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 extraordinarily well.

It is our fourth story for the month of November 2017, issue 134.

The story is titled, Who Wone the Battle of Arzia Mons?

And is by Sue Burke.

Sue Burke is a writer and translator who has lived in Milwaukee, Austin, Madrid, and is now in Chicago.

She has published short stories, poems, and articles in a variety of magazines and anthologies, and her

novel Semiosis will be published by tour in February 2018. Her translations include the novels Prodigies by Angelica Gorardiche, Small Beer Press,

and The Twilight of the Normandon by Sergio Lanz, and stories in the anthologies, Terra Nova and castles in Spain, and Spanish

Women of Wonder.

You can find Sue at her website Mount-Aragono. Live journal.com.

So my dear listener, hope you can sit back.

Relax.

And let me tell you a story. A report by the Martian Fighting Words, Media Cooperative.

No one expected significant consequences from the Battle of Argymands on Mars.

Here on Earth we watched with amusement than sorrow, panic, and finally joy. Now, like a fight on

Mars describes a conflict that suddenly shifts from frivolous to heroic.

It started as the ultimate video game, said Jackson, Alicine, founder and

CEO of Jallicine Games in Austin, Texas. He was interviewed six years ago, shortly after planning began in earnest for the battle between robots on Mars. Some of us were playing a game over beers here at work on a Friday night, he said, grinning like a proud father.

We got to talking about how Mars is inhabited by only robots and humans control robots, and anywhere there's humans there's conflict so how long

before there's robot battles on Mars? Then we thought wow we could do exactly that.

By that he meant they could create a game, Mars robot melee, not a real battle on Mars. Elisin gestured at a corner area with sofas, control consoles, and an enormous screen where eight employees were testing a prototype with shouts and laughter.

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