She thought of the ocean, and suddenly she felt a longing for it. She saw herself wading into patches of light, into the crisp foam like her father's shaving cream.

Richard E. Geis died on 4 February in Portland, Oregon. He was 85.

But on the terraformed red dirt plains of Mars / Historical references are lost on the colonists

In this episode of the  Strange Horizons  podcast, editor Anaea Lay presents Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam's "The Siren."