Prayer
Our first piece of audio fiction for May is "Prayer" written by Robert Reed and read by Kate Baker.
Clarkesworld Magazine Issue 68 - Prayer by Robert Reed [38:05m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (9947)Please Support This Month's Sponsors
ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Robert has had eleven novels published, starting with The Leeshore in 1987 and most recently with The Well of Stars in 2004. Since winning the first annual L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future contest in 1986 (under the pen name Robert Touzalin) and being a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award for best new writer in 1987, he has had over 200 shorter works published in a variety of magazines and anthologies. Eleven of those stories were published in his critically-acclaimed first collection, The Dragons of Springplace, in 1999. Twelve more stories appear in his second collection, The Cuckoo's Boys [2005]. In addition to his success in the U.S., Reed has also been published in the U.K., Russia, Japan, Spain and in France, where a second (French-language) collection of nine of his shorter works, Chrysalide, was released in 2002. Bob has had stories appear in at least one of the annual "Year's Best" anthologies in every year since 1992. Bob has received nominations for both the Nebula Award (nominated and voted upon by genre authors) and the Hugo Award (nominated and voted upon by fans), as well as numerous other literary awards (see Awards). He won his first Hugo Award for the 2006 novella "A Billion Eves". He is currently working on a Great Ship trilogy for Prime Books, and of course, more short pieces.
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Sam Hill wrote on May 16th, 2012 at 11:57 am:
Awesome story that has it all: AI's, smart weapons, armed and dangerous teenagers and a moral epiphany as icing on the cake. I really enjoyed Mr. Reed's attention to details (the water in the bath tub leaping to mind), as well as his succinct and engaging style of prose.