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

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

You're listening to our third story for the month of April 2022 issue 1-87.

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So our third story is titled Dream Factory and is by Greg Egan.

Greg Egan has published 14 novels and more than 80 shorter works.

His novella Oceanic won the Hugo award and his novel Permutation City won the John W. Campbell Memorial award.

His latest books are the collection instantiation and the novel The Book of All Skies.

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

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Now, James replied hopeful that this might count in his favor, though it was hard to read his

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