Escape Pod 803: A Princess of Nigh-Space

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Escape Artists Foundation

Fiction, Drama, Science Fiction

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🗓️ 23 September 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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A Princess of Nigh-Space By Tim Pratt There was a business card stuck in the crack between the door and the frame when I got home from another too-long day at the office. I plucked the card out, annoyed, assuming it was some stupid advertisement, but the thick black Gothic lettering caught my eye: Bollard and Chicane Obstacles Removed • Burdens Shifted • Troubles Untroubled “We Murder Problems!” With a phone number underneath. There was small, neat, and slanted writing on the back, in pen: “Dear Tamsin: Our condolences on the loss of your grandmother. We can help settle your estate. Call soonest.” “Granny isn’t dead,” I said to no one, and then my phone buzzed with an incoming call.

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0:00.0	A skate pod, episode 803. A princess of nice space, by Tim Pratt.
0:30.0	Welcome to a skate pod, I'm Alistair, your host, back from a summer of deadline serving
0:45.2	with no town, but a way shorter to do list.
0:48.9	Our story this week is by Tim Pratt, who is a Berkeley native and lives there with his
0:52.8	wife Heather Shaw and their son Ribbon. His fiction and poetry have appeared in the best
0:58.0	American short stories. The year's best fantasy and horror, the mammoth book of best new
1:01.9	horror, stranger horizons, realms of fantasy, azimovs, lady Churchill's rosebud wristlet,
1:07.3	subterranean, tour.com and, you know, here a few times as well.
1:12.7	You're on a raid of this week, is a debut and it's a remarkably good one. Sandy Parsons
1:17.0	is a long-time EA staff member who writes literary, philosophical, humorous and speculative
1:22.1	fiction and has had stories published in analog science fiction and fact, reckoning and
1:27.4	starship cell for amongst others. When not writing, Sandy loves reading, playing video
1:32.0	games, travelling, following space exploration, and astronomy advancements, and of course watching
1:36.7	TV with her phone. Sandy also works as a meets-a-tist in Georgia and is servants to two
1:42.4	rambunctious tabbies, which, as we all know, is the best kind. You can connect with her
1:47.8	on Twitter at Sandra D Parsons or on Facebook, and as usual, all the various links she may
1:53.0	need will be in the show notes. So, join Tim, Sandy, Odea producer Adam, and myself for
2:01.2	a princess of Neyspace, because it's story time.
2:11.8	A Princess of Neyspace by Tim Pratt, narration by Sandy Parsons. There was a business card
2:19.1	stuck in the crack between the door and the frame when I got home from another too long
2:22.6	day at the office. I plucked the card out, annoyed, assuming it was some advertisement,
2:28.0	the thick black gothic lettering caught my eye. Ballard and chicane, obstacles removed,
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