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Patterns of a Murmuration, in Billions of Data Points by JY Yang (audio)

Clarkesworld Magazine

Clarkesworld Magazine

Fiction, Science Fiction

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2014

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Our second piece of audio fiction for September is “Patterns of a Murmuration, in Billions of Data Points” written by JY Yang and read by Kate Baker.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:06.7

Greetings Clark's World Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you very, very well.

0:10.9

For those of you who have supported Neil's cyborg anthology upgraded, thank you.

0:16.0

He just reported that they're going to be going to a second printing.

0:20.0

That's awesome news.

0:22.0

I also wanted to let you know that if you're a fan of the translation stories that we do here at Clark's World,

0:27.0

Neil has started a Kickstarter campaign for the Chinese Science fiction translation project.

0:33.0

Now, Clark's World magazine wants to translate and publish a Chinese science fiction story in each issue.

0:39.0

China has one of the largest science fiction reading populations in the world and has produced a significant body of work that has remained relatively unseen by English speaking audiences.

0:50.0

In recent years, a few stories of novels have made their way to English language publications,

0:54.4

but we are unaware of any project to regularly feature Chinese works in a science fiction magazine.

1:00.1

Clarksville magazine has always aspired to publish stories from a global pool.

1:03.4

It's our opinion that different perspectives make the genre stronger.

1:07.3

We've published authors from all over the world, but quality translations have been

1:11.3

few and far between.

1:13.4

In recent years, thanks to the efforts of writer translators,

1:16.4

Ken Liu and John Chu, it's been our privilege to publish five.

1:21.2

And we'd like to bring you even more.

1:23.0

Clark's World has signed an agreement with StoryCom International Culture Communication Company

1:30.0

to add a translated Chinese science fiction story to each issue of Clark's world.

1:34.9

Each month, Storycom's team of experts will send us a list of stories they think would work well for us.

1:40.4

So where do you come in?

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