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Our third story for the month of December 2016 issue one two three is titled

Checkerboard Planet and is by Eleanor Arneson.

Now Eleanor Arneson published her first short story in 1974.

Since then she has published six novels and 40 plus short stories, all science fiction and or fantasy.

She won the first James Tiptree Jr. Award in 1991, a Minnesota Book Award in 1993,

and a Spectrum Award in 2000. In addition she has been a

finalist for the Hugo Nebula Sturgeon and Sidewise Awards. Chuckerboard

Planet is one of a series of stories about location scout Lydia Deluth. A If all goes well, the other stories will appear in a collection in the not too distant future.

You can find Eleanor at her website, Eleanor Arneson. blog-swatt.com. And if you like what you hear, August 2013 also brought you the

lovers. So this one's on the longer side. So I hope you can sit back. Relax. And let me tell you a story. The system was a type-g yellow dwarf with six planets.

Four of the planets were gas giants, the innermost so close to its primary that it skimmed the stellar atmosphere.

Dark red in color, it had neither moons nor rings.

It sped around its sun, inflated by heat to an impressive size and boiling with blood

red storms.

The other giants, banded and pale icy elegant shades of blue and green,

orbited the star at a much greater distance.

All had rings and moons.

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