Escape! episode 672. She knits the universe a pink Angora sweater. By Bobalder. Welcome to Artemis

rising. I'm Lisa Yazik your guest host for this episode,

part of our Artemis Rising Month.

I'm a professor in the School of Literature, Media,

and Communication at Georgia Tech,

where I explore science fiction as a global

language crossing centuries, continents, and cultures. My books include Sisters of Tomorrow

the First Women of Science Fiction and The Future is Female, 25 classic science fiction stories by women.

I've spoken about science fiction in the Washington Post Food and Wine magazine and the AMC

miniseries James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction.

Our story this week is She Knits the Universe of Pink Angora Sweater by Bo Balder.

This is an Escape Pot Original. Bo Balder lives and works close to Amsterdam.

Bo is the first Dutch author to have been published in the magazine of fantasy and science fiction and Clark's world.

Her fiction has also appeared in escape pod nature and other places.

Her science fiction novel, The WAN, was published by Pink Narcissus Press. She is a member of

SFWA, Codex writers, and a graduate of viable Paradise.

For more about her work, you can visit her website or find Boa on Facebook.

Your narrator this week is Stephanie Malia Morris.

Stephanie 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 Thea, Apex, and Nightmare.

She has narrated short fiction for Starship sofa,

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