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

Greetings Clark's World Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you well. I really must

apologize. I don't know if you can tell on this recording but it sure feels like

it. My voice is a little bit scratchy coming back from World Fantasy Convention.

It's a lot of talking. World Fantasy Convention was wonderful. I got to meet a lot of people who I have never met before and who I've

been corresponding with. It's always good to put faces to names. This is a big deal. This is issue number 50. That means we've been around

for what the internet would call a millennium.

And who better to start off the month's fiction than N. K. Jemison.

Ms. Jemison had sold Short Stories to Strange Horizons, Post Scripts, Baines Universe, and other markets.

Her Short Story non-zero probabilities, debuted in Clark's World magazine in issue number 41, September 2009,

and was nominated for both a Nebula and a Hugo.

Her first novel, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, which is excellent by the way, was released in February

2010.

She's lived in New Orleans, New York, Boston, and Mobile, Alabama.

She's one of the nicest people I've ever had the pleasure to meet,

and one of the best writers out there.

Her website is N K J-E-M-I-S-I-N-D-C-N dot com and it is with great pleasure that I get to read on the Banks of the River Lex by N.K. Jemison.

Clark's World Magazine, Issue Number 50, November 2010.

Death lay under the water tower on a sagging rooftop, watching the slow condensation of water along the tower's metal belly.

Occasionally, one of the water beads would grow pregnant enough to spawn a droplet, which would then fall around and occasionally onto death's forehead.

It counted over 700 hits in the past few days.

Sleep, appeared and crouched beside death, looking hopeful.

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