What a lovely surprise to see EscapePod. One of the early early podcasts. If you search through their backlog along with the backlog of their sister podcasts, you’ll find some narrations from a much younger, less tired, me.

I miss that age of podcasting. I’m glad EscapePod is still going.

If you can't be awed by science and nature, you can't be awed by magic or alien worlds either... Reminds me of some of Eliezer Yudkowsky's essays like https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/x4dG4GhpZH2hgz59x/joy-in-the...

Wow, this podcast has been bringing science fiction stories to listeners since 2005. [1]

[1] https://escapepod.org/2005/05/12/ep001-imperial-by-jonathon-...

Great short story. The premise reminds me of Simpsons treehouse of horror episode “Time and Punishment” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treehouse_of_Horror_V

It may be getting too much traffic, it's coming back with a database error for me at least. Here's the archive.org https://web.archive.org/web/20260701213459/https://escapepod... .

hug of death. Archive: https://archive.is/jaw2F

I loved this story and writing.

This was a nice one-shot. Concise, clear, and not cluttered. It should also be posted to Reddit’s HFY subreddit.

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