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Greetings Clarks World Citizens, it's August 15th.

It's World Con Week out in Reno and I am a bucket of nerves. I leave for Reno

Nevada on Thursday so if any of you are going to be there, please do stop by and say hello.

There's not much news to report, so I'll just go ahead and get into the second story of the month.

We actually have a very interesting story entitled The Fish of Lijang.

Fiction is actually by Chen Guifam and it's translated by Ken Lou.

I believe this might be our first translated work.

Chen Guifan was born in 1981 in Shantu China.

In accordance with Chinese custom, Mr. Chen's surname is written first.

He sometimes uses the English name Stanley Chan.

He is a graduate of Peking University and published his first short story in 1997 in Science Fiction

World, China's largest Science Fiction magazine.

Since 2004 he has published over 30 stories in science fiction world, Esquire, Hutsba, and other magazines.

His first novel, The Abyss of Vision, came out in 2006. He also won Taiwan's Dragon Fantasy Award in 2006 with

a record of the cave of Ning Mountain, a work written in classical Chinese. His story, The Tomb, was translated into English, and Italian, and can be found in The Apex Book of World Sci-Fi 2 and Alienis 6. He now lives in Beijing and works for Google China.

The Fish of Lishang was originally published in Science Fiction World May 2006.

This is the first English language publication. Chen Kueffan can be found at site. duban that's do you b a n dot com forward slash one zero zero six eight

two nine and without further, let me tell you a story.

Two fifths are before my eyes, bright sunlight reflecting from the backs of the hands.

Left or right.

I see myself reaching out with a child's finger hesitating and pointing to the one on the left.

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