Escape, a most elegant solution.

by M. D'erusha when. 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'd like to highlight a story in honor of International Non Binary People's Day, which is on July 14th.

The author is one of our very own associate editors who also identifies as a gender. Our story this week is A Most Elegant Solution by M.

Dourusha Waim. It was first published by Terraform in April 2018.

M. Dourusha Waim is the Nebula Award nominated author of the Interactive Fiction

Game The Martian Job, as well as the science fiction novels Beautiful Red, Children of Arcadia, and the Anderson

Dexter Cyberpunk Detective Series.

Darusia's most recent book is The Voyage of the White Cloud, a novel in stories about the lives of the

ordinary people on a generation Starship.

Writing as Darusha Waim,, Derusha's mainstream books include

the Davy Jones Locker Y-A series

and the humorous coming of age novel,

The Home for Wayward parrots.

Jurisha's short fiction and poetry have appeared in magazines and anthologies, including terraform and nature.

Originally from Canada, Jurusha currently lives in Wellington, New Zealand, after spending several years sailing the Pacific.

Your narrator this week is Aubra Staff and Weavy.

Aubra loves and Wavy.

Aubra loves optimistic science fiction, cheerful horror, and dark fantasy.

Dozens of her short stories have appeared at publications including Tour.com, Fantasy and Science Fiction, Escape Pod, and Odyssey magazine.

She lives in Minneapolis where she wrangles her children, pets, and the mad scientist she keeps in the attic.

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