Escape Pod 621: Assistance (Artemis Rising)
Escape Pod
Escape Artists Foundation
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🗓️ 29 March 2018
⏱️ 45 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Escape 621 assistance by Catherine de Faiso. |
| 0:14.8 | Welcome to Artemis Rising. I'm going to Hello and |
| 0:43.0 | welcome to Escape Pod, your weekly science fiction podcast. |
| 0:45.0 | I'm Divya, your host for this final episode |
| 0:49.0 | in our Artemis Rising Month, guest edited |
| 0:52.0 | by Laura Perlman and SK Nash. |
| 0:55.0 | Before we get to this week's story, |
| 0:58.0 | a quick reminder that Escape Pod's Flash Fiction Contest |
| 1:02.0 | will be open for submissions between April 15th and April 30th of this year. |
| 1:08.0 | Polish up those 500 word gems while you still have the time. |
| 1:14.0 | Our story this week is Assistance by Catherine Defazio. |
| 1:19.2 | This is an Escape Pot Original. |
| 1:22.0 | Catherine Defazio has been writing fiction of varying quality since she learned how to hold a pencil, |
| 1:28.0 | incorrectly, as it turned out. |
| 1:30.0 | For about two years, she has been working on backwards compatibility, an original speculative |
| 1:36.3 | fiction universe about a candy-fueled queer robot who escapes his laboratory to find his original programmer. |
| 1:45.0 | At the moment, she is taking time off to work on the second draft of a first novel and the first draft of a second novel. |
| 1:53.0 | According to her mother, she still hasn't learned to hold a pencil properly. |
| 1:58.0 | Catherine lives in Manhattan with her primary partner and step-parent. Your narrator is Summer Brooks. Summer Brooks |
| 2:06.2 | designs and maintains websites for clients and for fun in addition to the slice of |
| 2:12.0 | SciFi websites does voiceover and narrations for Starship |
| 2:16.0 | Sofa, Tales to Terrify, Far-Fetched Fables, and Crime City Central, among others. |
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