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Welcome to Sudapod.

Sudapod, episode 871 for June 23rd, 2023.

Nymph of Darkness by C.L. Moore and Forest Ackerman,

narrated by Rich Outfield, audio production by Chelsea Davis.

Greetings, podlings. I am your host today, Wilson Fowley.

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escape pod, cast of wonders, cat's cast, and of course, here at Sudapod.

Our story this week is Nymph of Darkness by C.L. Moore and Forest Ackerman,

originally published in Fantasy Magazine in April 1935.

Catherine Lucille Moore was an American science fiction and fantasy writer who most

often used the pen name C.L. Moore. She was among the first women to write in either genre.

She was a trailblazer in the early pulp magazines and prolific over the next several decades.

In 1981, Moore received two awards for her career in fantasy literature.

The World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, chosen by a panel of judges at the World Fantasy

Convention, and the Gandalf Grand Master Award, chosen by a vote of participants of the World

Science Fiction Convention. Forest James Ackerman was an American magazine editor, science fiction

writer and literary agent. As an agent, he represented such science fiction authors as Ray Bradbury,

Isaac Asimov, and L. Ron Hubbard. For more than 70 years, he was one of science fiction's

staunchest spokesmen and promoters. He was the founding editor and principal writer of the

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