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Main fiction: “Judy Garland Saves the World (And I Don’t Mean Oz)” by Edward M. Lerner

Edward M. Lerner is the author of eighteen SF novels and many shorter works. The final novel in his InterstellarNet trilogy won the inaugural Canopus Award “honoring excellence in interstellar writing,” while other stories have been nominated for Locus, Prometheus, and Hugo awards. 2023 was a banner year for him, with two new novels published. Those are On the Shoals of Space-Time and Life and Death on Mars.

This story originally appeared in Deco Punk, 2015.

Narrated by: Diane Severson

Diane Severson is a lyric soprano specializing in Early Music, specifically Baroque and medieval music and loves teaching people to sing. She has narrated for PodCastle, Escape Pod, Cast of Wonders and Pseudopod, StarShipSofa, and Tales to Terrify. Diane has been involved in the SF Poetry Scene (yes, it’s a thing) since 2010 and is Membership Chair of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association (aka the SFPA) and is a passionate promoter of genre poetry. She is a published poet, and she dares you to find her poems. The best place to find her anyway is on the web because she tends to pick up and move to another country at the drop of a hat. Her now teenaged son learned 4 languages before the age of 7. She and her family currently reside in Buckinghamshire, England.

Fact: Looking Back At Genre History by Amy H Sturgis