Technarion
Our fifth podcast for December is “Technarion” written by Sean McMullen and read by Kate Baker.
First published in Interzone #248, September-October 2013.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Sean McMullen quit scientific computing to become a full time author in 2014. Prior to that, as an after-hours author, he established his international reputation with his pioneering steampunk novel Souls in the Great Machine, which was published in over a dozen languages, and won fifteen awards. He also came runner-up in the 2011 Hugo Awards with his novelette "Eight Miles." His six book children's fantasy series, The Warlock's Child, was jointly written with Paul Collins and published in 2015. He is currently a judge for the Norma Hemming Award.
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Truly wrote on October 10th, 2020 at 1:47 pm:
I just listened to this for the first time in the small hours of the morning of October 11th 2020 as I move backwards in time through the Clarkesworld archive as narrated by Kate Baker.
SPOILERS:
I had a bit of an unsettling laugh towards the end there; I'd probably be a lot more chilled were I not tuning in from Australia. Then again, everything that tells me that I'm safe is in some way electronically conveyed...