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In this episode of the Strange Horizons podcast, editor Anaea Lay presents Minsoo Kang's “The Metal Eater of Luminous Smoke.”



Minsoo Kang is the author of the story collection Of Tales and Enigmas and the history book Sublime Dreams of Living Machines: The Automaton in the European Imagination, and the translator of the classic Korean novel The Story of Hong Gildong. He is an associate professor of history at the University of Missouri – St. Louis.
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