Escape, 654 and then there were n-1 by Sarah Pinska, part 3. I'm going to Hello and welcome to Escape Pod your weekly science fiction podcast.

I'm Divia your host for this episode.

This week we are pleased to bring you part three of the four-part novella

and then there were N-1 by Sarah Pinsker.

The 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 Sarahpincher.com

or at serpinskiker on Twitter.

Your narrator is our very own Mer Lafferty.

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

She was one of the founding editors of

Pseudopod, editor of Escape Pod, and founder and editor of Mothership Zeta.

She is 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 and also of Solo, a Star Wars Story. Now get ready to see yourself in a whole new light because it's

story time. Back in the hallway I dug into my bag for a pen. I'd normally have taken the

notes while she talked but I'd had a feeling it would have shut her up. Instead of a

pen I came up with a dinner roll I'd taken earlier. I ate it in

two bites. Diving in again, my finger settled on the key card I'd found in the nightclub,

room 517. In the tower I guessed. Might as well check it out. I rode the tower elevator much

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