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

Greetings Clark's World Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you extremely well.

We're on to our sixth story for the month of March 2017, issue 126.

Again, this is another long one, so I hope you can enjoy it I don't have any news to report

and considering that this is on the longer side as well I'm just gonna jump

right into it.

The piece is titled The Discovered Country and is by Ian R. McLeod.

Ian has been writing and selling stories and novels of speculative

and fantastic fiction for almost 30 years. and the World Fantasy Award, twice, and the Sidewise Award for Alternate Fiction, three times.

He took a law degree and drifted into the English Civil Service,

but writing was always his first love and ambition.

He has recently released a short story collection, Frost on Glass, and has a new novel

Red Snow do out shortly. He lives in the riverside town of Bewdley in the United Kingdom. You can find Ian at his website, Ian McClaud.com and that's IAN M-A-C-L-E-O-D.

And if you like what you hear, August 2014 brought you,

nevermore. So I invite you to sit back, relax, or continue to do whatever you're doing.

And let me tell you a story. The trees of far side are incredible.

Fire ash and oak. Green bloom and maple. Shot through with every color of autumn as late afternoon sunlight blazes over the seven mountains white peaks.

He'd never seen such beauty as this when he was alive.

The virtual Bentley takes the bridge over the next gorge at a tire scream, then speeds on through

crimson and gold. Another few miles and he's following the coastal road beside the westering ocean.

The sands are burnished, the rocks silver threaded.

Every new Vista a fabulous creation.

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