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	<title>Clarkesworld Magazine - Online Science Fiction and Fantasy</title>
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		<title>The Cull by Robert Reed</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Reed</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Smiles mean nothing here.  Inside the station, everybody smiles.  Optimism is the natural state of mind. But this particular smile is larger and  brighter than usual, and it happens to be honest. The man grins at me while taking a slow and  very deep breath, trying to infect me with his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Cull by Robert Reed (audio)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:33:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Reed</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Our first piece of audio fiction for September is "The Cull" written by Robert Reed and read by Kate Baker.

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		<itunes:subtitle>Our first piece of audio fiction for September is "The Cull" written by Robert Reed and read by Kate Baker.



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		<title>Paper Cradle by Stephen Gaskell</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Gaskell</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Even though you would've  despised the weapon, Papa, you would've appreciated the beauty of its  creation.
First, beyond Mercury, a mote of  starlight is ensnared. An archipelago of steel-blue optical cavities,  strung out like a chain of sapphires around the wildfire neck of the sun, pumps  the trapped light much like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Steel Is Not Enough: The Lives and Times of Magnus, Robot Fighter by Bill Spangler</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:28:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Spangler</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It was a bright  and boundless future, with flying cars dotting a perpetually blue sky. In the  shadows of the mile-high spires, though, the poor and the outsiders struggled  to survive. And everywhere you looked,  thinking their steel thoughts, were robots.
This  was the world of Magnus Robot Fighter, a comic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To See Beyond the Points of View: A Conversation with Karin Lowachee Interview by Jeremy L. C. Jones</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:25:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy L. C. Jones</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Canadian  novelist Karin Lowachee's experiences have spanned the Western hemisphere. She was born in South America and raised in  Canada. Her time spent working in the  Arctic greatly influenced her most recent The  Gaslight Dogs, as did her love of the Wild West, Victoriana, and Inuit  culture. 
In  2001, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Each Facet Intensely: A Conversation with Angela Slatter by Jeremy L. C. Jones</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:22:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy L. C. Jones</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Australian fiction writer Angela Slatter has two beautiful story  collections out, Sourdough &#38;  Other Stories (Tartarus Press [UK]) and The Girl with No Hands &#38; Other Tales (Ticonderoga Publications). They are  beautiful inside and out &#8212; both the stories that make up the books and the  books themselves.
Slatter's stories are  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cover Art: Honeycomb by Julie Dillon</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/artbio_48/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:20:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie Dillon</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>Messenger by Julia M Sidorova (audio)</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_08_10a/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_08_10a/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 20:10:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julia M Sidorova</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Our second piece of audio fiction for August is "Messenger" written by Julia M Sidorova and read by Kate Baker.

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		<itunes:subtitle>Our second piece of audio fiction for August is "Messenger" written by Julia M Sidorova and read by Kate Baker.



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		<itunes:summary>Our second piece of audio fiction for August is "Messenger" written by Julia M Sidorova 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>Thirteen Ways of Looking at Space/Time by Catherynne M. Valente</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/valente_08_10/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/valente_08_10/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 00:51:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Catherynne M. Valente</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I. 
In the beginning was the Word and the  Word was with God and the Word was a high-density pre-baryogenesis singularity.  Darkness lay over the deep and God moved upon the face of the hyperspatial  matrix. He separated the firmament from the quark-gluon plasma and said: let  there be particle/anti-particle pairs, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thirteen Ways of Looking at Space/Time by Catherynne M. Valente (audio)</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_08_10/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 00:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Catherynne M. Valente</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Our first piece of audio fiction for August is "Thirteen Ways of Looking at Space/Time" written by Catherynne M. Valente and read by Kate Baker.

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		<itunes:subtitle>Our first piece of audio fiction for August is "Thirteen Ways of Looking at Space/Time" written by Catherynne M. Valente and read by Kate Baker.



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		<itunes:summary>Our first piece of audio fiction for August is "Thirteen Ways of Looking at Space/Time" written by Catherynne M. Valente and read by Kate Baker.



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		<itunes:author>Clarkesworld</itunes:author>
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		<title>Messenger by Julia M Sidorova</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 00:42:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julia M Sidorova</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Life is a  stick with a death on each end, balanced on a finger of the Universe, I  understand that much. My kind is born small and numerous, wet and weak. Most of  us do not survive to the onset of maturation. Of those who do, yet fewer  complete it. Sometimes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Even the Best Stories Have Flaws: Inside Altered Fluid Interview by Jeremy L. C. Jones</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/altered_fluid_interview/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/altered_fluid_interview/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 00:40:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy L. C. Jones</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Altered Fluid is a speculative fiction critique group that includes writers such as N. K. Jemisin, Matthew Kressel, and Saladin Ahmed.
Altered Fluid is the story of a creative writing class that grew into much more. It's also the story of Terry Bisson's generosity toward and respect for his students, who wanted to continue working together [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drawing the Lines around a Moving Object by Neil Clarke</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/clarke_08_10/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/clarke_08_10/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 00:33:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Clarke</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Twenty years ago, it was very easy to look at something and  say whether or not it was a magazine, newspaper or book. With the advent of  online magazines, new print technologies and ebooks, it has become  significantly more complicated. I regularly run into people who try to claim  that online [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cover Art: Watcher of Merlin by David Melvin</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/artbio_47/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/artbio_47/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 00:31:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Melvin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
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		<title>The Association of the Dead by Rahul Kanakia (audio)</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_07_10a/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_07_10a/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 23:38:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rahul Kanakia</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Our first piece of audio fiction for July is "The Association of the Dead" written by Rahul Kanakia and read by Kate Baker.

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		<itunes:subtitle>Our first piece of audio fiction for July is "The Association of the Dead" written by Rahul Kanakia and read by Kate Baker.



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		<itunes:summary>Our first piece of audio fiction for July is "The Association of the Dead" written by Rahul Kanakia and read by Kate Baker.



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		<itunes:author>Clarkesworld</itunes:author>
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		<title>Beach Blanket Spaceship by Sandra McDonald</title>
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		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/mcdonald_07_10/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 23:51:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandra McDonald</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Bells ring, the bright sweet sound of freedom, the  fantastic summer upon us, and we burst out of the high school with a rousing  rendition of the song &#34;Endless Waves&#34; from the classic 1964 movie  &#34;Life's a Beach.&#34; We pile into our convoy of jalopies and woody  wagons, the guys bare-chested [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Association of the Dead by Rahul Kanakia</title>
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		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kanakia_07_10/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 23:48:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rahul Kanakia</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/?p=423</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The neon logic clusters  cascaded through the extremities of Sumith's perception as he sang sweet Code  through the room, through the house, and out into the  massed congregations of networked  singers across the world. 
The  Code had tripped another threshold. Or so he'd been told. He'd long ago  abandoned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beach Blanket Spaceship by Sandra McDonald (audio)</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_07_10/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_07_10/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 23:45:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandra McDonald</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/?p=427</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Our first piece of audio fiction for July is "Beach Blanket Spaceship" written by Sandra McDonald and read by Kate Baker.

Subscribe to our podcast.
]]></description>
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<itunes:duration>30:04</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:subtitle>Our first piece of audio fiction for July is "Beach Blanket Spaceship" written by Sandra McDonald and read by Kate Baker.



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		<itunes:summary>Our first piece of audio fiction for July is "Beach Blanket Spaceship" written by Sandra McDonald and read by Kate Baker.



Subscribe to our podcast.</itunes:summary>
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		<itunes:author>Clarkesworld</itunes:author>
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		<title>No End to the Madness: A Conversation with Artist Scott Eagle by Jeremy L. C. Jones</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/eagle_interview/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/eagle_interview/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 23:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy L. C. Jones</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Scott  Eagle grew up in Winston-Salem, NC. He  now lives in Greenville, NC and serves as the assistant director of the School  of Art and Design at Eastern Carolina University. Eagle is a southerner. Yet, there is nothing overtly southern in his  paintings.
Imagine  Flannery O'Connor on LSD without the Catholicism [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Packing for a Very Long Trip by Sarah Goslee</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/goslee_07_10/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 23:41:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Cover Art: My Secret Friend by Murat Turan</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 20:12:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Futures in the Memories Market by Nina Kiriki Hoffman</title>
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		<title>Finding the Language I Need: A Conversation with Caitl&#237;n R. Kiernan by Jeremy L. C. Jones</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Born in Ireland, raised in Alabama, Caitl&#237;n Kiernan now  lives in Rhode Island. Each of these  evocative locales has influenced her science fiction and dark fantasy novels  and short stories. An early interest in  paleontology, archaeology, and snakes led her to a career in paleontology and  teaching. &#160;
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		<title>Moonage Daydream: The Rock Album as Science Fiction by Jason Heller</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 22:51:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rock  'n' roll was never intended to have a future. Hot, fast, loud, bright: the genre  was made to be as disposable as the chemically-fueled rockets that had started  putting objects into orbit just as rock was getting off the ground in the '50s.
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		<title>Cover Art: perseus faces the kraken by John Barry Ballaran</title>
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		<title>A Sweet Calling by Tony Pi (audio)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2010 16:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Pi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Our second piece of audio fiction for May is "A Sweet Calling" written by Tony Pi and read by Kate Baker.

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You keep a low profile when you're in oxygen  debt. Too much walking about just exacerbates the situation anyway. So I was  nervous when a stationeer appeared at my cubby and knocked on the door.
I slid out and stood in front of the polished,  skeletal robot.
&#34;Alex Mosette?&#34; it asked.
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2010 21:26:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Red paper lanterns, strung  high like persimmon moons, welcomed customers to the market street. I announced  my next performance of the sugar opera to passers-by, hoping to draw the  curious to my stall. But if the row of candy zodiac animals in front of me couldn't  lure them in, perhaps my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cover Art: The Biomarket by Rodrigo Ramos</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2010 21:24:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rodrigo Ramos</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>Revealing How the Elements Cohere: A Conversation with Elizabeth Bear by Jeremy L. C. Jones</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2010 21:23:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy L. C. Jones</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Elizabeth  Bear's first novel, Hammered,  launched the Jenny Casey series and Bear's career as an award-winning  novelist. With each new novel and each  new series, Bear's writing continues becomes impossibly richer, brasher and  more stunning. Her worlds are  breath-taking and her characters as real as bone and steal.
These  [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2010 21:21:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy L. C. Jones</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Reviewers  call Marly Youmans' work angelic, beautiful, magnetic, wonderful and  immersive. And it is all those  things. She is praised for her boundless  creativity and her uncanny ability to surprise even her most dedicated fans  over and over again. She has often been  referred to as a best kept [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stranger Than Science Fiction: Into the Alternate Dimension of Mainstream Literature by Ryan Britt</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2010 21:20:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes I imagine a world  where stories are experienced not by reading, listening or seeing, but are instead  comprehended through telepathic signals sent directly from the stories  themselves. Here stories are living, corporeal things, floating around in the  air like butterflies, or humming birds, or bats. In one scenario, I am [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 20:46:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<dc:creator>Yoon Ha Lee</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the oldest tales we tell in Cho is of two  dragons, twinborn and opposite in all desires.  One dragon was as red as Earth, the other as blue as Heaven: day and  night, fire and water, passion and calculation.  They warred, as dragons do, and the universe was born [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our first piece of audio fiction for April is "Between Two Dragons" written by Yoon Ha Lee and read by Kate Baker.

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		<dc:creator>Becca De La Rosa</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Fionn took the dogs out to the water,  and there, in the river's reflection, he realised that January had left. He  plunged his hands into the water, but she was not there; he sent the dogs  barking over the hills, but they did not come back with her or a trail to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peculiar Notes of Contradiction: A Conversation with N.K. Jemisin by Jeremy L. C. Jones</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 11:32:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy L. C. Jones</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A simple walk, rich with impending doom.  A chance encounter, taut with peculiar familiarity.  A main character whose back-story drips into the surface action with maddeningly beautiful precision and poignancy.
Last  month, N. K. Jemisin&#8217;s short story &#34;Non-Zero Probabilities,&#34;  was nominated as a finalist for the 2009 Nebula Award. A well-deserved honor.
&#34;N. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We Come in Pieces: The Alien as Metaphor by Daniel M. Kimmel</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kimmel_04_10/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kimmel_04_10/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 11:31:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel M. Kimmel</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[When, in a movie or TV show,  the aliens arrive on Earth, or we meet them somewhere out in space, one thing  is certain: whatever they're supposed to represent, it's not life on  other worlds. Each genre has certain stock characters and situations which, in  the hands of a master storyteller, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cover Art: Bagadurn by Aimé Jalon</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 11:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aime Jalon</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>The History Within Us by Matthew Kressel (audio)</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_03_10a/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:01:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Kressel</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Our second piece of audio fiction for March is "The History Within Us" written by Matthew Kressel and read by Kate Baker.

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		<itunes:subtitle>Our second piece of audio fiction for March is "The History Within Us" written by Matthew Kressel and read by Kate Baker.



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		<title>Alone With Gandhari by Gord Sellar</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 03:45:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gord Sellar</dc:creator>
		
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And  the wailing chief of the cowherds fled, forlorn and spent,
              Speeding  on his rapid chariot to the royal city went,
              Came  inside the city portals, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alone With Gandhari by Gord Sellar (audio)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 03:43:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gord Sellar</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Our first piece of audio fiction for March is "Alone With Gandhari" written by Gord Sellar and read by Kate Baker.

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		<itunes:subtitle>Our first piece of audio fiction for March is "Alone With Gandhari" written by Gord Sellar and read by Kate Baker.



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		<title>The History Within Us by Matthew Kressel</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kressel_03_10/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kressel_03_10/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 03:41:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Kressel</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[On a wrist-mounted computer, Betsy Haadama watched  a six thousand-year-old silent film. It was  grayscale, overexposed, two-dimensional, and chronologically jumbled. On the film: a mustachioed man doting over  his young son at a crowded zoo. A woman  vigorously combing the boy's white hair beside a large piano. A family eating a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Terrifying Mix of Honesty and Rigor: A Conversation with Kij Johnson by Jeremy L. C. Jones</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/johnson_interview/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/johnson_interview/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 03:40:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy L. C. Jones</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[interview]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Kij  Johnson didn't really want to be thought of as &#34;a tentacle-porn girl,&#34; but she  knew her story, &#34;Spar,&#34; worked  as a story so she sent it off.&#160;
Last  month, &#34;Spar&#34; was nominated as a finalist for the 2009 Nebula Awards in the  short story category.
&#34;This  is a story I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Future Brains: Neuroscience Fiction versus Neuroscience Fantasy by Luc Reid</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/reid_03_10/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/reid_03_10/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 03:39:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luc Reid</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/?p=387</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Science fiction has had brains on the brain at least since  Dr. Frankenstein installed one in his monster. Over the years science fiction  has depicted technologies like mind control (in Star Trek, for example),  instant learning (The Matrix), telepathy (Robert Heinlein's Time for  the Stars), and transferring memories and skills (The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cover Art: Retro Robots by Georgi Markov</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/artbio_42/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/artbio_42/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 03:38:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Georgi Markov</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
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		<title>Non-Zero Probabilities by N.K. Jemisin (audio)</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_02_10b/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_02_10b/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 03:41:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>N. K. Jemisin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The 2009 Nebula Awards Final Ballot was announced this week and we are very pleased to see two works from Clarkesworld competing in the short story category. &#34;Non-Zero Probabilities&#34; by N.K. Jemisin and &#34;Spar&#34; by Kij Johnson are fantastic stories and we couldn't be happier for both authors. 
We've previously podcast &#34;Spar&#34; and felt it [...]]]></description>
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We've previously podcast #34;Spar#34; and felt it was only right to celebrate by sharing a special podcast of #34;Non-Zero Probabilities#34; with you today. Enjoy!



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		<title>The Language of the Whirlwind by Lavie Tidhar (audio)</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_02_10a/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_02_10a/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:17:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lavie Tidhar</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Our mid-month audio fiction for February is "The Language of the Whirlwind" written by Lavie Tidhar and read by Kate Baker.

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		<itunes:subtitle>Our mid-month audio fiction for February is "The Language of the Whirlwind" written by Lavie Tidhar and read by Kate Baker.



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		<itunes:summary>Our mid-month audio fiction for February is "The Language of the Whirlwind" written by Lavie Tidhar and read by Kate Baker.



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		<itunes:keywords>Fiction,,podcast</itunes:keywords>
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		<title>Torquing Vacuum by Jay Lake</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/lake_02_10/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/lake_02_10/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:51:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Lake</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/?p=376</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Spanich had been up three shifts straight  working on a drive alignment issue aboard ICV Mare Imbrium {13  pairs}. She was a charter &#8212; a rare  thing, in a starship, which signified pockets deeper than planetary budgets &#8212;  and the passengers reportedly wanted to lift out, but her pilot wasn't lighting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Language of the Whirlwind by Lavie Tidhar</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/tidhar_02_10/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/tidhar_02_10/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:50:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lavie Tidhar</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The sky was the color of ash and the Whistler has been at it again:  the shrill sound of his whistle rang like a curse down the abandoned street. Damn  kid, the priest thought. Damn stupid kid. It was a miracle he was  still alive.
It was a  miracle. The boy was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Torquing Vacuum by Jay Lake (audio)</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_02_10/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_02_10/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:49:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Lake</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The first half of this month's audio fiction is "Torquing Vacuum" written Jay Lake and read by Kate Baker.

Subscribe to our podcast.
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		<itunes:subtitle>The first half of this month's audio fiction is "Torquing Vacuum" written Jay Lake and read by Kate Baker.



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		<itunes:summary>The first half of this month's audio fiction is "Torquing Vacuum" written Jay Lake 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>Chameleon of the Fantastic: An Interview with Jeffrey Ford by Jason S. Ridler</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/ford_interview/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/ford_interview/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:48:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason S. Ridler</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past twenty-five years,  Jeffrey Ford has earned a reputation for being one of the best writers working  today. His short stories and novels collect tales from a wild and unique  imagination steered by a craftsmen's eye for narrative and prose. His fiction  could stand as comfortable next to Jonathan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Earth Science Gets No Respect by Russ Colson</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/colson_02_10/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/colson_02_10/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:47:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Russ Colson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Science  fiction writers routinely get loads of cool physics right; and biology too. It's  expected of them. Maybe they stretch believability with that faster-than-light nonsense  and all the strange creatures, but at least they know they need to imagine a means  to circumvent the constraints of light speed, and that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2009 Reader&#8217;s Poll Results</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/2009_readers_poll_results/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/2009_readers_poll_results/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:46:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Clarke</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month, we asked you to vote for your favorite artwork and short fiction publishing in Clarkesworld in 2009. The results are in and it is my pleasure to present the 2009 Clarkesworld Magazine Reader's Poll winners:
Short Fiction

1st Place (tie) - &#34;The Radiant Car Thy Sparrows Drew&#34; by Catherynne M. Valente AND &#34;From the Lost [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cover Art: Transfiguration of Sergeant 05 by Bryan Sola</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/artbio_41/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/artbio_41/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:45:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Sola</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
&#160;
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		<title>All the King&#8217;s Monsters by Megan Arkenberg (audio)</title>
		<link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_01_10a/</link>
		<comments>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_01_10a/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 12:24:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Megan Arkenberg</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The second half of this month's audio fiction is All the King's Monsters written by Megan Arkenberg and read by Kate Baker.

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		<itunes:subtitle>The second half of this month's audio fiction is All the King's Monsters written by Megan Arkenberg and read by Kate Baker.



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		<itunes:summary>The second half of this month's audio fiction is All the King's Monsters written by Megan Arkenberg and read by Kate Baker.



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