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

Greetings Clark showed citizens, Collectual Citizens.

I hope this podcast finds you very well.

Not much news to report,

so I'm just going to jump into a longer story

for the month of July 2015. This is our sixth story of the month and it is titled

The Accord. The author is Keith Brooke. He is the author of 14 novels, six collections, and over 70 short stories.

His most recent SF novel, Alt. Human, published in the U.S. as Harmony, was shortlisted for the 2013 Philip K Dick Award,

and his story, War 3.01, is shortlisted for the Sayen Award.

He is also the editor of Strange Divisions and Alien Territories.

Writing as Nick Gifford, his teen fiction is published by Puffin, with one novel also optioned out for the movies by Andy Circus and Jonathan Cavendish's caveman films. He writes reviews for The Guardian, He teaches creative writing at the University of Essex, and lives with his wife Debbie. You can find Keith at his website, Keith Brooke, and that's Brooke with an e,

dot co. UK.

So I'd like you to sit back, relax,

and let me tell you a story.

1. Tish Golden Hawk.

Tish Golden Hawk, watch the gaudy, the Garin vessel slide into the harbour.

If she had known then what she was soon to learn, she might even have settled for her humdrum existence,

and even now she and Milton would be living a quiet life

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