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 extraordinarily well.

This is our second story for the month of February 2018, issue 137.

And I mean it when I say, I hope this podcast finds you well.

And if not so well, I do hope that things get better.

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Our second story is titled, Obliteration, is by Robert Reed.

Robert Reed has had 10 stories featured in Clarksville magazine,

dating all the way back to November 2013 with Mystic Falls,

and more recently, The Significance of Significance, in July 2017.

He's also had 11 novels published, has been nominated for numerous awards, including

being a finalist for the Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 1987,

and has over 200 shorter works published in a variety of magazines and

anthologies. Interestingly enough, he's also been published in the UK, Russia, Japan, Spain, and France.

Robert won his first Hugo Award in 2006 for the novella A Billion Eves.

And his most recent book is The Memory of Sky, from Prime Books 2014. You can go to his website Robert Reedwriter.com.

So my dear listeners I'm going to jump right into the story. I hope you can sit back. Relax and let me tell you a story.

A lot of people preferred this Mars to all the others. This was the Mars wearing a coal bolt blue sea in the north and towering redwood forests across its wilderness south.

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