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So our third story for the month of February 2018, issue 137, is titled,

Umber Night, and it's a long one.

It's roughly 18,000 words. The piece is by Carolyn Ives Gilman.

She's currently celebrating her decision to quit her job in order to write more science fiction.

She has written two novels and five stories in the loosely connected 20 planets universe.

Her books include Dark Orbit, a space exploration adventure, Isle of The Foresaken, and the Isen of the Isles, a two-book fantasy

about culture, clash, and revolution, and Halfway Human, a Novel About Gender and Oppression.

Her short fiction has appeared in Clark's World, Fantasy and Science Fiction, The Years Best Science Fiction,

Light Speed, Interzone, Universe, Full Spectrum, realms of Fantasy and others.

She has been nominated for the Nebula Award three times, and for the Hugo twice.

Gwen lives in Washington, D.C. and works as a freelance writer and museum consultant.

She is also the author of several non-fiction books about North America frontier and Native history.

And if you like what you hear, April 2016 brought you touring with the alien.

And as I mentioned, this is a really long story.

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