Escape, 652 and then there were n-1 by Sarah Pinska. Part 1. I'm going to Hello and welcome to Escape Pod your weekly science fiction podcast. I'm

Divia your host for this episode. We're fans of alliteration here so we've

decided to celebrate November with a four-part of And then there were N-minus 1 by Sarah Pinsker.

This story was first published by Uncanny magazine in March 2017.

Sarah Pinsker is the author of the 2015 Nebula Award-winning Novelet, Our Lady of the Open

Road.

Her fiction has been published in numerous magazines, anthologies, and years bests.

Her collection, sooner or later everything falls into the sea, is due out in 2019. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland with her wife and dog and can be found

online at Sarahpinsker.com and at serapinsker on Twitter.

Your narrator is our very own Merlafferty.

Mer is an author and pioneer podcaster who has been involved with escape artists since nearly

the beginning after Sarah E. Lee FedExed brownies to her as a bribe to spread the word about this new podcast magazine format.

She was one of the founding editors of Sudapod, editor of Escape Pod, and founder and

and editor of Mothership Zeta.

She's currently the co-host with Matt Wallace of Ditchdiggers, a Hugo Award winner for Best

Fancast, and the author of the Hugo Finalist novel Six Wakes, as well as

Solo A Star Wars story. Now get ready to see yourself in a whole new way because

it's story time.

And then there were N-1 by Sarah Pinsker. I considered declining the invitation. It was too weird, too expensive, too far too dangerous, too weird, way too weird.

An invitation like that would never come again.

I'd regret it if I didn't go.

It lay on our kitchen table for three weeks while I argued out the pros and cons with Mabel.

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