You are listening to a Clarks World Magazine podcast with your host Kate Baker.

Yes, I said just host this time because Aleithia is back as our guest narrator.

Thank you Aleithia for stepping in and helping me out. I hope you are doing well my dear listener. I hope you are

holding up with everything that is sort of on fire at the moment and I'm so happy that you are taking the time to spend listening to yet another story.

I want to thank you for your ongoing support as well and if you are able to please visit Patreon.com forward slash Clark's World.

Our first story for the month of July, issue 166, is titled Artificial People

and is done by Michael Swanwick.

Michael Swanwick is one of the most acclaimed and prolific science fiction and fantasy writers of his generation.

He is the five years before with the Iron Dragon's daughter. But even more recently is City

Under the Stars a novel co-authored with the late gardener, D'Sois. He lives in

Philadelphia with his wife Marion Porter. You can also find him on his website, flogging

babble, that blog spot.com. No stranger here to Clark's World. May 2013 brought you from Babble's

fallen glory we fled. April 2014 brought you passage of earth. October 2016

brought you the very pulse of the machine. April 2017 brought you the very pulse of the machine.

April 2017 brought you ancient engines.

And January 2018 brought you,

for I have lain me down on the stone of loneliness

and I'll not be back again. And as I mentioned, our guest narrator is

a Lithia Contis. New York Times best-selling author and a princess,

Storm Chaser, and Geek.

Aleithia is the author of over 20 books and 40 short stories.

When not writing or Storm Chasing,

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