You are listening to a Clarksworld magazine podcast with your host and narrator Kate Baker.

Greetings Clark's World Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you very well. It's our second story for the month of December

2014. And before we get into that story, I have some news to report. We have joined Joyride. You can find more information at

get Joyride.com, but basically it's an app that you can download that lets you listen to Clark's World and other

podcasts. But the cool thing about this, it sort of works like Patreon and you could support Clark's world

Now I'll let Neil tell you a little bit more about it

Hi, I'm Neil Clark publisher and editor of the Ugo and World Fantasy Award winning science

fiction magazine, Clark's World.

People are often surprised to discover that our magazine isn't what we do for a living. It's something we do on nights, weekends,

stolen moments throughout the day. We do this because we love it. We know we have to

reinvest in the magazine to build it up to something that makes it worth being a full-time job.

And over the years, people like you have helped us do that.

In the last eight years, we've managed to add more stories, more podcasts, more non-fiction,

increase our story lengths, and a lot of other things. If you join us today you'll be helping us

fund projects like upping every issue to seven stories, paying for translations, which we're bringing in stories

from around the world.

Since science fiction is global, we're trying to do our part in making sure that the English

speaking audience gets to see what else is

happening out there. Continued improvements to our audio equipment so that we can

bring you a better sounding podcast and the possibility of including some of our non-fiction content in the

podcast as well. Now I mentioned before that we'd like to be full-time and

that's really our big goal and it's going to take us a few years to get there.

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