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Our final story for the month of October 2019, issue 157, is titled, How Alike are We.

And is by Boung Kim, translated by Sheyun Park and Gorge Cellar.

Kim Bo-Yung is one of South Korea's most active and important SF authors.

Her first published work of fiction, a novella titled The Experience of Touch, received the award

for Best Novela in the first round of the Korean Science and Technology Creative Writing Awards in 2004.

Since then, she has won the annual South Korean SF novel award, twice.

She has a number of works forthcoming in English translation in the

United States, including three novellas to be published by Harper Collins and a

short story collection to be published by Kaya Press. She lives in Gung Wong Province, South Korea, with her family.

And if you like what you hear, May 2015 brought you an evolutionary myth.

There are parts of the story where we had to get a little bit creative

due to the convention that the author used throughout.

So if you do hear a chime, that means the word in the text has been blanked out.

So, this might be one that you might need to read along with and not just have me whispering in your ear.

And with that, I hope you can sit back.

Relax and let me tell you a story.

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