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

Greetings Clark's World Citizens.

I hope this podcast finds you very well.

We have some exciting news to report. Before we begin today's story,

the Hugo nominations were released this past Saturday and our very own Neil Clark got a nod for Best Editor's short form.

So yay Neil!

Now our fifth story for the month of April is titled Going After Bobo and is by

Susan Pollick. Susan is an associate professor of English at the University of Nevada Reno.

She has published four novels, all with Tor.

The most recent is 2013's Mending the Moon.

And a short story collection with Tachian,

the Fate of Mice.

Her work has won the Crawford Award

and the A. L.A. Alex Award.

And has been shortlisted for the World Fantasy and Mytho Poick Awards.

Susan can be found at her website Improvable optimism. blog spot.com.

So without further ado, please sit back, relax,

and let me tell you a story.

I was the only one home when the GPS satellites finally came back online.

It was already dark out by then, and had been snowing all afternoon.

I'd been sitting at the kitchen table with my algebra book, trying to concentrate on quadratic equations.

And then the hand-held beeped and lit up and the transmitter signal started blipping on the screen.

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