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Greetings Clarksville citizens and welcome to the fourth story of the month of June 2024 issue 213. I hope that these stories for June and every story before, that's treated

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forward slash Clark's world. Our story is titled The Reflection of Sand and is by

Tang Gung, translated by Emily Jin. Tang Gung is a science fiction writer and game designer.

His work focuses on the impact of changes of science and technology on human and society.

He has won the Morning Star Award for Best New Writer, the Lancou Sci-Fi Literature Award and various other awards.

Emily Juni Jin, she-her, is a science fiction fantasy translator, translating both from Chinese

to English and the other way around.

She graduated from Wellesley College in 2017,

and she is currently pursuing a PhD

in East Asian Languages and Literature at Yale University. As one of the core members of the Clark's World Storycom

Collaborative Project on publishing English translations of Chinese science fiction,

she has works with various prominent Chinese SFF writers.

So my dear listener, I hope you can sit back, relax.

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