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At the Cross-Time Jaunter's Ball by Alexander Jablokov (audio)

Clarkesworld Magazine

Clarkesworld Magazine

Fiction, Science Fiction

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2017

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Our seventh podcast for March is “At the Cross-Time Jaunter's Ball” written by Alexander Jablokov and read by Kate Baker. Originally published in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, August 1987.

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You are listening to a Clarksville magazine podcast with your host and narrator Kate Baker.

0:06.0

Creetings Clarksville Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well.

0:11.0

It's our last story for the month of March 2017, issue 126. We brought you some

0:19.6

great stories this month and we're going to bring you some more in April. If you're already

0:26.0

a Patreon supporter, subscriber via either Amazon or Waitless Books or other

0:32.1

means or you support the magazine in any other way, thank you.

0:38.8

As we close down the month of March, every single dollar, every single shout-out helps to spread the word. If you don't

0:47.5

support the magazine, I'd really love to know. What's stopping you? We bring you over 50,000 words of content every

0:57.2

single month. It only takes a dollar or more. So please, if you have the means to do so financially,

1:07.0

head on over to Patreon.com.com, forward slash Clark'sworld,

1:10.0

or go to the support page on Clarksville magazine.com.

1:14.0

Our last story of the month is titled

1:18.0

At the Cross Time Jonters Ball

1:20.0

and is by Alexander Jablakov.

1:22.0

With only a handful of stories mostly for Asimov's and a few well-received novels,

1:28.0

Alexander Jablakov established himself as one of the most highly regarded new writers of the 90s.

1:34.9

His first novel, Car of the Sky, was released in 1991, and was followed by other successful novels

1:41.2

such as A Deeper Sea, Nimbus, River of Dust, and Deep Drive,

1:46.4

as well as a collection of his short fiction, The Breath of Suspension.

1:51.3

Jablakov fell silent through the decade of the auts, but in the last couple of years

1:55.8

has been returning to print, releasing Brain Thief in 2010, his first novel in over 10 years,

2:01.6

and popping up in the magazines again with elegant

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