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Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 82, July 2013

Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 82

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Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 82, July 2013

Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 82

Penned By Neil Clarke
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Editor's Note:
FICTION“Pockets Full of Stones” by Vajra Chandrasekera “I Tell Thee All, I Can No More” by Sunny Moraine“Across the Terminator” by David Tallerman“The Illustrated Biography of Lord Grimm” by Daryl Gregory“The Dust Assassin” by Ian McDonaldNON-FICTION“Spock's Pops: How Operational Research became Wartime Magic!” by Jason S. Ridler“Giving Birth to the Dark Monster: A Conversation with J. M. McDermott” by Jeremy L. C. Jones“Faulty Memories of a Time Long Past: A Conversation with Richard Ellis Preston, Jr.” by Jeremy L. C. Jones“Another Word: My Own Private B-Movie” by Genevieve Valentine“Editor’s Desk: Taking Back July 12th” by Neil Clarke

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