In This Moment, We Are Happy by Chen Qiufan (audio)

Clarkesworld Magazine

Fiction, Science Fiction

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2019

⏱️ 99 minutes

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This episode features "In This Moment, We Are Happy" written by Chen Qiufan. Published in the August 2019 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker. Originally published in Chinese in Dandu Reading 19, January 2019. The text version of this story can be found at: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/chen_08_19 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.
0:07.0	Greetings Clark's World Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well.
0:12.0	It is issue 155 for August 2019. If this is your
0:18.8	first podcast, welcome. And you've been around a while and you've been listening to the podcast, thank you so much for coming back and listening to this one.
0:27.0	And if you feel like supporting what we do here at Clarks World every month, please visit
0:32.6	Clark's World Citizens.com to see how you can be a part of something
0:36.4	special.
0:37.5	Our fifth story is titled,
0:40.9	In This Moment, We Are Happy.
0:44.1	It is by Chen Kuyfen, translated by Rebecca Kwang.
0:47.9	Chen Koyfen was born in 1981 in Chantau, China.
0:54.2	In accordance with Chinese custom,
0:56.3	Mr. Chen's surname is written first.
0:59.2	He sometimes uses the English name, Stanley Chan. He is a graduate of Peking University and
1:05.7	published his first short story in 1997 with Science Fiction World, China's
1:10.6	largest science fiction magazine.
1:13.0	His short stories have been published in Clark's World, Light Speed,
1:17.0	MIT Technology Review, Slate, Pathlight, and other venues.
1:21.0	His novel Waste Tide was published by Tor in 2019. You can find more at his
1:26.5	website chen-Q-I-U-F-A-N dot CN. And if you like what you hear, August 2011 brought you the fish of Li
1:37.7	Shong, March 2015 brought you coming of the light.
1:41.8	April 2016 brought you, Coming of the Light.
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