Escape Pod 770: The First Trebuchet on Mars
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Escape Artists Foundation
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2021
⏱️ 17 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, are you an Amazon Prime member? Do you have 5 minutes? Then you could support us with |
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| 0:26.6 | Escapeart. Episode 770. The first trebuchy on Mars. I'm a Reavibut. |
| 0:57.6 | Hello and welcome to Escapeart, your weekly science fiction podcast. I'm your host this week, |
| 1:04.8 | Tina Connell, and I'm here to bring you the first trebuchy on Mars by Marie Vibbert. |
| 1:11.8 | This story first appeared in Analog. Marie Vibbert has sold over 60 short stories to markets |
| 1:20.4 | like Analog and FNSF. Her debut novel, Galactic Hellcats, comes out March 2021. |
| 1:29.4 | Your narrator this week is Em de Roushawein. The Rousha writes science fiction and speculative |
| 1:34.6 | poetry as Em de Roushawein in mainstream poetry and fiction as de Roushawein. Science fiction |
| 1:41.0 | books include Beautiful Red, Children of Arcadia, and the Anderson Dexter Cyberpunk |
| 1:45.7 | Detective series. Mainstream books include the Davy Jones Locker Young Adult series and |
| 1:51.4 | the home for wayward parrots, forthcoming from New West Press. |
| 1:55.5 | Rousha's short fiction and poetry have appeared in many venues, including Arsenica, Nature, |
| 2:00.7 | Escape Pod, and several anthologies. Rousha's originally from Canada but currently lives |
| 2:06.0 | in Wellington, New Zealand, after spending the past several years sailing, the Pacific. |
| 2:13.0 | Our audio producer this week is Summer Brooks. So get ready to chuck rocks clear across |
| 2:20.0 | the crater because it's story time. |
| 2:28.8 | The first Trebuchet on Mars by Marie Vibbert, read by De Roushawein. |
| 2:35.8 | If you come to Mars you need to know that in the 12th century a French engineer named Trebuchet |
| 2:40.3 | popularized a model of sling catapult with a counterweight. The Middle East had been |
| 2:44.5 | used in him for centuries and probably got them from the Chinese who had been used in |
| 2:47.6 | them for centuries before that, but this dude got the publicity campaign if you follow |
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