You are listening to another Clarksworld magazine podcast with your host and narrator Kate Baker.

Greetings, Clarksworld citizens. I hope this podcast finds you incredibly, well, you know, as well as can be.

Thank you for escaping the world we live in by coming in listening to yet another story,

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each and every month. Thank you for buying a subscription, for going to patreon.com for slash Clark's World,

for checking a few bucks our way via donation, or the other myriad ways you can support us. Thank you

for letting me have this wonderful job. Our fifth story for the month of

January, 2006, issue 232, is Jean-Rogratrillae, and is by James Patrick Kelly. James Patrick Kelly

has won the Hugo Nebula and Locus Awards. His fiction has been translated into 21 languages. In the fall of

26, Fairwood Press will be publishing The Book of Bots,

collection of his robot stories.

It will include this story as well as Yuki,

from the September 2018 issue of Clark's World.

He also writes a column on the internet for Asimovs.

And if you like what you hear, well, you have a bunch of stuff to go back to.

UQE, as mentioned before, a nonfiction piece, another word called Listen Up, One Sister, Two Sisters

Three, The Rose Witch, and 10 to the 16th to 1. And I do hope that you'll go back and listen,

because James Patrick Kelly is

one of the best out there. So, my dear listener, I hope that you can sit back, relax, and let me tell

you a story. The lift bot that ferried me from the airport slit its door open, and I saw a Nih Renn raise her hand at the entrance to the joyful stay hotel.

Professor Cheng, she called.

Professor Reed Cheng?

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