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 finds you very well. Not much news to report for this

fourth story of the month of October 2013 but as I've said before I am just

astounded at how fast the time goes between each week.

And I'm glad I can keep you company no matter where your travels find you.

So let me get right to it.

The piece is titled The Cayanna, and it's by Gweneth Jones.

Now, Gweneth was born in Manchester, England,

and is the author of more than 20 novels for teenagers,

mostly under the name Anne Halam. and

several highly regarded SF novels for adults.

She has won two World Fantasy Awards, the Arthur C Clark Award,

the British Science Fiction Association Short Story Award,

the Dracula Society's Children of the Night Award, the Philip K Dick Award, and shared the

first Tiptree Award in 1992 with Eleanor Arneson. Upcoming is a new story collection, The

Universe of Things. She lives in Brighton UK with her husband and son. A

Tonkinese cat called Ginger, and her young friend Milo.

Gwinneth can be found at Bold As Love.co.uk,

forward slash blog. And now, without further ado, let me tell you a story.

If he'd been at home, he'd have thought, dump plant injuries. In the socially

unbalanced pioneer cities of the equatorial ring, little scavengers tangled with the recycling machinery.

They needed premium, earth, atmosphere, and pressure nursing, or the flesh would not regenerate,

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