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

Greetings Clark's World Citizens, it's August 1st.

We made it to August. We finished all those podcasts. We got all caught up and if you are a

die-hard Clark's world listener you'll be listening to this on the 1st of August.

I'm so excited by this you have absolutely no idea. Thank you again and I'm going to stop saying thank you again for your patient support and your kindness as we got things sorted throughout the summer.

I really hope that this is a start of something beautiful.

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Clark's world every little bit helps.

So our first story for Issue 167 for August 2020 is titled The Lorry and is by Fiona Moore.

Fiona Moore is a London-based writer, an academic whose first novel, driving ambition, is available from Bundere and Press.

Her short fiction and poetry have appeared in Asimov's Interzone and Mad Scientist Journal,

with Reprinson, Forever magazine, and Best of British SF.

Her story, Jolene, was shortlisted for the 2019 B. S.A. Award.

She has co-written, three-stage, and four audio plays, and a number of guidebooks to cult TV series,

as well as non-fiction articles for numerous print and online SF publications.

So, my dear listeners, I hope you can sit back relax and let me tell you a story

The problem with Sunci and battle tanks is their drivers. Realizing this, after, unfortunately not before the Battle of Kuching,

the military quietly shifted their AI strategies toward Botnets and other non-social

intelligence that can take down the utilities and welfare systems of entire regions without

worrying too much about the consequences. Sentient battle tanks quietly joined ornaest operas and weather control

in the listicles of the 30 strangest technological propositions of the past two centuries.

And that, for most people, was the end of it.

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