Escape, 712. When robot and Crow saved East St Louis, by Analee Newitz. I'm going to Hello and welcome to Escape Pod your weekly science fiction podcast. I'm

the via your host for this episode. Our story this week is when robot and crow saved

East St. Louis by Annalee Newitz.

It was first published by Future Tents in December 2018.

Annalee Newitz writes science fiction and non-fiction.

They are the author of the novel Autonomous, nominated for the Nebula and Locust Awards,

and winner of the Lambda Literary Award.

As a science journalist, they are a contributor to the New York Times opinion section

and have a monthly column about futurism for new scientists.

They have published in Washington Post. column about futurism for new scientists.

They have published in Washington Post, Slate, Popular Science, Arst Technica, the New Yorker,

and the Atlantic, among others. They were the founder of I-09 and served as the editor-in-chief of Gizmodo.

They are also the co-host with Charlie Jane Anders of the podcast Our Opinions are Correct, which covers science fiction and society.

Their new novel, The Future of Another Timeline, came out in September. Your narrator this week is Lewis Evans.

Lewis is a writer, literary producer and New York City native.

He has moved around some, but he's always lived in the dead center of the nuclear target map.

It's kind of freaky when you think about it.

Evans is a founding co-producer of Cliterary Salon, a monthly literary show in the San Francisco Bay, focusing on work not

traditionally prioritized in the mainstream by writers who subvert convention.

To learn more, visit Cliterary salon.com. Now, get ready to cough into a tissue

because it's story time. Story Time.

When robot and Crow saved East St. Louis by Annalee Newitz, narrated by Louis Evans. New It was time to start the weekly circuit. Robot leapt vertically into the air from its perch atop the history museum in Forest Park,

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