Escape, 707 Rule of 3. Part 3 by Lawrence M. Schurn. I'm Divia and welcome to Escape Pod your weekly science fiction podcast. I'm

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on to our story for this week, The Rule of Three by Lawrence M. Schone. The story was first published by Future S.F. Number 1 in 2018. This episode is part

3 of 3, The Final Installment.

Lawrence M. Schone holds a PhD in Cognitive Psychology,

is a past Campbell, Hugo, and Nebula nominee

won the Coyoteau Award for Best Novel,

founded the Klingon Language Institute, is a hypnotherapist specializing in

authors issues, and write science fiction and fantasy ranging from the humorous to the deeply philosophical.

Your narrator this week is Christopher Tang.

Christopher lives in the suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia with his wife, son, and three cats, who desperately want to interrupt

any recording he is doing.

During the day, he helps sell role-playing games at Drive-Thru RPG, and during the night he helps Lush Reed over a cast of

wonders and is trying to write his own role-playing games. You can find more about

him or make contact on his Twitter at Chris Tang writer.

In last week's episode, our protagonist learned how to create things from his body,

then discovered that the alien Foom is planning to extinguish humanity because of the unlife

that pervades human culture. Now get ready to learn how it all ends because

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