Escape Pod 1009: The Combat Pilot’s Dictionary

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Fiction, Drama, Science Fiction

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🗓️ 4 September 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Author : Arden Baker Narrator : Jess Lewis Host : Mur Lafferty Audio Producer : Adam Pracht The Combat Pilot’s Dictionary was originally published in Aurealis #167, Febuary 2024. Wartime action and injury. The Combat Pilot’s Dictionary By Arden Baker Boot Rookie pilot. See also – nugget. You called us ‘boots’ when we turned up to […]

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0:00.0	Content warning. This week's Escape Pod has wartime action and injury.
0:13.2	EscapeBod, Episode 109, the Combat Pilots Dictionary by Arden Baker. Horton raised in Dictionary by Arden Baker.
0:55.5	Born and raised in Melbourne, Australia, Arden Baker is a lapsed translator and emerging
0:59.8	writer of short science fiction and fantasy.
1:02.8	After spending time in China, he returned to his home city where he now works as a consultant
1:07.7	and a language teacher.
1:09.5	In his spare time, he drinks overpriced gin,
1:11.9	brews mead, plays tabletop RPGs,
1:14.6	and runs a small speculative fiction writing collective,
1:17.6	Meridian Australis.
1:19.3	He has a story coming out in an anthology called
1:21.6	Australia 2025 in September,
1:24.8	available through meridian australiusaU.A.U.
1:29.8	It's narrated for us by Jess Lewis.
1:32.5	Jess is a trans, non-binary, and pansexual writer, designer, and voice actor,
1:37.8	who hails from the hollers of Western North Carolina.
1:40.8	They currently live in the Deep South,
1:42.7	where they explore futures of liberation and how to get there.
1:46.0	When they're not imagining weird queer clify utopias, designing future tech, or facilitating capacity-building workshops,
1:54.0	they're organizing programming with their local queer community and the Outer Dark Symposium on the Greater Weird.
2:00.0	Their work has appeared in a range of publications, including Solar Punk Magazine, hyphenpunk, and kaleitrope.
2:06.4	You can see more about them at queerfutures.com.
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