Escape Pod 760: Deepster Punks

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Escape Artists Foundation

Fiction, Science Fiction, Drama

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🗓️ 26 November 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Deepster Punks by Maria Haskins Surface The animated tattoos on Jacob's skin glimmer in the dark water, words and images swarming over his skin, bright and luminous, before they fade away again. "Don't you dare die on me." I'm holding his head above the waves, but his naked body is cold and slick and heavy in my grip. By now, I should be able to see the lights of the ocean platform, but there's nothing, only darkness above and below, no horizon separating them. I unseal the mask of my thermal-suit so I can talk to him, even though I'm not sure he can even hear me anymore. "You're one lucky bastard, you know. If the Company had sent us anywhere else in the system and you pulled this kind of stunt, you'd be dead already." It's true. Beneath the icy mantle of Ceres, in the 10 K depths of Enceladus, he'd be dead for sure. In the sub-surface ocean of Ganymede, or in the tidal-flexing waters of Europa, he'd be dead-dead-dead. Dead like Petra. But he's here, on Earth, with me, and he's alive. Stay alive, Jacob. Please.

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0:28.3	listening to this podcast right now, then you probably would enjoy our very first print anthology.
0:35.0	Escape Pod, our 15th anniversary print anthology will feature a mix of stories,
0:41.0	some of which have been on the site. Some are reprints that may be new to you, and some are brand new stories.
0:49.0	From people like T King Fisher, Maurice Bradas,
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0:56.5	I also contributed a story featuring the universe
0:59.4	from my book Six Wakes.
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1:11.4	just like we're pretty proud with what we've done with this entire
1:13.7	podcast for the past 15 years. Escape, episode 760.
1:27.0	Deeps to Punks, by Maria Haskins. Oh, Hello and welcome to Escape Pod, your weekly science fiction podcast.
2:05.1	I'm your host this week, Tina Connolly, and I'm here to bring you
2:09.2	Deepster Punks by Maria Haskell. This story first appeared in the anthology A Punk Rock Future.
2:17.0	Maria Haskins is a Swedish Canadian writer and translator.
2:22.0	She writes speculative fiction and currently lives just outside Vancouver with a husband, two kids, a snake, several birds, and a very large black dog.
2:33.0	Her work has appeared in black static, fireside, beneath ceaseless skies,
2:38.0	flash fiction online, mythic delirium, shimmer, cast of wonders, and elsewhere.
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