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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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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 20:41:46 +0000</pubDate>
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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;
&#34;Do you hear it, Alex?&#34; she said, not  really looking at me. More like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All the Things the Moon is Not by Alexander Lumans</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 20:34:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexander Lumans</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A call comes over the vidchannel: &#34;Murph, you sitting down?&#34;
&#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.
The screen and radio cut out. [...]]]></description>
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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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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 20:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Call them folk tales, wonder tales, or fairy stories: Fairy tales have a history of adaptation that was born long before some Italian wrote one down on paper in the 1500s. They have celebrated renaissance, preached religious values, and outlined basic moral behavior, with a little adventure, magic, and witchery thrown in for entertainment value. [...]]]></description>
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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>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy L. C. Jones</dc:creator>
		
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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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		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/another_word_05_12/#comments</comments>
		<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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		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/clarke_05_12/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 20:05:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Clarke</dc:creator>
		
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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>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/artbio_68/</link>
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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</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 00:10:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter M. Ferenczi</dc:creator>
		
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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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		<itunes:subtitle>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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		<itunes:summary>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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		<description><![CDATA[Our second piece of audio fiction for April is "Draftyhouse" written by Erik Amundsen and read by Kate Baker.

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<itunes:duration>32:11</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:subtitle>Our second piece of audio fiction for April is "Draftyhouse" written by Erik Amundsen and read by Kate Baker.



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		<title>Fragmentation, or Ten Thousand Goodbyes by Tom Crosshill</title>
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		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/crosshill_04_12/#comments</comments>
		<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.
I need to go to the office or meet Lisa at the airport or pop out for some milk. I'm lacing my shoes in the hallway when I hear the tap-tap-tap of her heels. I freeze for a moment, then rise to meet her.
Mom stands [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Draftyhouse by Erik Amundsen</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/amundsen_04_12/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/amundsen_04_12/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2012 20:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik Amundsen</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction]]></category>

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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>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction]]></category>

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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>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/slattery_04_12/</link>
		<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>
		
		<category><![CDATA[commentary]]></category>

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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>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/academia_interview/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2012 18:14:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy L. C. Jones</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[interview]]></category>

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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>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/world_building_interview/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2012 17:45:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy L. C. Jones</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[interview]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[non-fiction]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/another_word_04_12/#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/artbio_67/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/artbio_67/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2012 16:30:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Goad</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
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		<title>The Bells of Subsidence by Michael John Grist (audio)</title>
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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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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 20:05:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Bell is coming.
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		<title>The Romance of Ruins by E. C. Ambrose</title>
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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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		<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.
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		<title>Writing Is Magic: A Conversation with John R. Fultz by Jeremy L. C. Jones</title>
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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.
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		<title>And Now for a Few Short Words from our Editor by Neil Clarke</title>
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		<title>Cover Art: Dead Space Girl by Sergio Diaz</title>
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		<title>A Hundred Ghosts Parade Tonight by Xia Jia (audio)</title>
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		<title>A Hundred Ghosts Parade Tonight by Xia Jia, translated by Ken Liu</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:05:59 +0000</pubDate>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:45:24 +0000</pubDate>
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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>
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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>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/hannett_interview/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:20:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Bluegrass Symphony, Lisa L. Hannett writes of a place that is, perhaps, somewhere (or nowhere) in the rural United States&#8212;a place that is inspired, in equal parts, by the American South and Medieval Icelandic literature.
&#34;Lisa Hannett weaves words the way the Norns weave fates, elegantly, seamlessly and with just a little bit of cruelty,&#34; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2011 Reader&#8217;s Poll Results by Neil Clarke</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/clarke_02_12/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/clarke_02_12/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:10:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Clarke</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The results from our 2011 Reader's Poll have been tabulated and your feedback gone over with a fine-tooth comb. Without further ado, I give you this year's winners: 
COVER ART 
THIRD PLACE  
       (TIE, listed in order of appearance)

Nautili
by Julie Dillon

The Towers of KEILAH
by Ferdinand Ladera

Off Road
by Facundo [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cover Art: Pilot by Alexander Trufanov</title>
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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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		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/de_bodard_01_12/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 00:20:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aliette de Bodard</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I grieve to think of the stars
   Our ancestors our gods
   Scattered like hairpin wounds
   Along the River of Heaven
   So tell me
   Is it fitting that I spend my days here
   A guest in those dark, forlorn halls? 

This is the first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scattered Along the River of Heaven by Aliette de Bodard (audio)</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_01_12/</link>
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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.

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		<title>What Everyone Remembers by Rahul Kanakia</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kanakia_01_12/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kanakia_01_12/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 23:40:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rahul Kanakia</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I remember being with maman in the cabin of her ship, anchored someplace where the wind was always howling, the temperature was always freezing, and fires were always dancing just beyond the horizon. I spent most of my time inside the mattress where she slept, burrowing as close as I could to maman so that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All the Painted Stars by Gwendolyn Clare</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/clare_01_12/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/clare_01_12/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 23:10:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gwendolyn Clare</dc:creator>
		
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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>
		
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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>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Every year, we give you the opportunity to pick your Clarkesworld favorites from the prior year. This time around, you'll have the opportunity to select your favorite story and cover art from 2011, as well as give us a little feedback. Feel free to use the comments on this post to help promote your favorites. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cover Art: Rockman by Arthur Wang</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/artbio_64/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/artbio_64/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 21:20:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arthur Wang</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
&#160;
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		<title>Silently and Very Fast (part three of three) by Catherynne M. Valente (audio)</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_12_11b/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_12_11b/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 23:55:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Catherynne M. Valente</dc:creator>
		
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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>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 23:43:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Stabback</dc:creator>
		
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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>
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		<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>
		
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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>
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		<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.

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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;
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		<title>Happy Holidays</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 21:10:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Clarke</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>Cover Art: Reactor by Folko Streese</title>
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		<dc:creator>Folko Streese</dc:creator>
		
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 00:52:47 +0000</pubDate>
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Listen to Part Three.
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		<title>A Militant Peace by David Klecha and Tobias S. Buckell (audio)</title>
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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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		<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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		<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>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since the Martians first landed in Guildford, fellows with small mustaches and large empires have been defending the Earth. Nathaniel Tapley explores the enduring appeal of the honest, English chap in science fiction and fantasy. 
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		<title>Wedging the Door Open: Discussing The Weird by Jeremy L. C. Jones</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 17:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<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>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 17:15:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I  expected to be attending World Fantasy Convention in  San Diego today, but my family, day job and airfare conspired to keep me home. Instead  of spending a nice warm day in California, I am being subjected to a rare Fall  snowstorm in New Jersey. As I write this editorial, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cover Art: Planetary Alignment by Julie Dillon</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 16:15:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<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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Subscribe to our podcast.
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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>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our second piece of audio fiction for October is "Pony" written by Erik Amundsen and read by Kate Baker.

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		<itunes:subtitle>Our second piece of audio fiction for October is "Pony" written by Erik Amundsen and read by Kate Baker.



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		<title>Staying Behind by Ken Liu</title>
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		<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>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2011 17:10:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik Amundsen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Skull Pony is eying me again. He drifts in  the paddock, shifting every now and then, always facing me. I don't like him  and I don't trust him and I've more than half a mind that thinks the feeling is  mutual. The other ponies, they cluster around the rock at the center [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Silently and Very Fast (Part One of Three) by Catherynne M. Valente</title>
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		<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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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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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2011 16:50:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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>
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		<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>
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		<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>
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		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/slonczewski_interview/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2011 16:20:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy L. C. Jones</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Joan Slonczewski's last novel, Brain Plague, was released in 2000. Much  has changed in the world since then, and so has Slonczewski's writing. Her  recent novel, The Highest Frontier,  is both more concerned with politics than her previous novels and somehow more  gentle.
Slonczewski is the author of the  Elysium Cycle, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five by Neil Clarke</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/clarke_10_11/</link>
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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>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/artbio_61/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2011 16:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryn Jones</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>Signals in the Deep by Greg Mellor (audio)</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_09_11a/</link>
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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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		<title>Pack by Robert Reed</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 21:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Reed</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[He was standing in front of my castle, watching windows. When I came out, he bent down low, mouth to the plastic grass, and asked if he could stay.
&#34;I can help you,&#34; he said.
&#34;Except you're just a dog,&#34; I pointed out.
&#34;That's not a nice word,&#34; he said.
&#34;Fuck you,&#34; I told him.
He stood up. He watched [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Signals in the Deep by Greg Mellor</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/mellor_09_11/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 20:40:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Mellor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Earth 
There's a place in our future where we are all heading, driven by our instincts and the deep heritage of our genes. It is a place where we are more at peace, in harmony with the universal fabric from which we were born. It's what I was taught, and it's what I believe. Our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pack by Robert Reed (audio)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 20:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Reed</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Our first piece of audio fiction for September is "Pack" written by Robert Reed and read by Kate Baker.

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		<title>Simulating Sentience by Nancy Fulda</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/fulda_09_11/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/fulda_09_11/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 20:20:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Fulda</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Machines that think, dream, aspire: ever since John McCarthy  coined the term 'artificial intelligence' in 1956, mankind has striven to  create sentience. 
To an extent, we've succeeded. Intelligent systems assist  our elderly, vacuum our floors, and guide our web searches. Automated telephone  assistants are nearly as easy to talk to as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Momentary Glimpses of a Complete Circus: A Conversation with Genevieve Valetine by Jeremy L. C. Jones</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/valentine_interview/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/valentine_interview/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 20:10:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy L. C. Jones</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Hollow bones and brass casings, wires and cogs... Genevieve Valentine's Circus Tresaulti is a place of aerialists, dancing girls, and strong men, of spectacle and secret hatreds&#8212;a world of wild wonders and brilliant beauty.
&#34;Genevieve Valentine writes like no one else,&#34; said Ekaterina Sedia, author of Heart of Iron and The House of Discarded Dreams. &#34;Her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thank You by Neil Clarke</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/clarke_09_11/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/clarke_09_11/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 20:05:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Clarke</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I'm going to be brief this month. In case you haven't heard, there have been some distractions around here in the form of Hurricane Irene. We're all safe and sound, but I do have something to say...
Thank you.
For the second year in a row, Clarkesworld Magazine has won the Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cover Art: Forest Spirit by Mike Azevedo</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/artbio_60/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/artbio_60/#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_08_11a/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_08_11a/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 19:29:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chen Qiufan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Our second piece of audio fiction for August is "The Fish of Lijiang" written by Chen Qiufan and read by Kate Baker.

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		<itunes:subtitle>Our second piece of audio fiction for August is "The Fish of Lijiang" written by Chen Qiufan and read by Kate Baker.



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		<title>Conservation of Shadows by Yoon Ha Lee</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/lee_08_11/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 19:30:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yoon Ha Lee</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as conservation of shadows. When light destroys shadows, darkness does not gain in density elsewhere. When shadows steal over earth and across the sky, darkness is not diluted.
Hello, Inanna. You have seven inventory slots, all full. The seventh contains your heart, which cannot be removed. We will do our best [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Fish of Lijiang by Chen Qiufan, translated by Ken Liu</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/chen_08_11/</link>
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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>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_08_11/</link>
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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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		<description><![CDATA[Introduction
&#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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