Escape Pod 806: Bright Lights Flying Beneath the Ocean

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Fiction, Science Fiction, Drama

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🗓️ 14 October 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Author : Anjali Patel Narrator : Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali Host : Brent Lambert Audio Producer : Summer Brooks Discuss on Forums Escape Pod 806: Bright Lights Flying Beneath the Ocean is an Escape Pod original. Contains harsh language. Bright Lights Flying Beneath the Ocean by Anjali Patel [Draft] (no subject) – 2:23 AM My dearest Tasha, […]

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0:00.0	Today, Escape Pot is sponsored by the Annual Migration of Clouds by Premiumohamed, a biologist
0:07.2	and rising star in speculative fiction, and a good friend of those of us here at Escape
0:11.6	Pot.
0:12.8	The Annual Migration of Clouds is a Kly-5 post-apocalyptic novella by author Premiumohamed.
0:19.1	It takes place in the distant future, after the climate crisis has entirely disrupted
0:22.9	life as we know it, and a mysterious mind-controlling fungus has warmed its way through the scattered
0:27.9	population.
0:29.7	The story focuses on a choice.
0:32.1	Read a young woman who carries this parasite has been given a chance to move far away to
0:36.4	study in one of the few communities sustained by pre-disaster technology, but her mother
0:41.1	is ill and in a world where the planting season is planned down to the minute, everybody counts.
0:47.4	It's not easy for her to leave behind or love ones.
0:50.9	To set her family up for life, Read decides to take part in a full, hearty and dangerous
0:55.2	mission.
0:56.2	To accomplish this task, she must ask others to put great trust in her, but she can't
1:00.6	easily separate her own thoughts from the parasite's will, making it difficult for
1:04.7	her to even trust herself.
1:22.2	Episode 806, Bright Light's Flying Beneath the Ocean, by Angelie Patel.
1:52.2	Hello, and welcome to the Skatepot, your weekly science fiction podcast.
2:00.6	I'm Brent Lambert, the host for this episode, and part of our Black Future Month special
2:05.6	event.
2:06.6	I'm a founding member of Fire Little Ray magazine, a publication that focuses on Black Science
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