Escape Pod 762: Give the Family My Love

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Fiction, Drama, Science Fiction

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🗓️ 10 December 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Give the Family My Love by A. T. Greenblatt I’m beginning to regret my life choices, Saul. Also, hello from the edge of the galaxy. Also, surprise! I know this isn’t what you had in mind when you said “Keep in touch, Hazel” but this planet doesn’t exactly invoke the muse of letter writing. The muse of extremely long voice messages however... So. Want to know what’s this world’s like? Rocky, empty, and bleak in all directions, except one. The sky’s so stormy and green it looks like I’m trudging through the bottom of an algae-infested pond. I’ve got this 85-million-dollar suit between me and the outside, but I swear, I’m suffocating on the atmosphere. Also, I’m 900 meters away from where I need to be with no vehicle to get me there except my own two legs. So here I am. Walking. Sorry to do this to you, Saul, but if I don’t talk to someone—well, freak out at someone—I’m not going to make it to the Library. And like hell I’m going to send a message like this back to the boys on the program. You, at least, won’t think less of me for this. You know that emotional meltdowns are part of my process. 850 meters. I should have listened to you, Saul.

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0:00.0	Hi, are you an Amazon Prime member? Do you have five minutes? Then you could support us with
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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 Brodus,
0:53.4	Greg Van Dyke out, and our own Tina Connolly.
0:56.5	I also contributed a story featuring the universe
0:59.4	from my book Six Wakes.
1:01.4	If you are in the UK, you can get your copy October 20th and if you're in the
1:05.2	US you can get your copy on November 17th. But check it out we're pretty proud and what we've done with this
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,
1:27.0	Episode, episode 762. Give the family my love.
1:32.0	by A. T. Gwenlad. Oh, Hello and welcome to Escape Pod your weekly Weekly Science Fiction Podcast.
2:03.6	I'm Vivia, your host for this episode.
2:06.5	Our story this week is Give The Family My Love
2:10.5	by AT Greenblatt. It was first published by Clark's World Magazine in February 2019
2:18.0	and it won the Nebula Award for Best Short Story. AT Green Blatt is a mechanical engineer by day and a writer by night.
2:26.4	She lives in Philadelphia where she is known to frequently subject her friends to various cooking
2:31.9	and home brewing experiments.
2:34.6	She is a graduate of viable Paradise 16 and Clarion West 2017.
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