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

Greetings Clarks World Citizens.

I'm here to bring you the fifth and final story for the month of July 2013 and I know

that I've already lamented that most of the summer is already gone and as a reminder if you're still listening to this in July,

you have only a couple days left to get in your ballots for the Hugo Awards this year in

San Antonio. So again if you have the opportunity to vote don't miss out. Vote for your

favorites in the genre and share your voice. There's not much news to report aside

from that so I'm just going to jump right into the story.

The piece is titled The Dust Assassin.

And it's by a Clark's for familiar, Ian McDonald. Ian also brought us drifting back in January 2013.

So if you like what you hear, please go back and read that one.

And for those of you who are just joining us, British author Ian McDonald won the

Locust Best First Novel Award for his novel, Desolation Road in 1989. He

also won the Philip K Dick Award in 1992 for his novel King of Morning, Queen of Day.

His other books include the novels Out on Blue Six, Hearts, Hands and Voices, Terminal

Cafe, Sacrifice of Fools, Evolution's Shore, Ares Express.

Saiberabad and Brasil, as well as three collections of his short fiction Empire dreams,

speaking in tongues in Siberia Bad Days.

His novel, River of Gods, was a finalist for both the Hugo Award and the Arthur C. Clark Award in 2005 and a

develop drawn from it the Little Goddess was a finalist for the Hugo and Nebula.

He can be found at his website Ian McDonald. live journal.com.

And this one is clocking over 10,000 words,

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