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

Greetings Clark's World Citizens. I hope this podcast is finding you well. It is our first

audio podcast of the month of August 2010 and boy do we have an incredible story for you and

we'll get to that story shortly but I have some excellent and exciting news to

share with you.

Back in January of this year, I read Peter Watts's The Things.

And just a couple days ago, we found out that it's a finalist

for the PAREC awards to be given out at DragonCon this year.

So cross your fingers and wish us luck.

I will be attending the ceremony down in Atlanta in September, so if you can send some good thoughts my way, it'd be greatly appreciated.

So on to our fiction for the month of August 2010.

Thirteen ways of looking at space and time by Catherine M. Valenti.

Now for those of you who don't know Catherine,

she was born in the Pacific Northwest in 1979.

She is the author of the 2010 Hugo nominated novel, Palimpsest.

She has also penned the Orphans Tale Series as well as the Labyrinth

Yumi Nohun, The Book of Dreams, the Grass Cutting Sword, and five books of poetry.

She is the winner of the Tiptree Award, the Mytho Poet award,

the Risling Award, and the Million Writers Award. She has been nominated nine times for the Pushcart Prize, shortlisted for The Spectrum Award, and was a World Fantasy Award finalist in 2007. She currently lives on an island off the coast of Maine with her partner, two dogs, and newly adopted feline named October.

Other stories Catherine has done for Clark's role include urchins while swimming in the December 2006 issue, a buyer's guide to maps of Antarctica, May 2008, and the radiant car thy sparrows, August 2009.

So without further ado, let me tell you this wonderful, brilliant story.

Thirteen ways of looking at story.

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