The Cull
Our first piece of audio fiction for September is "The Cull" written by Robert Reed and read by Kate Baker.
Clarkesworld Magazine Issue 48 - The Cull by Robert Reed [43:42m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (11249)Please Support This Month's Sponsors
ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Robert has had eleven novels published, starting with The Leeshore in 1987 and most recently with The Well of Stars in 2004. Since winning the first annual L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future contest in 1986 (under the pen name Robert Touzalin) and being a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award for best new writer in 1987, he has had over 200 shorter works published in a variety of magazines and anthologies. Eleven of those stories were published in his critically-acclaimed first collection, The Dragons of Springplace, in 1999. Twelve more stories appear in his second collection, The Cuckoo's Boys [2005]. In addition to his success in the U.S., Reed has also been published in the U.K., Russia, Japan, Spain and in France, where a second (French-language) collection of nine of his shorter works, Chrysalide, was released in 2002. Bob has had stories appear in at least one of the annual "Year's Best" anthologies in every year since 1992. Bob has received nominations for both the Nebula Award (nominated and voted upon by genre authors) and the Hugo Award (nominated and voted upon by fans), as well as numerous other literary awards (see Awards). He won his first Hugo Award for the 2006 novella "A Billion Eves". He is currently working on a Great Ship trilogy for Prime Books, and of course, more short pieces.
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tom blatt wrote on September 1st, 2010 at 9:57 pm:
Can anyone tell me how i can put this pod-cast in itunes and eventually into my ipod?
Neil Clarke wrote on September 1st, 2010 at 10:02 pm:
Our podcast is already available in iTunes at:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/clarkesworld-magazine-online/id288472896
If you need any further help, just let us know.
Stephen Middleton (citizen) wrote on November 23rd, 2010 at 8:43 am:
One of the best stories so far - I'm slowly working my way through them. I thought it had some similarities to Brave New World with the hero thinking that he would be punished being allowed to live as he wished, but then.....
JimMcD wrote on April 29th, 2011 at 12:07 pm:
I changed my mind about how it would end several times in the story! You kept me thinking! Yes so much like Brav New World. It coudl have gone the path of Logans Run but stayed with the its sad reality of chemical happiness and preprogramed living. Scary but oh so revealing of modern man.
I am so glad I found Clarkesworld magazine for my daily walks to and from work and everywhere in between! Kate Baker presents these stories beautifully and the choices of stories are great. Not often I skip a story because I am not being brought in to it.
Thank you!