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The Recipe for Rice Is 9,500 Years Old

By: Anya Ow
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
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In a cyberpunk future where water is scarce, rice is one of the first casualties. The recipe for printing natural-tasting, healthy, synthetic rice is a closely guarded corporate secret that a young hacker seeks to steal, for very personal reasons.

Anya Ow is an Aurealis Awards finalist whose short stories have appeared in publications such as Asimov’s Science Fiction, Uncanny, Lightspeed, Fantasy Magazine, The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror anthology (2019), and more.

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Quite an interesting idea for a story. If this was chapter one of a novel fair enough but as a short story it didn’t really work - to me at least

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