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

Greetings Clarksville Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you very well.

This is our fourth story for the month of September 2013

and before we begin, I'm coming up on the fourth year here at Clarks World and as an aside I wanted

to see how many podcasts have been downloaded in the four years that I've been here.

It came with great shock and glorious surprise that when we crunched the numbers, both Neil and I,

the total number of downloads for all of

the podcast combined over the last four years is 1.8 million. I cannot thank you

enough for your generosity, your support, you listening to this, you

subscribing, leaving a comment, a like, a star on iTunes, anything.

We are here because of your support. And I will never ever be able to

thank you enough. And also out of that data came the word count and over the four years that

I've been here. I have read over 500,

500,000 words.

So if you've been here from the very beginning, what a journey together, huh?

Anyway, I'll try to manage to come down from Cloud 9 while you enjoyed the rest of this story, but

our fourth story is entitled Out of Copyright, and is by Charles Sheffield. As well as being one of the best hard science writers of his generation, the late Charles

Sheffield was a theoretical physicist who worked on the American Space Program and was the

chief scientist of the Earth Satellite Corporation.

He won the Hugo Award in 1994 for his story, Georgia On My Mind.

His books included The Best-Selling Non- Fiction Title Earth Watch,

The Novel Sight of Proteous, The Web Between Worlds,

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