Escape Pod Live From WorldCon 2018
We’re pleased to bring you a recording of Escape Pod’s live panel at WorldCon 2018 in San Jose earlier this year. The panel featured a variety of our staff and a live reading by Laura Pearlman, which will be run later this month as a standalone episode.
We had a great time at the panel and only regret that we can’t also share with you the delicious cake we enjoyed afterward!
About the Authors
S.B. Divya
S.B. Divya (she/any) is a lover of science, math, fiction, and the Oxford comma. She is the Hugo and Nebula nominated author of Meru and Machinehood. Her short stories have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, and she is a former editor of Escape Pod, the weekly science fiction podcast. Divya holds degrees in Computational Neuroscience and Signal Processing. She worked for twenty years as an electrical engineer before becoming an author. Born in Pondicherry, India, Divya now resides in Southern California with her spouse, child, and two fur babies. She enjoys subverting expectations and breaking stereotypes whenever she can. Find out more about her at www.sbdivya.com.
Benjamin C. Kinney
Benjamin C. Kinney served as Assistant Editor of Escape Pod from 2017-2023. He’s speculative fiction author, neuroscientist, and Hugo and Ignyte Award finalist. His stories have appeared in Analog Science Fiction & Fact, Sunday Morning Transport, Lightspeed, and more. He lives in St. Louis with three cats, one son, and a spacefaring wife. You can find him online at benjaminckinney.com, follow him on twitter, bluesky, or instagram as @BenCKinney, or on Mastodon as @BenCKinney@wandering.shop. He is represented by Marisa Cleveland of the Seymour Agency.
Mur Lafferty
Mur Lafferty is the co-editor and sometime-host of Escape Pod.
She is an American podcaster and writer based in Durham, North Carolina. She is the host and creator of the podcasts I Should Be Writing and Ditch Diggers. Her books have been nominated for the Hugo, Nebula, Philip K. Dick, and Scribe Awards. In the past decade she has been the co-founder/co-editor of PseudoPod, founding editor of Mothership Zeta, and the editor or co-editor of Escape Pod (where she is currently).
She is fond of Escape Artists, in other words.
Mur won the 2013 Astounding Award for Best New Writer (formerly the John W. Campbell Award), and the 2018 Hugo Award for Best Fancast for Ditch Diggers. She’s been nominated for numerous other awards and is always doing new things, so check her website for the latest.
Norm Sherman
Norm Sherman is the multi-talented master of all things weird and wonderful. In addition to founding, hosting, and producing the Drabblecast, being the former editor and host of Escape Pod, and creating his own original music, he also runs a non-profit organization.
