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The Dragonslayer of Merebarton by K.J. Parker (audio)

Clarkesworld Magazine

Clarkesworld Magazine

Fiction, Science Fiction

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2017

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Our sixth podcast for February is “The Dragonslayer of Merebarton” written by K.J. Parker and read by Kate Baker. Originally published in Fearsome Journeys edited by Jonathan Strahan.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:07.0

Greetings Clarksville Citizens.

0:10.0

It's our last story for the month of February 2017, issue 125.

0:16.4

There's no news to report, just that, a thank you,

0:20.3

if you listened all the way through the month of February.

0:24.0

Your support is greatly important to us.

0:28.0

Our last story for the month is titled The Dragon Slayer of Merribartan.

0:32.8

It is by K.J. Parker is the author of the best-selling Engineer trilogy.

0:38.8

His short fiction has been collected in academic exercises and he has twice won the World Fantasy Award for Best

0:44.8

Novella.

0:47.2

His other novels include The Two of Swords, The Folding knife, the company.

0:55.0

His most recent novels are The Devil You Know, and Downfall of the Gods.

1:01.0

K.J. Parker also writes under his real name Tom Holt, as Holt he has published expanding

1:05.7

someone taller who is afraid of Beowulf, ye gods, and many other novels. You can find him at his website KJ Parker.ne.

1:17.0

And if you like what you hear, October 2014 brought you a rich full week.

1:25.0

So I invite you to sit back, relax,

1:29.0

and let me tell you a story.

1:43.0

I was mending my chamber pot when they came to tell me about the dragon. Mending a pot is one of those jobs you think is easy

1:47.0

because tinkers do it, and tinkers are no good,

1:50.0

or they'd be doing something else.

1:52.0

Actually, it's not easy at all. or they'd be doing something else.

1:53.0

Actually, it's not easy at all.

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