Coming of the Light by Chen Qiufan (audio)
Clarkesworld Magazine
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🗓️ 29 March 2015
⏱️ 66 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to a Clark's World magazine podcast with your host and narrator Kate Baker. |
| 0:11.0 | Greetings Clark's World Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you very well. |
| 0:17.3 | I'm just going to jump right into the story for March 2015. |
| 0:26.6 | Issue 202. The title of the piece is Coming of the Light and is by Chen Guui-Fin, translated by Ken Liu. |
| 0:37.4 | Chen was born in 1981 in Shantu, China. |
| 0:41.6 | In accordance with Chinese custom, Mr. Chen's surname is written first. He sometimes |
| 0:46.8 | uses the English name, Stanley Chan. He is a graduate of Peking University and published his first short story in 1997 in Science Fiction World, China's largest science fiction magazine. |
| 1:00.0 | Since 2004, he has published over 30 stories in science fiction world, Esquire, Hutsba, and other magazines. |
| 1:09.4 | His first novel, The Abyss of Vision, came out in 2006. He won Taiwan's Dragon Fantasy Award in 2006 with |
| 1:16.7 | a record of the cave of Ning Mountain, a work written classical Chinese. His story, The Tomb, was translated into English and Italian |
| 1:27.1 | and can be found in the Apex Book of World SF2, |
| 1:30.0 | an alias of six. |
| 1:32.3 | He now lives in Beijing and works. and site dot Dubon, that's do you, |
| 1:43.4 | B, A N. |
| 1:44.8 | dot com forward slash 106829. |
| 1:51.5 | And if you like what you hear, you can go back to August 2011, where the fish of Li |
| 1:58.0 | Jang can be found. Also translated by Ken Liu. And speaking of Mr. Liu, Ken's fiction has appeared in |
| 2:08.5 | FNSF, Asimov's Analogs, Analog, Strange Horizons, Light Speed,, and yours truly Clark's world, among other places. |
| 2:16.0 | He is a winner of the Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy Awards. |
| 2:20.0 | He lives near Boston with his family. |
| 2:22.0 | Penn's debut novel, The Grace of Kings, is now available. |
| 2:26.4 | The first in a fantasy series, it's published by Saga Press, |
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