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Softly Spoke the Gabbleduck by Neal Asher (audio)

Clarkesworld Magazine

Clarkesworld Magazine

Fiction, Science Fiction

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2015

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Our sixth podcast for August is “Softly Spoke the Gabbleduck” written by Neal Asher and read by Kate Baker. Originally published in Asimov’s Science Fiction, August, 2005.

Transcript

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Clark's World Magazine is a listener-sponsored podcast.

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It's through your generosity that we can keep bringing you these wonderful stories.

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So please, visit the Clark's World Magazine.com, Support Us page, and that's Clark with an e and find out the many

0:15.6

ways that you can continue to bring fiction to your ears your eyes and all the senses and let me continue to tell you a story.

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

0:40.0

Three days Clark's World Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you very well.

0:43.7

It's our last podcast for a month of August 2015 and I hope that you enjoyed coming

0:50.8

and listening to each and every story.

0:55.0

As with the start of the new month, brings a new issue,

0:58.0

so I do hope you can return for that as well.

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Our last piece is titled, Softly Spoke, the Gabyl Duck, and is by Neil Asher. Born in Essex,

1:09.9

England, but now living part of the year in Crete.

1:14.0

Neil Asher started writing at the age of 16,

1:17.2

but didn't explode into a public print until a few years ago.

1:21.2

A quite prolific author, he now seems to be everywhere at once.

1:25.0

His stories have appeared in Asimov's Interzone Hadrasaur tales and elsewhere,

1:31.0

and have been collected in Runcible tales, the engineer, Mason's Rats, and the

1:36.4

gabble in other stories. His popular novels include the Agent Cormac

1:41.4

series, the most recent of which is The Line War.

1:45.0

The Spatter J series, the most recent of which is Orbis.

1:50.0

Coming up is the first in the Transformation Series, Dark Intelligence.

1:57.0

We can find Neil at his website,

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