Greetings Clarswold Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you well.

This is the second podcast of the month of September 2011 and today we actually have a very special treat.

The author of the story, The Promise of Space, James Patrick Kelly, approached me at the World

Con in San Antonio and said, hey, would you like to do a live reading of this?

And maybe if we could capture it while we read it,

and we could use it for the podcast.

Well, it was sort of a bittersweet reading because it was amazing. We had everybody in tears at the end of this, but unfortunately

there was some sort of circus or mass extinction event going on in the other room, adjoining

the room that we were in, so there's a bit of background noise.

I'm going to see what I can do about possibly cleaning up that recording and offering up to

the listeners.

If you're interested in hearing that particular reading, please let me know.

But, as the consummate professional, I told Jim and Neil that we would then re-record this in a controlled environment, but I still have

Jim, which is excellent.

So for those of you who are familiar with Jim, and for those of you who are not, Jim also had a story

in Clark's World in May 2013, titled Soul Catcher. And Jim is very pleased to have another story in Clark's World.

If all goes according to his ingenious master plan,

it won't be his last.

Jim has published over a hundred stories five novels in Fort Short Story Collections.

He has won several awards all of which need dusting. He writes a column on the

internet for Asimov Science Fiction magazine and teaches at the Stone Coast Creative

Writing MFA program at the University of Southern Maine.

...