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In this episode of the Strange Horizons podcast, editor Kat Kourbeti presents Martha Riva Palacio Obón's "Biography of Algae", translated by Will Morningstar and read by Ximena De Ariño.



Martha Riva Palacio Obón es una autora y artista sonora mexicana, parte del colectivo de literatura y ciencia Cúmulo de Tesla. Su novela Frecuencia Júpiter obtuvo el Premio Gran Angular en el 2013, y en el 2019 obtuvo la beca Otherwise con su proyecto Seguir grillos por la casa. En su novela corta Orfeo, explora los límites entre géneros, mitos y Ciencia Ficción.

Martha Riva Palacio Obón is a Mexican author and sound artist, and part of the literature and science collective Cúmulo de Tesla. Her novel Frecuencia Júpiter was awarded the Gran Angular prize in 2013, and in 2019 she was granted the Otherwise Fellowship with her project Following Crickets Around the House. In her short novel Orfeo, she explores the boundaries between genres, myth, and SciFi.

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Maybe we overestimated ourselves, I thought, watching the ferries hum against the wine-dark sea. Even if we floated above it, we were still bound to the ocean, engulfed in all its weight and inescapable history. To believe otherwise was a kind of hubris. But we had believed otherwise anyway, and so each of us had become something smaller, less human, suspended in a brittle net of want and memory. And then she appeared. At the wrong time, in the wrong place. My Scylla, my monstress, my deathless siren of anglerfish light. Longing, in that empty, unmoving ocean, for things that had not existed for centuries. How could anyone blame her? The only alternative was to grieve. 
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