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Clarkesworld Magazine

Mercurial by Kim Stanley Robinson (audio)

Clarkesworld Magazine

Clarkesworld Magazine

Science Fiction, Fiction

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2016

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Our sixth podcast for February is “Mercurial” written by Kim Stanley Robinson and read by Kate Baker. Originally published in Universe 15, edited by Terry Carr, 1985.

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A lot of hard work goes into producing each issue of Clark's World per month.

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Anywhere from six to seven stories are curated, edited, narrated, produced, and offered for your listening pleasure.

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Are we worth a dollar or more? and offered for your listening pleasure.

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0:31.4

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

0:37.0

Greetings Clarks World Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you wonderfully well for our last story of the month of February 2016.

0:46.4

This is another long one so I'm just going to jump right into the story.

0:50.3

The piece is titled Mercurial and is by Kim Stanley Robinson.

0:55.0

Kim Stanley Robinson is an American science fiction writer living in Davis, California.

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He has won two Hugo Awards, three Nebula Awards, the Campbell Memorial Award, and a World Fantasy Award for his work.

1:07.0

His latest novels are Aurora, shaman, 2312, and Galileo's Dream.

1:14.5

This is going to be another long one, again, as I mentioned.

1:17.4

Probably about an hour or so.

1:20.3

So, I hope you can find a place to relax or get some stuff done and let me tell you a story.

1:30.0

She rules all of Oz, said Dorothy.

1:36.0

And so she rules your city and you, because you are in the Winky country,

1:41.0

which is part of the land of Oz.

1:44.3

It may be, return the high Cocolorum, for we do not study geography and have never inquired whether

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