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

Greetings Clark World Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well.

It's our sixth story for the month of January 2018, issue 136.

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Our sixth story for the month of January

is titled Her Smoke Rose Up Forever and is by James

Tiptree Jr. Multiple Hugo and Nebula Award winning author James Tiptree Jr. was the pseudonym of the late Dr. Alice Sheldon

a semi-retired experimental psychologist and former member of the American Intelligence Community,

who also wrote occasionally under the name of

Rakuna Sheldon.

Dr Sheldon's tragic death in 1987

put an end to both careers, but not before she had won two

Nebula and two Hugo Awards as Tiptree, won another Nebula award as

Rakuna Sheldon, and established herself under whatever name as one of the very best science fiction writers of our times.

May 2017 of this magazine brought you the man who walked home.

So my dear listeners, I do hope you take the opportunity to sit back.

Relax.

And let me tell you a story. Deliverence quickens, catapults him into his boots on mountain gravel, his mittened

hand on the rusty 1935 international truck.

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