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Escape Pod 686: Real Artists (Flashback Friday)

Escape Pod

Escape Artists Foundation

Fiction, Science Fiction, Drama

4.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Author : Ken Liu Narrator : Ann Leckie Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Summer Brooks Discuss on Forums “Real Artists” has been adapted into an Emmy Award-winning short film, now available on Amazon Prime, and check out the Behind the Scenes featurettes on the film’s website 99% Invisible / The Anthropocene Reviewed https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-anthropocene-reviewed/ […]

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Episode

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Episode 686

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Flashback Friday

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Real Artists

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by Ken Lou I'm going to do. Hi everyone. Welcome to this month'sback Friday. This one comes to us from the

0:35.1

always astonishing Ken Lou and first appeared in episode 377. This was a story

0:40.4

Summer's suggested we cover because it's recently been adapted into a short film with the same name.

0:45.9

Real Artists is written and directed by Cameo Wood and some have recently interviewed them about it

0:50.8

for slice of sci-fi. We'll drop a link to both the

0:53.4

interview and the movie for those of you with Prime Access in the show notes.

0:57.2

It's free to watch between now and June 24th, and they're pushing to be featured at

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the Prime Video All Voices Film Festival.

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I hope they made it. It's great work. And thanks to Summer for the suggestion too.

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This story was originally part of TRSF, a special publication of MIT's technology Review, we'll put a link to that in the show

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notes as well. And your narrator this week is Anne Lecky, who is not only a podcast alumni, but

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like Ken, is one of the best writers working in any field at all

1:27.0

on the planet right now.

1:29.1

A science fiction novels have picked up countless awards and I cannot recommend them highly enough.

1:34.0

Alternatively, if fantasy is more your thing.

1:36.4

The Raven Tower is a quietly wonderful book about faith, obligation, duty, and what happens when gods talk.

1:44.8

I wrote about it a little while ago and again,

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