Escape, 692. Lab B15. Part 2. Why Nick Woven. I'm Ben Hello and welcome to Escape Pod your weekly science fiction podcast. I'm Benjamin C. Kinney, your host for this episode.

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your support, whatever the form. Now this week's story, the second half of Lab B15 by Nick Moulven, narrated by Trendein Sparks, first published by Analog

in March 2018.

This week is the second of two parts, so if you haven't heard episode 691 from August 1st, 2019, you should probably listen to that one first.

Nick Wolfin's science fiction has appeared in magazines and

anthologies around the world. Originally born in Texas, Trendain Sparks

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

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