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1016 to 1
Our fourth piece of audio fiction for December is “1016 to 1” written by James Patrick Kelly and read by Kate Baker.
Clarkesworld Magazine Issue 87 - 10^16 to 1 by James Patrick Kelly [64:10m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (61881)First published in Asimov’s Science Fiction, June 1999.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
James Patrick Kelly has won the Hugo, Nebula and Locus awards; his fiction has been translated into twenty-one languages. His most recent story collections were this year's The Promise of Space from Prime Books and Masters of Science Fiction: James Patrick Kelly published by Centipede Press in 2016. His most recent novel, Mother Go, was published in 2017 as an Audible original audiobook on Audible.com. He writes a column on the internet for Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine and is on the faculty of the Stonecoast Creative Writing MFA Program at the University of Southern Maine.
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Steve wrote on December 23rd, 2013 at 9:01 am:
Great story.
Bryan Alexander wrote on March 15th, 2014 at 6:11 pm:
A fine tale. I like the way it shifted my expectations for JFK being Cross' target to... Adlai Stevenson!
I also admire the depiction of the narrator's mindset: very believable, sympathetic.
The coda does a great job of racing ahead to the present, quietly summoning up Cold War nuclear fears once more.
And beautifully read, as ever, Kate Baker. Brava on the voices, especially that of Cross.
Languorous Lass wrote on February 23rd, 2017 at 11:11 pm:
Whoa. From the perspective of almost 3 years after the podcast, this story is a lot scarier. As of this moment, I could easily imagine the world ending in nuclear war in 2019.