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		<itunes:summary>Science fiction and fantasy stories from Clarkesworld, a Hugo Award-winning digital magazine. Stories from Clarkesworld  have been nominated for or won the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Sturgeon, Locus, BSFA, Ditmar, Aurora, Shirley Jackson, WSFA Small Press and Stoker Awards.</itunes:summary>
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		<title>(R + D) /I = M by E. Catherine Tobler (audio)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 17:13:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Tachy Psyche by Andy Dudak (audio)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 02:54:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<itunes:subtitle>Our second piece of audio fiction for May is "Tachy Psyche" written by Andy Dudak and read by Kate Baker.



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		<title>Soulcatcher by James Patrick Kelly</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 21:37:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Patrick Kelly</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[After years of planning and scheming, of deals honest and not, of sleepless nights of rage and cool days of calculation, Klary&#8217;s moment arrives when xeni-Harvel Asher, the ambassador from the Four Worlds, enters her gallery.
As a concession to local xenophobia, the xeni is embodied as a human male. Of course, he is beautiful. Some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Soulcatcher by James Patrick Kelly (audio)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 21:20:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Patrick Kelly</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>Tachy Psyche by Andy Dudak</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 21:12:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Dudak</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The woman who means to kill Wang Zhe is, like the rest of the universe, apparently frozen, though actually in glacial motion.
He has studied the scene for subjective years: the sculpture of her flowing cloak, the mask of her smart grease paint, the beginning of channel through that paint at the corner of her right [...]]]></description>
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		<title>(R + D) /I = M by E. Catherine Tobler</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 21:05:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>E. Catherine Tobler</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Grapes grew differently on Mars and no one minded. This trespass was for science, ask anyone.
Perhaps they shouldn&#8217;t have grown at all, but they did, into oblong coils that turned the color of copper under the days of long, if distant, sunshine. We found they were best at night, when they froze into slush.
We would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Banquet of the Lords of Night by Liz Williams</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 20:55:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liz Williams</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Severin de Rais hurries through thistledown light, with the dangerous parcel clutched close to his heart, hoping that he won&#8217;t turn a corner and come face to face with an Unpriest. He&#8217;s already late, and the Isle de Saint Luce is forbidden territory. Yet even in the midst of his terror, de Rais still thinks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From Babel&#8217;s Fall&#8217;n Glory We Fled . . . by Michael Swanwick</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/swanwick_05_13_reprint/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/swanwick_05_13_reprint/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 20:45:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Swanwick</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine a cross between Byzantium and a termite mound. Imagine a jeweled mountain, slender as an icicle, rising out of the steam jungles and disappearing into the dazzling pearl-grey skies of Gehenna. Imagine that Gaudi&#8212;he of the Sagrada Familia and other biomorphic architectural whimsies&#8212;had been commissioned by a nightmare race of giant black millipedes to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Assassinating the Reader: A Conversation with Yoon Ha Lee by Jeremy L. C. Jones</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/lee_interview/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 20:35:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy L. C. Jones</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Yoon Ha Lee&#8217;s collection Conservation of Shadows contains sixteen stories, but seems far faster in the reading. Lee&#8217;s many worlds seem to multiply exponentially with each paragraph, and each turned page.
There are soldiers and scientists, space travel and dragons, leather-bound books, locked doors, and genocidal rampages. Each tale strains at the edges of possibility. No [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When the Alien Is Us: Science Fictional Documentaries by Maggie Clark</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/clark_05_13/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/clark_05_13/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 20:15:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maggie Clark</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Directors Werner Herzog and Errol Morris are well known for their renegotiations of what&#8217;s called cin&#233;ma v&#233;rit&#233;&#8212;the notion that truth can be found through footage in the absence of a blatantly intervening narrator or narrative. When these documentarians sat down in 2008 with Believer Magazine, Herzog observed that Morris&#8217;s recently released Standard Operating Procedure had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Word: The Singularity is Dead. Long Live the Singularity! by Craig DeLancey</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/another_word_05_13/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/another_word_05_13/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 20:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig DeLancey</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[anotherword]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Singularity has become an essential trope of science fiction: we shall one day cross a threshold of technological progress, when artificial superintelligences are created, and these in turn will be capable of creating other artificial minds of even greater intelligence, resulting in an accelerated acceleration of innovation. New technologies and scientific discoveries will follow [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Editor&#8217;s Desk: Day of the Wineberry</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/clarke_05_13/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/clarke_05_13/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 19:45:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Clarke</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[editorial]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Triffids, Biollante, and other infamous plant monsters have  a new colleague. Like Biollante, it&#8217;s a fast growing invader from Japan, but  this one has taken up residence in my backyard. It has whip-like thorny appendages and can be very territorial.
Last month, I made the mistake of stepping  too close to its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cover Art: Desert Dragon by Julie Dillon</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/artbio_80/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/artbio_80/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 19:34:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie Dillon</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>Finisterra by David Moles (audio)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 03:32:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Moles</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Our sixth piece of audio fiction for April is "Finisterra" written by David Moles and read by Kate Baker.

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First published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, December 2007.
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		<itunes:subtitle>Our sixth piece of audio fiction for April is "Finisterra" written by David Moles and read by Kate Baker.



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First published in The ...</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>Our sixth piece of audio fiction for April is "Finisterra" written by David Moles and read by Kate Baker.



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		<title>Guest of Honor by Robert Reed (audio)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:32:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Reed</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Our fifth piece of audio fiction for April is "Guest of Honor" written by Robert Reed and read by Kate Baker.

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&#160;
First published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1993.
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		<itunes:subtitle>Our fifth piece of audio fiction for April is "Guest of Honor" written by Robert Reed and read by Kate Baker.



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		<itunes:summary>Our fifth piece of audio fiction for April is "Guest of Honor" written by Robert Reed and read by Kate Baker.



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		<title>Melt With You by Emily C. Skaftun (audio)</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_04_13c/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 01:23:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily C. Skaftun</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Our fourth piece of audio fiction for April is "Melt With You" written by Emily C. Skaftun and read by Kate Baker.

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		<itunes:subtitle>Our fourth piece of audio fiction for April is "Melt With You" written by Emily C. Skaftun and read by Kate Baker.



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		<itunes:summary>Our fourth piece of audio fiction for April is "Melt With You" written by Emily C. Skaftun and read by Kate Baker.



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		<title>No Portraits on the Sky by Kali Wallace (audio)</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_04_13b/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 12:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kali Wallace</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Our third piece of audio fiction for April is "No Portraits on the Sky" written by Kali Wallace and read by Kate Baker.

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		<itunes:subtitle>Our third piece of audio fiction for April is "No Portraits on the Sky" written by Kali Wallace and read by Kate Baker.



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		<itunes:summary>Our third piece of audio fiction for April is "No Portraits on the Sky" written by Kali Wallace and read by Kate Baker.



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		<title>Annex by Benjanun Sriduangkaew (audio)</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_04_13a/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_04_13a/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 00:57:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Benjanun Sriduangkaew</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>Annex by Benjanun Sriduangkaew</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 21:03:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Benjanun Sriduangkaew</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[On the eve of Samutthewi&#8217;s entry into the Costeya Hegemony, Esithu was sloughing off the shell of their birth-body.&#160;There would be speculation afterward what Esithu was born as&#8212;someone&#8217;s son, someone&#8217;s daughter? To that Esithu would always say, &#8220;I was born as I am now,&#8221; which became a stretch after Esithu obtained a second then a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spar (The Bacon Remix) by Kij Johnson (audio)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 21:01:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kij Johnson</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>No Portraits on the Sky by Kali Wallace</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/wallace_04_13/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 20:55:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kali Wallace</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The stranger fell from the sky just after dawn.
Rela heard the snap of branches and looked up. The sun was rising in a gray haze beyond the forest&#8217;s eastern edge, and the mist was retreating from the aerie. In the canopy above, a dark figure tumbled through the fog, bouncing from branches and whipping past [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Melt With You by Emily C. Skaftun</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/skaftun_04_13/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/skaftun_04_13/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 20:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily C. Skaftun</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Even after being reincarnated as a plastic lawn flamingo, Irma still insisted that the scruffy panhandler on the I-95 off-ramp near our house had been Jesus. &#8220;We missed him,&#8221; she&#8217;d say, painted beak opening to reveal a mouth that did not lead to a windpipe or vocal chords or lungs. &#8220;We mistreated Jesus again and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spar (The Bacon Remix) by Kij Johnson</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/johnson_04_13_reprint/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/johnson_04_13_reprint/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 20:33:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kij Johnson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[[Editor&#8217;s note: In 2009, we published Kij Johnson's Nebula Award-winning story, &#8220;Spar.&#8221; In 2013, she contributed this alternate version of the story to John Ordover&#8217;s BACONTHOLOGY, a bacon-themed charity anthology aimed at raising money for children with autism. We present this story for your April amusement and hope that you will consider supporting John&#8217;s cause. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guest of Honor by Robert Reed</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/reed_04_13_reprint/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/reed_04_13_reprint/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 20:25:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Reed</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the robots offered to carry Pico for the last hundred meters, on its back or cradled in its padded arms; but she shook her head emphatically, telling it, &#8220;Thank you, no. I can make it myself.&#8221; The ground was grassy and soft, lit by glowglobes and the grass-colored moon. It wasn&#8217;t a difficult [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finisterra by David Moles</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/moles_04_13_reprint/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/moles_04_13_reprint/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 20:15:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Moles</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[1. Encantada
Bianca Nazario stands at the end of the world.
The firmament above is as blue as the summer skies of her  childhood, mirrored in the waters of la caldera; but where the skies she  remembers were bounded by mountains, here on Sky there is no real horizon, only  a line of white [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Military, Magic, and the Misery Ethic: A Conversation with Myke Cole by Jeremy L. C. Jones</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/cole_interview/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/cole_interview/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 20:02:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy L. C. Jones</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In Shadow Ops: Control Point by Myke Cole, Oscar Britton is an officer attached to the Supernatural Operations Corps. He might doubt the system now and then, but he puts his life and the life of his men on the line to uphold it.
And then he begins to manifest magical abilities. According to the post-Great [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gathered in Translation by Ken Liu</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/liu_04_13/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/liu_04_13/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 19:45:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Liu</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Since speculative fiction is about imagined worlds, one might theorize that it poses fewer problems for translators than genres of literature more tethered to the specific cultures and languages of the real world.
In a sense, the theory is right. When the global language of science is English, it is indeed easy to translate  to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Word: Literatures of Despair by Daniel Abraham</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/another_word_04_13/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/another_word_04_13/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 19:30:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Abraham</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[When I grew up, I knew what a fantasy novel was. I had my examples right there close to hand: Terry Brooks, David Eddings, Barbara Hambly, Louise Cooper, Lloyd Alexander. They were the stories deep within other worlds, where there were elves and dwarfs, or something like them. There was magic. There was a dark [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Editor&#8217;s Desk: How Did This Happen? by Neil Clarke</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/clarke_04_13/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/clarke_04_13/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 19:15:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Clarke</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[As last month came to a close, the World Science Fiction Association announced the nominees for the 2013 Hugo Awards. If you&#8217;ve missed the news, you can find the complete list of nominees at thehugoawards.org, but I&#8217;d like to take a moment to spotlight the Clarkesworld nominees:

Best Novelette: &#8220;Fade to White&#8221; by Catherynne M. Valente
 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cover Art: The Awakening by Alexandru Popescu</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/artbio_79/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/artbio_79/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 19:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandru Popescu</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>86, 87, 88, 89 by Genevieve Valentine (audio)</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_03_13b/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_03_13b/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Mar 2013 18:40:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Genevieve Valentine</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Our third piece of audio fiction for March is "86, 87, 88, 89" written by Genevieve Valentine and read by Kate Baker.

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		<title>The Last Survivor of the Great Sexbot Revolution by A.C. Wise (audio)</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_03_13a/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 22:56:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A.C. Wise</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>The Weight of a Blessing by Aliette de Bodard</title>
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		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/debodard_03_13/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 19:06:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aliette de Bodard</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[On her third visit to Sarah&#8212;on the last occasion that she sees her daughter, even if it is only in V-space&#8212;Minh Ha says nothing. There are no words left, no message of comfort that she could give her.
Instead, she takes Sarah&#8217;s hand, holds it tight until the last of the warmth has leached from her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Last Survivor of the Great Sexbot Revolution by A.C. Wise</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/wise_03_13/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 18:30:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A.C. Wise</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[She&#8217;s not what you expected, Alma May Anderson, the last survivor of the Great Sexbot Revolution. For one thing, her eyes are bluer. She must be a hundred if she&#8217;s a day, but her eyes are the blue of puddle-broken neon, and a postcard ocean, and the sky at noon. They are all the things [...]]]></description>
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		<title>86, 87, 88, 89 by Genevieve Valentine</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/valentine_03_13/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/valentine_03_13/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 18:05:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Genevieve Valentine</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
THE HOMELAND ARCHIVE WELCOMES YOU
You are part of a vital effort to recover evidence of terrorist activity preceding the Raids, and on a larger scale, to preserve the heritage of a historic neighborhood of New York City.
The Archive Division of the Greater New York Municipal Safety Authority has received a generous grant from Central to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Weight of a Blessing by Aliette de Bodard (audio)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 17:35:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aliette de Bodard</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>Videodrome at Thirty by Keith Phipps</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/phipps_03_13/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 17:05:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Phipps</dc:creator>
		
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&#8220;A lot of people have thought of this film as very prophetic. I myself have never been interested in being a prophet of any kind. [&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.&#160;] But when your antennae are out there waving in the breeze and you allow them to develop because you think of yourself as an artist, you will undoubtedly pick [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Accepting a More Profitable Shoe: A Conversation with M. C. Planck by Jeremy L. C. Jones</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 16:35:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy L. C. Jones</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s much to enjoy (and admire) about M. C. Planck&#8217;s debut novel, The Kassa Gambit. There&#8217;s the gritty, well-textured world-building; the lead characters Lt. Kyle Daspar, a &#8220;Bruce Willis-like&#8221; spy, and Prudence Falling, a &#8220;kick-ass&#160;.&#160;.&#160;. but not brash&#8221; heroine who holds together a motley crew of space adventurers.
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		<title>Another Word: Original Sin by Alethea Kontis</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/another_word_03_13/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 16:04:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alethea Kontis</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I always find myself stumped when I&#8217;m put on a panel or asked in an interview about contemporary adaptations of &#8220;original&#8221; fairy tales. Fairy stories began in Ancient Egypt, Greece, and China. Men and women started collecting these stories and writing them down in Italy, and then France, all before the Brothers Grimm. Whether the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Editor&#8217;s Desk: Forwards and Backwards by Neil Clarke</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/clarke_03_13/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 15:30:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Clarke</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Since my heart attack last summer, I&#8217;ve been trying to come  up with something that would show my appreciation for all the support I  received from our readers. One obvious option is to continue to build upon and  strengthen what we&#8217;ve created here at Clarkesworld. Last month, I mentioned our  intention [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cover Art: The Emperor&#8217;s Arrival by David Demaret</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 15:03:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Demaret</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>Vacant Spaces by Greg Kurzawa (audio)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 00:51:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Kurzawa</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Our third piece of audio fiction for February is "Vacant Spaces" written by Greg Kurzawa and read by Kate Baker.

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		<title>The Wanderers by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam (audio)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 01:33:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our second piece of audio fiction for February is "The Wanderers" written by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam and read by Kate Baker.

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		<title>Gravity by Erzebet YellowBoy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 22:32:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erzebet YellowBoy</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It starts how it always starts, with a kiss on the cheek, goodbye.
All my life my mother had pushed for this, and now here we are. I look down and see her scalp through her thinning gray hair. Her hands are spotted, the veins are blue and raised, and the knuckles are swollen and sore. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Wanderers by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 22:32:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[We came to your planet because we knew that you, the peoples of Kill Bill and Saw and Vietnam and Columbine Massacre would understand us. You could not call us monster, as our subjects had done, and you would not call us morally reprehensible, arising from actual or imputed bad character or conduct. We had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vacant Spaces by Greg Kurzawa</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 22:32:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Kurzawa</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Shepard ducked into the tug&#8217;s four-man cockpit, wincing at the strain on his knees. His assigned jockey for the day&#8217;s salvage was already hunched over his pre-flight checks at the console. Glancing up at Shepard&#8217;s entrance, he made a disappointed grunt before resuming his work.
&#8220;Fantastic,&#8221; the jockey said. &#8220;I get the geezer.&#8221;
&#8220;Hello, Caine,&#8221; Shepard said. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gravity by Erzebet YellowBoy (audio)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 22:32:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erzebet YellowBoy</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Our first piece of audio fiction for February is "Gravity" written by Erzebet YellowBoy and read by Kate Baker.

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		<title>Editor&#8217;s Desk: Upgrades and Reader&#8217;s Poll Winners by Neil Clarke</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/clarke_02_13/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/clarke_02_13/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 22:32:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Clarke</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A few months ago, I found out that my heart attack had placed me on the path to becoming a cyborg. Last month, my wife and I drove to the hospital and within a few hours the transition was complete. It’s considered minor surgery when they implant a defibrillator, but anytime they snake a wire [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Always a New World: A Conversation with Karen Lord by Jeremy L. C. Jones</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/lord_interview/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/lord_interview/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 22:32:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy L. C. Jones</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A man emerges from the sea with news of death. &#8220;Our home is no more,&#8221; he says.
It&#8217;s that simple, at first. Complete catastrophe; total loss. But it&#8217;s not the end for the characters in Karen Lord&#8217;s The Best of All Possible Worlds. It&#8217;s merely the beginning, as the men of a once powerful culture, decimated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Great Leap Sideways: SF and Social Media by Mark Cole</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/cole_02_13/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/cole_02_13/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 22:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Cole</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Science Fiction isn&#8217;t always about the big things.
Nor does it get it right all the time.
Consider the first SF visions of the internet: for William Gibson and the other pioneer Cyberpunks, the online world was home to a chosen few&#8212;the corporate elite on one hand, the radical fringe of cowboys and hackers on the other.
But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Word: Reading and Writing and Moral Judgment by Daniel Abraham</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 22:31:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Abraham</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I am a firm believer in whatever gets you through the night.&#8221;
   &#8212;William &#8220;Bill&#8221; Boettcher, my high school Biology teacher.
A while ago, I was talking to a woman who is a Much Bigger Name in Genre Fiction than I am. She&#8217;s been publishing since I was just learning how to do all this, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cover Art: Concrete 9 by Yang Xueguo</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 22:31:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yang Xueguo</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
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		<title>Effigy Nights by Yoon Ha Lee (audio)</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_01_13b/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 02:40:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yoon Ha Lee</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>Variations on Bluebeard and Dalton’s Law Along the Event Horizon by Helena Bell (audio)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 00:10:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helena Bell</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Our second piece of audio fiction for January is &#8220;Variations on Bluebeard and Dalton’s Law Along the Event Horizon&rdsquo; written by Helena Bell and read by Kate Baker.

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		<title>Driftings by Ian McDonald</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2013 15:43:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian McDonald</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A hat, a deer and a plastic truck came in on the swell of the ocean. The hat was a yellow hard-hat; an engineer&#8217;s, a construction worker&#8217;s hat. Its foam inserts had buoyed it across wide waters. The deer was a Puchie Baby miniature with a skull-and-crossbones patterned hide. Adorable, small. The truck was really [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Driftings by Ian McDonald (audio)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2013 15:30:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian McDonald</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Our first piece of audio fiction for January is "Driftings" written by Ian McDonald and read by Kate Baker.

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		<title>Variations on Bluebeard and Dalton’s Law Along the Event Horizon by Helena Bell</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2013 15:15:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helena Bell</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The First Wife
When I am told well, the shade of my husband&#8217;s beard is a word for longing. A robin&#8217;s egg, deep water below the coral reef, the night sky against the glow of a dying flashlight. A fooling color so I will not know his plans for me until the first door is opened [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Effigy Nights by Yoon Ha Lee</title>
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		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/lee_01_13/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2013 14:50:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yoon Ha Lee</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[They are connoisseurs of writing in Imulai Mokarengen, the city whose name means inkblot of the gods.
The city lies at the galaxy&#8217;s dust-stranded edge, enfolding a moon that used to be a world, or a world that used to be a moon; no one is certain anymore. In the mornings its skies are radiant with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Wine-Dark Sea: Color and Perception in the Ancient World by Erin Hoffman</title>
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		<title>Riding a Whale through an Ocean of Lard: A Conversation with Jesse Bullington by Jeremy L. C. Jones</title>
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		<title>Another Word: Spoiler Alert! by E. C. Ambrose</title>
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		<title>2012 Reader&#8217;s Survey</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2013 13:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Cover Art: Winding Down by Alex Ries</title>
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		<title>Sweet Subtleties by Lisa L Hannett (audio)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2012 22:57:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Your Final Apocalypse by Sandra McDonald</title>
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		<title>Sweet Subtleties by Lisa L Hannett</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2012 16:05:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Javier calls me Una, though I&#8217;m not the first. There are leftovers all around his studio. Evidence of other, more perishable versions. Two white chocolate legs on a Grecian plinth in the corner, drained of their caramel filling. A banquet of fondant hands, some of which I&#8217;ve worn, amputated on trays next to the stove. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Wisdom of Ants by Thoraiya Dyer</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2012 15:55:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The sound of something flailing in the soft sludge distracted me and my bare foot slipped on the thin, bowed branch.
The branch cracked. I fell.
As I plunged shoulder-deep into fetid sink-silt, I had time to think, I&#8217;m not fit to take Mother&#8217;s place, before the arboreal ant&#8217;s nest I&#8217;d been reaching for dropped after me, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your Final Apocalypse by Sandra McDonald (audio)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2012 15:45:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Cover Art: The Lost City by David Demaret</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2012 15:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Demaret</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>The Corpse of the Future: Jane C. Loudon&#8217;s The Mummy! and Victorian Science Fiction by S. J. Chambers</title>
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		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/chambers_12_12/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2012 15:15:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S. J. Chambers</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[When we think of mummies, we don&#8217;t recall the desiccated corpses that rest behind museum glass, but the dehydrated reanimated corpse of lovelorn Imhotep played by Boris Karloff in the Universal Pictures flick The Mummy (1932), or the more recent reincarnation in the 1999 remake of the same name starring Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Thousand Words You Can Hear All at Once: An Interview with Todd Lockwood by Nayad A. Monroe</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2012 14:45:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nayad Monroe</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Todd Lockwood&#8217;s illustration work has appeared on NY Times best-selling novels, magazines, video games, collectible card games, and fantasy role-playing games. It has been honored with multiple appearances in Spectrum and the Communication Arts Illustration Annual, and with numerous industry awards. Always known for the narrative power of his paintings, Todd now turns his hand [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Word: The Echo Chamber by Daniel Abraham</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2012 14:19:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Abraham</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[There was a time, not in my daughter&#8217;s life but in mine, when information was hard to get. I can still remember a friend of mine struggling to describe a new programming trick that he was working with. He called it a hyperlink. At the time, it sounded like it might be an interesting way [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Editor&#8217;s Desk: Getting off the Roller Coaster by Neil Clarke</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2012 14:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As those who have been reading my blog or prior editorials know, 2012 has been a roller coaster year for me. Between the heart attack, kidney stone, deaths in the family, defibrillators, award nominations and still being alive, I&#8217;m never quite sure what to make of things. Shortly after writing my previous editorial, Hurricane Sandy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Everything Must Go by Brooke Wonders (audio)</title>
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		<title>(To See the Other) Whole Against the Sky by E. Catherine Tobler</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2012 12:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>E. Catherine Tobler</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Close your eyes. As you travel farther away from me, your ship becoming little more than a pinprick of light amid infinite pinpricks of light, I want you to remember me as I was the first time you saw me, in the field. The day I glowed.
All right, it was an interface malfunction, but I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aquatica by Maggie Clark</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2012 12:12:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Host laughed, her esca wriggled, and the gills behind her pectoral fins vented hard enough to stir up the silt. Organ tumbled in the waste-stream’s wake, but kept one tiny black eye fixed on her bobbing, bioluminescent beacon&#8212;the first he had seen in six turns of the current along the foreign reef.
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		<title>Everything Must Go by Brooke Wonders</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Split-level ranch-style home features a spacious and private fenced backyard with a covered deck and small dog run.
The blue-gray house at 1414 Linden Dr. is afraid of the dark. The foreclosure crisis hit its neighborhood hard, and in house after house, lights wink out and never turn back on. The house at 1414 waits for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>(To See the Other) Whole Against the Sky by E. Catherine Tobler (audio)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2012 12:11:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The Art of Brutal Prose: An Interview with Mark Lawrence by Peter Hodges</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2012 12:10:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Another Word: It Gets Better with SFF (but SFF has to Get Better, too) by Lev AC Rosen</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2012 12:09:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Foundation and Reality: Asimov’s Psychohistory and Its Real-World Parallels by Mark Cole</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2012 12:08:35 +0000</pubDate>
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&#8220;Psychohistory dealt not with man, but with man-masses. It was the science of mobs; mobs in their billions. It could forecast reactions to stimuli with something of the accuracy that a lesser science could bring to the forecast of a rebound of a billiard ball. The reaction of one man could be forecast by no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Editor&#8217;s Desk: I, Cyborg by Neil Clarke</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2012 12:08:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Clarke</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometime in the next month, I will become a cyborg. My &#8220;upgrade&#8221; won&#8217;t be anything cool like a bionic eye or cranial jack and it won&#8217;t be as painful as becoming a Cyberman. I never expected to become a cyborg at forty-six, but thanks to my July heart attack, my heart has sustained enough damage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cover Art: New World by Ken Barthelmey</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2012 12:06:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Barthelmey</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>The Battle of Candle Arc by Yoon Ha Lee (audio)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2012 00:11:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yoon Ha Lee</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Our third piece of audio fiction for October is "The Battle of Candle Arc" written by Yoon Ha Lee and read by Kate Baker.

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		<title>England under the White Witch by Theodora Goss (audio)</title>
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		<title>A Bead of Jasper, Four Small Stones by Genevieve Valentine (audio)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2012 11:55:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Genevieve Valentine</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>Cover Art: Breaking Through by Julie Dillon</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2012 18:02:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie Dillon</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>A Bead of Jasper, Four Small Stones by Genevieve Valentine</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2012 17:11:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Genevieve Valentine</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[There's a cloud across Europa.
Every time Henry looks out at the flat, grey disc, he tries to think what you're meant to think: We're almost there, soon you can breathe, it's nearly rain.
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		<title>England under the White Witch by Theodora Goss</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2012 17:05:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Theodora Goss</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It is always winter now.

When she came, I was only a child&#8212;in ankle socks, my hair tied back with a silk ribbon. My mother was a seamstress working for the House of Alexandre. She spent the days on her knees, saying Yes, madame has lost weight, what has madame been doing? When madame had been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Battle of Candle Arc by Yoon Ha Lee</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2012 17:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yoon Ha Lee</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[General Shuos Jedao was spending his least favorite remembrance day with Captain-magistrate Rahal Korais. There was nothing wrong with Korais except that he was the fangmoth's Doctrine officer, and even then he was reasonable for a Rahal. Nevertheless, Doctrine observed remembrances with the ranking officer, which meant that Jedao had to make sure he didn't [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Germ of an Idea: An Interview with John Varley by Jeremy L. C. Jones</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2012 16:40:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy L. C. Jones</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In Slow Apocalypse by John Varley, sitcom writer Dave Marshall's life is disintegrating. His career has fallen apart. His finances are a mess. His wife isn't really speaking to him. It's all happening in a sort of painful slow motion.
Then Marshall stumbles upon a story that just may be his lucky break&#8212;a bacteria that eats [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Future, One Thing at a Time by Matthew Johnson</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2012 16:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Johnson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It's conventional wisdom in science fiction that the future doesn't come one thing at a time. This idea, which is sometimes called Campbell's Rule (or Campbell's Exception), is explained in these terms in the book On Writing Science Fiction by George Scithers et. al: &#34;You can never do merely one thing. Our world a century [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Word: Practicing Dissatisfaction by Daniel Abraham</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2012 16:20:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Abraham</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I graduated from college with a BS in Biology. That's not what you'd call a terminal degree, and the job opportunities that opened before me weren't exactly in my field of study. I was engaged to a lovely woman who had plans to travel, and so it followed that I did too. In the meantime, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Editor&#8217;s Desk: Six and Counting by Neil Clarke</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2012 16:10:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have some news to report this month. First of all, this is our sixth anniversary issue. The last six years have been amazing and you have helped make that possible. Many thanks for your support as we've continued to grow in both content and word count!  I'm eager to see what opportunities arise [...]]]></description>
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		<title>muo-ka&#8217;s Child by Indrapramit Das (audio)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2012 01:05:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Indrapramit Das</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>Robot by Helena Bell (audio)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2012 23:27:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helena Bell</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>The Found Girl by David Klecha and Tobias S. Buckell</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Sep 2012 13:05:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Klecha</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Melissa stalked a trash compactor in the Elemental Caverns deep in the depths below the Street, where steam hissed from newly regrown pipes and oversized dendrites spread across the ancient brick of the connective tunnels. The glowing moss that dripped brown water filled the air with a faint glow, enough to let Melissa squint her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robot by Helena Bell</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Sep 2012 12:45:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helena Bell</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[You may wash your aluminum chassis on Monday and leave it on the back porch opposite the recyclables; you may wash your titanium chassis on Friday if you promise to polish it in time for church; don't terrorize the cat; don't lose the pamphlets my husband has brought home from the hospital; they suggest I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>muo-ka&#8217;s Child by Indrapramit Das</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Sep 2012 12:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Indrapramit Das</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Ziara watched her parent, muo-ka, curl up and die, like an insect might on Earth.
muo-ka was a giant of a thing, no insect. Ziara was the one who'd always felt like an insect around it. Its curled body pushed against the death shroud it had excreted in its dying hours, the membrane stretched taut against [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Found Girl by David Klecha and Tobias S. Buckell (audio)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Sep 2012 12:15:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Between a UFO and a Hard Place: The Real-Life Science Heroics of Dr. Omond Solandt by Jason S. Ridler</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Sep 2012 12:06:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason S. Ridler</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Type the name &#34;Omond Solandt&#34; in a search engine these days, and you will likely find these top four entries. First, a very thin Wikipedia article. Second, an entry for the scholarship named in Solandt's honour. And third, you will find a detailed article I wrote about Dr. Solandt and his career. If these were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Satirist&#8217;s Progress: A Discussion with Nick Mamatas and Paul Tremblay by Jeremy L. C. Jones</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Sep 2012 11:45:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy L. C. Jones</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[As a distorted, exaggerated, skewed, and otherwise mutated vision of the reality that surrounds us, satire shares a lot with speculative fiction. It's to isolate humor as the element that separates the two genres, but it's not that easy. As far back as Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal (whose macabre premise could be the stuff [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Word: Super Duper Sexual Spiritual Black Woman: The New and Improved Magical Negro by Chesya Burke</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Sep 2012 11:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chesya Burke</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2001, Spike Lee popularized the term the Super Duper Magical Negro (SDMN) while speaking to students at Washington State and Yale University. The reference was about the stereotype of the magical Black person who is written into the story to help the white protagonist on his journey. The characters are often uneducated, male, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Editor&#8217;s Desk: Professionally Speaking by Neil Clarke</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Sep 2012 11:15:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Clarke</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I'm quite happy to report that since the last issue, I have  not seen the inside of an emergency room. I'm still on the mend  from my heart attack, but doing well enough to keep my doctors pleased. 
I had hoped to spend the first weekend in September in  Chicago, the site [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cover Art: Awe at Thistledown by Angel Nieves</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Sep 2012 11:05:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angel Nieves</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>Fade to White by Catherynne M. Valente (audio)</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_08_12b/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2012 20:15:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Catherynne M. Valente</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Our third piece of audio fiction for August is "Fade to White" written by Catherynne M. Valente and read by Kate Baker.

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		<title>Honey Bear by Sofia Samatar (audio)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2012 22:21:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sofia Samatar</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>Mantis Wives by Kij Johnson</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2012 15:33:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kij Johnson</dc:creator>
		
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&#34;As for the insects, their lives are sustained only by intricate processes of fantastic horror.&#34; &#8212;John Wyndham.

Eventually, the mantis women discovered that killing their husbands was not inseparable from the getting of young. Before this, a wife devoured her lover piece by piece during the act of coition: the head (and its shining eyes going [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Honey Bear by Sofia Samatar</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2012 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sofia Samatar</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[We've decided to take a trip, to see the ocean. I want Honey to see it while she's still a child. That way, it'll be magical. I tell her about it in the car: how big it is, and green, like a sky you can wade in.
&#34;Even you?&#34; she asks.
&#34;Even me.&#34;
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		<title>Fade to White by Catherynne M. Valente</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2012 14:32:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Catherynne M. Valente</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Fight the Communist Threat in Your Own  Backyard!
ZOOM IN on a bright-eyed Betty in a  crisp green dress, maybe pick up the shade of the spinach in the lower left  frame. [Note to Art Dept: Good morning, Stone! Try to stay awake through the  next meeting, please. I think we can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mantis Wives by Kij Johnson (audio)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2012 14:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kij Johnson</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>The Spell of History: Magic Systems and Real-World Zeitgeists By Jeff Seymour</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2012 13:32:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Systems of magic in fantasy can be as varied as the worlds they inhabit. Some novels feature rigorous, intensely scientific collections of spells, reagents, and forces whose causes and effects can be measured, mapped, and predicted. Others treat magic as whimsical, unpredictable, and fantastic in every sense of the word. In those worlds, a spell [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In a Carapace of Light: A Conversation with China Miéville by Jeremy L. C. Jones</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2012 13:15:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy L. C. Jones</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Intense, immersive, and startling, China Mi&#233;ville's novels have done more than won many major awards&#8212;they've helped change the face of speculative fiction. The English-born fantasist attended Cambridge University, earned a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics, and has taught at Harvard University. He's the author of the Bas-Lag series, which comprises Perdido Street Station, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Word: Plausibility and Truth By Daniel Abraham</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/another_word_08_12/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2012 13:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Abraham</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[There's a puzzle I don't know the answer to, but the more I look around for it, the more I see it. Most of the time, it's amusing. Sometimes it scares the crap out of me.
So, funny story. Back in 1998, I was at Clarion West. One of my classmates turned in a story about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Editor&#8217;s Desk: Finding the Good in a Dark Day by Neil Clarke</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2012 12:45:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Clarke</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month, my family and I filled the van with  books and drove four-and-a-half hours to Burlington, MA for Readercon, one of my  favorite conventions. After a nice dinner with Lisa and the boys, I walked over  to the dealer's room to get started on setting up the Clarkesworld table. After a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cover Art: Space Journey by Martin Faragasso</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2012 12:31:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Faragasso</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>Iron Ladies, Iron Tigers by Sunny Moraine (audio)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jul 2012 23:16:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sunny Moraine</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Our third piece of audio fiction for July is "Iron Ladies, Iron Tigers" written by Sunny Moraine and read by Kate Baker.

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		<title>The Switch by Sarah Stanton (audio)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jul 2012 15:53:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Stanton</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Our second piece of audio fiction for July is "The Switch" written by Sarah Stanton and read by Kate Baker.

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		<itunes:subtitle>Our second piece of audio fiction for July is "The Switch" written by Sarah Stanton and read by Kate Baker.



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		<title>Astrophilia by Carrie Vaughn</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/vaughn_07_12/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/vaughn_07_12/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2012 18:45:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carrie Vaughn</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[After five years of drought, the tiny, wool-producing household of Greentree was finished. First the pastures died off, then the sheep, and Stella and the others didn't have any wool to process and couldn't meet the household's quota, small though it was with only five of them working at the end. The holding just couldn't [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Switch by Sarah Stanton</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/stanton_07_12/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2012 18:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Stanton</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It starts out like this: halfway up a ladder looking at the stars. Xiao Zhu is behind me with the paint pots, whistling something tuneless to himself. I've got a brush in my hand and a delicate tracework of flowers in front of me; there's a job to be done, and Lao Yang is waiting. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iron Ladies, Iron Tigers by Sunny Moraine</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2012 17:45:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sunny Moraine</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Ping.
Vita. Wake up.
Spinning through the dark, I hear and feel CERA's alert both at once, a sound that is a vibration like a plucked string between my sealed eyes. I shift in the padded transit cocoon. I move hands that barely feel like mine, and I feel wires pulling the jacks in my skin at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life After Quatermass: Hammer Films&#8217; &#8217;60s Science Fiction by Mark Cole</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2012 17:44:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Cole</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Hammer Films: The name conjures images of sinister images in garish color, of Frankenstein, Dracula, and a thousand other terrors of the night.
Like some monstrous creature in one of its own films, Hammer has returned from the dead. After a 43-year absence, The Woman in Black recently hit American theaters, with the promise of further [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Astrophilia by Carrie Vaughn (audio)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2012 17:15:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carrie Vaughn</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>Another Word: The Exceptional Smurfette, or Being One of the Guys as a Superpower by Ekaterina Sedia</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2012 16:43:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ekaterina Sedia</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This  essay is a result of some thoughts that occurred during one of the weekly  FeministSF chats on Twitter, when we were discussing exceptionality of female  characters in urban fantasy novels&#8212;that is, their tendency to be the only woman  in the book. This essay is meant to summarize some thoughts on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cover Art: Launch Day by Cristi Balanescu</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2012 16:01:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cristi Balanescu</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>To Save Ourselves: A Conversation with Nancy Kress by Jeremy L. C. Jones</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kress_interview/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2012 05:20:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy L. C. Jones</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall by Nancy Kress opens with a deformed teenage boy kidnapping a baby from a hysterical mother. The boy, Pete, has come from the future, using alien technology, to save the baby from the ecological disaster that will soon befall the world she lives in.
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		<title>You Were She Who Abode by E. Catherine Tobler (audio)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2012 01:29:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>E. Catherine Tobler</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>If the Mountain Comes by An Owomoyela (audio)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 20:52:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>An Owomoyela</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>Immersion by Aliette de Bodard</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2012 21:19:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aliette de Bodard</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In the morning, you're no longer quite sure who you are.
You stand in front of the mirror&#8212;it shifts and trembles, reflecting only what you want to see&#8212;eyes that feel too wide, skin that feels too pale, an odd, distant smell wafting from the compartment's ambient system that is neither incense nor garlic, but something else, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If The Mountain Comes by An Owomoyela</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2012 21:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>An Owomoyela</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Fran&#231;ois and Papa were outside, discussing what to do if the water rose. I was in, scrubbing blood from the walls with a palmful of sand.
That was the summer Enah came to our village. He'd led a donkey, and the donkey pulled a cart with tools, a flowering lilac, and a barrel of fresh water. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You Were She Who Abode by E. Catherine Tobler</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/tobler_06_12/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2012 21:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>E. Catherine Tobler</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Cardee Findar dreams, but she's wide awake.
She's in the warzone, ashen walls rising around her in broken lines, but buttercream paint seeps through the gray. The pale yellow carries with it the scent of spring, a slice of blue sky, the slow curl of white curtains into a sunlit room. This place is far away; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Energizing Futures: How SF Fuels Itself by Stephen Gaskell</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/gaskell_06_12/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2012 20:50:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Gaskell</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Virtual worlds. Terraforming complexes. Star-spanning generation ships. Science fiction is chock-full of massive technological artifacts born of humankind's desire to create, to explore. What do they all have in common? They all consume energy like black holes swallow stars. Computation, mechanization, acceleration. If the future's getting faster, it's certainly getting more energy intensive.
Even when SF [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Word:  Assimilation, Multiculturalism, and Me by Daniel Abraham</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/another_word_06_12/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2012 20:40:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Abraham</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A few years ago, I was at a workshop with an author who I deeply admire and personally enjoy. We were talking about community, and what made up our community, and it became clear very quickly that we had completely different definitions of the word. She meant something like &#34;people who mutually acknowledge themselves to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Neither the Billionaire nor the Tramp: Economics in Speculative Fiction by Jeremy L. C. Jones</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/economics_interview/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2012 20:30:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy L. C. Jones</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I sat at a table full of professors and tried to explain the idea of world-building.
This was five years ago. Jeff VanderMeer and I (along with about a dozen others) were scrambling to put the final touches on Shared Worlds, a writing and world-building camp for teenagers at South Carolina's Wofford College.
There was a math [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Editor&#8217;s Desk: Clarkesworld by the Numbers by Neil Clarke</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/clarke_06_12/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2012 20:20:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Clarke</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I'm a data junkie. Over the last five-plus years, I've collected a lot of data about all things Clarkesworld and some about the state of online fiction. This month, I thought I'd dig into that data and share some of the more interesting data and what they mean to me.
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		<title>Cover Art: Target Detected by Max Davenport</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2012 20:10:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Max Davenport</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>Immersion by Aliette de Bodard (audio)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2012 20:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>All the Things the Moon is Not by Alexander Lumans (audio)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 02:02:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Synch Me, Kiss Me, Drop by Suzanne Church (audio)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 03:05:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Prayer by Robert Reed</title>
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		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/reed_05_12/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 20:41:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Reed</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Fashion matters. In my soul of souls, I know that the dead things you carry on your body are real, real important. Grandma likes to call me a clotheshorse, which sounds like a good thing. For example, I've always known that a quality sweater means the world. I prefer soft organic wools woven around Class-C [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Synch Me, Kiss Me, Drop by Suzanne Church</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 20:36:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzanne Church</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[When my nose stopped aching, I smiled at  Rain. She had snorted a song ten minutes before me, and I couldn't quite figure  why she waited here in the dark confines of the sample booth.
&#34;Rain?&#34; I said. &#34;You okay?&#34;
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 20:34:23 +0000</pubDate>
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&#34;Always.&#34; At the moment I'm standing in my darkened cabin at base camp in Mare Nubium. By headlamp only I carve a chess piece&#8212;a knight&#8212;out of moon rock. I'd crushed one earlier after Tchaikovsky called me out on a dumb move.
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		<title>Prayer by Robert Reed (audio)</title>
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		<title>The Fairy Tale in the TV Age by Alethea Kontis</title>
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		<title>Straightforward and Unadorned Adventure: A Conversation with Michael J. Sullivan by Jeremy L. C. Jones</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 20:20:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With The Riyria Revelations, Michael J. Sullivan wrote the books he wanted to read: fun adventures about loyalty and friendship. He wrote all six installments of the series before releasing the first through a small press, and he later self-published the rest at six-month intervals. His readership grew steadily, and by the fourth or fifth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Word:  Dear Speculative Fiction, I&#8217;m Glad We Had This Talk by Elizabeth Bear</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 20:10:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Bear</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Look.
I'm sitting down to have this conversation with you as a friend, as somebody who loves you. As somebody who's devoted thirty-odd years of her life to you.
We've all made some mistakes. We've all had moments in our lives when we got a little self-important, maybe. Where our senses of humor failed us.
I'm as guilty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From the Editor&#8217;s Desk by Neil Clarke</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 20:05:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don't enjoy writing editorials. I much prefer to be behind the scenes, picking stories or artwork, but this month I feel obligated to say something. As you may have heard, last month, I was nominated for a Hugo Award in the Best Editor Short Form category. It blew my mind. Since Clarkesworld is my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cover Art: Sci-fi Farmer by Jessada Sutthi</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 20:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessada Sutthi</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>The Womb Factory by Peter M. Ferenczi (audio)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 00:10:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our third piece of audio fiction for April is "The Womb Factory" written by Peter M. Ferenczi and read by Kate Baker.

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		<title>Draftyhouse by Erik Amundsen (audio)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 16:53:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik Amundsen</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>Fragmentation, or Ten Thousand Goodbyes by Tom Crosshill</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2012 20:32:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Crosshill</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Every day, Mom says goodbye to me for the last time.
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		<title>Draftyhouse by Erik Amundsen</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2012 20:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik Amundsen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Shenroos is a lucky man. He can relax at a fireplace in green velvet on the moon. He is lucky because he has solitude. Eight days, he has been the sole inhabitant of Draftyhouse. Just him, the Bridgeway, a well-stocked cabinet of floral liquors in every shade between green and purple and all the matching [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Womb Factory by Peter M. Ferenczi</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/ferenczi_04_12/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/ferenczi_04_12/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2012 19:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter M. Ferenczi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Mei stood, hand on her swollen belly. Her stomach rumbled with the hunger that woke her each morning. Four steps took her and her burden to the window, which slid up scant centimeters before hitting bolts ensuring it went no further. The opening allowed air into the room, but no girl, not even Nuan with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Latest Apocalypse: Popular Music and the End of the World by Brian Francis Slattery</title>
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		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/slattery_04_12/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2012 18:31:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Francis Slattery</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[American popular culture&#8212;science fiction and otherwise&#8212;feasted on the Cold War's stew of paranoia, incessant competition couched in terms of progress, and threat of mutually assured destruction right up until the tension could, without a doubt, be declared over with the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991. In retrospect, it's pretty amazing that Soviet-phobic films [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Passing Through Each Other: A Round-Table Discussion of Speculative Fiction and Academia by Jeremy L. C. Jones</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/academia_interview/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2012 18:14:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy L. C. Jones</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[What do Julianna Baggott and Paul Levinson have in common? Or, how about James Enge and Joan Slonczewski? Nnedi Okorafor and Brian Evenson? Ekaterina Sedia and Jeffrey Ford? For one thing, they all write speculative fiction and they all teach at a college or university.
Below, these eight authors discuss the interrelationship of speculative fiction and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Suitably Strange: A Round-Table Discussion of World-Building by Jeremy L. C. Jones</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/world_building_interview/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2012 17:45:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy L. C. Jones</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Imaginary worlds offer readers a time and place that is different from the world they live in. Imaginary worlds offer a fresh perspective, a new POV&#8212;a slanted angle of vision. These settings, these places&#8212; secondary worlds or &#34;the realm of fairy-story,&#34; as J. R. R. Tolkien called them&#8212;come with their own rules, their own customs, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Word: Reading as Performance by Daniel Abraham</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/another_word_04_12/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2012 17:30:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Abraham</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[My main complaint, and reason my interest flagged, was that both the characters and setting seemed flat.&#8212;SF Reader on A Shadow in Summer
...an imagined world of this quality: for a city as graceful and fascinating as Saraykhet, and for such persuasively human characters.&#8212;Strange Horizons on A Shadow in Summer

One of the things that my wiser [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cover Art: Place to Ponder by Steve Goad</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2012 16:30:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Goad</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>Fragmentation, or Ten Thousand Goodbyes by Tom Crosshill (audio)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2012 05:26:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>From Their Paws, We Shall Inherit by Gary Kloster (audio)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 00:21:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The Bells of Subsidence by Michael John Grist (audio)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 01:31:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael John Grist</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>Sunlight Society by Margaret Ronald</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 20:13:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret Ronald</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>The Bells of Subsidence by Michael John Grist</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 20:05:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael John Grist</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Bell is coming.
It's night, and I'm lying beside Temetry on a cold grey crater of this world's endless desert, listening to the oscillations of the Bell. At times we glimpse its Brilliance, the after-image of its long and branic toll splashing across the plush black firmament like an endless corolla borealis. I imagine it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From Their Paws, We Shall Inherit by Gary Kloster</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 19:58:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Kloster</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Monkey waited until the sky over the Gulf had gone all black and empty except for a billion stars before he pulled himself back onto the sailboat.
&#34;Ceegee's roughed your stuff,&#34; he said, perched dripping on the rail. &#34;They rough you too, Cesar?&#34;
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		<title>Sunlight Society by Margaret Ronald (audio)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 19:50:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret Ronald</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Our first piece of audio fiction for March is "Sunlight Society" written by Margaret Ronald and read by Kate Baker.

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		<title>The Romance of Ruins by E. C. Ambrose</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 19:45:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Little excites our sense of adventure more than an attractive ruin: a castle on a hill, a vine-clutched pyramid, a masonry wall sheltered in a natural cave. Ruins appear in a variety of roles in the fantasy tale&#8212;and it's rare indeed to find a fantasy without them. Some are indelible settings for pivotal scenes, like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Biker Chick Who Rides Her Own Bike: A Conversation with Nathan Long by Jeremy L. C. Jones</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 19:35:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy L. C. Jones</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Jane Carver gnashes her teeth, shakes her head. Ol' Dutch wants him &#34;a piece.&#34; Taunting, heckling.&#160;.&#160;. he's more of a nuisance than an outright threat to Carver.
Besides, Carver's got a record and doesn't need another strike against her, so she throws a leg over her &#34;fat-boy&#34; motorcycle and smokes her Marlboro. She's a self-professed &#34;swamp-trash [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writing Is Magic: A Conversation with John R. Fultz by Jeremy L. C. Jones</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 19:25:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy L. C. Jones</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Madness comes to the King &#34;like a creeping fungus in the hollows of his mind.&#34; The dark sorcerer returns. The Giants welcome the storm. A Prince must avenge his father's death and take his rightful place upon a distant throne.
From page one, Seven Princes by John R. Fultz cracks open like teeth-shattering thunder and rolls [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And Now for a Few Short Words from our Editor by Neil Clarke</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 19:11:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Clarke</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It wouldn't be appropriate to end this issue without sending  congratulations to E. Lily Yu and Catherynne M. Valente for their respective Nebula  Award nominations for Best Short Story and Best Novella. We're quite pleased to see &#34;The  Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees&#34; and &#34;Silently and Very  Fast&#34; on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cover Art: Dead Space Girl by Sergio Diaz</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 19:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sergio Diaz</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>All the Young Kirks and Their Good Intentions by Helena Bell (audio)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helena Bell</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Our third piece of audio fiction for February is "All the Young Kirks and Their Good Intentions" written by Helena Bell and read by Kate Baker.

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		<title>A Hundred Ghosts Parade Tonight by Xia Jia (audio)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:32:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xia Jia</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Our second piece of audio fiction for February is "A Hundred Ghosts Parade Tonight" written by Xia Jia, translated by Ken Liu and read by Kate Baker.

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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>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/xia_02_12/</link>
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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>
		
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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>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/johnson_02_12/</link>
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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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		<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>
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		<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>
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		<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>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 01:31:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gwendolyn Clare</dc:creator>
		
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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.

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		<title>What Everyone Remembers by Rahul Kanakia (audio)</title>
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		<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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		<title>Scattered Along the River of Heaven by Aliette de Bodard</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 00:20:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aliette de Bodard</dc:creator>
		
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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>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 00:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aliette de Bodard</dc:creator>
		
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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.
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		<title>What Everyone Remembers by Rahul Kanakia</title>
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		<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>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 23:10:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gwendolyn Clare</dc:creator>
		
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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>
		
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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>

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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>

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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>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 21:20:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arthur Wang</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>Silently and Very Fast (part Three of Three) by Catherynne M. Valente (audio)</title>
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		<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>

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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.

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		<title>In Which Faster-Than-Light Travel Solves All of Our Problems by Chris Stabback (audio)</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_12_11a/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_12_11a/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 23:43:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Stabback</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Our second piece of audio fiction for December is "In Which Faster-Than-Light Travel Solves All of Our Problems" written by Chris Stabback and read by Kate Baker.

Subscribe to our podcast.
]]></description>
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		<title>Sirius by Ben Peek</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/peek_12_11/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/peek_12_11/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 22:59:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Peek</dc:creator>
		
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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>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/stabback_12_11/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/stabback_12_11/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 22:45:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Stabback</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction]]></category>

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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>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/valente_12_11/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/valente_12_11/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 22:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Catherynne M. Valente</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Continued from Part Two
Part III: The Elephant's Soul
It is admitted that there are things He cannot do such as making 
       one equal to two, but should we not believe that He has freedom
         to confer a  soul on an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sirius by Ben Peek (audio)</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_12_11/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_12_11/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 22:10:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Peek</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Our first piece of audio fiction for December is "Sirius" written by Ben Peek and read by Kate Baker.

Subscribe to our podcast.
]]></description>
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		<itunes:subtitle>Our first piece of audio fiction for December is "Sirius" written by Ben Peek and read by Kate Baker.



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		<title>Where No Human Has Gone Before: Visiting Sci-Fi&#8217;s Exoplanets on Earth by Brenta Blevins</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/blevins_12_11/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/blevins_12_11/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 22:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brenta Blevins</dc:creator>
		
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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>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/de_bodard_interview/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/de_bodard_interview/#comments</comments>
		<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>
		
		<category><![CDATA[editorial]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
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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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		<description><![CDATA[
&#160;
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		<title>Silently and Very Fast (Part Two of Three) by Catherynne M. Valente (audio)</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_11_11b/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_11_11b/#comments</comments>
		<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.
Subscribe to our podcast.
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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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		<description><![CDATA[Our second piece of audio fiction for November is "The Smell of Orange Groves" written by Lavie Tidhar and read by Kate Baker.

Subscribe to our podcast.
]]></description>
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		<itunes:subtitle>Our second piece of audio fiction for November is "The Smell of Orange Groves" written by Lavie Tidhar and read by Kate Baker.



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		<itunes:summary>Our second piece of audio fiction for November is "The Smell of Orange Groves" written by Lavie Tidhar 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>A Militant Peace by David Klecha and Tobias S. Buckell (audio)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 21:43:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>A Militant Peace by David Klecha and Tobias S. Buckell</title>
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		<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>
		<dc:creator>Catherynne M. Valente</dc:creator>
		
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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, humanity longed for a [...]]]></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. 
He comes as Death From The Sky. He lays waste to civilizations and he has brought down empires. He treats [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wedging the Door Open: Discussing The Weird by Jeremy L. C. Jones</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/weird_interview/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/weird_interview/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 17:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy L. C. Jones</dc:creator>
		
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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>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/clarke_11_11/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/clarke_11_11/#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/artbio_62/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 16:15:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie Dillon</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>Silently and Very Fast by Catherynne M. Valente (audio, part one)</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_10_11b/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2011 03:06:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Catherynne M. Valente</dc:creator>
		
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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.

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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>
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		<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>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/amundsen_10_11/#comments</comments>
		<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 (Part One of Three) 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[
One: The Imitation Game
Like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.
    &#8212;John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
 &#160;
One: The King of Having No Body
Inanna was called Queen of Heaven and Earth, Queen of Having a Body, Queen of Sex and Eating, Queen of Being Human, and she went into the underworld [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Staying Behind by Ken Liu (audio)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2011 16:50:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Liu</dc:creator>
		
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		<itunes:subtitle>Our first piece of audio fiction for October is "Staying Behind" written by Ken Liu and read by Kate Baker.



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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>
		
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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>
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		<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>
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		<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>
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		<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>
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		<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>
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		<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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		<title>Simulating Sentience by Nancy Fulda</title>
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		<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>
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		<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>
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		<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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		<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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		<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>
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		<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>
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		<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>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/epic_interview2/</link>
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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>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/faust_interview/</link>
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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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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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		<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>
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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>
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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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		<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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		<itunes:subtitle>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>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/goslee_06_11/</link>
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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>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/hoffman_interview/#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/artbio_57/</link>
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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>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_05_11a/</link>
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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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		<title>Whose Face This Is I Do Not Know by Cat Rambo</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/rambo_05_11/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/rambo_05_11/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2011 04:09:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cat Rambo</dc:creator>
		
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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>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/chapman_05_11/</link>
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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>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_05_11/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2011 04:06:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cat Rambo</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>John Barry: A Retrospective on a Wordless Poet  by John T. Stanhope</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/stanhope_05_11/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/stanhope_05_11/#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/beukes_interview/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/beukes_interview/#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_04_11a/#comments</comments>
		<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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		<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>
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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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		<description><![CDATA[Our first piece of audio fiction for April is "The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees" written by E. Lily Yu and read by Kate Baker.

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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>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/scalzi_interview/#comments</comments>
		<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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		<title>Cover Art: Post-apocalyptic fisherman by Georgi Markov</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 16:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Georgi Markov</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>Perfect Lies by Gwendolyn Clare (audio)</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_03_11a/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 21:58:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gwendolyn Clare</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Our second piece of audio fiction for March is "Perfect Lies" written by Gwendolyn Clare and read by Kate Baker.

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		<title>The Book of Phoenix (Excerpted from The Great Book) by Nnedi Okorafor</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/okorafor_03_11/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/okorafor_03_11/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 00:46:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nnedi Okorafor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[There is no book about me. Well, not yet.  No matter. I shall create it myself; it's better that way. To tell my tale, I  will use the old African tools of story: Spoken words. They're more trustworthy  and they'll last longer. And during shadowy times, spoken words carry farther  than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Book of Phoenix Excerpted from The Great Book by Nnedi Okorafor (audio)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 00:30:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nnedi Okorafor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Our first piece of audio fiction for March is "The Book of Phoenix (Excerpted from The Great Book)" written by Nnedi Okorafor and read by Kate Baker.

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		<title>Perfect Lies by Gwendolyn Clare</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/clare_03_11/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/clare_03_11/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 23:55:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gwendolyn Clare</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/?p=504</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The only enjoyable part of my daily meeting with Losin was the view. One large panoramic viewport made up the far wall of his grandiose office&#8212;a perk of being the Director-General of the UN Interworld Relations Organization. Losin sat facing the door instead, so while he talked I stared over his right shoulder at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cinema 2.0: The Future of Movie Making? by Mark Cole</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/cole_03_11/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/cole_03_11/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 23:20:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Cole</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Film producer Matt Hanson calls it Cinema 2.0. Using a  radical new model derived from the social networking web phenomenon and the  Creative Commons/Open Source movement, this unprecedented evolutionary step in  the development of cinema throws aside traditional studio production methods in  favor of a decentralized, web-based approach. 
Several high-profile projects [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drama Hobbits, Mosquitoes, and Other Negotiations: A Conversation with Cory Doctorow by Jeremy L. C. Jones</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/doctorow_interview/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/doctorow_interview/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 23:10:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy L. C. Jones</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Cory Doctorow has a  pretty straight-forward job. All he has  to do is, as he says, &#34;keep up with new technological developments&#34; and write  prose that makes his readers want to live life as though it were, to borrow  from Dennis Lee and Alasdair Gray, the first days of a new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cover Art: Connie and Donnie by Patryk Olejniczak</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/artbio_54/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/artbio_54/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 23:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patryk Olejniczak</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>Three Oranges by D. Elizabeth Wasden (audio)</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_02_11a/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_02_11a/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 12:39:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>D. Elizabeth Wasden</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Our second piece of audio fiction for February is "Three Oranges" written by D. Elizabeth Wasden and read by Kate Baker.

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		<itunes:subtitle>Our second piece of audio fiction for February is "Three Oranges" written by D. Elizabeth Wasden and read by Kate Baker.



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		<itunes:summary>Our second piece of audio fiction for February is "Three Oranges" written by D. Elizabeth Wasden and read by Kate Baker.



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		<title>Diving After the Moon by Rachel Swirsky</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/swirsky_02_11/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/swirsky_02_11/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 06:04:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Swirsky</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[When Norbu was a child, his mother Jamyang told him an old Tibetan story about an industrious but foolish troop of monkeys that lived in a forest near a well. One dusty night, a monkey elder woke thirsty. He crept away from his sleeping mate and went to the well for a drink. Inside, he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Diving After the Moon by Rachel Swirsky (audio)</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_02_11/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_02_11/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 06:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Swirsky</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/?p=498</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Our first piece of audio fiction for February is "Diving After the Moon" written by Rachel Swirsky and read by Kate Baker.

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		<itunes:subtitle>Our first piece of audio fiction for February is "Diving After the Moon" written by Rachel Swirsky and read by Kate Baker.



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		<itunes:summary>Our first piece of audio fiction for February is "Diving After the Moon" written by Rachel Swirsky and read by Kate Baker.



Subscribe to our podcast.</itunes:summary>
		<itunes:keywords>Fiction,,podcast</itunes:keywords>
		<itunes:author>Clarkesworld</itunes:author>
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		<title>Three Oranges by D. Elizabeth Wasden</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/wasden_02_11/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/wasden_02_11/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 05:57:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>D. Elizabeth Wasden</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Orange stained the entire  room. Orange juice. Zest.  Peels. I scratched at the moist  peel over a flowerpot and covered the shavings with soil. The flowerpot had cracked this time. I should buy another. I told myself this on numerous occasions.
I dipped my hands in the washbasin, then  toweled my hands [...]]]></description>
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		<title>He Had to Die: A Conversation with David Weber by Jeremy L. C. Jones</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/weber_interview/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/weber_interview/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 05:50:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy L. C. Jones</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[David Weber has been writing about Honor Harrington for  twenty years. The original proposals, as sent to Jim Baen back in the 90s,  promised space opera featuring a female naval officer. Harrington was supposed  to die in the fifth book in the series. That  was half a dozen books ago. Harrington [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Neologism and Linguicide by Kerry Tynan Fraser</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/fraser_02_11/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/fraser_02_11/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 05:45:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kerry Tynan Fraser</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Languages, like species, mutate and evolve. 
Take  English for example. When I taught English overseas I learned a funny thing:  there's more than one kind of English. There's Canadian English, which I can  speak and teach, but there's also American English, there's the Queen's English  and there's Australian English. While we're [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Process of Creating &#8220;Nautili&#8221; by Julie Dillon</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/dillon_02_11/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/dillon_02_11/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 05:40:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie Dillon</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[For my latest illustration, I wasn't sure what I wanted to paint. I knew I wanted to include a portrait, so I started with some random shapes using the   pattern chalk tool in Painter X (using mostly some patterns of the Fibonacci spiral) and sketched a face within all that mess. Even though [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cover Art: Nautili by Julie Dillon</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/artbio_53/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/artbio_53/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 05:35:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie Dillon</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
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		<title>2010 Reader&#8217;s Poll Results</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/2010_readers_poll_results/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/2010_readers_poll_results/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 05:30:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Clarke</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[non-fiction]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last month, we asked you to vote for your favorite Clarkesworld artwork and short fiction published in 2010. The results are in and it's my pleasure to present the 2010 Clarkesworld Magazine Reader's Poll winners:
Short Fiction

1st Place - &#34;The Things&#34; by Peter Watts (podcast). This story has been selected for inclusion in four year's best [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tying Knots by Ken Liu (audio)</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_01_11a/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jan 2011 20:51:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Liu</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Our second piece of audio fiction for January is "Tying Knots" written by Ken Liu and read by Kate Baker.

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		<itunes:subtitle>Our second piece of audio fiction for January is "Tying Knots" written by Ken Liu and read by Kate Baker.



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		<itunes:summary>Our second piece of audio fiction for January is "Tying Knots" written by Ken Liu and read by Kate Baker.



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		<title>Ghostweight by Yoon Ha Lee</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/lee_01_11/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/lee_01_11/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jan 2011 14:40:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yoon Ha Lee</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[For Charibdys
It is not true that the dead cannot be  folded. Square becomes kite becomes  swan; history becomes rumor becomes song. Even the act of remembrance creases the truth.
What the paper-folding diagrams fail to  mention is that each fold enacts itself upon the secret marrow of your ethics,  the axioms of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ghostweight by Yoon Ha Lee (audio)</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_01_11/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_01_11/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jan 2011 14:35:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yoon Ha Lee</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Our first piece of audio fiction for January is "Ghostweight" written by Yoon Ha Lee and read by Kate Baker.

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		<itunes:subtitle>Our first piece of audio fiction for January is "Ghostweight" written by Yoon Ha Lee and read by Kate Baker.



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		<title>Tying Knots by Ken Liu</title>
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		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/liu_01_11/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jan 2011 14:30:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Liu</dc:creator>
		
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(In  ancient times, there was no writing. When people needed to make a contract or pact, they tied a big knot on a  string for a big matter, a small knot for a small matter. The number of knots depended on the quantity  under contract. That was sufficient to  provide a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fly Me to the Moon: Romance and SF Movies by Daniel M. Kimmel</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jan 2011 14:10:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Coming off a polarizing political season, we've come to think of ourselves as &#34;red states&#34; and &#34;blue states.&#34; You're on one side of the divide or the other, and there's no middle ground. That sort of binary thinking gets transferred to all sorts of subjects, and in the field of movies that means there are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Practice for Something Else: Walter Jon Williams by Jeremy L. C. Jones</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jan 2011 14:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy L. C. Jones</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#34;I  don't have an agenda for science fiction,&#34; said Walter Jon Williams. &#34;It's the thing that turns me on, both as a  reader and a writer, and that's enough for me.&#34;
A  sense of playfulness and wonder pervades Williams' stories, a sense that he is  exploring the whole sandbox, every dimension, every [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2010 Reader&#8217;s Poll</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jan 2011 13:50:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Clarke</dc:creator>
		
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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, cover art, interview and article from 2010. Feel free to use the comments on this post to help promote your favorites. (No attacking other people's [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cover Art: Beckoning Ancient Depths by Alejandro MGNZ</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/artbio_52/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jan 2011 13:40:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alejandro MGNZ</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>The Children of Main Street by A.C. Wise (audio)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 12:37:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our second piece of audio fiction for December is "The Children of Main Street" written by A.C. Wise and read by Kate Baker.

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		<itunes:subtitle>Our second piece of audio fiction for December is "The Children of Main Street" written by A.C. Wise and read by Kate Baker.



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		<title>The Taxidermist&#8217;s Other Wife by Kelly Barnhill</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 21:43:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelly Barnhill</dc:creator>
		
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Not one of us has ever stepped  inside the Taxidermist's house. We have no need to do so. We already know what  we'll find.
2.
The Taxidermist has a mounted  Howler Monkey in his office. Its mouth is open, lips curled outward like the  rim of a trumpet. Its head is cocked sweetly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Taxidermist&#8217;s Other Wife by Kelly Barnhill (audio)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 21:32:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelly Barnhill</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Our first piece of audio fiction for December is "The Taxidermist's Other Wife" written by Kelly Barnhill and read by Kate Baker.

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		<itunes:subtitle>Our first piece of audio fiction for December is "The Taxidermist's Other Wife" written by Kelly Barnhill and read by Kate Baker.



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		<itunes:summary>Our first piece of audio fiction for December is "The Taxidermist's Other Wife" written by Kelly Barnhill and read by Kate Baker.



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