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Our fourth story for the month of November 2018, issue 146, is titled, The Gift of Angels, an Introduction.

It is by Nina Allen.

Nina Allen's first novel, The Race, was shortlisted for the John W Campbell Memorial Award in 2017.

And her second novel, The Rift, when the British Science Fiction Award and the Kitchy's Red

Tentacle in 2018.

Her 2016 novelet, The Art of Space Travel,

was a Hugo Award finalist.

Nina's third novel, The Dollmaker, is scheduled for publication in 2019.

You can find Nina at her website, Nina Allen.co.uk.

And if you like what you hear, June 2017 brought you Neptune's Trident.

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

The noise outside his door made Vincent feel as if he were back in college in the dilapidated hall of residence where he had spent the first year of his degree course and where the corridor parties often went on until the small hours. A continuous muted hubbub generously interspersed with outbursts of oofish laughter.

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