Escape Pod, episode 691.

Lab B-15.

Why Nick W-Woven. I'm going to Hello and welcome to Escape Pod your weekly science fiction podcast. I'm Benjamin C. Kinney,

your host for this episode. Before we get into this week's story, I want to take a moment to thank

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your support, whatever the form. Our story this week is the first half of a two-parter. The Analog magazine, March 2018.

Nick Wolfin's science fiction has appeared in magazines

and anthologies around the world.

Originally born in Texas, Trendain Sparks eventually

escaped and wound his way through a mystical series of jobs in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he's worked as a software QA tester for both graphics drivers and video games, a freelance mascot performer, and several jobs on a PBS kids show.

For most of his life people have told him that his voice is a pleasure to listen to.

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