Escape, 100 Martian Chronicles I'm going to Hi there and welcome to a skate pod number 700 golly I'm your host and co-editor Mer Lafferty and today we bring you part one of two of our

presentation of Martian Chronicles by Corey Doctorow.

Corey Doctorow is a science fiction author, activist, and journalist, the co-editor of Boing

and the author of many books, most recently radicalized and walk away.

Science Fiction for Adults.

In real life, a graphic novel, information doesn't want to be free, a book about earning

a living in the internet age, and homeland a YA sequel to little brother.

You can find out more about him at craphound.com or Boingboing.net.

It's narrated by our own Adam Prott.

Adam was in Kansas, but ask that you not hold that against him.

His full-time day job is as a marketing and volume purchasing program coordinator,

but by night he fights crime and his co-producer of a skate pod.

He was the 2002 college recipient of the Robert F. Kennedy Award for writing about the

disadvantaged and is published a volume of short stories called

Frame Story, Seven Stories of Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, and Humor, which is available

from Amazon as e-book or paperback. This story first ran in the anthology Life on Mars.

Now log out of that game it'll be there when you get back online. It's Story Time. Cori Dro, read by Adam Prott.

They say you can't smell anything through a launch hood, but I still smelled the Pav and the

next seat as a space attendant strapped us into our acceleration couches and shone lights in our eyes and triple check the medical readouts on our wristlets to make sure our hearts wouldn't explode

when the rocket boosted us into orbit for transfer to the Eagle and the long, long trip to

to Mars.

He was skinny, but not normal skinny.

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