Cast of Wonders 296: Artemis Rising 4 – Canary’s Refuge• Author: Wendy Nikel
• Narrator: Nadia Niaz
• Hosts: Sandra M. Odell
• Audio Producer: Jeremy Carter
• Artist : Geneva Benton
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Cast of Wonders 296: Canary’s Refuge is a Cast of Wonders original.
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Click here to listen to Episode 296Wendy 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
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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
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“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