Laika's Ghost by Karl Schroeder (audio)
Clarkesworld Magazine
Clarkesworld Magazine
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2015
⏱️ 65 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to a Clarks World Podcast with your host Kate Baker. |
| 0:04.5 | Greetings Clark World Citizens. I hope this last story of the month of January finds you very well. |
| 0:10.5 | The piece is titled, Likea's Ghost Ghost and is by Carl Schrader. Born in Canada, |
| 0:16.1 | Carl was raised in Brandon Manitoba. He moved to Toronto in 1986 and has been |
| 0:22.4 | working and writing there ever since. |
| 0:24.6 | He is best known for his far future Virga series, consisting of son of sons, |
| 0:29.1 | Queen of Candessa, Pirate Sun, and The Hero, but he has also written the novels Ventus and Lady of Mazes, as well as a novel in collaboration with David Nickel, the Clause Effect. |
| 0:42.0 | He's also the co-author with Cori Dais. with |
| 0:45.0 | Caw's The Claws Effect. He's also the co-author with Corey Doctorow of the Complete Idiots Guide to publishing science fiction. |
| 0:48.0 | His short fiction has been collected in Engine of Recall, |
| 0:51.0 | and his most recent book is a new novel, Lockstep. You can find |
| 0:56.1 | Carl at his website K-S-C-R-O-E-D-E-R-D-E-R-D-G-G-G-G-G-G-G-G-T-G-T-O-G-G-T-T-T-E-T-T-D-E-R-com |
| 1:03.6 | and once again your story will be narrated for you by Alistair Stewart. |
| 1:08.3 | A fantastic narrator. |
| 1:10.1 | He is also over at Pseudopod. |
| 1:12.2 | A horror podcast if you're trying to wet your appetite with a little blood. |
| 1:17.1 | Scary things. You can find Alistair at his Twitter, and that's Alistair Stewart, or over at his website, Alistair Stewart.com. |
| 1:27.0 | I think you really enjoy this reading. He really brought the characters to life. |
| 1:32.0 | So, I'd invite you to sit back, relax, |
| 1:36.0 | and let Alice there tell you a story. The flight had been bumpy, the landing was equally so to the point where |
| 1:48.7 | Gennady was sure the old people left would blow a tire. Yet his seat mate hadn't even shifted position in two |
| 1:54.5 | hours and was fine with a nady who had spent the whole time trying to pretend he |
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