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

Greetings, Clark's World Citizens.

I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well.

It's our second and last story for the month of June 2017 issue 129 and the

piece is titled Human Error by Jay Lake.

The late and great J Lake was a highly talented and prolific writer who during his tragically

short career seems to have managed to sell to nearly all the markets in the business.

Appearing with short work in Asimov's InterZone, Torcom, Clark's World Strange Horizons, Aeon, Post Scripts, Electric Philosophy, and many other markets.

Lake was also an acclaimed and prolific novelist. He also won the John W Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2004.

Jay Lake died in 2014.

You can still find the many works that Jay Lake did over at his website J Lake.com and that's J L A K E.

He's appeared in Clark's World numerous times before.

February 2007 brought you chewing up the innocent.

March 2008 brought you the sky that wraps the world round,

passed the blue and into the black.

February 2010 brought you torquing vacuum and January 2015 brought

you in exile of the heart. And this right here is why it's important to preserve the legacy and we do that here at

Clark's World by offering reprints such as this particular story from J Lake.

So if you find this to be important to you, head over to Patreon.com board slash

Clark's World, where you can find wonderful ways to keep this magazine going

from not just the original fiction, writers, and the genre, but for those who we've lost. So I invite you to sit back,

relax, and let me tell you a story. L'Eaupette worked the mineral vein by hand. There were machines, of course, but they weren't

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