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

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

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

This piece is on the longer side, and is titled, The Clear Blue Skies of Luna.

It is written by Gregory Benford.

Now Gregory Benford is professor of physics

at the University of California, Irvine.

He is a Woodrow Wilson fellow,

was a visiting fellow at Cambridge University,

and in 1995 received the Lord Prize for contributions to science.

In 2007, he won the Asimov Award for Science Writing.

His 1999 analysis of what endures, deep time how humanity communicates across millennia, has been widely read.

A fellow of the American Physical Society and a member of the World Academy of Arts and Sciences,

he continues his research in astrophysics, plasma physics, and biotechnology.

His fiction has won many awards including the Nebula Award for his novel, Time Escape.

You can find him at his website Gregory Benford.com and our narrator for this

novel is none other than Alice Dare Stewart one of my favorite narrators by far,

you can find Alistair over as the host of Pseudopod,

a horror podcast.

So if you're looking for something to send chills up your spine or just feel all murder

ragey. I'm thinking over there might be a good place to start. You can find Aliceistair at his website, Alistair Stewart. And that's ALAST-U-A-T.

So I invite you to sit back, relax, and let Alistair tell you know

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