You are listening to a Clarksville magazine podcast. I'm your host and narrator Kate Baker. Welcome to the final story for January 2018.

We have a reprint here by Michael Swanwick titled,

For I have lain me down on the stone of loneliness

and I'll not be back again.

And before we begin today's story, just a quick consideration and go to

Patreon.com forward slash Clarks World or Clarks World magazine.com forward slash

donate. Any help that you can throw our way is greatly appreciated and continues to allow

us to bring you stories. Michael Swanwick made his debut in 1980 and in the 31 years that

have followed has established himself as one of

SF's most prolific and consistently excellent writers at short lengths, as well

as one of the premiere novelists of his generation.

He's won the Theodore Sturgeon Award and the Asimov's Readers Award

poll.

In 1991, his novel stations of the Tide won him a Nebula Award.

And in 1995 he won the World Fantasy Award for his story, Radio Waves.

He's won the Hugh Award five times between 1999 and 2006.

And his most recent books are a massive retrospective collection,

The Best of Michael Swanwick,

and a new novel Dancing with Bears. Swanwick lives in Philadelphia

with his wife Mary and Porter and his website is Flogging Babel at blog spot.com.

And if you enjoy what you hear today, April 2017 brought you ancient engines.

October 2016, the very pulse of the machine.

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