Welcome to Clarks World magazine issue number 35 August 2009.

This month's audio fiction is written and read by Catherine M Valente.

The radiant car thy sparrows drew is Catherine's third appearance in Clark's world and her first time on our podcast.

The radiant car thy sparrows drew.

Being unable to retrace our steps in time, we decided to move forward in space.

Shall we never be able to glide back up the stream of time and peep into the old home and gaze on the old faces.

Perhaps when the phonograph and the kinesseograph are perfected,

and some future worker has solved the problem of color photography,

our descendants will be able to deceive themselves with something very

like it. But it will be but a barren husk, a soulless phantasm and nothing more. Oh, for the touch of a vanished

hand and the sound of a voice that is still.

Wordsworth Donisthorpe, inventor of the Kinesagraph camera.

View the famous Callowale divers of Venus from the safety of a silk balloon two bits of flight, advertisement visible in the launch sequence of the radiant car that sparrows drew.

Exterior, the cannon pad at the Vancouver World's Fair in 1986, late afternoon, festooned with crepe and banners wishing luck and safe travel.

The documentarian Bish and her crew waved jerkily as confetti sticks to their sleek

skull caps and glistening breathing apparatus.

Her smile is immaculate, practiced, the smile of an honest young woman of the

hopeful future. Her copper-fined helmet gleams at her feet. Bish wears women's clothing but reluctantly and only for this shot, and the curl of her

lip betrays disdain of the bizarre flare-waisted swimming costume that so titillates the crowds. Later she would ride

at the severe windburn she suffered in cannonfly due to the totally

inadequate protection of that flutter of black silk. She tucks a mahogany case smartly under one arm, which surely must contain George, her favorite

cinematograph. Each of her crewmen strapped canisters of film and the occasional

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