The Falls: A Luna Story by Ian McDonald (audio)

Clarkesworld Magazine

Fiction, Science Fiction

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2018

⏱️ 59 minutes

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This episode features "The Falls: A Luna Story" written by Ian McDonald. Originally published in Meeting Infinity, edited by Jonathan Strahan and reprinted in the October 2018 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine. Read by Kate Baker. The text version of this story can be found at: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/mcdonald_10_18_reprint Support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/join/clarkesworld?

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0:00.0	You are listening to a Clarksville magazine podcast with your host and narrator Kate Baker.
0:06.7	Greetings Clarksville Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you well.
0:10.6	It is our last story for the month of October 2018, issue 145.
0:17.0	The piece is titled The Falls, A Luna Story.
0:22.0	And it's a reprint.
0:25.0	Our author today is Ian McDonald.
0:28.0	Now, Ian McDonald is an SFF writer living in Northern Ireland just outside Belfast by the sea.
0:36.4	He's a multiple award-winning writer and his most recent writings are Luna, New Moon, and
0:42.4	Luna Wolf Moon. And Novella Time Was from Tour.com.
0:49.0	Forthcoming is Luna, moon rising.
0:52.0	You can find Ian in his website, Ian McDonald.
0:56.6	Live Journal.com. Now, we do have a couple other stories. January 2013 brought you driftings.
1:05.0	July 2013 brought you the Dust assassin.
1:09.0	November 2016 brought you an eligible boy,
1:12.0	and December 2017 brought you an eligible boy and December 2017 brought you botanica
1:15.6	venaris 13 paper cuts by Ida countess Renthangan so I hope you guys can sit back. Relax and let me tell you a story.
1:44.0	My daughter fell from the top of the world. She tripped, she gripped, she slipped, and she fell into three kilometers of open air.
1:49.7	I have a desk. Everyone on the atmospheric entry project thinks it's the quaintest thing.
1:55.7	They can't understand it.
1:58.4	Look at the space it takes up, and it attracts stuff, junk, piles,
2:04.0	deprint them, deprint it, get rid of the dust, free up the space.
2:10.0	Surfaces. You don't need surfaces to work.
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