Escape Pod 1015: Space Pirate Queen of the Ten Billion Utopias

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Fiction, Drama, Science Fiction

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🗓️ 16 October 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Author : Elly Bangs Narrator : Christiana Ellis Host : Mur Lafferty Audio Producer : Summer Brooks “Space Pirate Queen of the Ten Billion Utopias” was first published in Lightspeed Magazine in November 2021 Copious amounts of casual strong language. This story was written in the summer of 2020, while the police were rioting and […]

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0:00.0	Warning, this episode of EscapePod has F-bombs galore.
0:05.0	EscapePod!
0:10.0	EscapePod! Episode
0:15.0	15. Space Pirate Queen of the 10 Billion Utopias. By Elie Bangs. Hi there, welcome to escape pot. I'm Merlaffertie, your host and co-editor. Today's story is
0:51.8	Base Pirate Queen of the 10 Bill billion utopias by Ellie Bangs.
0:56.2	Ellie Bangs lives in Seattle, where she rides a bicycle and fixes machines.
1:01.5	Her post-apocalyptic cyberpunk novel, Unity, is available in bookstores and libraries near
1:06.5	you. It's narrated for us by podcasting legend Christiana Ellis.
1:11.9	Christiana is an award-winning writer and podcaster living in Massachusetts.
1:16.2	She's the author of Nina Kimberly the Merciless, Space Casey, and Phyllis Esposito
1:20.8	Interdimensional Private Eye, and she can often be found running a variety of tabletop,
1:25.9	role-playing games on our Twitch stream
1:27.6	and podcast, so many levels.
1:30.9	This story originally ran in Lightspeed magazine,
1:33.6	2021.
1:35.5	They'll be ready to jump on the story
1:37.5	when it comes. Visit story time. Space Pirate Queen of the Ten Billion Utopias by Ellie Bangs,
1:55.3	narrated by Christiana Ellis.
2:01.6	Ursa Major got right the fuck out of our universe on the very afternoon she learned there were other options.
2:09.6	It was the lucky break of her life that she just happened to be there, a short sprint from one of those points where the alien ather train briefly punched
2:19.3	through into our world. A multi-dimensional mechanical worm intersecting our reality as a rush of
2:27.3	vaguely boxcar-like shapes strung between entry and exit portals, 30 odd feet above one suburb or another, a cornfield, a strip
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