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Amicae Aeternum
by Ellen Klages
This story was originally published in Solaris in May 2015 in the anthology The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 9, and from
Tor.com.
Text of the story:
www.tor.com/2015/03/05/amicae-aeternum-ellen-klages/
About the Author:
Ellen is the author of two acclaimed YA historical novels: The Green Glass Sea, which won the Scott O’Dell Award, the New Mexico Book Award, and the Lopez Award; and White Sands, Red Menace, which won the California and New Mexico Book Awards. Her story, Basement Magic, won a Nebula Award in 2005. In 2014, Wakulla Springs, co-authored with Andy Duncan, was nominated for the Nebula, Hugo, and Locus awards, and won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novella. Ellen lives in San Francisco, in a small house full of books and other strange and wondrous things. Learn more at her not-updated-often enough website:
www.ellenklages.com
This narration appears on Cast of Wonders #164. The audio was produced and narrated by Rikki LaCoste, and was voice acted by Isis LaCoste and Fiona Van Verth, who is the daughter of Mur Lafferty.
An interesting aspect of the recording: When Rikki initially read over the story, he saw that there were four lines of lullaby that the characters were supposed to sing. Being a musician, a song came into his head. So he soon wrote a lullaby and somehow managed to synchronize both Isis and Fiona to sing the song to the recorded music.
Listen to the song here:
panthea.bandcamp.com/track/i-see-the-moon
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Cast of Wonders Website
www.castofwonders.org
Episode #164 Page
www.castofwonders.org/2015/04/episode-164-amicae-aeternum-by-ellen-klages/
Episode #164 Audio
archive.org/download/Wonders164/Wonders164.mp3 lyrics
Summary:
When one embarks on a long, one-way journey, there is loss and there are people left behind. Klages provides a tender story about two girls, one of whom is setting out with her parents on a Generation Starship. She has a bucket list of things she wants to do before departure day, and it’s a bittersweet final morning as she and her friend head out on their bikes, in an adept, tender story.
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