You are listening to a Clark's World magazine podcast I hope this podcast finds you well.

There's really not a whole ton of news to report on the science fiction and

fantasy fronts, so I'm just going to jump into the story for October 1st,

2011, Issue number 61. And for those of you who are wondering about the subscription drive that Clark's World was having,

I think as of the recording of this, Neil is tallying up all those numbers,

and we'll be able to see whether or not we met the 500 subscriber mark.

So again, if you were thinking of grabbing a subscription off of your Kindle or through weightless books,

there would be no better time than now.

So our first story of the month is staying behind by Ken Lou.

Ken has worked as a programmer and as a lawyer and he drafts legal documents like he writes code.

His fiction has appeared in FNSF, Strange Horizons, Light Speed, and Asimov's among other places.

Ken's other story in Clark's World was Tying Knotts in Issue 52 in January of 2011.

So if you like this story, I suggest that you go and check him out.

His longest work to date, the novella, The Man Who Ended History, is available now from Panverse

Publishing as part of the Panverse 3 anthology. He lives in the

Greater Boston area with his wife and their daughter. He can be found at Ken Lou that's

k-e-l-l-L-I-U dot name.

Now without further ado, let me tell you a story. After the singularity, most people chose to die. The dead pity us and call us the left behind, as if we were unfortunate souls who couldn't get to a life raft in time.

They cannot fathom the idea that we might choose to stay behind. And so, year after year, relentlessly, the dad tried to steal our children.

I was born in year zero of the singularity when the first man uploaded into a machine.

The Pope denounced the digital atom, the digerati celebrated and everyone else struggled to make sense of the new world.

We've always wanted to live forever, the atom ever, the founder of Everlasting, Inc. and the first to go.

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