Green Future

Toasted Cake 124: Green Future by Deborah Walker, read by Alex C. Renwick

Episode #124! In which we clean the algae. 

Miriam has always been a cleaner.

This story first appeared right here in Nature. 

Deborah Walker grew up in the most English town in the country, but she soon high-tailed it down to London, where she now lives with her partner, Chris, and her two young children. Find Deborah in the British Museum trawling the past for future inspiration.  

Alex C. Renwick was designed in Canada, built in California, and grown in Texas. She has written dozens of short stories as Camille Alexa, including her award-nominated collection Push of the Sky, which received a starred review in Publishers Weekly and was an official reading selection of the Powell's Books SF Book Club. She currently splits her time between Portland, Austin, Vancouver, and Montreal.

Original airdate: September 28, 2014