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In this episode of the Strange Horizons Fiction podcast, Michael Ireland presents Athar Fikry's 'Four Steps to Hunt a God' read by Emmie Christie.

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Athar Fikry is a writer of weird fun nonsense, including a behemoth interactive novel, The Dragon and the Djinn. They are also an associate editor at Baffling Magazine. They live in Cairo, Egypt with their menacingly high TBR pile and their many opinions on old Egyptian musicals. You can find them on tumblr @atharfi.
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