Escape Pod 765: Tru Luv

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Escape Artists Foundation

Fiction, Science Fiction, Drama

4.7 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Tru Luv By Sarah Pinsker The first three Tru fanatics were already waiting outside Meetspace when Molly arrived to open the bar. They were easy to recognize, pushing up their winter coats' sleeves and glancing at the insides of their wrists every two seconds instead of their phones, each hoping for their algorithm-matched Prince or Princess or Princex to cross into range and light up their implant. For all that Molly thought the implants were a scam, she appreciated that they broke people of obsessive phone-checking, at least a tiny bit. It was actually part of the marketing pitch: "Put your phone away and make a commitment. This isn't social media; it's Tru Luv." She was still amazed that so many had taken them up on it, but, then again, she hadn't gotten into bartending for her ability to understand people. "Your group isn't even supposed to be here until seven thirty," Molly told them. "And we don't open until six tonight." "It IS six," the tall one said.

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0:51.5	and we encourage you to support your local independent bookseller. Escape Pod, episode 765. True Love, by Sarah Pinska. And the Hello and welcome to Escape Pod your weekly Science Fiction
1:39.2	Podcast I'm Vivia your host for this episode.
1:43.0	Our story this week is from a master of modern short fiction.
1:47.0	True Love by Sarah Pinsker.
1:50.0	We are delighted to say this is an Escape Pot Original.
1:54.0	In 2020, Sarah Pinsker's first novel, A Song for A New Day,
1:58.0	won the Nebula Award, and her collection.
2:01.0	Sooner or later, everything falls into the sea,
2:04.2	won the Philip K Dick Award.
2:06.2	Her second novel We Are Satellites will be published by Berkeley in May 2021.
2:11.8	She's also a singer-songwriter with three albums on various independent labels
2:17.0	and a fourth she swears is on the way.
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