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 extraordinarily well.

This is our fourth story for the month of July 2019, issue 154.

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or it's your first time here. Welcome. I hope you are getting everything

you possibly can out of each and every story that we publish here. So our fourth

story is titled Woo's Journey to the West and is by

Tongfei translated by Andy Dudak. Now Tongfei is a speculative fiction writer whose fiction has been featured, under various pen names, in magazines in China such as Science Fiction World,

she has published a short story collection, The Person Who Saw Cetus, and a novel, Nameless Feast.

She has written fantasy, science fiction, fairy tales, and who shia, martial arts fantasy,

but prefers to write in a way that straddles or stretches genre boundaries.

In English, her works have appeared in Clark's World,

the year's best science fiction and fantasy 2014 edition,

the Apex Book of World SF4, SQ, and Paper Republic.

Here at Clarks World, June 2014 brought you Pepe.

January 2015 brought you a universal elegy and May 2017 brought you the person who saw

Cetus. So my dear listeners I hope you can sit back, and let me tell you a story.

One, the second course of things, the chaos or entropy of a closed system can only decrease.

Unless work is applied, particles develop irreversibly from a chaotic state to an ordered

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