Escape Pod, episode 628, the endangered Camp, by Anne Lecky. I'm Hello and welcome to Escape Pod your weekly science fiction podcast.

I'm Divia, your host for this episode.

Our story this week is The Endangered Camp by Anne Lucky, it was first published in 2009 in the anthology,

Clockwork Phoenix 2, edited by Mike Allen.

Ann Lecky is the author of the Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clark Award-winning novel,

Ancillary Justice.

She is also an alumna of Escape Artists, having been the assistant editor of

Podcasts for its founding years. Her Hugo-nominated novel Providence will be

available in paperback this July.

Your narrator this week is Iba Armancas.

Iba is a writer director currently based in Los Angeles. Her darkly comedic genre

sensibilities are showcased in two web series and a feature film forthcoming

later this year. One day she will find time to make a website.

But in the meantime, you can follow her projects

and adventures on Twitter or Instagram.

Now, get ready for some interesting space travel

because it's story time.

The Endangered Camp After the Terrible Push to Be Free of the Earth was passed, we could stand again.

In a while the engineers had said everything would float but for now we were still

accelerating. We were eight in the small round room though there were others in the skyboat

engineers and Nes guardians examining the eggs we had brought to see how many had been lost in the crushing upward flight.

But we ate stood, watching the world recede.

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