Security Check by Han Song (audio)

Clarkesworld Magazine

Fiction, Science Fiction

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2015

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Our third podcast for August is “Security Check” written by Han Song and read by Kate Baker. Originally published in Chinese in Southern People Weekly Magazine, September 8th, 2014. Translated […]

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0:00.0	English listeners got to experience
0:04.4	nebulae and galaxy award-winning author Shishin Lou for the first time with the
0:09.4	audiobook, The Three Body Problem. The Three Body trilogy has been called one of the greatest
0:16.0	epics of 21st century science fiction. Now the second audiobook in the trilogy
0:21.8	The Dark Forest is available from Macmillan Audio.
0:26.9	Don't miss out on this new translation by China's most beloved sci-fi author.
0:39.8	You are listening to a Clark World magazine podcast.
0:43.4	With your host and narrator, Kate Baker.
0:48.5	Greetings Clark World Citizens.
0:50.2	I hope this podcast finds you very well. Our third story for the month of August 2015 is titled Security Check and is by Han Song and translated by Ken Nue.
1:05.7	Han Song is a reporter and a prolific science fiction author.
1:10.2	His novels include Subway, Bullet Train, A Cometulates America, Red Sea, and Tombstone of the Universe.
1:18.8	He received the Chinese Milky Way Science Fiction Award in 1988 and 1990, the World Chinese Science Fiction Association
1:27.0	Science Fiction Art Award in 1991, and the Chinese Science Fiction Art and Literature Award in 1995.
1:35.0	Our translator is Ken Liu.
1:38.0	Ken is an author and translator of speculative fiction,
1:42.0	as well as a lawyer and programmer.
1:44.3	A winner of the Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy Awards, he has been published in the magazine of
1:49.4	Fantasy and Science Fiction, Asimov's Analog, Clark's World, Lightspeed, and Strange Horizons, among other places.
1:58.3	He lives with his family near Boston, Massachusetts.
2:02.2	Ken's debut novel, The Grace of Kings, the first in a silk punk
2:05.8	epic fantasy series, is now available by Saga Press. You can find Ken at
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