Escape Pod 1042: More Tomorrow (Flashback Friday)

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Fiction, Science Fiction, Drama

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🗓️ 23 April 2026

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Author : Premee Mohamed Narrator : Dani Daly Host : Mur Lafferty Audio Producer : Summer Brooks “More Tomorrow” was first published in Automata Review, March 2018, and previously published as Escape Pod 713, in January 2020. A few grade-A curses. More Tomorrow By Premee Mohamed DAY 5 Anyway, it turns out trilobites aren’t very […]

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0:00.0	EscapePod, episode 142, more tomorrow, by Primi Mohamed.
0:08.0	Flashback Friday. Hi there. Welcome to Escape Pod. I'm Merlaffertie, your host and co-editor. Today's flashback is More Tomorrow by Primi Mohamed. Primi is formerly the social
0:40.0	media manager and assistant editor here at EscapePod and is an Indo-Caribbean scientist and
0:45.9	speculative fiction author based in Edmonton, Alberta. It's narrated for us by Danny Daly.
0:53.2	Danny is a jack of many trades, master of none.
0:56.1	But seeing as she loves the rogue life, that's okay with her.
0:59.6	You can hear stories she's narrated on all four escape artist podcasts, Starship Sofa, Glitter Ship, and Asimov's science fiction podcast.
1:09.0	This story originally ran in Otama Review in 2018 and then an escape pod
1:14.6	reprinting it in 2020. So get your tastiest trilobite seasoning ready at story time.
1:27.2	More Tomorrow by Primi Muhammad, read by Danny Daly.
1:34.3	Day 5.
1:36.7	Anyway, it turns out trilobites aren't very good eating, even if you haven't eaten in days.
1:43.2	I had particularly high hopes for the fat, humped asaphids, thinking they would taste like
1:48.7	shrimp, but everything I've caught so far is strictly armor and attitude. Plus they bite.
1:57.5	Discovered this morning that if you just hoik a trilobite in the fire and assume terminal temperature,
2:03.2	it crawls out and shakes itself off like a little tank.
2:08.8	Complete decapitation required.
2:12.7	Paper idea.
2:14.1	Mechanisms of apparent trilobite invincibility.
2:18.9	They're not strictly aquatic either. They're not strictly aquatic either.
2:21.6	They come right up on land and look at you
2:24.0	while you're eating their friends.
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