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Escape Pod 614: Sparg

Escape Pod

Escape Artists Foundation

Fiction, Drama, Science Fiction

4.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2018

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Author : Brian Trent Narrator : Alasdair Stuart Host : Tina Connolly Audio Producer : Adam Pracht Discuss on Forums “Sparg” was first published in Daily Science Fiction in 2013. Two instances of cursing. Adorable cephalopod in peril. Sparg By Brian Trent Sparg had difficulty making pancakes, but he was trying. In the empty apartment, […]

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Escape Pod, episode 614, Spark by Brian Trent. I'm going to Hello and welcome to a skate fiveod, your weekly science fiction podcast.

0:46.0

I'm your host this week, Tina Connolly, and I am here to bring you

0:51.0

Spark by Brian Trent. This story first appeared in Daviesa.

0:57.0

Brian Trent's speculative fiction has appeared in Analog, Fantasy and Science Fiction, Orson Scott Carr's Intergalactic Medicine show, Escape Pod, Sudapod, Flash Fiction Online, Cosmos, Galaxy's Edge, Nature, and Numerous Year's Best Anthologies.

1:17.0

The author of the historical fantasy series, Rahutep, he is also 2015 Bain Fantasy Adventure Award Finest and Writers of the Future winner.

1:27.0

Trent lives in New England, where he works as a novelist, screenwriter, and poet. His novel 10,000 Thunders is slated for a 2018 release

1:37.9

from Flame Tree Press. His website and blog are located at Brian Trent.com.

1:45.0

You are narrating this week is Alster Stewart.

1:50.0

When Alster Stewart is not hosting Sudapod or running escape artists, he's professionally

1:56.6

enthusiastic about genre fiction. On the internet at places like Tour.com, Barnes and Noble, The Guardian, Uncanny Magazine, SciFi Now, and My

2:07.0

Am Buzz.

2:09.1

He's an Any nominated tabletop RPG writer for his work on Doctor Who, Adventures in Time and Space.

2:17.0

His other RPG writing includes Star Trek, The Laundry Files, Primeval, Victor, all flesh must be eaten, N-E-W-N-T-Till.

2:27.0

Meaning, he's got a playbook for any variety of invasion you can name.

2:32.0

Alistair's first collection of expanded podcast essays, Sudapod Tapes,

2:37.0

is available from Fox Spirit Books, with Volume 2,

2:41.0

Approach with Caution, out in early 2018.

2:45.0

His short stories can be found in the Fox Pocket's anthology series from Fox Spirit,

2:50.0

among other places.

2:52.0

He lives in the UK with the love of his life and their ever expanding

2:56.1

herd of microphones. Follow him on Twitter at Alister Stewart or his blog, The Man of Words.

3:05.0

So get ready to make the pancakes because...

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