You are listening to a Clark's World magazine podcast with your host and narrator Kate Baker.

Hi everyone, welcome to January 2018.

We've put yet another year behind us and with the new year comes a new

issue chock full of wonderful stories, reprints, non-fiction Articles, Art, and of course the Podcast.

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And speaking of that, our first story for the month of January 2018, issue 136, is titled A World to Die For is by Tobias S.

Pekel called violent poetic and compulsively readable by McLean's science fiction author to Bias

Pekel is a New York Times best-selling writer born in the Caribbean. He grew up in Grenada

and spent time in the British and U.S. Virgin Islands and the islands he lived

on influenced much of his work.

His Zeno Well series begins with Crystal Rain, along with other standalone novels, and his over 50 stories.

His works have been translated into 18 different languages.

He has been nominated for awards like the Hugo Nebula, Prometheus, and the John W Campbell Award for best new science fiction author.

His latest novel is Hurricane Fever, a follow-up to the successful Arctic Rising that NPR

says will give you the shivers.

He currently lives in Bluffton, Ohio with his wife, twin daughters, and a pair of dogs.

He can be found online at Tobias-Backel.com.

So my dear listeners, I hope you can sit back relax and let me tell you a story

Your hunting party of repurposed, cobbled together and barely repaired pre-collapse electric vehicles sweeps across the alkaline rich dust flats of old farmland. The outwriters are kicking up rooster tails of dust into the air behind them,

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