You are listening to a Clarksville magazine podcast with your host and narrator, Kate Baker,

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This is our 7th story for the month of October 2022, issue 193.

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So our story is titled The Secret Strength of Things and is by Gregory Feeley.

Gregory Feeley writes science fiction and about science fiction.

His first novel, The Oxygen Barons, was nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award.

And his stories have been finalists for the Nebula Award.

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