Escape Pod 81: Margin of Error
Show Notes
Rated PG. Contains minor profanity, explicit bodily functions, and people being very, very mean..
Margin of Error
By Nancy Kress
She said, “What the project needs is for you to come back and work on the same small area you did originally. Looking for something–anything–you might have missed in the protein-coded instructions to successive generations of nanoassemblers.”
“No,” I said.
About the Author
Nancy Kress
Nancy Kress was born in Buffalo, New York. She went to college at State University of New York at Plattsburgh, earning a degree in elementary education, which she put to use for the next four years teaching the fourth grade.
It was while Nancy was pregnant with her son that she started writing fiction. She had never planned on becoming a writer, but staying at home full-time with infants left her time to experiment. In 1990 she went full-time as an SF writer. The first thing she wrote in this new status was the novella version of “Beggars in Spain.”
Although she began by writing fantasy, Nancy currently writes science fiction, often about genetic engineering. She teaches regularly at summer conferences such as Clarion West and Taos Toolbox. For sixteen years, she was the “Fiction” columnist for WRITER’S DIGEST magazine, and has written three books about writing.
About the Narrator
Christiana Ellis
Christiana Ellis is an award-winning writer and podcaster living in Massachusetts. She is the author of Nina Kimberly the Merciless, Space Casey and Phyllis Esposito: Interdimensional Private-Eye, and she can often be found running a variety table-top role-playing games on her stream and podcast “So Many Levels”.
