Escape Pod, episode 739. Summer Flashback

The Nightmare Lights of Mars.

By Brian Trent. I'm goingistair. Welcome to this week's flashback and the second month of summer school.

Our intent with these is to not only throw some light on the classics from our past,

but also to explore how authors explore the same concepts in wildly different ways.

Last month it was Cyberpunk. This month as Tim Curry once yelled we're going to

the one place capitalism has yet to ruin.

Space! This story takes a very unusual approach to a very familiar

destination. Mars looms as large in our minds as the moon does in our skies.

We dream of going there and well these days it's a runoff between

billionaire sociopaths as to who will take us, the dream remains the same. Mars is near space to us,

the stepping stone after the moon, the one that takes us out into deep current.

Brian approaches it, as you'll see in a very interesting way.

But before that, your players, originally published with us in September of 2013,

this story is written by Brian Trent

and narrated by Veronica Jaguer.

Brian's speculative fiction appears here

in Sudapod, Analog, Fantasy and SF, the late Austin Scott

Cards Inter Galactic Medicine show, that's the magazine that's late, not the author, and Great Jones Street, as well as Daily Science Fiction, Apex,

winning the story of the year's readers poll once, Cosmos, Galaxy's Edge, Nature,

and many years best anthologies.

Veronica Jaguer is a storyteller of the spoken and written word.

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