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

Greetings Clarksville Citizens, I hope this podcast finds you very well.

I do have some sad news to report. I will be taking

a break from Clark's World magazine until January 1st, 2015. Just kidding.

I'm sorry I couldn't resist.

Anyway our last story for the year 2014 is titled Tong Tong's Summer and is by

Jia Shia. As an undergraduate, Gia Shia, majored in atmospheric sciences at Peking University.

She then entered the film studies program at the Communication University of China,

where she completed her master's thesis, a study on female

figures in science fiction films. Recently she obtained a PhD in comparative

literature and world literature at Peking University with Chinese science fiction and its cultural politics since 1990 as the topic of her dissertation.

She now teaches at Xianziantong University.

She has from publishing fiction since college in a variety of venues, including science fiction world and

Jil Shuhou Fantasy.

Several of her stories have won the Galaxy Award, China's most prestigious science fiction award.

In English translation, she has been published in Clarksworld and upgraded.

And if you like what you hear, She has been published in Clarksworld and upgraded.

And if you like what you hear, you can go back to September 2014

for Spring Festival happiness, anger, love, sorrow,

joy, and February 2012. A hundred ghosts parade tonight.

And as always, the most fabulous Ken Liu has agreed to translate this piece for Clark's world.

It first appeared and upgraded Neil's cyborg anthology.

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