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

Greetings Clarks World Citizens.

I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well.

This is our last story for the month of June 2017.

And before we close out the month, I just want to give a thank you to all of those

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Our seventh story for the month of June, issue 129, is The Waiting Stars and is by

Aliette de Baudard.

Aliette is a software engineer who lives and works in Paris,

where she shares a flat with two lovecraftian plants

and more computers than warm bodies.

Only a few years into her career, her short story, and more computers than warm bodies.

Only a few years into her career,

her short fiction has appeared in Interzone Asimov's

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