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

Greetings, Clarkswold citizens.

I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well.

This is our third story for the month of March 2020, issue 174.

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So our story is titled The Orbiting Guan-Airi, and is by Wang-jen-chen, translated by

Carmen Yiding-Yan.

Wang-chen-chen, a science fiction writer and undergraduate at SusTech, is known for telling

realistic stories in a humorous style.

The story is mind-sweeper and whose funeral published in science fiction world were respectively

selected as the sci-fi stories of the year for 2018 and 2019.

You won the 5th Morning Story Awards for Best Short Story for The Orbiting Guan-Airi.

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

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