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Some Remarks on the Reproductive Strategy of the Common Octopus by Bogi Takács (audio)

Clarkesworld Magazine

Clarkesworld Magazine

Fiction, Science Fiction

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Our second podcast for April is “Some Remarks on the Reproductive Strategy of the Common Octopus” written by Bogi Takács 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

0:05.8

Greetings Clarks World Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well

0:10.9

There's not much news to report, so I'm just going to jump in to the second story for April 2017, issue 127.

0:20.0

The piece is titled Some Remarks on the Reproductive Strategy of the Common Octopus.

0:25.0

It is by Bogi Takach.

0:29.0

Now Bogi Takach is a Hungarian Jewish agender trans person and a resident alien in the US.

0:37.0

E has had work published in Light Speed, Uncanny and Strange Horizons among other venues.

0:42.0

You can find them on Twitter and Instagram as

0:45.8

at Boguey Person, or read Air Space Opera web

0:49.4

serial at W-W-W-N-E-N-N-N-N.

0:55.0

You can find them on our website,

0:57.8

Pre-E-Z-E-Y, and that's P-R-E-Z-E-Y.

1:02.3

And if you like what way you're here,

1:03.3

you can go back to June 2015,

1:06.1

which brought you for Spirit 4 Spirit,

1:08.8

and September 2016, which brought you

1:10.8

toward the luminous towers.

1:13.0

So, I invite you to sit back, relax,

1:18.2

and let me tell you a story. So, let's do it this way. I'll show you whatever I want and you'll believe me because I'm an

1:31.0

octopus. I might as well get some benefit out of it,

1:35.0

not that we ever had much,

1:37.0

especially not since you left.

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