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A special five-hour audio novella in celebration of our 200th episode of the BCS Audio Fiction Podcast! Narrated by C.S.E. Cooney.

Across great distances I hear her voice rolling over the sand, traipsing gently above bones of impossible beasts that perhaps had one day populated the desert. The Tumbleweed Star speaks to its twin sibling, the star to which I am tethered. She speaks of secrets I will never understand and do not want to overhear; of time above the clouds, of darknesses, of absences.

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Read “A Portrait of the Desert in Personages of Power, Pt. I” by R.B. Lemberg, in Issue #229

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R.B. Lemberg is a queer, bigender immigrant from Ukraine, Russia, and Israel to the US. Their stories and poems have appeared in Lightspeed‘s Queers Destroy Science Fiction, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Uncanny, Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology, and more. R.B.’s work has been a finalist for the Nebula, the Crawford, and other awards. Many of R.B.’s stories and poems are set in Birdverse, an LGBTQIA+-focused secondary world. Their Birdverse novella The Four Profound Weaves was released by Tachyon Press in 2020, and their Birdverse novel The Unbalancing is forthcoming from Tachyon Press in September 2022. You can find R.B. on Twitter at @rb_lemberg and at rblemberg.net.

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