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

Greetings Clarksville citizens. I hope this podcast finds you well.

Before we begin the last podcast of the month for August 2014,

I know I just reminded you,

but I'm really hoping to push the sales and pre-orders of Upgraded,

which is Neil's Cyborg anthology, through the roof.

So if you haven't ordered that, please, it'd be awesome because it's an awesome anthology,

full of awesome people and awesome stories.

It's super awesome.

On to our last story, which is another long one,

so I hope you enjoy the ride. The story is titled Nevermore and is by

Ian Armicloud. This British writer was one of the hottest new writers of the 90s and his work continues to grow in power and deep and immaturity as we move through the first decades of the new century.

Much of his work has been gathered in four collections,

Voyages by Starlight, Rathmas, and other exhalations,

past magic, and journeys.

His first novel, The Great Wheel, was published in 1997. In 1999 he won the World Fantasy Award with his

novella The Summer Isles and followed it up in 2000 by winning another World Fantasy

for his novelette The Chop Girl. In 2003 he published his first fantasy novel

in his most critically acclaimed book, The Light Ages, followed by a sequel, The House of Storms in 2005.

And then by Song of Time which won both the Arthur C. Clark

Award and the John W. Campbell Award in 2008. A novel version of the Summer Isles also appeared in 2005. His most recent books are a new novel,

wake up and dream, and a big retrospective collection, snodgrass and other illusions.

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