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 finds you well. It is our last story for the month of

August 2017 and again thank you for your patience I'm pretty sure August was

sent as an assassin to kill me. There was a whole bunch of stuff that happened in the

beginning of the month and sort of grew and grew and grew as the month went on. But regardless,

we made it. Yay! And we get to start everything over

tomorrow. Yay! All joking aside, we do have a whole new slate of stories for you in September, so I hope you come back and listen.

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So, anyway, with all that being said, our last story is titled Venice Drowned.

And is by Kim Stanley Robinson.

Now, Kim Stanley Robinson is an American science fiction writer living in Davis, California. He has won two Hugo Awards, three Nebula Awards, the Campbell Memorial Award,

and a World Fantasy Award for his work.

His latest novels are Aurora, shaman, 2312, Galileo's Dream, Green Earth, and New York 2140.

And if you like what you hear, February 2016 brought you Mercurial.

So I invite you to sit back, relax, and let me tell you a story.

By the time Carlo Tefur struggled out of sleep, the baby was squalling, the teapot whistled.

The smell of stove smoke filled the air.

Wavelet slapped the walls of the floor below. It was just on.

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