Farewell, Doraemon by A Que (audio)

Clarkesworld Magazine

Fiction, Science Fiction

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2018

⏱️ 150 minutes

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This episode features "Farewell, Doraemon" written by A Que. Published in the May 2018 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker. Originally published in Chinese in Science Fiction World. The text version of this story can be found at: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/a_05_18 Support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/join/clarkesworld?

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0:00.0	You are listening to a Clarks World Magazine podcast with your host and narrator Kate Baker.
0:14.0	Greetings Clarksville Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well.
0:19.0	This is our long one for the month of May 2018, issue 140.
0:24.7	The piece is titled Farewell, Doryamon,
0:28.1	is by AQA, translated by Emily Jin and Ken Liu.
0:33.2	AQA was born in 1990 in Hubai province and now lives in Beijing.
0:39.0	His work is regularly published in top magazines like Science Fiction World.
0:43.0	He has won both the Chinese Nebula and Galaxy Awards for his short fiction.
0:47.4	His collection Travel With My Dear Android was published in 2015. If you like what you hear you can go back to February 2018 which
0:56.1	brought you the power is out. June 2017 brought you an account of the Sky Wales.
1:01.6	July 2016 against the stream.
1:06.2	In May 2015, brought you Mrs. Griffin
1:09.6	prepares to commit suicide tonight.
1:11.8	And this story was translated in partnership with StoryCom, our Chinese
1:16.4	translation initiative, which is made possible by support from you. Please go to Patreon.com forward slash Clarks World or Clarks World magazine.com forward slash
1:27.0	donate or Clarks World Citizens.com. We have some really wonderful surprises for you in store there so check us out and if you already are supporting us you guys are awesome and amazing and thank you
1:41.8	Because free fiction isn't technically free.
1:46.8	So I hope you can sit back, relax, and let me tell you a story.
1:55.8	I escaped the city and returned home on a winter's day.
2:00.1	A vast gloomy sky, whitish gray as the belly of a dead fish stretched out in front of me.
2:06.4	Sparrows flapped their wings as they hopped on and off the dead branches, trembling in the ferocious
2:11.6	wind, unable to perch.
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