An Escape Pod, Short and Sweet

I enjoy listening to the podcast "Escape Pod", but sometimes the stories just prattle on forever. I liked the recent story "Blink, Don't Blink", simply because it's good sci-fi without a sixty-five paragraph intro about how syntho-flavo-tabs revolutionized the planet after the fifth world war.

I also like characterization without exposition. How a character talks and thinks, and what they think about — what they regret — tells me a lot more than I would get from a sequence where the character gives his complete life history, what his childhood was like, and any various food allergies he may have.

Double-plus good for "Blink, Don't Blink". Quick, poignant, and memorable.