The Recipe for Rice Is 9,500 Years Old

De: Anya Ow

Narrado por: 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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Amazing world-building in a few short minutes

I first listened to this about two years ago when it came out, and every now and then I visit this world in my head. I wish there were more stories set here.

Wish it were longer!

I like cyberpunk stories. Too bad this one was so short. Scary to think of this story being reality, which I guess we really aren’t too far off from.