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

This is our fifth story for the month of May 2015.

There's not much news to report so I'm just going to jump right into the story.

The piece is titled Solis and is by James Van Pelt. James Van Pelt is a writer who also serves as an English teacher

in the Language Arts Department at the Fruita Monument High School

in Fruita, Colorado.

A prolific short story writer, his stories have been

finalists for the Nebula Award and the Theodore Sturgeon Award, and he himself has

been a finalist for the John W Campbell Award for Best New Writer. His stories have been gathered in four collections,

strangers and beggars, the last of the O-forms and other stories,

the radio magician and other stories, and flying in the heart of the Lafayette Escadryl.

And he has also published a novel Summer of the Apocalypse.

Coming up as a new novel, Pandora's Gun.

Van Pelt lives in Grand Junction, Colorado.

You can find him at his website Jim Van Pelt.

Live Journal.com.

And before we begin today's story, this story was originally published in Analog

Science Fiction and Fact in June 2009. So I invite you to sit back, relax, and let me tell you a story. The wall display didn't last two sleep cycles. When Megan woke the first time,

100 years into the 4,000 years long journey to Zeta reticula,

she waved her hand at the sensor,

and the steel wall morphed into a long view of the Crystal River.

On the left side, Aspen leaves trembled in a breeze she couldn't feel.

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