Comments on: EP095: Blink. Don’t Blink.

By: Itty Bitty Robots « MentatJack

Itty Bitty Robots « MentatJack — Fri, 30 May 2008 16:08:33 +0000

[...] from my novel when I finished the episode of ISBW and started up the morning escape pod story, Blink. Don’t Blink. … a brilliant nano-technology story … this one about as close to some of my ideas as [...]

By: scatterbrain

scatterbrain — Fri, 30 May 2008 13:28:02 +0000

Great story about dehumanization.

By: index

index — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 21:42:18 +0000

Welcome!!! index

By: santana

santana — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 03:44:33 +0000

This was a fantastic story read by a great reader. I was completely sucked into the narrative. It blew my mind, woke up neurons that had lain dormant, twisted my perceptions. I think about this story probably every day. Fascinating. Thanks Steve!

By: Mitch

Mitch — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 00:49:00 +0000

Stories like this was why I listen to Escape Pod! Awsome!

Side note to Steve: I tried listening to Pseudopod when it first came out. I liked it, but I started having disturbing dreams- a lot. Pseudopod was too good at achieving its goal. I can’t listen to it anymore, but you can take this as an endorsement.

By: LightningEye

LightningEye — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:09:53 +0000

The story invoked a lot of strong mental imagery. I like the concept, but I regretted the pain that the man had to feel during every transformation. Perhaps it's time for Nanites 2.0: the painless metamorphosis type. In any case, it's a provocative story, and one of the three choices he had, being in cryo for 100 years, reminded me of Minority Report.

Thanks for the heads-up on Stranger Things. I just subscribed to it in Democracy player. I look forward to watching it when it finishes downloading in 3.5 hours. I think we'll have to name this "The Escape Pod Effect", because I have broadband. Take care.

By: Magess

Magess — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 18:26:15 +0000

I found this to be a really disturbing story. The unwilling mutation into machines, inescapable loss of humanity. The whole thing just made me cringe.

Not that it was bad, I think perhaps the opposite given that I had such a strong reaction to the imagery.

By: artm

artm — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 13:06:31 +0000

I just tested, you can get stranger things on democracy tv as well (search in channel guide).

http://www.getdemocracy.com/

By: artm

artm — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 12:58:35 +0000

@ LG:

while the website of stranger things is down you can subscribe to the podcast on itunes (via store) or feedburner (http://feeds.feedburner.com/StrangerThings)

By: jdarksun

jdarksun — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 21:51:25 +0000

Excellent story – in some ways, more frightening than some of what is found on Pseudopod. An addictive loss of self, masquerading as community service? Turning people into one-off automatons, sentient cars and boats and helicopters?

/shiver

By: Bicarat

Bicarat — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 02:37:32 +0000

I liked it. A dark look at the future of prison or incarceration. What will we do in the future with the hundreds of thousands of prisoners that currently clog the system? Makes sense to let them be productive and work towards rehabilitation.

By: LG

LG — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 22:00:50 +0000

I was all excited to download the first episode of Stranger Things, but the Website seems to be broken. I managed to get the front page out of Coral Cache, but can’t download the episode In other news, I don’t recall TV Choo Choo having Jackhammer hands

By: ed

ed — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 16:44:00 +0000

…a twisted, biomechanical tv choo choo.

By: John Markos O'Neill

John Markos O'Neill — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 07:43:04 +0000

Did anyone else think of Thomas the Tank Engine (or, as my 20 month old son calls him, “TV Choo Choo”) while listening to this story?