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

Greetings Clarksville Citizens.

No real news to report so I'm just going to jump right into the sixth story of the month by one of my favorite authors.

The piece is titled Giants and is by Peter Watts.

Now Peter, author of Blindsight, and is by Peter Watts.

Now Peter, author of Blind Sight, Echo Praxia, and the Rifters trilogy, among other things,

seems especially popular among people who don't know him.

At least he wins most of his awards overseas,

except for a Hugo, one thanks to fan outrage

over an altercation with homeland security,

a Jackson, one thanks to fan sympathy over nearly dying from flesh eating disease, and a couple of Dick

Ask Canadian awards you probably never heard of. Blindslight is a core text for university courses ranging from philosophy to neuropsychology,

despite an unhealthy focus on space vampires.

Watt's work is available in 18 languages. You can find Peter's website at rifters.com

and as I mentioned before, the Things in our January 2010 issue which is by far the most commented piece that we've ever had in

Clarks World magazine.

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

So many eons slept away while the universe wound down around him. He's dead to human eyes.

Even the machines barely see the chemistry ticking over in those cells.

An ancient molecule of hydrogen sulfide frozen in a hemoglobin embrace an

electron shuttled sluggishly down some metabolic pathway two weeks ago.

Back on earth there used to be life deep in the rocks. Halfway to the mantle,

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