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The Significance of Significance by Robert Reed (audio)

Clarkesworld Magazine

Clarkesworld Magazine

Fiction, Science Fiction

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2017

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

This episode features "The Significance of Significance" written by Robert Reed. Published in the the July issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker. Text of this story can be found at: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/reed_07_17 Support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/join/clarkesworld?

Transcript

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You are listening to a Clarksville magazine podcast with your host and narrator Kate Baker.

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Greetings Clarkswold Citizens.

0:11.0

I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well.

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It is our third story for the month of July 2017, issue 130.

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The title of this piece is The Significance of Significance.

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It is by Robert Reed.

0:26.0

Now, long-time listeners may know that Robert Reed has been featured in this magazine

0:31.0

almost a dozen times. This story makes his

0:34.8

11th appearance and how have we been able to publish Robert 11 times that's with

0:40.4

your help and support.

0:42.5

So please, if you like Robert's writing,

0:45.4

and I'm sure you do because you keep coming back to listen to it,

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visit Patreon.com forward slash Clarksworld,

0:52.2

or Clarksworld with an e dot com or clarksworld magazine

0:57.0

dot com forth slash donate where you can see the myriad ways that you can support these types of authors coming back and telling you

1:06.1

a story. So without further ado, I present the significance of significance. I hope you can sit back, relax, and let me tell you a story. Sarah wasn't quite too when the world learned what was what. Which is rather like

1:31.6

saying that Sarah still didn't exist.

1:34.0

The very young don't get to keep their memories,

1:37.6

that's normal human development in action,

1:40.2

or it's a nagging bug inside an otherwise lovely system.

1:45.0

Either way, she didn't waste time regretting this supposed loss.

1:50.0

Sure, a booger-clogged head was wearing her name, stumbling across a misunderstood landscape.

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