You are listening to a Clark's World magazine podcast with your host and narrator, Kate Baker.

Greetings Clark's World Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you very, very well.

We have a lot of stories to get to this month, so I'm not going to keep you.

There's not really much news to report either.

So our second story of the month is titled A Universal Elegy and is by

Tang Fe and this one is translated by John Chu.

Tang Fe is a speculative fiction writer whose fiction has been featured under various

pen names and magazines in China such as science fiction world, juzieu, and fantasy old and new. She has written fantasy, science fiction, fairy tales, and

martial arts fantasy, but prefers to write it in a way that straddles or stretches genre boundaries.

She is also a genre critic and her critical essays have been published in the Economic

Observer.

Her story Call Girl was published in Apex magazine and reprinted in Rich Horton's

the year's best science fiction and fantasy 2014.

She lives in Beijing, though she tries to escape it as often as she can and considers herself a

foodie with a particular appreciation for dark chocolate, blue cheese, and

good wine. Our translator today, as mentioned mentioned is John Chu.

He's a microprocessor architect by day, a writer by night.

His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming at Boston Review,

bloody fabulous, Asimov's science fiction, Apex and... and 2014 Hugo Award for Best Short Story.

And if you like what you hear, you can go ahead and go back to June 2014 and listen to Pepe,

which was also translated by John Chu.

So I invite you to sit back, because the world is hurting me.

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