Summary: Welcome to the first official episode of the Last Short Story podcast, a monthly discussion of new science fiction and fantasy short stories. After three "pre-season" episodes, where Last Short Story podcasters discussed Asimov's, After and The Future is Japanese, Ian Mond and Jonathan Strahan sat down to discuss the December 2012 issue of Clarkesworld and the January 2013 episode of Lightspeed, and for the most part were impressed. The stories discussed are: Clarkesworld #75, December 2012 "Your Final Apocalypse", Sandra McDonald "The Wisdom of Ants", Thoraiya Dyer "Sweet Subtleties", Lisa L. Hannett Lightspeed #32, January 2013 "With Tales in Their Teeth, From the Mountain They Came", A.C. Wise "Purity Test", Kristine Kathryn Rusch "Lifeline", Jonathan Tofert "The Sounds of Old Earth", Matthew Kressel You can subscribe to Lightspeed here and to Clarkesworld here. Please consider supporting these important short story publications. We're currently working on the next episode, and will advise shortly on what we'll discuss in February. Next month: TBA
