Escape Pod 740: Women of Our Occupation (Summer Flashback)
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🗓️ 9 July 2020
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Escape, Escape POD. Episode 740 Summer Flashback Women of Our Occupation by Cameron Hurley Welcome back to Summer School where for the next month we're going to be using |
| 0:34.6 | flashback Fridays to explore some of the ways science fiction plays with its |
| 0:37.9 | biggest toys. And what bigger toy is there than alien invasion? Well we say aliens. This week's story has a certain |
| 0:46.9 | meta-textual resonance even before we get to what it is like it is. This was |
| 0:51.0 | originally recorded live at the first ever World Con I attended back in London in 2014. |
| 0:56.0 | Audio production back then was by Matt Weller. |
| 0:59.0 | Noration was by Malafferty and hosting was by Me. |
| 1:02.0 | The story was and still is by Cameron Hurley who is like |
| 1:05.0 | a Skate Pod and myself a Hugo finalist this year. If you're a voter please consider |
| 1:10.2 | voting for all of us. The Escapeod and my personal voter packet |
| 1:13.9 | information links will be in the show notes. Now, get ready because it's |
| 1:18.8 | story time. |
| 1:21.0 | The women of our occupation by Cameron Hurley. |
| 1:28.0 | The drivers were big women with broad hands and faces smeared with mortar grit, and they reeked of the dead. |
| 1:35.0 | Even when we did not see them passing through the gates, ferrying truckloads of our dead, |
| 1:39.6 | they came to us in our dreams, the women of our occupation. |
| 1:43.7 | My brother and I did not understand why they had come. |
| 1:46.7 | They were from a far shore none of us had ever seen or heard of, |
| 1:49.9 | and every night my father cursed them as he turned on the radio. |
| 1:53.7 | He kept it set to the Resistance Channel. |
| 1:56.1 | No one wanted the women here. |
| 1:58.3 | My brother got up the courage to ask one of the women, |
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