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		<title>And the Hollow Space Inside by Mari Ness</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:25:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mari Ness</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Doug reaches for my hand as the ship approaches. He continues to hold it as the great doors open, as we watch them leave the ship. They pause; they have been in space and ultra-low gravity for five years now. Five years, one month, and three days, to be precise; I cannot believe my mind [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And the Hollow Space Inside by Mari Ness (audio)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:15:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mari Ness</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Our first piece of audio fiction for February is "And the Hollow Space Inside" written by Mari Ness and read by Kate Baker.

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		<title>A Hundred Ghosts Parade Tonight by Xia Jia, translated by Ken Liu</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:05:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xia Jia</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Awakening of Insects, the Third Solar Term:
Ghost Street is long but narrow, like an indigo ribbon. You can cross it in eleven steps, but to walk it from end to end takes a full hour.
At the western end is Lanruo Temple, now fallen into ruin. Inside the temple is a large garden full of fruit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All the Young Kirks and Their Good Intentions by Helena Bell</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:58:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helena Bell</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[2249 A.D.
All the young Kirks in Riverside Public High School are assigned to the same Homeroom class. They sit together in the back corner on the far side from the door. They speak only to each other.
The young Kirk on the Moon goes to school with no one. Each of the colonists has a job [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From Farm to Fable: Food, Fantasy, and Science Fiction by Matthew Johnson</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:45:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Johnson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Food is one of our most basic desires. It's the first thing we ask for after being born, the fuel for our work and our reward at the end of a long day. Because of this, it's been an integral element of storytelling since Eve ate the apple, and science fiction and fantasy are no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Everything&#8217;s Surprising: A Conversation with Lev AC Rosen by Jeremy L. C. Jones</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:35:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy L. C. Jones</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In All Men of Genius by Lev AC Rosen, Violet Adams doesn't necessarily want to be a man, but she does want to attend the prestigious, all-male Illyria College. Denied what she desires by social convention, she does what Viola in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and the male leads in Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wendigo Waistcoat Spyglass and Other Words with Lisa L. Hannett by Jeremy L. C. Jones</title>
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		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/hannett_interview/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:20:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy L. C. Jones</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In Bluegrass Symphony, Lisa L. Hannett writes of a place that is, perhaps, somewhere (or nowhere) in the rural United States&#8212;a place that is inspired, in equal parts, by the American South and Medieval Icelandic literature.
&#34;Lisa Hannett weaves words the way the Norns weave fates, elegantly, seamlessly and with just a little bit of cruelty,&#34; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2011 Reader&#8217;s Poll Results by Neil Clarke</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/clarke_02_12/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/clarke_02_12/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:10:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Clarke</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The results from our 2011 Reader's Poll have been tabulated and your feedback gone over with a fine-tooth comb. Without further ado, I give you this year's winners: 
COVER ART 
THIRD PLACE  
       (TIE, listed in order of appearance)

Nautili
by Julie Dillon

The Towers of KEILAH
by Ferdinand Ladera

Off Road
by Facundo [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cover Art: Pilot by Alexander Trufanov</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/artbio_65/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/artbio_65/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexander Trufanov</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>All the Painted Stars by Gwendolyn Clare (audio)</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_01_12b/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_01_12b/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 01:31:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gwendolyn Clare</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Our final piece of audio fiction for January is "All the Painted Stars" written by Gwendolyn Clare and read by Kate Baker.

Subscribe to our podcast.
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		<itunes:subtitle>Our final piece of audio fiction for January is "All the Painted Stars" written by Gwendolyn Clare and read by Kate Baker.



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		<itunes:summary>Our final piece of audio fiction for January is "All the Painted Stars" written by Gwendolyn Clare and read by Kate Baker.



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		<itunes:keywords>Fiction,,podcast</itunes:keywords>
		<itunes:author>Clarkesworld</itunes:author>
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		<title>What Everyone Remembers by Rahul Kanakia (audio)</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_01_12a/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_01_12a/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 00:14:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rahul Kanakia</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Our second piece of audio fiction for January is "What Everyone Remembers" written by Rahul Kanakia and read by Kate Baker.

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		<itunes:subtitle>Our second piece of audio fiction for January is "What Everyone Remembers" written by Rahul Kanakia and read by Kate Baker.



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		<itunes:summary>Our second piece of audio fiction for January is "What Everyone Remembers" written by Rahul Kanakia and read by Kate Baker.



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		<title>Scattered Along the River of Heaven by Aliette de Bodard</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/de_bodard_01_12/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/de_bodard_01_12/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 00:20:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aliette de Bodard</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I grieve to think of the stars
   Our ancestors our gods
   Scattered like hairpin wounds
   Along the River of Heaven
   So tell me
   Is it fitting that I spend my days here
   A guest in those dark, forlorn halls? 

This is the first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scattered Along the River of Heaven by Aliette de Bodard (audio)</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_01_12/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_01_12/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 00:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aliette de Bodard</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[podcast]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Our first piece of audio fiction for January is "Scattered Along the River of Heaven" written by Aliette de Bodard and read by Kate Baker.

Subscribe to our podcast.
]]></description>
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		<itunes:subtitle>Our first piece of audio fiction for January is "Scattered Along the River of Heaven" written by Aliette de Bodard and read by Kate Baker.



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		<itunes:summary>Our first piece of audio fiction for January is "Scattered Along the River of Heaven" written by Aliette de Bodard and read by Kate Baker.



Subscribe to our podcast.</itunes:summary>
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		<itunes:author>Clarkesworld</itunes:author>
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		<title>What Everyone Remembers by Rahul Kanakia</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kanakia_01_12/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kanakia_01_12/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 23:40:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rahul Kanakia</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I remember being with maman in the cabin of her ship, anchored someplace where the wind was always howling, the temperature was always freezing, and fires were always dancing just beyond the horizon. I spent most of my time inside the mattress where she slept, burrowing as close as I could to maman so that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All the Painted Stars by Gwendolyn Clare</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/clare_01_12/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/clare_01_12/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 23:10:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gwendolyn Clare</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[They are not the Brights, and so I hesitate  to save them. Part of me is eager, and part of me ashamed.
Even through the haze of plasma blasts  dispersing over their shields, I recognize the ship as a Bright construct&#8212;too  much glass, arranged in sharp geometric panels so the entire upper surface [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Future Sounds of Yesterday: A Sequence of Synthesizers in Science Fiction  by Christopher Bahn</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/bahn_01_12/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/bahn_01_12/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 22:40:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Bahn</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[commentary]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[non-fiction]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Music and technology have always  gone hand in hand&#8212;and the explosive flowering of music as an art form in the  last century is also the story of the explosive growth of technology. Indeed,  people have recognized the potential of computers to revolutionize music since  before there even were computers. In 1842, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Things You Will Never Understand: A Conversation with Robert Jackson Bennett by Jeremy L. C. Jones</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/bennett_interview/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/bennett_interview/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 22:21:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy L. C. Jones</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[interview]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[non-fiction]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The writing of The Troupe started for Robert Jackson Bennett with the image of &#34;a boy in the dark, muddy and wounded, holding a body in his arms, and singing.&#34;  He wrote the novel to understand who the boy is and how he got there.
Bennett jokingly calls himself an &#34;accidental horror&#34; writer. Much of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2011 Reader&#8217;s Poll</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/clarke_01_12/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/clarke_01_12/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 21:40:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Clarke</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[editorial]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[non-fiction]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Every year, we give you the opportunity to pick your Clarkesworld favorites from the prior year. This time around, you'll have the opportunity to select your favorite story and cover art from 2011, as well as give us a little feedback. Feel free to use the comments on this post to help promote your favorites. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cover Art: Rockman by Arthur Wang</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/artbio_64/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/artbio_64/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 21:20:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arthur Wang</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
&#160;
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		<title>Silently and Very Fast (part three of three) by Catherynne M. Valente (audio)</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_12_11b/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_12_11b/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 23:55:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Catherynne M. Valente</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[podcast]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Our third piece of audio fiction for December is part two of "Silently and Very Fast" written by Catherynne M. Valente and read by Kate Baker. If you missed the earlier parts of this story, we recommend that you listen to parts one and two first.

Subscribe to our podcast.
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		<title>In Which Faster-Than-Light Travel Solves All of Our Problems by Chris Stabback (audio)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 23:43:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Sirius by Ben Peek</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 22:59:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emily Parker
At the edge of Deacon College on Tunel Five, the statue of Amadou Qaramanli  stands in an empty, sunlit square. A lab technician, he was born in Tripoli,  and began working in the expansion of the Earth Empire at the age of sixteen, dying  on a planet ninety seven percent water [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Which Faster-Than-Light Travel Solves All of Our Problems by Chris Stabback</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 22:45:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Stabback</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I live in my cockpit. I piss in a bottle and I cross the vastest vastness in my shining tin can. I've seen more of nothing than just about anyone, but if I'm telling you about it then you aren't really here, because it's just me out here. Every month or so I jerk off [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Silently and Very Fast (Part Three of Three) by Catherynne M. Valente</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 22:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Catherynne M. Valente</dc:creator>
		
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Part III: The Elephant's Soul
It is admitted that there are things He cannot do such as making 
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 22:10:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 22:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Calling &#34;Lights! Camera!  Action!&#34; on a Hollywood stage to mimic the setting of a generic suburban  apartment is easy. When a film takes place on another planet, convincingly  evoking an alien world is more complicated than using the usual soundstage and  standard backlot. Fortunately for filmmakers looking for setting options other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disrupting the World in Large Ways: A Conversation with Aliette de Bodard by Jeremy L. C. Jones</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 21:30:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy L. C. Jones</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Aliette de Bodard describes her Obsidian and Blood series as a cross between &#34;historical Aztec fantasy and a murder-mystery, featuring ghostly jaguars, bloodthirsty gods and fingernail-eating monsters.&#34;
Think Philip Marlowe slogging through the mud and blood of Mesoamerica or Sam Spade sleuthing among the Aztecs, shadow beasts, and flesh-eating star-demons. Imagine the lone detective in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Holidays</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/clarke_12_11/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 21:10:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Clarke</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>Cover Art: Reactor by Folko Streese</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 21:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Folko Streese</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>Silently and Very Fast (Part two of three) by Catherynne M. Valente (audio)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 00:52:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Catherynne M. Valente</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Our third piece of audio fiction for November is part two of "Silently and Very Fast" written by Catherynne M. Valente and read by Kate Baker. If you missed part one, you can listen to it here.

Listen to Part Three.
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		<title>The Smell of Orange Groves by Lavie Tidhar (audio)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 00:49:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lavie Tidhar</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>A Militant Peace by David Klecha and Tobias S. Buckell (audio)</title>
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		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_11_11/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 21:43:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Klecha</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Our first piece of audio fiction for November is "A Militant Peace" written by David Klecha and Tobias S. Buckell and read by Mike Allen.

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		<title>A Militant Peace by David Klecha and Tobias S. Buckell</title>
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		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/klecha_11_11/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 20:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Klecha</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist.
    I am willing to fight for peace.
&#8212;Albert Einstein
For Nong Mai Thuy, a Vietnamese Sergeant in the Marine Police, the invasion of North Korea starts with the parachute-snapping violence of a High Altitude, Low Opening jump deep in the middle of the inky [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Smell of Orange Groves by Lavie Tidhar</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 19:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lavie Tidhar</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[On the roof the solar panels were folded in on themselves, still asleep, yet uneasily stirring, as though they could sense the imminent coming of the sun. Boris stood on the edge of the roof. The roof was flat and the building's residents, his father's neighbors, had, over the years, planted and expanded an assortment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Silently and Very Fast (Part Two of Three) by Catherynne M. Valente</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 19:16:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Continued from Part One
Two: Lady Lovelace's Objection
The  Analytical Engine has no pretensions to originate anything.
It can  do whatever we know how to order it to perform.
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#8212;Ada Lovelace
Nine: The Particular Wizard
Humanity  lived many years and ruled the earth, sometimes wisely, sometimes well, but  mostly neither. After all this time on the throne, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tea, Robot? by Nathaniel Tapley</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 18:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathaniel Tapley</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Since the Martians first landed in Guildford, fellows with small mustaches and large empires have been defending the Earth. Nathaniel Tapley explores the enduring appeal of the honest, English chap in science fiction and fantasy. 
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		<title>Wedging the Door Open: Discussing The Weird by Jeremy L. C. Jones</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 17:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is The Weird?
&#34;The Weird speaks with over a hundred voices from more than a hundred years about alien territories of the human mind,&#34; said Leena Krohn, the Finnish writer best known in the US for her brilliant short novel Tainaron: Mail From Another City. &#34;Some of these territories are repugnant or terrifying, some fascinating. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sitting by the Fire, Thinking of Non-fiction by Neil Clarke</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 17:15:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Clarke</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I  expected to be attending World Fantasy Convention in  San Diego today, but my family, day job and airfare conspired to keep me home. Instead  of spending a nice warm day in California, I am being subjected to a rare Fall  snowstorm in New Jersey. As I write this editorial, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cover Art: Planetary Alignment by Julie Dillon</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 16:15:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Silently and Very Fast by Catherynne M. Valente (audio, part one)</title>
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		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_10_11b/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2011 03:06:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our third piece of audio fiction for October is part one of "Silently and Very Fast" written by Catherynne M. Valente and read by Kate Baker.

Listen to Part Two.
Subscribe to our podcast.
]]></description>
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		<title>Pony by Erik Amundsen (audio)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 19:10:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik Amundsen</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>Staying Behind by Ken Liu</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/liu_10_11/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/liu_10_11/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2011 17:23:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Liu</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[After the Singularity, most people chose to die.
The dead pity us and call us the left behind, as if we were unfortunate souls who couldn't get to a life raft in time. They cannot fathom the idea that we might choose to stay behind. And so, year after year, relentlessly, the dead try to steal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pony by Erik Amundsen</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/amundsen_10_11/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2011 17:10:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik Amundsen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Skull Pony is eying me again. He drifts in  the paddock, shifting every now and then, always facing me. I don't like him  and I don't trust him and I've more than half a mind that thinks the feeling is  mutual. The other ponies, they cluster around the rock at the center [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Silently and Very Fast by Catherynne M. Valente</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/valente_10_11/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/valente_10_11/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2011 17:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Catherynne M. Valente</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Altogether  elsewhere, vast
       Herds of  reindeer move across
       Miles  and miles of golden moss
       Silently  and very fast.
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#8212;W.H.  Auden
One: The Imitation Game
Like  diamonds we are cut with our own dust.
  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Staying Behind by Ken Liu (audio)</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_10_11/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2011 16:50:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Liu</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>Spaceships, Time Paradoxes and Duct Tape: The Joys Of Independent SF Film by Mark Cole</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/cole_10_11/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/cole_10_11/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2011 16:40:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Cole</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[To most  movie buffs, the phrase &#34;independent film&#34; conjures up images of  intensely personal low-budget films. While the term actually applies to any  film outside the studio system, the Independent Film Movement has transformed  the Indies into a fertile ground for nurturing new talent and exploring ideas  that the mainstream [...]]]></description>
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		<title>7th Sigma &#038; the Gauzy Exterior: A Conversation with Steven Gould by Jeremy L. C. Jones</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/gould_interview/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/gould_interview/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2011 16:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy L. C. Jones</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[interview]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Frontier survival, nano-technology,  drug runners, crooked cops, spies, martial arts, Western landscapes, and a (somewhat)  post-apocalyptic setting &#8212; Steven Gould's 7th  Sigma has the savory ingredients of any number of genres and sub-genres. Yet this  is no hodge-podge or mis-mash-up. It is a coming of age science fictional adventure  about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making Strange Stuff Familiar: A Conversation with Joan Slonczewski by Jeremy L. C. Jones</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/slonczewski_interview/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/slonczewski_interview/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2011 16:20:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy L. C. Jones</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Joan Slonczewski's last novel, Brain Plague, was released in 2000. Much  has changed in the world since then, and so has Slonczewski's writing. Her  recent novel, The Highest Frontier,  is both more concerned with politics than her previous novels and somehow more  gentle.
Slonczewski is the author of the  Elysium Cycle, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five by Neil Clarke</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/clarke_10_11/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/clarke_10_11/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2011 16:10:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Clarke</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This month is Clarkesworld's fifth anniversary! 
When your children turn five, you throw them a party and  family conversation inevitably turns to how fast the birthday boy/girl has  grown. When your dog turns five, someone always points out, that in dog years, Rover  is thirty-five. When your online magazine turns five, well, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cover Art: A Sense of Importance by Bryn Jones</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/artbio_61/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/artbio_61/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2011 16:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryn Jones</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>Signals in the Deep by Greg Mellor (audio)</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_09_11a/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_09_11a/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 20:48:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Mellor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Our second piece of audio fiction for September is "Signals in the Deep" written by Greg Mellor and read by Kate Baker.

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		<itunes:subtitle>Our second piece of audio fiction for September is "Signals in the Deep" written by Greg Mellor and read by Kate Baker.



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		<title>Pack by Robert Reed</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/reed_09_11/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/reed_09_11/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 21:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Reed</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[He was standing in front of my castle, watching windows. When I came out, he bent down low, mouth to the plastic grass, and asked if he could stay.
&#34;I can help you,&#34; he said.
&#34;Except you're just a dog,&#34; I pointed out.
&#34;That's not a nice word,&#34; he said.
&#34;Fuck you,&#34; I told him.
He stood up. He watched [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Signals in the Deep by Greg Mellor</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/mellor_09_11/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/mellor_09_11/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 20:40:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Mellor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Earth 
There's a place in our future where we are all heading, driven by our instincts and the deep heritage of our genes. It is a place where we are more at peace, in harmony with the universal fabric from which we were born. It's what I was taught, and it's what I believe. Our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pack by Robert Reed (audio)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 20:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Reed</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Our first piece of audio fiction for September is "Pack" written by Robert Reed and read by Kate Baker.

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]]></description>
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		<itunes:subtitle>Our first piece of audio fiction for September is "Pack" written by Robert Reed and read by Kate Baker.



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		<itunes:summary>Our first piece of audio fiction for September is "Pack" written by Robert Reed and read by Kate Baker.



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		<title>Simulating Sentience by Nancy Fulda</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/fulda_09_11/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/fulda_09_11/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 20:20:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Fulda</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Machines that think, dream, aspire: ever since John McCarthy  coined the term 'artificial intelligence' in 1956, mankind has striven to  create sentience. 
To an extent, we've succeeded. Intelligent systems assist  our elderly, vacuum our floors, and guide our web searches. Automated telephone  assistants are nearly as easy to talk to as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Momentary Glimpses of a Complete Circus: A Conversation with Genevieve Valetine by Jeremy L. C. Jones</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/valentine_interview/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/valentine_interview/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 20:10:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy L. C. Jones</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Hollow bones and brass casings, wires and cogs... Genevieve Valentine's Circus Tresaulti is a place of aerialists, dancing girls, and strong men, of spectacle and secret hatreds&#8212;a world of wild wonders and brilliant beauty.
&#34;Genevieve Valentine writes like no one else,&#34; said Ekaterina Sedia, author of Heart of Iron and The House of Discarded Dreams. &#34;Her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thank You by Neil Clarke</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/clarke_09_11/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/clarke_09_11/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 20:05:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Clarke</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I'm going to be brief this month. In case you haven't heard, there have been some distractions around here in the form of Hurricane Irene. We're all safe and sound, but I do have something to say...
Thank you.
For the second year in a row, Clarkesworld Magazine has won the Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cover Art: Forest Spirit by Mike Azevedo</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 20:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Azevedo</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>The Fish of Lijiang by Chen Qiufan (audio)</title>
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		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_08_11a/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 19:29:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chen Qiufan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Our second piece of audio fiction for August is "The Fish of Lijiang" written by Chen Qiufan and read by Kate Baker.

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		<itunes:subtitle>Our second piece of audio fiction for August is "The Fish of Lijiang" written by Chen Qiufan and read by Kate Baker.



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		<itunes:summary>Our second piece of audio fiction for August is "The Fish of Lijiang" written by Chen Qiufan and read by Kate Baker.



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		<title>Conservation of Shadows by Yoon Ha Lee</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 19:30:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yoon Ha Lee</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as conservation of shadows. When light destroys shadows, darkness does not gain in density elsewhere. When shadows steal over earth and across the sky, darkness is not diluted.
Hello, Inanna. You have seven inventory slots, all full. The seventh contains your heart, which cannot be removed. We will do our best [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Fish of Lijiang by Chen Qiufan, translated by Ken Liu</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/chen_08_11/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/chen_08_11/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 19:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chen Qiufan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Two fists are before my eyes, bright  sunlight reflecting from the backs of the hands.
&#34;Left or right?&#34;
I see myself reaching out with a child's  finger, hesitating, and pointing to the one on the left. The fist flips, opens.  Empty.
The fists disappear and reappear.
&#34;One more chance. Left or right?&#34;
I point to the one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conservation of Shadows by Yoon Ha Lee (audio)</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_08_11/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_08_11/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 18:40:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yoon Ha Lee</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>Inconstant Constants by Karen Burnham</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 18:20:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen Burnham</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Science changes our understanding of the universe all the time. We move from vacuum tubes to integrated circuits to quantum computers. Hypotheses are proposed and then tested. But for the last hundred years or more, there's been an important assumption that all scientists share: there's nothing different about one patch of space compared to another [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Something Greater: An Epic Discussion of Epic Fantasy, Part 2 by Jeremy L. C. Jones</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 18:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy L. C. Jones</dc:creator>
		
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&#34;Epic fantasy is as rich, vibrant, meaningful and wonder-provoking as we  choose to make it,&#34; said Robert V. S. Redick, the author of The Red Wolf  Conspiracy, The Ruling Sea, and the recent The River of Shadows. &#34;But to  write it well is an immense undertaking, akin to setting off on a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>War Destroys Everyone It Touches: A Conversation with Minister Faust by Jeremy L. C. Jones</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 17:50:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy L. C. Jones</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Minister Faust subverts conventions. And he speaks his mind. In other words, he likes to take risks. 
&#34;When you stop taking risks, you stop making discoveries and doing truly remarkable things. You'll make mistakes via risk, and plenty of them, but the road to success is covered with the gravel of with mistakes. The road [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heading to Worldcon by Neil Clarke</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/clarke_08_11/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 17:40:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Clarke</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Like some of you, I'll be heading off to Worldcon this month. I missed last year's convention in Australia, so I'm looking forward to the long weekend in Reno, Nevada. Renovation  has sent me my schedule, so I thought I'd share a little of what goes on there and  perhaps entice anyone attending [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cover Art: Into the Woods by Erik Storstein</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 17:29:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik Storstein</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>Frozen Voice by An Owomoyela (audio)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 16:06:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>An Owomoyela</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Our second piece of audio fiction for July is "Frozen Voice" written by An Owomoyela and read by Kate Baker.

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		<title>Trois morceaux en forme de mechanika by Gord Sellar</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 16:38:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gord Sellar</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[1.
The city of Plze&#328;, once famous for its lagers, will be famous someday   for this little wooden-walled workshop instead.  Humanity's nonhuman descendants will wander its reconstructed streets, making  pilgrimages from the ancient brewery (site of the first grand mutiny) to this  tiny workshop where the Lasherites trace their own singular [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Frozen Voice by An Owomoyela</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 16:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>An Owomoyela</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[They've  made us speak Hlerig.
They've made us wrestle sounds slippery as  fish or burly as bears through our throats.  They've made us stumble through conversations, even human-to-human, that  we can hardly say. We can't pronounce  our names. They named me Ulrhegmk,  which in Hlerig means little mountain thing.
My mother [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trois morceaux en forme de mechanika by Gord Sellar (audio)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 16:20:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gord Sellar</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>This is My Life on Ebooks by Neil Clarke</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 16:13:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Clarke</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I'd like to thank everyone that has purchased a subscription  to Clarkesworld on their Kindle or  Kindle app. With your help, it looks like there's a good chance that we'll be  able to hit our goal of 500 subscribers by our fifth anniversary issue in  October, and if we do, you'll [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apocalypse Then: This is the Way the World Ended by Daniel M. Kimmel</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kimmel_07_11/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kimmel_07_11/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 16:11:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel M. Kimmel</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you attending the World Science Fiction Convention  in Chicago in  2012? You may want to plan on going because it's going to be the final Worldcon.  Why? Haven't you heard? The world is coming to an end on December 21, 2012  according to the ancient Mayan calendar. 
Of course it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Something Greater: An Epic Discussion of Epic Fantasy, Part 1 by Jeremy L. C. Jones</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/epic_interview1/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/epic_interview1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 16:06:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy L. C. Jones</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Introduction
&#34;Fantasy,&#34; said Elizabeth Bear, the author of The Sea Thy Mistress and the forthcoming The Tempering of Men (with Sarah Monette), &#34;is the purest form of the imagination, and it gives us courage and persistence.&#34; 
It gives us courage and persistence.
&#34;Epic Fantasy is built into us, part of our most fundamental human fabric, and in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cover Art: Valley of Mists by Peter Mohrbacher</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/artbio_58/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 16:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Mohrbacher</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>Trickster by Mari Ness (audio)</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_06_11a/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 20:47:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mari Ness</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Our second piece of audio fiction for June is "Trickster" written by Mari Ness and read by Kate Baker.

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		<itunes:subtitle>Our second piece of audio fiction for June is "Trickster" written by Mari Ness and read by Kate Baker.



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		<title>Semiramis by Genevieve Valentine</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 16:30:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Genevieve Valentine</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The worst thing about being a sleeper embedded somewhere long-term was that inevitably, eventually, you started to care.
The worst thing about being embedded long-term as an administrator at the Svalbard Seed Vault was that when you inevitably started to care, you started to care about things like proper political geo-temperate arrangement of seeds, and there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trickster by Mari Ness</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 16:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mari Ness</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The god came to me on a night when both moons were dark, allowing us to see the stars. Not that I could, hidden as I was behind mats and screens and hangings, but I knew the stars were there, one of the rare nights we could be sure of this.
He should not have come. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Semiramis by Genevieve Valentine (audio)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 16:10:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Genevieve Valentine</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Our first piece of audio fiction for June is "Semiramis" written by Genevieve Valentine and read by Kate Baker.

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		<title>Building Forests, Remaking Planets by Sarah Goslee</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 16:05:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Goslee</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Last September the popular science news was full of stories  about Ascension Island1. This small  volcanic island in the middle of the South Atlantic was nearly barren when  Charles Darwin described it in 1836, supporting only 25 or 30 species of small  plants, a flightless bird, and a land crab. But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Braided Together: A Conversation with Erin Hoffman by Jeremy L. C. Jones</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/hoffman_interview/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 16:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy L. C. Jones</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Erin Hoffman's first novel, The Sword of Fire and Sea, opens on an island. And the brief paragraph reveals most of what we need to know about the central character:

Though the coastal island of Siane's Eye was lush with whispering palms and tropical flowers too exotic for the names of men, the wind that swept [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Step Forward by Neil Clarke</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/clarke_06_11/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 15:45:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Clarke</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In the past, I've used these editorials to rattle on about  the state of science fiction and fantasy magazines. The subscription and newsstand  data for several of the big print magazines is easy to come by and published  annually in Locus Magazine. For  several years there has been some public concern [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cover Art: Off Road by Facundo Diaz</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 15:25:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Facundo Diaz</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>The Architect of Heaven by Jason K. Chapman (audio)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 May 2011 18:04:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason K. Chapman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Our second piece of audio fiction for May is "The Architect of Heaven" written by Jason K. Chapman and read by Kate Baker.

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		<itunes:subtitle>Our second piece of audio fiction for May is "The Architect of Heaven" written by Jason K. Chapman and read by Kate Baker.



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		<title>Whose Face This Is I Do Not Know by Cat Rambo</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2011 04:09:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I glance in the glass wall's reflection. It faces me twenty feet away as I walk up the stairs, marble slab steps showing grainy pink underneath my red sneakers. My fingers clutch the railing's chrome. I'm feeling shaky, that internal quiver where your body announces that it may not be up to this. 
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		<title>The Architect of Heaven by Jason K. Chapman</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2011 04:06:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason K. Chapman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Waking up, as always, is disorienting. His mind insists that  it's only been a moment since the stinging injection and the deep breaths of  cold gas that taste like metal and sugar. One of the attendants, her voice  soft, tells him it's been half a century since he last opened his eyes. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whose Face This Is I Do Not Know by Cat Rambo (audio)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2011 04:06:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cat Rambo</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Our first piece of audio fiction for May is "Whose Face This Is I Do Not Know" written by Cat Rambo and read by Kate Baker.

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		<title>John Barry: A Retrospective on a Wordless Poet  by John T. Stanhope</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2011 04:04:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T. Stanhope</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[On January 30, 2011,  iconic and very prolific musician and composer John Barry passed away, having been in ill health for some  time. He was seventy-seven years old at the time of his passing, but he was a  creative force that lived a very full and productive life, as the mourning over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Spaces Between the Words: A Conversation with Lauren Beukes by Jeremy L. C. Jones</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2011 04:03:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy L. C. Jones</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[South African novelist Lauren Beukes enjoys writing. And it shows in every word and on every page  of her fiction.
&#34;It's a great privilege to be able to play, to make up  stuff, to see where it takes me,&#34; Beukes said.  &#34;I love the craft and assembly of it. I love how type [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Hellhole of Our Own Making: A Conversation with Brian Herbert &#038; Kevin J. Anderson by Jeremy L. C. Jones</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/herbert_anderson_interview/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/herbert_anderson_interview/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2011 04:02:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy L. C. Jones</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson have been writing  together since the late 1990s. They've  both had active solo careers in addition to their Dune collaborations. 
Brian Herbert is the author of such novels as Sidney's  Comet, Prisoners of Arionn, and Sudanna Sudanna. He points to his Timeweb Chronicle novels as  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hugo Season by Neil Clarke</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/clarke_05_11/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2011 04:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Clarke</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It's hard to believe that it's Hugo Award season once again. I am very proud to say that we've been nominated for Best Semiprozine again this year. I'd like to thank everyone who voted for us and hope that we continue to earn your support. It's a huge honor and I'm looking forward to attending [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cover Art: The Towers of KEILAH by Ferdinand Ladera</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/artbio_56/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2011 04:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ferdinand Ladera</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>Matchmaker by Erin M. Hartshorn (audio)</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_04_11a/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 23:59:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin M. Hartshorn</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Our second piece of audio fiction for April is "Matchmaker" written by Erin M. Hartshorn and read by Kate Baker.

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		<itunes:subtitle>Our second piece of audio fiction for April is "Matchmaker" written by Erin M. Hartshorn and read by Kate Baker.



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		<itunes:summary>Our second piece of audio fiction for April is "Matchmaker" written by Erin M. Hartshorn and read by Kate Baker.



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		<title>The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees by E. Lily Yu</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/yu_04_11/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 16:23:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>E. Lily Yu</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[For longer than anyone could remember, the village of Yiwei had worn,  in its orchards and under its eaves, clay-colored globes of paper that  hissed and fizzed with wasps. The villagers maintained an uneasy peace  with their neighbors for many years, exercising inimitable tact and  circumspection. But it all ended the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees by E. Lily Yu (audio)</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_04_11/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 16:20:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>E. Lily Yu</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>Matchmaker by Erin M. Hartshorn</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 16:15:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin M. Hartshorn</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#34;You're not exactly what I expected when my mother  said she'd found a shadchen.&#34;
Miss Berazazz could've been Jewish, sure. The first kurz  had converted only a few years after the kurz and humans had encountered each  other out in space. Everyone learned of the Acceptance in Hebrew school, even  if no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Linguistics for the World-Builder by Brit Mandelo</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/mandelo_04_11/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 16:10:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brit Mandelo</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Constructing a believable, habitable universe is one of the  first things a writer of speculative fiction has to tackle &#8212; the idea of the  world, its shapes and peoples, is a necessary thing to telling any story, but  it's especially tricky when you're playing with reality. Both SF and fantasy have  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Same Story with a 21st Century Sensibility: A Conversation with John Scalzi by Jeremy L. C. Jones</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/scalzi_interview/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 16:05:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy L. C. Jones</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In the opening scene of Fuzzy  Nation, a dog named Carl steps on a detonator panel and sets off more than  just the plot. The novel, as Scalzi  says, is a &#34;reimagining of the story and events in Little Fuzzy, the 1962  Hugo-nominated novel by H. Beam Piper.&#34; Scalzi borrows the [...]]]></description>
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