Escape God, episode 640. at 640 Paradise Regained by Edward Lerner. I'm going to Hello and welcome to Escape Pod, your weekly science fiction podcast.

I am your host this week, Tina Connolly, and I am here to bring you Paradise Regained by Edward M. Lerner

This story first appeared in analog.

Edward M. Lerner worked in high-tech and aerospace for 30 years as everything from engineer to senior vice president for much of that time writing science fiction as a hobby.

Since 2004 he has written full time.

His novels range from near future techno throwers,

like small miracles and energized.

To traditional SF, like Dark Secret and his Interstellar Net series,

to collaborating with Larry Niven, the Space Opera Epic Fleet of World Series of Ring World Companion

Models.

Learner's 2015 series of Ring World Companion novels.

Learner's 2015 novel, Interstellar Neck, Aignigma, won the inaugural Canopus Award

honoring excellence in interstellar writing.

His fiction has also been nominated for Locust, Prometheus, and Hugo awards.

He also writes about science and

technology notably including his 2018 book Tropping the Light Fantastic

the Science Behind the Fiction.

Find him at Edward M learner.

com.

Your narrator this week is this week is Roderick Ost.

Roderick Ost is a voice actor in the Houston area seeking representation.

After years of community theater and online radio plays,

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