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

Greetings Clark's citizens. I hope this podcast finds you well. I find myself with no real news to report except a very big thank you.

But thank you to those who have subscribed to this podcast and to those of you have spread the word to your friends or family that have e-reader devices

since we've made a subscription milestone through Weightless Books, Barnes and Noble, and Amazon.

We are so grateful that you have spent your time with us

and the dollars that you put forth

help us to bring you such wonderful stories and non-fiction

content every single month. And very quickly, Hugo Award voting does close on

July 31st, so if you are in attending or supporting WorldCon member in Chicago this year,

please make sure to put your balance in. So our first story for the month, the very hot

month of July so far is Astrophilia by Carrie Vaughn.

For those of you who aren't familiar with Carrie, she was a high school valedictorian, worked as a Renaissance festival, counterwench, a theatre usher, an editor,

a buyer at an independent bookstore, and as the ever popular administrative assistant.

Her impressive bibliography can be found at W.W.Carry Vaughn.

And because it's a little bit of a unique last name, I'm going to spell that out for you.

It's C-A-R-R-I-E-V-A-U-G-H-N.

She has since been published by Tor, Harpertine, Lightspeed magazine, Weird Tales, Baines,

Universe, Asamos, and many, many more. She lives in Boulder, Colorado and still has to do her own laundry, though.

So without further ado, let me tell you a story.

After five years of drought, the tiny wool-producing household of green tree was finished.

First the pastures died off, then the sheep, and Stella and the others didn't have any wool to process

and couldn't meet the household's quota, small though it was with only five of them working at

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