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In this episode of the Strange Horizons podcast, editor Anaea Lay presents Kelly Link's "The Game of Smash and Recovery," read by Graeme Dunlop. You can read the full text of the story, and more about Kelly, here.

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Graeme is an Application Solution Architect and Voice Actor living in Melbourne, Australia. He is the co-editor and co-host of fantasy podcast PodCastle, the audio producer for the horror podcast Pseudopod, and former host of the YA podcast Cast of Wonders. You can find him on Google+ and he occasionally tweets as @kibitzer on Twitter.
Kelly Link is the author of four collections, most recently Get in Trouble (Random House). With Gavin J. Grant, she runs Small Beer Press. Her Twitter is @haszombiesinit.
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