This episode features “Ancient Engines” by Michael Swanwick from the April issue of Clarkesworld Magazine. Read by Kate Baker.

Text of this story can be found at: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/swanwick_04_17_reprint

Originally published in Asimov’s Science Fiction, February 1999.

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