Termination Shock is a new role-playing game from Greg Stolsey, chronicling your adventures as an ordinary human rescued from hellish war by disorganized aliens.

What will you do as a refugee and a strange Cosmos?

Cling to your past?

Or find a purpose among inscrutable aliens.

Will you just get by?

Or will you redefine humanity in the eyes of a million extraterrestrials?

The choice is yours in this new tabletop game on Kickstarter now. Escape, episode 659, Say Jura, by Haley Stone. I'm going to do. 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 Sejura by Haley Stone.

This story first appeared in Fireside.

Haley Stone is the author of the sci-fi novel Machinations which was chosen as an Amazon Best

Sci-Fi and Fantasy Book of the Year for 2016's.

And her upcoming weird Western novel, Make Me No Grave, is coming soon. and her short fiction and

short fiction and poetry have appeared in fireside fiction

flash fiction online, liminality, and various anthologies.

When not reading or writing, Haley studies history, falls in love with video game characters, and analyzes buildings for velociraptor entry points.

Find her at HN Stone Author.com or on Twitter at Haley underscore Stone

Your narrator this week is Stephanie Malia Morris

Stephanie Malia Morris works in a bookstore by day and a library by night

which gives her access to more books than she can possibly read over several

lifetimes. She is a recipient of the Octavia E Butler Memorial

Scholarship Award and a graduate of the 2017 Clarion West Writers Workshop.

Her short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Faya, Apex,

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