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

Greetings Clarksville Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you very well.

With the second to last story of the month

about to begin, Neil would like me to let you know that pre-ordering upgraded the

cyborg anthology edited by Neil and featuring authors such as Elizabeth Bear, Ken Liu, Tobias Pekel, Benjamin, Sri Twinkow, is now available.

You can go to Neil DashClark and at CLA-R-K-E.com for more details and where to order.

So now on to our second to last story for the month of August.

The piece is titled Seven Years From Home

and is by Naomi Novick.

Born in New York City where she still lives

with her mystery editor husband in six computers,

Naomi is a first generation American who was raised on Polish fairy tales Baba Yaga and Tolkien.

After doing graduate work in computer science at Columbia University,

she participated in the development of the computer game Never Winter Nights,

shadows of the Undran tide, and then decided to try your hand at novels. A good decision.

The resultant Temeraire series consisting of Temeraire, His Majesty's Dragon, Black Powder War, The Throne of Jade, Tong of Serpents, Victory of Eagles, Empire of Ivory,

Crucible of God, and blood of tyrants, describing an alternate version of the Napoleonic Wars where

dragons are used as living weapons has been phenomenally popular and successful.

Coming up is a new non-temire fantasy novel uprooted.

Naomi's website can be found at Naomi Novik.com and that's NAOMINOvik.

And that's NAOMINO-V-I-K.

So I invite you to sit back, relax,

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