You are listening to a Clarksworld magazine podcast, and this is your host and narrator Kate Baker.

Welcome to our fifth story for the month of February 2025, issue 21.

And the piece is titled The Hanging Tower of Babel.

And is by Wang Junshun, translated by Carmen Yiling Yan.

Wong Zhushun, a sci-fi writer and games writer, is known for telling realistic stories in a humorous style.

His stories, Mind Sweeper, and Whose Funeral, published in Science Fiction World, were respectively selected as the sci-fi stories of the year for 2018 and 2019.

He won the Fifth Morning Star Awards for Best Short Story, the orbiting Guan Aire.

He won the second Duke Book Awards for Best Short Story for The Hanging Tower of Babel.

Carmen Yilingian was born in China and raised in the United States.

Carmen was first driven to translation in high school

by the pain of reading really good stories and being unable to share them.

Since then, her translations of Chinese science fiction have been published in Clark's World,

Lightspeed and Galaxy's Edge, as well as numerous anthologies.

She graduated from UCLA with a degree in computer science, but writes more

fiction than code these days. She currently lives in the Midwest. Now, listeners, I just want to say

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