Escape Pod 775: Spaceship October

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Escape Artists Foundation

Fiction, Science Fiction, Drama

4.7 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Spaceship October By Greg van Eekhout When you live on a spaceship, you learn to make your own fun. Exploring the tunnels is some of the very best fun the October’s got. After school hour, me and Droller go scuttling through the darkest conduits you ever will find. The starboard Hab gets minimal heat, so our breath clouds in the light of our head torches as we crawl on our hands and knees. “You hear that?” Droller whispers from a couple of meters ahead. I do hear it, a deep, wet wheezing that sounds exactly like Droller trying to spook me. “You better go ahead and check it out, Droller.” “Naw, Kitch, it’s behind you. It smells your butt. It’s a butthunter.” I laugh at Droller’s stupid joke, because the stupider, the funnier, and she’s by far my stupidest friend.

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0:07.3	mornings for a few hours of chill casual gaming. Plus interviews, special guests, pick-up
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0:20.6	we go live, plus access VODs of past podcasts.
0:50.6	Hello, I'm Alistair, and welcome to Escape Pod. This week's story comes to us from our
1:12.1	15th anniversary anthology. Available now at all, good booksellers, print, and digital.
1:17.1	The Escape Pod anthology collects work from some of the best authors in the field, and gives
1:21.1	you a perfect cross-section of just what we do here. So, if you're new or here because of
1:25.9	the book, welcome. And if you've been here a while and bought the book because of the
1:29.7	show, welcome. Spaceship October by Greg went EQ to touch us on a lot of my favourite
1:35.2	things about the genre, but does so in very subtle ways. Greg's going to frequent
1:40.2	flyer and EP's Sky for some time now is one of the best flash-fiction writers in the
1:44.8	world, and arguably his ambition there is upstripped only by his ambition for long-form fiction.
1:50.5	Cog, his recent middle-grade debut, has made my Hugo shortlist, and I trust if you've
1:55.1	read it, you'll consider doing the same thing. If you haven't, you should. It's a modern
1:59.8	classic. Your reader this week is Peter Baravish. Peter is not just an extraordinarily talented
2:05.7	reader in his own right, he's also the senior audio producer for podcasting. This uniquely
2:10.7	equips him to do two things remarkably well. Create and recognise amazing audio fiction,
2:16.0	which is one of the many reasons he's here, and one of the many reasons he's a pleasure
2:19.5	to work with. Congratulations to the podcasting team who won a British fantasy award recently.
2:24.8	Go Team Classel, I'll end Go Team Taco Belly. So, without further ado, it's story time.
2:32.5	When you live on a spaceship, you learn to make your own fun. Exploring the tunnels is
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