Hello and welcome to the Drapylcast episode 352. The Drapylcast is a weekly

audio fiction magazine that brings strange stories by strange authors to strange listeners such as yourself.

I'm your host, Norm Sherman.

Wow, March already? Halfway through March I mean already, but who's counting, aside from everyone who ever had anything historically to do with the development of a calendar year?

And why don't you go tweet about it?

We're going to catch up, no worries.

I've got two or three episodes, or nine or ten.

Clearly I've already stated my position on the function and relevance of counting

all ready to go. And since it's March, presumably we're all ready to go with as you might

know our time-honored and much celebrated, mea not really compared to LightSpeed

magazines which started doing this one year ago, but way bigger,

tribute month to women writers and science fiction.

As we like to call it around these parts, Women and Aliens Month.

This is our fifth consecutive year of honoring new women writers writing specifically in the field of S. Specifically, so specifically in the field of SF that they specifically

are writing about aliens.

And this may be the best year of all, folks.

It may be the worst year. I'm just throwing that out there. Stay tuned to find out.

We start things off this month with a treblecast original. Snow day by Nailo Hopkinson.

Nailo's a Jamaican Canadian whose tap roots extend to Trinidad and Guyana,

and also somehow Canada naturally.

She's published numerous books and short stories and also occasionally

edits anthologies. Her writings received the John W Campbell Award, the Locust Award,

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