Escape Pod 1018: Knit Three, Save Four

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Escape Artists Foundation

Fiction, Drama, Science Fiction

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🗓️ 6 November 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Author : Marie Vibbert Narrator : Isabel J. Kim Host : Mur Lafferty Audio Producer : Summer Brooks “Knit Three, Save Four” first appeared in Fantasy & Science Fiction (November 2019) Knit Three, Save Four by Marie Vibbert The ship was two days overdue for docking, more or less. As a stowaway, I didn’t have […]

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0:00.0	EscapePod. Episode 1018.
0:11.7	Nip 3, save 4 by Marie Vibbert. Hello and welcome to EscapePod. I'm Merlaffordy, your host and co-editor. Today's story is
0:45.8	Knit 3, Save 4, by Marie Vivert. Marie Vivert is a Hugo and Nebula finalist, with over 90
0:53.3	stories in top magazines like Clark's World and Analog.
0:57.0	By day, she is a computer programmer in Cleveland, Ohio.
1:01.0	Her latest book, Andre and the Hellcats, came out this year, and it's about a sex-positive sex robot who needs to enlist a spacebiker gang to rescue his sister bot.
1:13.6	Curtis Chen called it murder bot, but make it fashion.
1:17.9	It's narrated for us by Isabel Kemp.
1:21.7	He's a Korean-American speculative fiction writer based in New York City.
1:27.1	He's a Shirley Jackson Award winner, a Hugo Nebula and a Sounding Award finalist, and her short fiction has been
1:28.6	published in Clark's World, Lightspeed, and Strange Horizons, among other venues.
1:33.6	Her work has been reprinted in the Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2023 and
1:38.3	2024, and translated into Chinese and Japanese.
1:42.3	When she's not writing, she's either practicing law
1:44.2	or co-hosting her internet culture podcast,
1:46.9	Wow if True, both equally noble pursuits.
1:51.0	This story was originally published
1:52.9	in fantasy and science fiction back in 2019.
1:57.9	Out your stitches and don't drop any.
1:59.9	It's story time. Knit 3 Save 4 by Marie Vibbert, narrated by Isabel J. Kim.
2:14.6	The ship was two days overdue for docking, more or less. by Isabel J. Kim.
2:21.4	The ship was two days overdue for docking, more or less.
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