You are listening to a Clark's World Magazine podcast with hope this mid-month podcast finds you well.

Our second story, which we will be getting to in just a few seconds is

trickster by Mary Ness.

However, before we begin, I do have a couple of announcements I'd love to share with you.

In Neil's words, now I can proudly announce that Clark's World is the third science fiction magazine behind Asimov's

and Analog to be available for subscription on the Kindle device and

Android app. Wooohoo! What does that mean for Clark's World? If we can build a

reasonable base of subscribers it would provide us with a more stable operating budget and permit us to do things like add more fiction, allow longer stories, or add feature columns.

If we're going to do this right, we're going to need a goal.

So again, that's 500 subscribers by our fifth anniversary, which is October 2011.

If we reach that goal, Neil promises to increase the fiction

budget to allow us to publish one more original story per issue. And again, that

means one more podcast.

500 subscribers would be sufficient to cover that cost and still allow us to put money aside as a financial safety net for the magazine.

If you want more information on this, the editorial is up on the Clark's World magazine website.

I highly encourage you to pass along the word.

And it seems like I'm doing this every single month

since we released the story,

but we have yet another award nomination

for The Things by Peter Watts.

It was selected as a nominee for the Theodore Sturgeon Award.

So that makes, let me see, he's a 2011 nominee for the Hugo Award for Best Short Story,

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