You are listening to a Clarks World magazine podcast.

I'm your host Kate Baker. Your narrator will be a Lethia Contess.

Our story is The Future is Blue and is by Catherine M. Valenti.

Catherine M. Valenti is the New York Times best-selling author of over two dozen works of fiction and poetry, including Palim Sest, the Orphans' Tale Series,

Deathless, Radiance, and the crowd-funded phenomenon.

The girl who circumnavigated Faralland and a ship of her own making, and the four books had followed it.

She is the winner of the Andre Norton, Tiptree, Sturgeon, Riesling, Lambda, Locust, Romantic Times, Critics critics choice, and Hugo Awards.

She has been a finalist for the Nebulan World Fantasy Awards.

She lives on an island off the coast of Maine with a small but growing menagerie of beasts,

some of which are human.

Catherine can be found at her website,

Catherine.

and Catherine has been featured in Clark's World so many times,

dating all the way back to May 2008 with a buyer's guide to maps of Antarctica,

and most recently, January 2015 brought you the long good night of Violet Wild Part 1, and March 2015 brought you the long good night of Violet

Wild Part 2. Our narrator, and so thankful for this, is Alethea Contus.

Alethea has stepped in for me while I deal with the passing of my father.

He will be missed.

And for those of you who don't know Aleithia,

Aleithia is a princess, very godmother and geek.

Host of Princess Aleithia's fairy tale rants

and Princess Aleithia's traveling sideshow every year at DragonCon,

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