Escape Pod 825: Fourth Nail

Escape Pod

Escape Artists Foundation

Fiction, Science Fiction, Drama

4.7 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Fourth Nail By Mur Lafferty Regina Phillips’ job on the orbital station God's Eye was that of a nighttime systems engineer. She had to warm her desk chair and make sure nothing broke. It was the highest paying, most boring job around. So she sat in shocked silence for a good minute when the red alert hit. She didn't even know the cloning lab had an alert system. It was hard to have an emergency involving minds that were backed up and bodies that were ultimately renewable. Still, there it was, a red glow around her monitor as the words "UNAUTHORIZED TRANSMISSION" blinked over and over again. Around her, cloning vats filled the lab, each waiting for the command to start growing a new body for a dying clone. One clone in the far end vat was nearly done, but Regina didn't recognize the face. She wasn't a tech responsible for dealing with the actual vats, just the computer systems.

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0:00.0	A skate pod, episode 825.
0:12.3	Fourth nail.
0:13.7	Bimer Laffatine.
0:40.5	Hello and welcome to a skate pod, your weekly science fiction podcast.
0:45.6	I'm your host this week, Tina Connolly, and I'm here to bring you
0:50.0	fourth nail by Bimer Laffatine.
0:53.0	This story first appeared in a skate pod, the science fiction anthology, and is set
0:57.8	in the same universe as her award-nominated novel, Six Wakes.
1:02.9	Murr is a writer, podcaster, and editor, and would like folks to know that
1:07.4	S.B. Divya edited and accepted this story.
1:11.2	Her books have been nominated for the Hugo Nebula Filp K Dick and Scribe Awards, and she won
1:16.2	the 2013 astounding award for Best New Writer and the 2018 Hugo Award for Best Fan Cast
1:21.8	for Ditch Diggers.
1:24.0	In the past decade, she's been the co-founder slash co-editor of Sudapod, founding editor
1:28.8	of Mother Shagseta, and the editor or co-editor of a skate pod where she is currently.
1:34.8	Check out her website at merverse.com.
1:39.8	Your narrator this week is Aubur Staff and Weebie.
1:43.1	Aubur Staff and Weebie loves optimistic science fiction, cheerful for, and dark fantasy.
1:48.8	Dozens of her short stories have appeared at publications including Tor.com, F and S.F.,
1:53.9	Escape Pod, and Odyssey Magazine.
1:56.6	She lives in Minneapolis, where she wrangles her children, pets, and the mad scientist
2:00.8	she keeps in the attic.
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