You are listening to a Clark's World magazine podcast,

your host and narrator, Kate Baker, and welcome to Action at a distance by On How translated by Andy Dudeck.

I want to thank you for your ongoing support of the magazine.

As I mentioned in previous podcasts, we are due to lose a significant amount of our income due to some changes that Amazon is making.

So anything that you can throw our way would be greatly appreciated.

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And to those of you who already do or have done in the past,

thank you so much. We cannot do this without you.

Our author for the story, On How, earned a master's degree in animal science,

worked in animal husbandry and genetic engineering,

and is a practitioner of Shinki Kwan, one of Chinese internal martial arts.

He writes science fiction and ancient Chinese style fantasy, as well as Hushia.

His story collection, yes, the spring times needed you deeply,

was published in 2017 and his short story, Yardong Tides, won the 2022 Long Q Award.

A translator, Andy Dudeck, is a writer and translator science fiction.

His original stories have appeared in Analog Apex Clark's World Diwali Science Fiction,

Interzone, the magazine of fantasy and science fiction, Rich Horton's Year's Best and Elsewhere,

is translated many stories for Clark's World and a novel by Lu Shixin, his spare time,

and his spare time he likes to binge watch peak television and eat Hui Muslim style cold sesame meals.

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

The sage seeks to satisfy the hunger of the belly, not the voracious craving of the eyes.

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