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

Greetings Clarks World Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you well. I have to say it's been quite a year.

October 1st marks the higher date that Neil brought me on board as official podcast director.

And as I see our subscriber numbers keep going up and up, I have you to thank. Thank you for telling a friend, thank you for

subscribing to us on iTunes, and thank you if you've monetarily donated to Clark's Road magazine.

I don't believe that there's any other real news pertaining to

Clark's World except for the fact that I will mention our e-book store. I know you're listening to this via a podcast. However, if you have anybody who's got a nice

kindle or a nook or a sony e-reader or any of those other e-readers out on the market,

we do have an e-book store that I suggest you go visit.

You can now get your Clark's world in any format you want.

Except for mime, I'm not prepared to do that.

Did you imagine me maiming spar?

Oh, God, no, no.

Okay, brain bleached for that.

So enough of me blabbering on here.

Let's get to our first main fiction for the month of October.

Laying the Ghost by Eric Brown.

Now for those of you who don't know Eric Brown, he began writing when he was 15 and sold his first short story to Enterzone in 1986.

He has won the British Science Fiction Award twice for his short stories and has published over 35 books.

His latest includes the novel Engine Man and due out in December, Guardians of the Phoenix.

He writes a monthly science fiction review column for the Guardian newspaper.

He lives near Cambridge, England, and his website can be found at www dot Eric Brown dot co

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