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Effigy Nights by Yoon Ha Lee (audio)

Clarkesworld Magazine

Clarkesworld Magazine

Science Fiction, Fiction

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2013

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Our third piece of audio fiction for January is “Effigy Nights&rdsquo written by Yoon Ha Lee and read by Kate Baker.

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0:00.0

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

0:10.0

Greetings Clarks World Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you well as always.

0:15.0

There's not much news to report being this the third story of the month of January 2013,

0:21.0

so I will just jump right into it.

0:24.0

A third piece of fiction is entitled Effigy Knights by Eun Ha Lee.

0:29.0

Now those of you who have been listening to the podcast do know that Eun is no stranger to Clark's world. The Battle of Candleark was in our October 2012 issue. Conservation of Shadows August 2011.

0:43.6

Ghost Weight was January 2011.

0:47.0

And between two dragons, April 2010,

0:50.8

Blue Inc. was August 2008. So like the magazine itself, Eun has been with us from almost the very

0:58.8

beginning. And the reason why is that Eun is an award-nominated Korean American science fiction fantasy writer of mostly short stories.

1:09.0

She majored in math and finds it a source of continual delight that math can be mined for science fiction

1:14.7

fantasy story ideas. Her fiction has appeared in the magazine of fantasy and science fiction,

1:19.9

Clarksruled tour.com and beneath ceaseless skies.

1:23.6

Her collection Conservation of Shadows will be published in 2013 as well, so look for that.

1:29.3

You can find you at her website which is Y-H-L-E-D. Live Journal.com. And again, if you're looking for these

1:37.3

back issues you can do it two ways. You can go to the Clarks World magazine website

1:42.4

and click on the back issues link and if you're a

1:45.8

podcast subscriber they should be in your list of past podcasts as well.

1:51.0

So without further ado, let me tell you a story.

1:57.0

They are connoisseurs of writing in Imule, Mo-Kurregan, the city whose name means

2:07.5

inkblot of the gods. The city lies at the galaxy's dust-stranded edge, unfolding a moon that used to be a world, or a world that used to be a moon, no one is certain anymore.

2:20.0

In the mornings its skies are radiant with clouds like the plumage of a bird ever rising.

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