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.

As I mentioned in the previous podcast, thanks again for

supporting Neil's Cyborg anthology upgraded, as it's going to a second printing. And if you're interested in seeing Chinese

science fiction in Clarks World magazine on a more regular basis, and if you go to

Neil-D-K-K-E-G-L-E-G-L-E-G-G-G-G-G-E-G-G-K-K-E.com, you can find the link or the Kickstarter.

That will allow us to bring more translated Chinese science fiction to Clarks World magazine.

And speaking of Chinese translated science fiction, the third story of the month for September

is titled Spring Festival,

Happiness, Anger, Love, Sorrow, Joy,

and is by Chia Chia

and translated by Ken Lou. As an undergraduate,

Gia Chia majored in atmospheric sciences at Peking University.

She then entered the Film Studies Program

at the Communication University of China, where she completed

her master's thesis, a study on female figures and science fiction films.

Recently she obtained a PhD in comparative literature and world literature at Peking University

with the Chinese science fiction and its cultural politics since 1990 as a topic of her dissertation.

She now teaches at Jian, Jia Tong University.

She has been publishing fiction since college in a variety of venues including science fiction world and

Shiosu fantasy. Several of her stories have won the Galaxy Award, China's

most prestigious science fiction award. In English translation translation she has been published in Clark's

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