You are listening to a Clarksrolled magazine podcast with your host and narrator, Kate Baker.

Greetings, Clarksville citizens. I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well.

Welcome to the last story for the month of June 2020 issue 177.

We have brought you some great stories this month. We have a whole new slate of stories coming to you

next month. Thank you for sticking about and listening. Thank you for your ongoing support.

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So our final story for the month of June is titled Embracing the Movement by Christina Gerado,

translated by Suburg. Christina Gerado is a bilingual author, editor and translator of

speculative fiction. In 2019 she became the first female writer to win the Best Novel,

Ignatis Award, Spain's Hugo Award for Bionotes. Her recent fiction includes the novella

Loro Filia and her collection of stories Alpha Land. Since 2015 she runs the Spanish multi-awarded

magazine Supersonic. In 2020 she was distinguished as Europe's best SF promoter award and started

work as a contributor of the bilingual quarterly. So my dear listener, I hope you can sit back,

relax and let me tell you a story. We are not so different, sister, sojourner.

Correct us if we are mistaken, but we are both creatures trying to survive under the most

adverse circumstances, evading hazards, defying misfortune, and eluding death. We share more in

common than you think. Yet we have never seen anything like you, a strange being from an equally

strange world. We found you wandering alone in an unexceptional asteroid belt and, at first,

we hardly noticed your presence. But your machine's movements revealed you, like comet dust,

you maneuvered your vessel incomprehensibly, at one moment accelerating and at the next

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