You are listening to the fifth story for Clarksville magazine, issue 232 for January 2026.

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Our story is titled, Tomorrow's Beautiful Dream, is by Jiu Chou Ch,

translated by Carmen Iling Yang.

Zhu Jiu is a rising star in Chinese science fiction.

He is a major in machine learning engineering,

holding a master's degree in robotics from University of Pennsylvania.

He has won several science fiction awards in China. His short stories and scientific articles have been published in science

world, science world pictorial, amazing science, and more.

Carmen Iling Yan was born in China and raised in the United States. Carmen was first driven to translation in high school by the pain of reading really good stories and being unable to share them.

Since then, her translations of Chinese science fiction have been published in Clark's World, Lightspeed, and Galaxy's Edge, as well as numerous anthologies.

She graduated from UCLA with a degree in computer science,

but writes more fiction than code these days. She currently lives in the Midwest. So, my dear

listener, I hope that you can sit back, relax, and let me tell you a story.

The rain fell on Kuan Chong for three days straight. And so for three days, Meng Wan was rained on, unfeeling, and unaware. Twelve hours a day, he dangled off the skyscraper's curtain wall, punching bolt after bolt into the joints. On the fourth morning,

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