Escape Artists
Cast of Wonders => Episode Comments => Topic started by: danooli on March 20, 2018, 05:31:53 PM
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Cast of Wonders 296: Artemis Rising 4 – Canary’s Refuge (http://www.castofwonders.org/2018/03/cast-of-wonders-296-artemis-rising-4-canarys-refuge/)
• Author: Wendy Nikel
• Narrator: Nadia Niaz
• Hosts: Sandra M. Odell
• Audio Producer: Jeremy Carter
• Artist : Geneva Benton
• Cast of Wonders 296: Canary’s Refuge is a Cast of Wonders original.
• Click here to listen to Episode 296 (https://archive.org/download/Wonders296/Wonders296.mp3)
Wendy Nikel (http://www.castofwonders.org/people/wendy-nikel/) is a speculative fiction author with a degree in elementary education, a fondness for road trips, and a terrible habit of forgetting where she’s left her cup of tea. Her short fiction has been published by Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, Daily Science Fiction, Nature: Futures, and elsewhere. Her time travel novella, The Continuum, was published by World Weaver Press in January 2018. For more info, visit wendynikel.com (https://wendynikel.com/), Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/wendynikel/) or Twitter (https://twitter.com/@wendynikel/).
Nadia (http://www.castofwonders.org/people/nadia-niaz/) Niaz (http://escape-artists.wikia.com/wiki/Nadia_Niaz) is a writer, academic, creative writing teacher, language nerd and editor who is mostly from Melbourne but still a little bit from lots of other places. When she’s not working with words, she’s usually dancing. Visit her website (https://www.insanityworks.org/) or on Twitter (https://twitter.com/NadiaNiaz).
“Feels good to finally be off that blasted ship.” Ben breathes in so deeply that his shoulder rubs against my bare one, a touch so slight I wonder if I only imagined it.
The elevator rattles as it carries us down the mineshaft, into the depths of this planet whose name I can’t even remember. Maybe it doesn’t have one. Not that it matters. They’re all the same as far as we’re concerned: barren hunks of mineral deposits, surrounded by unbreathable atmosphere. They’re ugly, cold, and unwelcoming, without a thing to make us want to remain on their surfaces. Without a hope of survival if we did.
Tags: AI, Artemis Rising, Artemis Rising 4, cyborgs, dystopia, identity, Nadia Niaz, Sandra M. Odell, Science Fiction, scifi, Space Opera, survival, Wendy Nikel
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Not only was this a fun, engaging story, the representation of the MC as a cyborg harkens in its own way to representation of those with disabilities who make use of assistive devices. Well done all around.