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Escape pod. Episode 793. A little bit of Kali. Buy you Dunjaiya, Vijay Ratna, and Araraviyadee. Part 2 of 2.

Hello and welcome to escape pod, your weekly science fiction podcast. I'm Divya, your host for this episode.

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Our story this week is a little bit of Kali. Buy you Dunjaiya, Vijay Ratna, and Araraviyadee.

This story was first published in the expanding universe 5, a science fiction exploration in September 2019.

You Dunjaiya, Vijay Ratna, is the Nebula Award-nominated author of Number Cast, The Salvage Crew, and several other stories.

He works as a researcher with the Data Algorithms and Policy Team at Learning Asia, a Think Tank Working House of Global South.

He also co-founded Watch Dogs Sri Lanka, a fact-trucker. His fiction has appeared in wired, slate, and become brief bestsellers worldwide.

Araraviyadee is a two-time Dragon Award finalist and a Nebula Award finalist. He is a fantasist authoring the grave report and the Books of Winter, the first of which was lauded by Jim Butcher.

He has worked in the automotive industry as a mechanic, in retail, and in the custom gaming computer world.

He's an avid car nut with a special love for American classics.

Your narrator this week is Kaushik Narasimhan. Kaushik is a management consultant by day and moonlights as a one-man band with a variety of instruments and an electric guitar.

He also enjoys writing, reading, and listening to speculative fiction. He runs a flash fiction podcast called UnseenFiction.com, with a friend which covers short speculative fiction from South Asia.

Last week in Part 1, we met our main character, a soldier trapped in a Microshikari, a mid-sized mecha body, and we learned about his ultra-competent sister, his failure at matching her fighter spirit,

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