Escape pod. Episode 798. No strangers anymore. Buy and Creasy. Part 1 of 2.

Hi there and welcome to Escape pod. I'm your host and co-editor, Merlaferty.

Today we're bringing you Part 1 of 2 of our presentation of No Strangers Anymore by Ian Creasy.

Ian Creasy lives in Yorkshire, England. He began writing when rock and roll start

him failed to return his calls. So far he has sold 70 odd short stories to various magazines

and anthologies. His debut collection, Maps of the Edge, was published in 2011.

A second collection, Escape Roots from the Earth, came out in 2015. His interests include

hiking and gardening, anything to get him outdoors and away from the computer screen.

It's narrated for us by Pipa Alice Stevens. Pipa is an actress and voiceover artist.

She is soon to be seen in the Invisible War playing Rose Berkeley and Spiraling playing Natalie.

This originally appeared in Analog in the July, August 2016 issue.

So gather round quick before the paparazzi find you in its story time.

No Strangers Anymore, Part 1 by Ian Creasy, narrated by Pipa Alice Stevens.

One of the princesses many duties is to make polite conversation and avoid controversial

subjects. Screw that, Thought Rose. At the banquet after the first day of the conference

there was only one topic on everyone's mind. So she raised it. But these aliens really going to buy the moon.

The man opposite her laughed. Are we really going to sell it?

Suttles in Rose's vision identified him as a European Union diplomat, an expert in international law

and a family man with a wife for children and a mistress.

As everyone else at the table chimed in, Rose's visual overlay filled with a cloud of identifiers

and tidbits, until she tweaked her filters to display only the most relevant tags.

I think we should sell, said a Russian four star general.

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