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Two-time Nebula-award-winning-author Kessel co-edited the anthologies Feeling Very Strange, Rewired, and The Secret History of Science Fiction with James Patrick Kelly. John’s most recent short story collection, The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories, was published by Small Beer Press in 2008. About “Clean” the author says, “This story is a sequel to the first story I ever sold to Asimov’s, ‘Hearts Do Not in Eyes Shine,’ which appeared in the October 1983 issue. In some ways this tale represents my attempt to imagine what an episode of a TV series based on that original story’s premise would look like.” 

Her father taught electrical engineering at the university and had a passion
for vacuum tubes. When she was eight, he taught her how to repair old radios.
They would sit on high stools in his basement workroom and inspect the blackened interiors of battered old Philcos and Stromburg-Carlsons.
“Lee De Forest held the patent on the regenerative circuit,” her father told her, “but that was an act of piracy. It was actually invented by ...