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Greetings, Clark World Citizens.

I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well.

It's our third podcast for July 2016, Issue 118.

Now there's something a little special with this one.

Despite Neil's constant mentions that whenever I include footnotes in a non-fiction piece,

he takes a little bit of years off my life, this story by John Chu is full of them.

So full of them in fact that it creates yet another story.

So what we did here was I asked John to read the footnotes, and I'm going to insert them into the piece.

So when my voice changes to John's, you're at a footnote.

The piece is titled, The Century Branch Predictor Speck, a fairy tale. And is by

John Chu. John is a microprocessor architect by day, a writer, translator, and podcast narrator by night.

His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming at Boston Review, Uncanny, Asimov Science Fiction, and Tour.com among other venues.

His translations have been published or are forthcoming at Clark's World, the big book of SF and other venues.

He has narrated for podcasts such as Escape Pod, Podcasts' and Lightspeed.

His story, The Water that Falls on You From Nowhere won the 2014 Hugo Award for Best Short Story.

His website can be found at John Chu.netnet, that's CHU.

So I invite you to sit back, relax,

and let me tell you a story.

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