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Escape Pod 973: Forever the Forest

Escape Pod

Escape Artists Foundation

Fiction, Drama, Science Fiction

4.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Author : Simone Heller Narrator : Hugo Jackson Host : Valerie Valdes Audio Producer : Summer Brooks “Forever the Forest” was first published in “Life Beyond Us: An Original Anthology of SF Stories and Science Essays” (April 2023) Forever the Forest by Simone Heller It is known that the Rootless are only ever leaving. Always […]

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Episode 973.

1:12.6

Forever, The Forest by Simone Heller. Hello and welcome to Escape Pod, your weekly science fiction podcast. I'm Valerie Valdez, your host for this episode.

1:15.6

Our story this week, and our final story of the year, is Forever the Forest by Simone Heller.

1:22.6

It originally appeared in Life Beyond Us, an original anthology of SF stories and science essays,

1:29.8

edited by Susan Forrest, Lucas K. Law, Julie Novicova in May 23.

1:37.0

Simone Heller lives on an island in the River Danube in Regensburg, Germany.

1:41.9

She has been working as a literary translator for over 15 years.

1:46.2

Her first steps in writing in English

1:47.8

were taken in 2016 after workshopping

1:50.4

with a group of international writers in Munich.

1:53.2

And her short fiction has since appeared

1:54.9

in several magazines and anthologies.

1:57.4

She loves learning all kinds of things,

1:59.4

words most of all, but also history, science, and everything about the strange creatures of Earth and beyond.

2:07.6

Our narrator this week is Hugo Jackson.

2:10.6

Hugo is an author and streamer on the east coast of the USA.

2:14.6

Born in the UK, they moved to the US to be with their partner, and has

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