Escape Pod 1005: When the Oracle Speaks (Part 1 of 2)
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🗓️ 7 August 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | EscapePod. Episode 1005 When the Oracle speaks by Albert Chu, part one of two. Hello and welcome to Escape Pod, your weekly science fiction podcast. |
| 0:44.1 | I'm Valerie Valdez, your host for this episode. |
| 0:47.6 | Our story this week is When the Oracle Speaks by Albert Chu. |
| 0:52.6 | This story was originally published in Metaphorosis in July |
| 0:55.9 | 2023. It will be presented in two parts. Albert Chew's speculative fiction has appeared in |
| 1:02.7 | F&SF, Podcastle, Fusion Fragment, and other venues. He writes fiction that transposes the ordinary |
| 1:09.1 | concerns of his life into fantastic settings filled with lasers and magic. |
| 1:15.6 | Our narrator, Hugo Jackson, is an author and streamer on the east coast of the USA. |
| 1:21.3 | Born in the UK, they moved to the U.S. to be with their partner and has since published the first three novels of a five-book young adult fantasy series, The Resonance Tetralogy, through inspired Quill. They also |
| 1:32.9 | stream semi-regularly on Twitch, username Pangolin Fox, and run a yearly charity stream on |
| 1:39.0 | World Pangalind Day to raise money for one of their favorite animals, the aforementioned |
| 1:43.3 | pangolin. |
| 1:50.8 | Now, get ready for destiny to bring two people together, because it's story time. |
| 2:03.0 | When the Oracle Speaks by Albert Chu, narrated by Hugo Jackson. |
| 2:12.1 | One year after the war's end, the royal court welcomed a hundred orphaned boys into our ranks. |
| 2:17.8 | They flew into the city's spaceport by shuttle, and proceeded up the hill on the backs of the court's own palanquin bearers. Upon entering the palace grounds, they received the speeches and banquets we |
| 2:23.2 | held in honour of their noble suffering. The boys, hailing from the kingdom's most war-torn moon, |
| 2:30.1 | had lost everything, but now their days of hardship were over. They had become esteemed wards |
| 2:37.1 | of the House of Hussam. After a few days, though, people in the court whispered of something else. |
| 2:44.1 | The cooks and dressing girls repeated the same rumour, did you hear, one of the new boys |
| 2:49.1 | can see the future. The ministers and generals who should |
| 2:52.6 | have held themselves above idle gossip indulged in speculation. If this is true, could the boy be |
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