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

Whether this is your first story or over 750th to 850 somewhere around there, I really

have to do an accurate count. I want to thank you for showing up listening and for your

support. If you'd like to financially contribute to the magazine, we're going to need you more

than ever. Please go to patreon.com for slash Clarks World. Our story is titled The Librarian

and The Robot. It is by She Hey Y'all translated by Andy Dudeck. She Hey Y'all is a science fiction

author and winner of the first prize in the fantasy category of the fifth DuBon reading

writing contest, the first prize of the sixth master of future award, and the silver

award of the tenth Xinyun award of Chinese science fiction for best new writer. He has published

farewell my beloved star, which is a short story collection, amazing in other lands, which

is a series of YASF adventure novels, and The Wandering Earth Departure to the Dungeon,

which is a picture book adaptation. Our translator, Andy Dudeck, is a writer and translator

of science fiction. His original stories have appeared in Analog Apex, Clarks World Daily

Science Fiction Interzone, the magazine of fantasy and science fiction, Rich Horton's

Year's Best and Elsewhere. He's translated many stories for Clarks World and a novel

by Liu Xuxing among other things. In his spare time, he likes to binge watch peak television

and eat Kui Muslim style cold sesame noodles. So, my dear listener, I hope you can sit

back, relax, and let me tell you a story. One day, the curator salvaged a robot. It was

a model ST19, a military machine designed for search and destroy missions. The curator

found it outside in a knee-deep snowdrift. The robot's ship had crashed into a hill

two kilometers away, the explosion cutting the summit right off.

The curator dragged rope from the bed of her old electric pickup. She secured it around

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