You are listening to a Clarks World magazine podcast with your host and narrator Kate Baker

Greetings Clarks World Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you well our first podcast for the year 2013.

I hope you had a wonderful holiday season and I wish you nothing but the best

and success and money and health and all the good joy that a new year and a clean slate can bring.

January marks the first official issue of Clark's World that I am the non-fiction editor so I suggest you head on over there

when you're done with listening to me. We have some great articles by E.C. Ambrose and

Aaron Hoffman along with the ever intriguing interview by Jeremy Elsie Jones.

My podcast requests for non-fiction pitches is still working.

So again, just a quick reminder, if you are a part of academia, if you are a scientist, if you are a writer,

please send me pitches of what you would like to see in Clark's World.

What would you like to write for me as a non-fiction piece?

Our guidelines are up on the website again, that's Clarks World magazine.com, and I look forward

to hearing from you.

And once again, I'd like to thank you for taking the time out of your day to listen.

Thanks for being a part of this.

And thanks again for all the emails that you send.

They never get old and always put a smile on my face and a skip in my step.

So without any other further news, let's get into this first story for 2013 issue number 76. The piece is entitled

Driftings by Ian McDonald. Now Ian should sound familiar to you. He is a British science fiction novelist living in Belfast.

His themes include nanotechnology, post cyberpunk settings, and the impact of rapid social and technological change on

non-Western societies. McDonald is known for his work set in developing nations

his 1990s Chaga Saga is particularly notable for its analysis of the AIDS crisis in Africa.

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