Escape Pod 898: A Gentlemen’s Agreement

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Escape Artists Foundation

Science Fiction, Fiction, Drama

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🗓️ 20 July 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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A Gentlemen's Agreement By Aimee Ogden Heroes are such fragile things. Sphinx takes in the scene from a distance, first, as is his custom. He makes a wide orbit around the pillars of smoke and the pathetic caution-tape bandages. The first responders are looking in the wrong place. The cones of searchlights angle away from the response team, leaving the darkness and smoke to swallow up the navy-blue uniforms. Yellow letters reading LAKESIDE EMS float, disembodied, in the air. Steel girders cut oblique angles through the top of the fog. They're searching in the foundations of the ruined RadioGenInc Labs building. Moving slowly, too: either out of consideration for the structure's instability, or the hazardous chemicals that may have been released by the bomb, or because they are (reasonably) concerned that Doc Diablo has left traps against the unwary would-be rescuer. It may also be that the rescue team has access to information that Sphinx does not. This is a slender possibility, though, and it will not bear the weight of action. The Cavalier will not be found here.

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0:50.6	Hello and welcome to Escape Pod, your weekly science fiction podcast. I'm Valerie Veldos,
1:14.5	your host for this episode.
1:17.6	Our story this week is A Gentleman's Agreement by Amy Ogden. The story was first published
1:23.2	in Collider Trope in January 2022.
1:28.5	Amy Ogden is an American werewolf in the Netherlands. Her debut novella, Sun Daughters, Sea
1:33.8	Daughters, was a nebula award finalist. Her next novella, Immersion Properties, arrives
1:39.3	in July 2023. Her short fiction has previously appeared in publications such as Stray
1:45.1	Interisons, Clarks World, and Late Speed. And she co-edits Transluner Travelers Lounge,
1:50.8	a magazine of fun and optimistic speculative fiction. This is her fourth story, At Escape
1:56.3	Pod.
1:58.7	Our narrator, Hugo Jackson, is a non-binary fantasy author, with the third novel of their
2:03.6	Resonance to Tratlogy series being released in April this year by Inspired Quill. And
2:08.7	most of the time, is also a big grumpy leftist furry.
2:12.9	Now, get ready to shadow a supervillain who becomes a city's only hope, because it's storytime.
2:23.3	A Gentleman's Agreement by Amy Ogden, narrated by Hugo Jackson, originally published in Collider
2:33.0	Trope, January 2022.
2:38.1	Heroes are such fragile things.
2:41.8	Sphinx takes in the scene from a distance first, as is his custom. He makes a wide orbit
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