Nature Extra: Futures January 2017

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🗓️ 31 January 2017

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Futures is Nature's weekly science fiction slot. Shamini Bundell reads you their favourite from January, 'The last robot' by S. L. Huang.

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0:00.0	Imagine sweeping through green fields, floating five feet above ground, sun on your face as you slide by on track to your destination, not a care in the world as you simply lean back, and before you know it, you're there.
0:16.8	London to Birmingham from just £16 each way.
0:20.5	Avanti West Coast
0:21.6	Feel Good Travel
0:23.3	Exclusions and limitations apply
0:25.4	full terms and conditions
0:26.5	can be founded at avantiwestcoastcoastcoastcoastco.com.
0:28.9	com, UK, forward slash, plan.
0:30.1	Yes! I just can't believe!
0:32.5	This Christmas, you could be a millionaire.
0:35.3	Get your lotto ticket for tonight's draw.
0:37.1	The National Lottery.
0:38.0	Rules and procedures apply.
0:38.9	Players must be 18 or over.
0:42.3	This is a podcast extra from Nature.
0:45.0	Every week, Nature publishes a science fiction story in its futures slot.
0:49.3	And every month, we read you our favourite.
0:52.1	This month's story is The Last Robot, written by S.L. Huang,
0:56.6	published on 26th January and read by Charmany Bandel.
1:01.1	76 years after the world ended, the last robot and the last human met on a windswept plateau.
1:09.3	The last robot had been located in her repository, monitoring Earth
1:13.2	as she'd been programmed to do, when an energy spike registered on the weakening sensors.
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