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

Greetings Clarkville citizens. I hope this podcast finds you well.

Despite my best intentions and getting you the podcast on a regular schedule, I did

come back from the Sifua Nebula conference with quite the cold, and I apologize.

I hope to produce these two reprints for you and then jump

right into a whole new issue come June. Speaking of reprints we do have some sad news to report.

A Reprence editor and pretty much legend in the field,

Gardner Desois passed away on May 27th. He was supposed to be honored via a solstice award at the

Cifo Nebula conference and we were all looking forward to seeing him and Gardner

succumbed to his medical issues. We at Clark's World are very, very heartbroken at this development and I'd like to dedicate this podcast to Gardner in particular and to his family and the

industry that is now grieving the loss of such a larger-than Than Life figure.

Our first reprint for the month of May, ironically titled Cold Comfort, is for

issue 140, May 2018, and is by Pat Murphy and Paul Doherty.

Pat Murphy writes fiction that inhabits the borderland between genres,

where life is interesting and the rules are slippery. She is very grateful

that science fiction exists since it has provided a happy home for seven of her

eight novels and many of her short stories. Her work has won numerous awards including two

Nebula Awards, the Philip K Dick Award, the World Fantasy Fantasy Award, the

Sayun Award, and the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award. In her day job she is the

resident evil genius at mystery science.com where she creates science activities to

inspire and amaze elementary school students.

The late Paul Doherty was a physicist, author, teacher, and mountaineer.

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