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

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

Our last short story for the month of May 2017, issue 128, is titled The Man Who

Walk Home and is by James Tiptree Jr. Multiple Hugo and Nebula award-winning author James Tiptree Jr.

was the pseudonym of the late Dr. Alice Sheldon.

A semi-retired experimental psychologist and former member of the American Intelligence Community,

who also wrote occasionally under the name Rachuna Sheldon.

Dr. Sheldon's tragic death in 1987 put an end to both careers, but not before she had won two

Nebula and two Hugo Awards as Tiptree, won another Nebula Award as Rak Rakuna Sheldon and established herself under whatever name as one of the very best science fiction writers of our times. As Tiptree, Dr. Sheldon published two novels,

Up the Walls of the World, and brightness falls from the air,

and nine short story collections.

Ten thousand light years from home, warm worlds and otherwise, star songs of an old primate, out of the

everywhere, tales of the Quintana Roo, bite beautiful, and the starry Rift, the posthumously published Crown of Stars and the

definitive posthumous retrospective collection.

Her smoke rose up forever.

So, I hope you can sit back, relax.

And let me tell you a story. Transgression, terror, and he thrust and lost there, punched into impossibility, abandoned never to be known how.

The wrong man and the most wrong of all wrong places in that unimaginable collapse of never to be reimagined mechanism.

He, stranded, undone, his lifeline severed,

he in that nanosecond, knowing his only tether parting, going away, the longest line to life

was drawing, winking out, disappearing forever beyond his grasp.

Telescopeing away from him into the closing vortex beyond which lay his home,

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