Tick-Tock by Xia Jia (audio)

Clarkesworld Magazine

Fiction, Science Fiction

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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This episode features "Tick-Tock" written by Xia Jia. Originally published in Chinese SF Comet. Published in the May 2019 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker. The text version of this story can be found at: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/xia_05_19 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.
0:09.3	Greetings Clarksville citizens. Welcome to May 2019.
0:14.0	A whole new issue of wonderful stories yet to hear.
0:18.0	Thank you so much for your ongoing support.
0:21.0	Please visit Patreon.com
0:24.0	slash Clark's World if you're not yet a subscriber or a supporter of the magazine.
0:29.0	Every little bit helps.
0:31.0	And to those of you who already are,
0:33.8	you have my undying love.
0:35.7	Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you,
0:37.6	thank you, thank you, thank you so much.
0:40.2	So our fourth story for the month of May is titled Tic Talk and is by
0:45.7	Shachya translated by Emily Jin.
0:51.5	Shachya is a Chinese science fiction and fantasy writer.
0:56.1	After receiving her PhD in comparative literature
0:59.0	and world literature at the Department of Chinese
1:02.0	Peking University in 2014.
1:04.8	She is currently a lecturer of Chinese literature
1:07.6	at Xian-Giautong University.
1:12.4	So my dear listener, I hope you can sit back relax and let me tell you a story. Him.
1:30.0	Alone in the darkness, he counts the Tic Toc.
1:35.0	One, two, three, four, five, six, 9, 10, 11, 12.
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