Escape Pod 730: When We Were Patched
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🗓️ 30 April 2020
⏱️ 33 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Escape |
| 0:07.0 | Episode, episode 730, when we were patched by Daigy Bryso-Lucco tune. I'm going to Hello and welcome to Escape Pod your weekly science fiction podcast. |
| 0:44.6 | I'm Divia, your host for this episode. |
| 0:48.1 | Our story this week is when we were patched by Deji Bryce Olukotun. It was first published in August 2018 by Future Tense Fiction, a project of Arizona State Universities Center for Science and the Imagination and Slate Magazine's Future Tense Channel. |
| 1:07.0 | Deji Bryce Olukotun is the author of two novels and his fiction has appeared in many different book collections. |
| 1:15.0 | His novel after The Flair won the 2018 Philip K Dick Special Citation Award and was chosen |
| 1:21.6 | as one of the best books of 2017 by The Guardian the Washington Post |
| 1:26.2 | SciFi.com Tor.com Kirkus Reviews and others. He currently leads policy at the audio technology company Sonos and is a future |
| 1:36.3 | tense fellow at New America. |
| 1:39.2 | Your narrator is David D. Levine. |
| 1:42.1 | David is the Hugo and Nebula winning author of three novels including the Andre Norton |
| 1:47.0 | Award winner Arabella of Mars and over 50 short stories. If you enjoy his reading of this story, his short story |
| 1:55.1 | collection's based magic read by the author is available on audible.com. Now get |
| 2:01.8 | ready to root for your favorite player because it's story time. |
| 2:07.0 | When we were patched by Deji Bryce Olukten, narrated by David de Levine. |
| 2:19.0 | The last time we ever spoke, my partner Malik asked me whether I believed speed or power made for the best athlete. |
| 2:25.0 | I was puzzled of course feeling that neither could explain why some athletes excelled more than others, |
| 2:30.0 | even in straightforward competitions like sprinting or the javelin. |
| 2:33.9 | There are enough variables to make it unclear, I observed, whether speed or power offers a better |
| 2:38.2 | advantage in competition or whether some other factor confers the greatest advantage. it seemed to me an unanswerable question. |
| 2:45.1 | And how about elegance versus quickness of thought, Malach asked? But he stormed off |
| 2:49.8 | before I could respond as if he had confirmed some awful quality about me. |
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