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A look back at 2016 and what’s in store for Escape Artists — and for you — in 2017.

Also, a full list of 2016 award-eligible 2016 Escape Pod first publications follows, along with links to episodes, for those who couldn’t make it through the marathon audio version:

• “Brain Worms and White Whales” by Jen Finelli
• “In Their Image” by Abra Staffin-Wiebe
• “Singing to the Stars” by Alanna McFall
• “MySpace: A Ghost Story” by Dominica Phetteplace
• “Bioluminescent Memory” by Victorya Chase
• “Windows” by Beth Goder
• “Among the Living” by John Markley
• “The Hunter Captain” by David John Baker
• “Divided By Zero” by Samantha Murray
• “City in the Wound” by Michael Buckley
• “Bend Back the Shadows” by Michael Reid
• “Saints, Beasts, and Zombies” by Gary Kloster
• “Bona Fide” by Ben Hallert
• “Shopping for the Perfect Battle Mount” by Laura Davy
• “Disc Stutter” by Brian Trent
• “Joolie and Irdl” by Sandy Parsons
• “Bluejay” by Edward Ashton
• “Prophet to the Dogs” by Bethany Edwards
• “The Starsmith” by Jonathan Edelstein
• “Squirrels, Foxes, and Other Fine Specimens” by Gareth D. Jones
• “As Travelers in Sky Boats” by Kristin Janz
• “The Hungers of Refugees” by Michael Glyde
• “Murder or a Duck” by Beth Goder
• “Ride the Dragon” by Bojan Ratković
• “The Battaile of the Mudde” by Anthony Tardiff
• “The Most Absurd Dance at the End of the Worlds” by Holly Heisey
• “Captain Drake Learns His Lines” by Amy Sisson and Kate Suratt
• “Monstrance of Sky” by Christopher Mark Rose