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

Greetings, Clark's World Citizens. I hope this podcast binds you extraordinarily well.

This is our third story for the month of January 2022. Is she 184?

Just a brief check-in. How are those New Year's resolutions going if you made any?

As with mine, as always, I think I've already given up on most of them.

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So our story is titled The Five Rules of Supernova Surfing,

or a four-real solution to the Fermi Paradox, bro.

This is by Jeffrey W. Cole.

Now, Jeffrey W. Cole, who can be found at JeffreyW. Cole.com, is an award-winning short-fiction author.

His work has appeared in such publications as Apex New World's Escape Pod Reckoning

and Imaginarium 2012, the year's best Canadian speculative writing.

Histories have been translated into Catalan, French, Hungarian, Italian, Romanian, and Spanish.

He is a 2016 winner of the Prémis Ictano for Best Story translated into Catalan.

He lives with his wonderful wife, three sons, and giant hound outside of Toronto, Canada.

If you like what you hear, you can go back to teaching Bigfoot to read.

So, my dear listener, I hope that you can sit back, relax, and let me tell you a story.

First rule of supernova surfing, timing is everything.

A light year out from the dying red super-giant reef put on the music.

Hundreds of semi-senscient AIs spring to life at the back of the 2025 VW Microbus

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