Escape Pod 923: The T-4200 (Part 1 of 2)

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Escape Artists Foundation

Fiction, Drama, Science Fiction

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🗓️ 11 January 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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The T-4200 (Part 1 of 2) By J. R. Johnson Carleton T. Lowengren, low-level civil servant, single twenty-something and refugee from the war-torn Outer Rim, woke to the remnants of a gaming binge and a killer headache courtesy of his interface. The implant had been trying to wake him for some time. He rolled off the couch. Another day, another commute from his nondescript apartment to the center of the Galaxy, trying to do the one thing his mother said he never would: make a difference. The walk-in wardrobe straightened his collar as he registered the time. Carl sprinted past the pre-programmed bowl of cereal to the garage door. “Leo? Where are you, boy?” Carl’s ride was usually parked in the garage on a mat of sweet-grass and clover. It was nowhere to be seen. And it’s not like he could overlook a car-sized dimension-hopping tortoise.

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0:00.0	EA is now on Twitch.
0:03.0	Join us Wednesday nights when Alister reads a bedtime story
0:06.8	and Sunday mornings for a few hours of chill casual gaming,
0:10.6	plus interviews, special guests, pickup streams, and more.
0:14.7	Visit twitch. TV slash EA Podcasts, and follow us to be notified when we go live,
0:21.6	plus access VODs of past broadcasts. Escape Bod, episode 923, the T4200.
0:37.0	Part 1 of 2.
0:42.8	By J.R. Johnson. Oh, Hello and welcome to a skate, your weekly science fiction podcast.
1:13.8	I'm Valerie Valdez, your host for this episode.
1:17.7	Our story this week is The T4200 by J.R. Johnson.
1:22.0	This story originally appeared in Andromed to Spaceways magazine in March 2017
1:27.0	and will be presented in two parts.
1:29.0	J.R. Johnson writes science fiction and fantasy about future histories, imaginary
1:36.2	geographies, and speculative societies. She grew up in the folded Appalachian hills,
1:41.6	where she learned to love fall fall blueberries straight from the bush
1:45.2	and the string beneath the willows near her house.
1:48.7	The fact that fall is inevitably followed by winter that picking berries meant crossing paths with bears and that the stream was laced with dioxins
1:56.7	may also have had some impact on her outlook. She holds a PhD in urban studies and planning
2:02.9	an MS in Geography, and a BA in History.
2:07.6	Her work has appeared in Writers of the Future, Triangulation Energy,
2:11.9	Nature Futures, and other publications.
2:15.7	For more on her latest projects, visit J.R. Johnson.
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