You are listening to a Clarksville magazine podcast. I'm your host and narrator Kate Baker.

Greetings Clarksville citizens. I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well.

This is our fourth story for the month of January 2024 issue 2008.

I want to thank you all for your kind words, for your ongoing support of this magazine,

whether it's through a subscription, or visiting us on Patreon.com

slash Clark's World, every little bit helps. So our story is titled Stars Don't

Dream and is by Shih Huih, translated by John Chu.

Shihui is a science fiction writer born in the northeast of China now living in the

southwest with her cat. She began to write in 1993, published her first story in 2003, and is still writing now. She loves food,

games, painting, and nature observation. Her science fiction novels include Terminal Town and

Artificial's 2075. She also works as an editor at Science Fiction World.

If you like what you hear you can go back to No Way back, rain ship, and the calculations of

artificial. Our translator is John Chu. John Chu is a microprocessor

architect by day, a writer, translator translator and podcast narrator by night

his fiction has appeared or is forthcoming at Boston Review uncanning as I'm of science fiction

and tour.com among other venues His translations have been published or are forthcoming at Clark's World,

the big book of SF and other venues. He has narrated for podcasts such as Escape Pod,

Podcasts' and Light Speed.

His story, The Water that Falls on you from Nowhere,

won the 2014 Hugo Award for Best Short Story.

So my dear listener, I hope that you can sit back, relax. And let me tell you a story.

One, the shepherd. 1. The Shepherd. April.

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