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Greetings Clarks World Citizens. I hope this last podcast of the month of October 2015 finds you

extraordinarily well as we move on into November starting with the next

podcast. And if you've hung through six podcasts and are about to hear the seventh,

thank you so much for sticking with this.

It brings me nothing but the greatest of joys to know that you're taking the time and listening and

it's just truly awesome.

So thank you.

Moving right along, our final story for the month of October is titled The Peacock

Cloke and is by Chris Beckett.

Chris's short stories began appearing in 1990 with a matter of survival in interzone and have

been since published regularly on both sides of the Atlantic.

He has published two short story collections, The Turing Test and the Peacock

cloak. The Turing Test won the Edge Hill Short Fiction Award in 2009, a rare instance of an SF book winning a non-SF literary award.

His four novels to date are The Holy Machine, Marcher, Dark Eden, and Mother of Eden.

Dark Eden won the Arthur C. Clark Award in 2013.

Chris Beckett has three grown-up children

and lives in Cambridge, England with his wife, Maggie. You can find Chris at his website Chris

dash Beckett.com and that's BECETT. So I invite you to sit back, relax, and let me tell you a story. Glory.

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