The Serpentine Band by Congyun 'Mu Ming' Gu (audio)

Clarkesworld Magazine

Fiction, Science Fiction

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🗓️ 28 August 2021

⏱️ 122 minutes

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This episode features "The Serpentine Band" written by Congyun 'Mu Ming' Gu. Published in the August 2021 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker. The text version of this story can be found at: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/gu_08_21 Support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/join/clarkesworld?

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0:00.0	You are listening to a Clarks World magazine podcast with your host and narrator Kate Baker.
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0:10.8	This is our fourth story for the month of August 2021 issue 179.
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0:48.8	So our fourth story is titled The Serpentine Band. It is by Kong Yun Mu Ming Kuo translated by
1:01.0	Tian Huang. Kong Yun aka Mu Ming Kuo is a Chinese speculative fiction writer and a programmer for
1:10.8	Beijing currently living in New York, US. She was born in 1988 in Chengdu, China and has published
1:18.0	short stories in novellas in Chinese since 2016. Her stories can be found in science fiction world,
1:23.2	non-exist daily, flower city, Chinese literature selection, and various writing contests and
1:29.3	anthologies. She has won multiple awards since 2017 including three Dubon reads novella writing contest
1:36.3	awards, first prize for the seventh masters of future SF writing contest, the best short story
1:42.3	at the 31st Galaxy Awards, the silver award for the best new writer award, in the 10th global Chinese
1:48.3	sci-fi nebula award, and the golden award in the 11th one. She is also nominated for 2021 Ignite
1:56.3	Award for Best Short Story for her first English publication in Samovar. Her first collection,
2:02.5	Colora Il Mondo will be published this year in Italian and will be followed by her first Chinese
2:08.9	collection, The Serpentine Band in 2022. Tian Huang is a freelance translator working primarily
2:18.5	with genre fiction in the forms of video game, slash movie scripts, and short stories. Currently
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