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

I hope this podcast finds you well. We're in our last two stories

for the month of November 2018 issue 146 and again these and all stories, our podcast, our non-fiction, our art, are bought to you by you.

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Our second to last story is titled Death on Mars and is by Madeline Ashby.

Madeline Ashby is a science fiction writer and futurist living in Toronto. She has worked with Intel Labs, the Institute

for the Future, Sci Futures, Nesta, Data and Society,

the Atlantic Council, the ASU Center for Science and the Imagination,

Changelist and others.

She has spoken at Southeast by Southwest, Future Everything, Mause Fest, and other events.

Her essays have appeared at Boing, I-O-9, World Changing, Creator's Project, Arc Finity,

Miscellaneous magazine, and Future Now.

Her fiction has appeared in Slate, MIT Tech Review, and elsewhere.

She is the author of the Machine Dynasty novels.

Her novel Company Town was a Canada Reed's finalist.

You can find Madeline Ashby at her website Madeline Ashby.com. And also if you go back to

August 2016 you'll find a stopped clock. So I do hope you can sit back, relax, and let me tell you a story. Is he still on schedule?

Is he still on schedule?

Donna's hands spited across the tactical array. She pinched and threw a map into Kala's lenses.

Marshall's tug glowed there,

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