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 extraordinarily well.

Welcome to November. Issue 146.

It's a new month with new stories, new non-fiction, new reprints, a new story from our

collaborative partnership with StoryCom over in China. And you know what makes that extraordinary is that we are here

with your support. So if you are supporting Clark's World in any way that you can, thank you.

Every dollar counts, every tweet counts, every comment counts.

You guys are amazing. And if you haven't yet, please go over to

ClarksWorld Citizens.com to see how you can be a part of something amazing each and

every month. Our first story is titled Octo Heist in Progress

and is by an author very familiar to Clark shield readers

Rich Larson.

Now Rich Larson was born in Gollamy Niger

and has studied in Rhode Island

and worked in the south of Spain,

and now lives in Ottawa, Canada.

His work appears in numerous years best anthologies

and has been translated into Chinese, Vietnamese, Polish, Czech, French, and Italian.

He was the most prolific author of Chicago. Czech, French, and Italian.

He was the most prolific author of short science fiction in 2015, 2016, and possibly 2017

as well.

His debut novel, Anex, was published by Orbit Books in July 2018,

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