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Our second story is titled through the roof of the world and is by Harry Turtle Dove.

Now Harry Turtle Dove is an escaped Byzantine historian who writes alternate history,

other science fiction, fantasy, much of it historically based. And when he can get away with it

historical fiction, his most recent published book is Three Miles Down, Alien Contact in the 1970s.

His next one will be The Wages of Sin, an alternate history with HIV getting loose in the world

at the start of the 16th century. Turtle Dove lives in Los Angeles with his wife, writer and

Broadway, and may then Laura Frank goes. They have three daughters, two granddaughters, and three

overprivileged cats. And if you like what you hear, you can go back to the Yorkshire mammoth.

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

Skog hung in place close enough to the roof of the world so she could faintly hear her pulses

echoing back from its jagged hardness. Coming back from everything in the area,

those pulses told her of almost everything around her out to pass the distance where it could be

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