You are listening to a Clark's World Magazine podcast with your host and narrator Kate Baker.

Greetings Clark's World Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you very well.

We're on to the second podcast for the month of March 2014.

The piece is titled Human Strandings and the Role of the Xenobiologist

by Thariah Dyer.

Now Thariah is a three-time

Orientalis Award winner,

three-time Ditmar Award-winning Australian writer.

Her short fiction has appeared in Apex, Nature, Cosmos, and Analog.

It is forthcoming in anthologies long hidden in war stories.

Her award's shortlisted collection of four original stories asymmetry is available from

12th Planet Press.

Her website can be found at Thoria dire.com and that's THO-R-A-Y-A-D-Y-A-D-Y-A-D-Y-T-E-E-T-E-Y-T-E-T-E-T-E-T. And if you like what you hear, Thio, R A, Y, A, D Y, E R. And if you like what you hear, Thorea also had a story in December 2012, titled, Thewisdo, Thewisdo, The, The Wisdom of Ants.

So please go check that out as well,

if you haven't already.

So, my citizens,

thank you for spending this time. I'd like you to sit back, relax, and let me tell you a story.

Very few comprehensive texts have been produced on the wider topic of human strandings.

Earthlings Assure, a Field Guide for Shuttle Crashes, 2nd Edition, by Ikareg and Yerab-Snoll.

And the relevant section of the University of Yendis, Sound Wave Communication and Breathers, proceedings 335, are probably the most useful.

Kelly shrank from the rotten egg smell on the falling ash. She tried to shelter in Mama Shadow, trailing behind

her family across the clanking steel walkway. The ash was the awfulest. She'd worn her

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