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Noble Mold by Kage Baker (audio)

Clarkesworld Magazine

Clarkesworld Magazine

Fiction, Science Fiction

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2015

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Our fifth podcast for April is “Noble Mold” written by Kage Baker and read by Marguerite Kenner. Originally published in Asimov’s Science Fiction, March 1997.

Transcript

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You are listening to a Clark's World Magazine podcast with your host Kate Baker.

0:07.0

There's not much news to report on this

0:13.8

story of April. So I am going to introduce the next story for the month.

0:17.6

The piece is titled, Noble Mold

0:21.9

and is written by Cage Baker.

0:24.0

One of the most prolific new writers to appear in the late 90s,

0:28.0

the late 90s

0:30.0

the late Cage Baker made her first sale in 1997

0:32.0

with noble mold the first of her long sequence of

0:36.3

sly and compelling stories of the adventures and misadventures of the time-travelling

0:41.0

agents of the company.

0:43.8

Her company novels include, in the Garden of Item, Sky Coyote,

0:48.5

Mendoza, and Hollywood, The Graveyard Game,

0:51.9

the Life of the World to Come, The Machine's Child, Sons of Heaven,

0:57.1

And Not Less Than Gods.

1:00.0

Her many stories were collected in Black Projects, White Knights, Mother Egypt, and other stories,

1:06.4

the Children of the Company, Dark Mondays, and Gods and Ponds.

1:11.7

Her posthumously published books include Neil Gwyn's Scarlet Spy, Neil Gwyn's On Land and

1:18.1

Sea with Kathleen Bartholomew, and a collection in the company of thieves.

1:25.0

Baker died tragically young in 2010.

1:29.0

You can find more about Cage at the website,

1:32.0

CageBaker.com. And that's K-A-G-E-B-K-B-A-K-E-B-K-E-B-A-K-E-K-E-R.

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