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A Sleeper Ship Is Like a Game of Go by Claire Jia-Wen (audio)

Clarkesworld Magazine

Clarkesworld Magazine

Fiction, Science Fiction

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2026

⏱️ 62 minutes

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This episode features "A Sleeper Ship Is Like a Game of Go" written by Claire Jia-Wen. Published in the February 2026 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker. The text version of this story can be found at: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/jia-wen_02_26 Support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/clarkesworld/membership

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0:00.0

You are listening to the fourth story for the month of February for Clark's World magazine.

0:06.2

Issue 233.

0:07.7

And as always, these podcasts are made possible by your ongoing support.

0:11.3

So if you've gone to patreon.com forward slash Clarksworld, check to subscription our way,

0:15.7

given a few bucks via a donation.

0:18.6

You are what makes these stories come alive. You let me do exactly what I want to be

0:24.1

doing. So thank you. Our story is titled, A Sleeper Ship is like a Game of Go. And is by Claire

0:30.5

Jowen. Claire Jowen is a speculative fiction writer originally from the 626 and has been published in

0:36.6

Correo and Clark's World.

0:38.8

A viable paradise alum, she is currently a PhD student studying human computer interaction.

0:44.4

Other works by Claire include abstraction is when I design giant death creatures and attraction

0:49.8

is when I do it for you if an algorithm can cast a shadow, celestial migrations, and mirror

0:55.9

stages. So, my dear listener, I hope that you can sit back, relax, and let me tell you a story.

1:08.9

Diviner.

1:12.1

I can see everything.

1:14.7

Everything that will happen, some of what has.

1:17.1

I won't see until you ask, though.

1:19.0

So ask.

1:21.8

X-198.

1:24.0

This is the story of how it will begin.

1:26.1

You'll step from the diviner first.

1:27.0

I'll follow. All the other passengers

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