Escape Pod 840: The Tyrant Lizard (and Her Plus One) / Alien Invader or Assistive Device?

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Escape Artists Foundation

Science Fiction, Drama, Fiction

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🗓️ 9 June 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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The Tyrant Lizard (and Her Plus One) By John Wiswell Dinosaurs don’t want to kill you; they just don’t care that you’re there. More people have been sat on by brontosauruses than have been eaten by all the theropods combined. Since I joined security on the archipelago, 82% of dinosaur-related human casualties were from tourists who got too close during mating season. And the four times I’ve seen a deinonychus attack someone, they’ve always left them uneaten. Why? For the same reason bears and sharks tend to leave victims alive: because humans taste like shit.

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0:37.0	EscapePod Episode 840. The Tyrant Lizard, and her plus one. And Alien Invader, or Assistive
0:45.8	Device, by John Wiswell.
1:09.4	Hello, and welcome to EscapePod, your weekly science fiction podcast. I'm your host this
1:15.4	week, Tina Connolly, and I am here to bring you two stories this week, both from John
1:21.7	Wiswell. The Tyrant Lizard, and her plus one, first appeared in Drabocast, and Alien Invader,
1:30.7	or Assistive Device, first appeared in Robot Dinosaurs. John Wiswell is a disabled writer
1:39.3	who lives when New York keeps all its trees. He is a nebula-winning author of many short
1:44.4	stories. His work has appeared in Uncanny Magazine, the Levar Burton Reads podcast,
1:50.4	Tor.com, and the magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Additionally, he has previously
1:55.6	had work on Sudapot, Podcastsl, and Cast of Wonders. This episode of EscapePod marks
2:01.4	him making the grand slam of Escape Artist shows, congrats John, and he's giddy about
2:07.2	it. He is currently working on a novel about other disabled monsters. He has loved dinosaurs
2:13.4	for longer than he's loved humans, and dreams of one day being eaten by a T-Rex. He can
2:20.2	be found on Twitter at Wiswell, and on Patreon at patreon.com slash Wiswell.
2:29.7	Your narrator this week is Karen Bovenmeyer. Karen Bovenmeyer earned an MFA in popular fiction
2:35.6	from the University of Southern Maine Stone Coast program in 2013. She was the nonfiction
2:41.5	assistant editor for Mother Shabzaida, EscapePod is easy. Karen teaches and mentors students
2:47.2	at Iowa State University and Western Technical College. She is the 2016 recipient of the
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