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18 Oct, 5 tweets, 1 min read
from an email about the latest SFFaudio Podcast:

"Thanks so much; I used to read 'Boys Life'

You are right, Jesse - Heinlein's personality (self reliant non specialist) is a Boy Scout's mentality ... [re the] Population Bomb-you make me chuckle; wouldn't it be nice if a
book could make tremendous changes possible. That point might make a good podcast; which books caused significant changes? Missing = black people? It is amazing to me that
Heinlein would evoke an over populated world after all the death experienced during WW2...I think that 'The Rolling Stones' would make for a great discussion. ...
It is amazing how your team branches out from the book itself; all those resonances! ...

I love those illustrations you put on this program's page. ...

I like the way you tease Evan [ @EvanLampe1, yeah Evan]

...
Your affection for the classics (Candide for example) is wonderful! ...

How do deal with people without killing them; interesting problem"

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19 Oct
the STAR TREK episode "The Paradise Syndrome" is another visit to a space version of Tahiti - an alluring, enticing, and heavenly planet where peace and love rule and where sexual repression and alienating labour are wholly absent
MCCOY: What's the matter, Jim?

KIRK: What? Oh, nothing. It's just so peaceful, uncomplicated. No problems, no command decisions. Just living.

MCCOY: Typical human reaction to an idyllic natural setting. Back in the twentieth century, we referred to it as...
...the Tahiti Syndrome. It's particularly common to over-pressured leader types, like starship captains.

KIRK: Ah, the Tahiti Syndrome.
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18 Oct
all the stories from the OXFORD BOOK OF SCIENCE FICTION that are on the #PUBLICDOMAIN PDF Page:

Second Dawn by Arthur C. Clarke
24 pages from Science Fiction Quarterly, August 1951

narration time would be 1 hour 18 minutes
The Tunnel Under The World by Frederik Pohl

33 pages from GALAXY, January 1955

NARRATION TIME WOULD BE 1 HOUR 17 MINUTES
A Martian Odyssey by Stanley G. Weinbaum

17 pages from Wonder Stories, July 1934

1 hour 5 minutes
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18 Oct
the OCR wasn't perfect but...

THE SCREWFLY SOLUTION by James Triptree, Jr.

from ANALOG, June 1977

is approx. 8,294 words

Reading Time: 30 minutes 9 seconds

Speaking Time: 46 minutes 4 seconds
here's the Oddcast audio drama adaptation of

THE SCREWFLY SOLUTION by James Triptree, Jr.

and Pseudopod podcast adaptation:

[actual reading starts at the 5 minute 30 second mark]

pseudopod.org/2014/08/22/pse…
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17 Oct
yesterday we recorded a podcast on THE GODDESS OF ATVATABAR, an 1892 HOLLOW EARTH novel by William R. Bradshaw

I found it really cool, with lots of fun SCIENCE FICTION ideas, near the start and end, and also a tremendous wasteland of spiritualism masturbation in the middle
subtitled:

BEING THE
HISTORY OF THE DISCOVERY
OF THE
INTERIOR WORLD
AND
CONQUEST OF ATVATABAR

it clearly informs Edgar Rice Burroughs' AT THE EARTH'S CORE, but with sexually frustrated preistesses in place of psychic lesbian dinosaur ladies Image
it feels like it should be a satire, but the evidence for that is too scant

It is however very funny in places, and very much worth reading if u dig old books
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17 Oct
here's a VOX Lovecraft Explainer that links to a site that links to the SFFaudio PDF page listing the H.P. Lovecraft stories and poems scanned from issues of WEIRD TALES

vox.com/culture/213639… Image
here's the citation and the link within the article
lovecraftzine.com/2015/07/29/sca… Image
Im not looking for recognition - I didn't scan most of the issues of WT, hardly any

I am interested in how reality works and what forces are actively shaping our perceptions of it

which is why I'm so interested in the glaring wrinkles that such articles are trying to be smooth
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17 Oct
Dreamt I was in a ferry ship in the North Sea headed to Britain at night we took a meal during a storm and as we sat down to eat it the ship started rolling, when k looked out the window there was a massive whirlpool forming. There was a wave of panic among the passengers but I
was more worried about finding my car on the vehicle decks. What deck did we park on? What did the car look like? I didn't know. while the ship listed from side to side in the storm various carts & bags rolled down the aisles. Somehow this reminded me of the high grass wasteland
I'd tramped through between buildings - speculating on the strange gatherings of birds, and people - the people might have been wedding parties gathering to be photographs. But why were birds garthering there? I didn't know. Suddenly a set of polished metal pins like bowling pins
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