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This is our fourth story for the month of August, issue 155. And for those of you who are just joining us on this podcast, thank you so much for coming by. I hope you enjoy what you hear.

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So our fourth story is titled The Yorkshire Mammoth and is by Harry Turtle Dove. Harry Turtle Dove is an escaped Byzantine historian. He writes alternate history, other science fiction, fantasy, often historically based, and when people let him get away with it historical fiction.

He is perhaps best known for The Guns of the South. More recent

books include Joe Steele, The House of Daniel, through Dark's Europe, and contemporary

supernatural thriller Alpha and Omega.

He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Broadway Mabin, and fellow writer Laura Franco's.

They have three daughters, two granddaughters, and three overprivileged cats.

Anyone looking for his annoying opinions about writing and a great many other things can find him on Twitter at H.N. turtle dove.

So my dear listeners, please sit back.

Relax and let me tell you a story.

First, is, or claims to be, the only town in England without a vowel to or in its name.

People who live there say the Vikings carried it off a thousand years ago.

Looking at them and listening to the Scandinavian words in their Yorkshire

dialect, you may easily believe the Vikings left a lot more recently than

that, if they ever left at all.

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