Escape, episode 655. And then there were N-1 by Sarah Pinska, part 4. I'm going to Hello and welcome to a sleep pot, your weekly science fiction podcast.

I am your host this week, Tina Connolly, and I am here to bring you

part four, the final installment of

and then there were N-1 by Sarah Pinsker.

This story first appeared in Unkhand.

Serapinsker 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 sea is due out in 2019.

She lives in Baltimore, Maryland

with her wife and dog

and can be found online at SarahPincker.com and at Sarah Pinsker on Twitter.

Your narrator is our very own Mer Lafferty.

Mer is an author and pioneer podgaster who has been involved with a

state artist since nearly the beginning. She was one of the founding editors of

Pseudopod, editor of a skate pod for a time, and then founder and editor of Mothership Zeta, the Quarterly E-Zine

for Escape Artists.

She is currently the co-host with Matt Wallace of Ditch Diggers, a Hugo Award winner for Best

franchise and the author of the Hugo Finalist novel Six Wakes and

Solo a Star Wars store.

So get ready to see yourself in a whole new way because

it's story time.

Back in my room, I stripped my wet clothes off and replaced them with another t-shirt and boxer shorts. The whiskey didn't do the job I'd hoped it would.

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