You are listening to a Clarksworld magazine podcast with your host and narrator Kate Baker

Greetings Clark's citizens. This last podcast finds you the day after Thanksgiving,

if you're in the U.S. of course.

So I hope you're listening to this,

recovering from a day of warmth, of family, of joy, of food.

After we celebrated the Thanksgiving holiday,

I went through email and I had a bunch more emails from all of those wonderful

listeners who took the time to say hello and

tell me where they listen from. So to Roger W. Leanne G. out in Alaska. David T. Rick, somewhere in Canada. Uni M. in Pennsylvania. And Don Kay. Thank you. This has actually been a very interesting experiment.

As I've mentioned in previous podcasts as a listener ship grows, I want to know where you're listening from.

So keep those letters coming, guys.

I want to know all about you.

I want to know where you're listening from, what you're doing,

what you're doing when you're not listening.

This is a community and we need to continue to build this community.

So on to our last story for the month of November.

This is a long one.

It clocks in at about 10,000 words.

And it's titled Special Economics.

And the author is Maureen F. McHugh.

Maureen made her first sale in 1989 has since made a powerful impression on the

SF world with a relatively small body of work becoming one of today's most

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