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Silently and Very Fast (Part Two of Three) by Catherynne M. Valente (audio)

Clarkesworld Magazine

Clarkesworld Magazine

Fiction, Science Fiction

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2011

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Our third piece of audio fiction for November is part two of "Silently and Very Fast" written by Catherynne M. Valente and read by Kate Baker. If you missed part […]

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0:00.0

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

0:09.0

Greetings Clarks World Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you well. It's only a couple days before Thanksgiving, so if you're in the U.S.

0:21.0

A very happy holiday to you and yours. There isn't much in the way of news to report,

0:28.1

so I'm just going to dive into part two of silently and very fast. Our third story for the month of November 2011

0:36.0

by Catherine M. Valenti.

0:38.0

If you were following along thus far,

0:41.0

you know all about Catherine. She was born in the Pacific Northwest in

0:45.2

1979. She is the author of Palimcest and The Orphans Tales. She is working on the

0:51.5

sequel to the popular crowd-funding novel, The Girl Who Circum navigated Fairyland, in a ship of her own making.

0:58.0

And she currently lives on an island off the coast of Maine, with her husband and two dogs and a cat. You can find her website at

1:06.5

W.W.

1:09.2

Catherine M Belenti.com. That's C-A-T-H-E-R-Y-N-E-R-Y-A-L-E-N-T-E-T-C-O-T-C-O-T-O-T-O-T-O-T-O-N-E-T-O-T-E-T-E-T-E-T-E-T-E-T-E-T-E-T You can find part one of this story in the October 2011 issue. It's the third story of that month.

1:27.0

So I encourage you if you haven't listened to the first part. Please go do so before you listen to this. And now, without further ado, let me tell you a story.

1:40.0

Silently and Very Fast Part 2

1:44.0

Issue number 62, Clarks World magazine, November 2011.

1:50.0

2. Lady Love Laces Objection

1:58.4

The analytical engine has no pretensions to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform.

2:07.0

Ada Lovelace.

2:10.0

9. The Particular Wizard.

2:17.0

Humanity lived many years and ruled the Earth, sometimes wisely, sometimes well, but mostly neither.

2:24.8

After all this time on the throne, humanity longed for a child.

2:29.9

All day long humanity imagined how wonderful its child would be, how loving and kind, how like

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