007 "Spending a Day at the Lottery Fair" written by Frederik Pohl and read by Kij Johnson

Published: Sept. 19, 2011, 8:04 p.m.

b'Episode 007 of the AboutSF podcast is a recording of Kij Johnson (www.kijjohnson.com) reading the Frederik Pohl short story \\u201cSpending a Day at the Lottery Fair.\\u201d\\xa0 Kij has won numerous awards in the fields of Fantasy and Science Fiction, including the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, the Crawford Award, the World Fantasy Award and the Nebula Award.\\xa0 Kij is also a multiple Hugo Award nominee.\\xa0 She is an associate director for the Center for the Study of Science Fiction (www.sfcenter.ku.edu) at the University of Kansas, and is the Vice Chair of the Clarion West Board of Directors (www.clarionwest.org)\\nAt the 2011 Campbell Conference Kij agreed to read Frederik Pohl\\u2019s story \\u201cSpending a Day at the Lottery Fair,\\u201d which was first published in Fantasy & Science Fiction in 1983.'