either. Setti dropped a bowl of
oats on the table for him.

“About time you start working for your food.” (Continue Reading…)

* April 4, 2024

Genres: Apocalyptic, Technology

ESCAPE POD 935: OLD PEOPLE’S FOLLY (PART 1 OF 2)

* Author : Nora Schinnerl
* Narrator : Tatiana Grey
* Host : Tina Connolly
* Audio Producer : Adam Pracht

Old People’s Folly originally appeared in Future Science Fiction Digest, Sept.
2021.

Homophobia. Parental abuse.

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OLD PEOPLE’S FOLLY (PART 1 OF 2)

BY NORA SCHINNERL

Setti knew the woman for a ghost the moment she appeared. It was the pink hair
that gave her away, short and spiky. Real people didn’t have hair like that.
Also, you couldn’t see the scratchmarks on Setti’s kitchen table through real
people’s torsos.

“The hell?” was the first thing the ghost said. Setti’s grandfather had tried to
tell her ghost stories when she was a kid, a long time ago, but he’d had a habit
of smoking and drinking too, so none of the stories had ever made any sense and
Setti didn’t like unannounced visitors.

“Get out of my house,” Setti demanded.

“Um,” the ghost answered, staring at Setti with her eyes rimmed in thick black
mascara, then held holding up a placating hand. “Okay. Just let me find—”

The ghost blinked out of existence. (Continue Reading…)

* March 28, 2024

Genres: Aliens, Humor, Space

ESCAPE POD 934: THE ALIEN IN MY BATHTUB

* Author : Tony Dunnell
* Narrator : Bryce Dahle
* Host : Alasdair Stuart
* Audio Producer : Summer Brooks

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SHOW NOTES

If you aren’t familiar with Locus Magazine, they’re a respected website,
magazine, award, archive, and resource for SF, fantasy, and horror.

They put on the annual Locus Awards, a top-tier award that recognizes new,
diverse, and excellent voices in speculative fiction.

They tell the storytellers’ stories through author interviews, book reviews,
curated reading lists, international industry news, obituaries, and more.

Locus is holding their regular fundraising drive to keep their doors open,
lights on, and future bright. Explore the campaign and wonderful reward tiers on
their website!

Thank you!

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THE ALIEN IN MY BATHTUB

BY TONY DUNNELL

The alien in my bathtub refused to leave. It was there when I returned to my
apartment in Ring B. It ignored me when I asked it to vacate the premises, and
when I enquired as to how it had entered my apartment it replied with a
dismissive grunt. I had no intention of trying to remove it by physical force,
which would have gone against the most basic rules of human-alien etiquette.
And, to be honest, I didn’t want to touch it. So, I called Station Relations. I
waited and watched as the spindly creature splashed around. The water was greasy
and tinted green with the entire contents of the luxury exfoliating scrub I had
ordered from Earth a week ago, at no small expense.

(Continue Reading…)

* March 21, 2024

Genres: Queer, Romance, Space, Technology

ESCAPE POD 933: SUMMITTING THE MOON

* Author : Pragathi Bala
* Narrator : S.B. Divya
* Host : Mur Lafferty
* Audio Producer : Adam Pracht

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SUMMITTING THE MOON

BY PRAGATHI BALA

T-7 days

The moon Landed, the Rut appeared, home equity plummeted, jobs disappeared, and
Ghis liked riding the moon. It was the last item on this tragic list that her
wife couldn’t accept. It was the leaf that broke the whale’s back or something
similar.

“It’s the last time, Max,” Ghis said. “I promise.”

Max rolled her eyes and blew cigarette smoke out the window. The pungent vapor
followed the wind back into the house a second later. On another night years
ago, Max had stood at that window on a full moon night with the light caressing
her profile as she looked out at the landscape with a hopeful expression. But
there were no more moonlit nights, and Max was no longer the hopeful woman Ghis
once knew.

“I’m not lying this time,” Ghis said. (Continue Reading…)

* March 14, 2024

Genres: Aliens, Crime, Mystery, Queer, Space

ESCAPE POD 932: THE WALKING MIRROR OF THE SOUL

* Author : Renan Bernardo
* Narrator : Julia Rios
* Host : Valerie Valdes
* Audio Producer : Summer Brooks

This story was originally published at Apex Magazine #134 in December 2022.

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THE WALKING MIRROR OF THE SOUL

BY RENAN BERNARDO

My desire was written all over Halcyon’s torso, a shimmering tattoo composed of
my thoughts and the Vonkrai’s crusted skin.

{Tell Vitória you know.}

Luckily, we were alone in Teresa Station’s investigation room, so no one could
read it. I was uneasy, palms sweating, tapping my feet on the floor. Normally, I
met Vonkrai in restaurants, in the sightseeing deck or in the human-Vonkrai
gatherings and conferences to restate our decade-long commercial and cultural
partnership. In those places, their bodies were scrawled with everyone’s
thoughts in a mess of unidentifiable and overlapping scribbles translated from
human minds to Vonkrai bodies. Latin, Gujarati, Hangul, Cyrillic, Nsibidi,
Arabic, and dozens of others from the Teresa Station human population. Mingled
with our bulky and confusing thoughts, the Vonkrai’s own dot-like script were
scattered all over their bodies, words and logograms hopping from body to body,
untraceable even for those who knew how to read Vonkraish.

But now, my mind glared back at me from their body like a damn accusation. It
was hard to even follow the Detective 101 tips, like maintaining eye contact and
interpreting body language. On the other hand, those things wouldn’t really work
with Vonkrai—or they would be hard enough even for me, Isabela Cardoso, Teresa
Station’s only investigator.

(Continue Reading…)

* March 7, 2024

Genres: Genetic Engineering, Technology

ESCAPE POD 931: THE RHYTHMS OF THE WORLD

* Author : Johnny Caputo
* Narrator : Abra Staffin-Wiebe
* Host : Tina Connolly
* Audio Producer : Adam Pracht

The Rhythms of the World originally appeared in Mithila Review, Issue 16, July
2022.

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THE RHYTHMS OF THE WORLD

BY JOHNNY CAPUTO

As always, we’re starving to death.

From our place inside the leather pouch tied to Aamsaa’s belt, our two remaining
stalks ache with hunger, barely able to hold our withered green-spotted spore
caps upright. We reach down with what’s left of our network of hyphal tendrils,
hoping to lap up any remaining contaminants from the patch of poisoned soil
Aamsaa found last week, but there’s nothing left. No scraps of heavy metals or
drops of industrial toxins. We’ve consumed it all. And if Aamsaa doesn’t find
more food for us soon, we’re as good as dead.

What can we say? Toxic pollution isn’t as easy to come by as it once was.
(Continue Reading…)

* February 29, 2024

Genres: Dystopia, Robot

ESCAPE POD 930: FULFILLMENT IN PURPOSE

* Author : Jack Windeyer
* Narrator : Matt Dovey
* Host : Alasdair Stuart
* Audio Producer : Summer Brooks

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SHOW NOTES

Zima Blue

Zima Blue episode of Love, Death & Robots

Get Excited and Make Things!

Ezekiel’s speech from The Walking Dead Season 8 Episode 4: And Yet I Smile

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FULFILLMENT IN PURPOSE

BY JACK WINDEYER

Eland was resetting his mother’s balancing sculptures when Hexben ran in from
the storage room. The robot tilted its long head down while still making eye
contact, managing a look of consternation despite its rigid, expressionless
face.

“What?” Eland snapped.

“You should be packing those into boxes,” Hexben said without inflection. “Our
lease ends next week.”

“Exactly,” Eland said. “It doesn’t end today.”

Hexben deepened the tilt of its head so far that its chin touched its chest in a
spot where the paint was well-worn away.

“One big sale could change everything,” Eland said, looking back at his work.
“We could renew the lease for six months with a single sale.”

(Continue Reading…)

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