This week’s episode of everyone’s favorite science fiction short story podcast Escape Pod is the young adult story Alien Promises by Janni Lee Simner. It’s read by Anna Eley, wife of Escape Pod Editor-In-Chief Steve Eley.
Even though the story is labeled as a being for young adults and I am very much an old adult, I enjoyed the story immensely. It’s about a young girl who dreams that one day aliens will come and take her away. Not the kind of aliens who stand in front of Home Depot looking for work and who speak only Spanish, but the kind who travel in silver space ships and communicate through telepathy.
It was a good story.
Anna Eley does a fine job reading the story. Her voice has a quality to it that meshes nicely with the story’s main character and it brings life to the first-person narrative. My only criticism is that I think she pronounced reader as leader. It’s at about the 2:40 mark of the story. I listened to it a couple of times and it sounds like leader even though reader is the only word that makes sense.
It is stories like this that makes me appreciate the Escape Pod podcast for everything it brings.
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