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

Greetings, Clarksville citizens. I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well.

I hope that as we slide through the month of November and into that of December,

that you are preparing for all of those amazing holidays yet to come.

And I hope, as you prepare, you're listening along with all of these wonderful stories.

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My eternal thank you.

Speaking of eternal, our story is titled City of Eternity and is by Pan Haitian

and is translated by Carmen Yiling Yan. Pan Haitian is a graduate of School of Architecture

in the Xinhua University, National Class I registered architect and a science fiction

and fantasy writer is one five galaxy awards of Chinese SF. His story, The Legend of Yanshi,

was adapted into the ballet drama Yanshi by the National Ballet of China. He is also the

co-founder of Xu Shou, novel land, a fantastic ancient Chinese setting, crowd world building project.

He worked as editor-in-chief of Odyssey of China Fantasy from 2005 to 2010 and now works mainly

as a screenwriter. If you like what you hear, you can go back to the Hunger Tower,

which was translated by Nick Stemper. And speaking of our translator,

Carmen Yiling Yan, born in China and raised in the United States, Carmen Yiling Yan was first driven

to translation in high school by the pain of reading really good stories and being unable to share

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