Escape Pod 993: That Thing With Bob and the Crop Circles

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Escape Artists Foundation

Fiction, Drama, Science Fiction

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🗓️ 15 May 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Author : T. Kingfisher Narrator : Kevin M. Hayes Host : Mur Lafferty Audio Producer : Summer Brooks Escape Pod 993: That Thing With Bob and the Crop Circles is an Escape Pod original. That Thing With Bob and the Crop Circles by T. Kingfisher So last Tuesday, long about noon, I found myself down […]

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0:00.0	Escape Artist is on Twitch. Why don't you join us? On Wednesday nights, Alistair reads a bedtime story, and Sunday mornings, we do a few hours of chill gaming. Plus, we have interviews, special guests, pick up streams, and more. Visit Twitch.tv slash EA podcasts and follow us to be notified when we go live and access VODs of past broadcasts.
0:22.6	You can support us there too with monthly subscriptions as well, or if you're an Amazon Prime member,
0:27.8	you can support us for five bucks a month for free.
0:32.3	Free!
0:34.0	Visit escapartists.net slash Twitch for a full walkthrough. EscapePod. Episode 993. That Thing with Bob Lafferty, your host and co-editor. This podcast has been
1:30.9	going for 20 years this week. This is a medium that most people don't even realize is two
1:37.1	decades old, but EscapePod was there in first year, May, 2005. Marking the anniversary is vital and thanking you who got us there even more
1:47.0	so. But the fact is, we're running a special episode today and you're not here for me to say,
1:52.3	oh my God, we're 20 years old today. You're here for the new T. Kingfisher story, that thing
1:57.5	with Bob and the crop circles. T. King Fisher is the pen name of Ursula Vernon, used for works intended for older audiences.
2:06.6	He is an American freelance writer, artist, and illustrator.
2:09.6	He is best known for her Hugo Award-winning graphic novel Digger, and for the children's book series Hamster Princess and Dragon Breath.
2:20.2	She also writes short fiction under both names.
2:25.6	Her awards include the Hugo, Nebula, and the Myth of Poetic Fantasy Award.
2:29.8	It's read for us by Kevin M. Hayes.
2:33.2	Kevin has been reading science fiction since he was old enough to read,
2:35.3	and has been writing it for almost as long.
2:43.0	He is active in the Pittsburgh SFF organization, Parsec, and helps put on Confluence, a genre fiction conference every year.
2:50.9	He has had stories published in Six from Parsec and Triangulation, as well as TV gods, and most recently The Realm Beyond.
2:55.3	He's narrated some stories for pseudopod, but we're glad he's coming over to this side.
3:00.8	He lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with the love of his life, some of her children, and all of her cats.
3:13.5	But go get a second cup of coffee. It's only 10 a.m. which is also story time. That thing with Bob and the Crop Circles by T. Kingfisher.
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