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EP Flash: The Uncanny Valley
Published on 14 Aug 2006 at 2:46 am.
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-->By Jared Axelrod. (365 Tomorrows, The Voice of Free Planet X)
Read by Stephen Eley.
“I’m sorry,” Purby said, reshuffling the papers on his desk. “What was the problem with her?”
“Her breathing. She breathes. She doesn’t stop.”
“Yes, and?”
“It’s unnerving.”
Rated G. (Anything that isn’t G-rated in this story is entirely the product of your imagination.)
EP Flash: Paul Bunyan and the Photocopier
Published on 24 Jun 2006 at 4:06 am.
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-->By Larry Hammer.
Read by Michael R. Mennenga (of The Dragon Page).
Well, the time came Paul Bunyan had a pretty successful thing going with his lumber business. Fact is, the first year his company went public, the stock price doubled, and it went up fifty percent each of the three years after that. Mind you, this made Paul a target for corporate raiders. Why, the battle he had with Bluebeard is a yarn and a half–but that’s another tale. This is the story of what happened when Paul Bunyan’s secretary went on vacation.
Rated G. Objects in story may be larger than they appear.
EP055: Down Memory Lane
Published on 25 May 2006 at 5:35 am.
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-->By Mike Resnick.
Read by Alex Wilson (of Telltale Weekly).
I don’t know where I was when Kennedy was shot. I don’t know what I was doing when the World Trade Center collapsed under the onslaught of two jetliners. But I remember every single detail, every minute, every second, of the day we got the bad news.
“It may not be Alzheimer’s,” said Dr. Castleman. “Alzheimer’s is becoming a catchword for a variety of senile dementias. Eventually we’ll find out exactly which dementia it is, but there’s no question that Gwendolyn is suffering from one of them.”
Rated G.
Referenced sites:
2006 Hugo Nominees
World Science Fiction Convention
L.A.Con IV
TellTale Weekly — Clarion Foundation Fundraiser
Hooting Yard Benevolent Fund for Distressed Out of Print Pamphleteers
EP053: Seventy-Five Years
Published on 11 May 2006 at 6:00 pm.
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-->By Michael A. Burstein.
Read by Deborah Green.
Isabel turned the handheld on and read to herself briefly. “According to this, your bill would push the date of release of the individual Census forms from seventy-two to seventy- five years.”
“It makes sense, Isabel.”
“It does?”
He pointed to her handheld. “You say you have my argument in there.”
“I do. And I find it specious.”
Rated G. Contains politics and reference to moral issues. (Your kids may not get it, but it shouldn’t offend.)
Referenced sites:
2006 Hugo Nominees
Wikipedia on the Hugo Award
Hugo History at a Glance
Novel Nominees - Electronic Editions
Rock ‘N’ Roll Monster Bash 2006
EP Review: Ultraviolet
Published on 4 Apr 2006 at 8:26 pm.
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A film by Kurt Wimmer.
Reviewed by Lee Murdoch.
EP047: Poet for Hire
Published on 30 Mar 2006 at 4:33 am.
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By Sue Burke.
Read by Mur Lafferty.
She had been wondering if she should start her own poetry business. She believed Milwaukee might need a poet for hire to spread the magic of verse around the town. Sometimes, in her current job as a medical secretary, she secretly wrote poems for especially ill patients. They got well, and Verity felt certain the focused mental energy from the poems helped them. She wanted to write poetry full-time to spread its energy to more people — to become the city’s first commercial free-lance poet.
Rated G. Contains implied violence and the sordid crimes of the pickle business.
EP Flash: Fools Seldom Differ
Published on 21 Feb 2006 at 2:27 am.
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-->By Jeff Noyle.
Read by William Hopkins (of SF Sourcebook).
The thing about the Ice is, you can get really, really, really bored. I spent a whole week here yesterday. So, you know that giant slanting floe with the scoop-up at the end that I sent a picture of? Carls and I said “oh cool, that would make a great ski-jump.” Only I was dumb enough actually to try it. About two minutes ago.
Rated G. Kids, don’t try this at home.
EP Flash: One Million Years B.F.E.
Published on 14 Feb 2006 at 2:51 am.
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-->By Merrie Haskell.
Read by Deborah Green.
Am determined to become strong, lithe, deadly, noble cave-woman type figure, √° la Ayla of Clan of the Cave Bear. I will fashion stone tools, hunt and gather food and live pristine, pure life of Homo Erectus-type person–at one with nature. Ah. Air is so fresh. Quite lovely.
Rated G. Contains ignoble savagery and predomestic strife.
EP Flash: The Team-Mate Reference Problem in Final-Stage Demon Confrontation
Published on 6 Feb 2006 at 2:12 am.
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-->By Constance Cooper.
Read by Frank Key (of Hooting Yard On The Air).
Colleagues, ours is a uniquely demanding profession. In no other job do you endanger your coworker’s soul if you call out to him in the course of your duties. But since a demon has power over you once it knows your name, well-meant warnings such as “Buck! Behind you!” can have tragic consequences.
Rated G. Important safety tip. (Thanks, Egon.)
EP038: L’Alchimista
Published on 25 Jan 2006 at 11:52 am.
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By N.K. Jemisin.
Read by Paul Tevis (of Have Games, Will Travel).
Guest host: Salim Fadhley.
She did not particularly care whether he paid; it wasn’t her inn. But at his words she lifted an eyebrow. “What sort of challenge?”
“A very special one.” He slipped a hand into his coat like an old-fashioned pistolero, but before Franca could worry he pulled out a bulging sack made of what looked like deerhide. He set this on the table — carefully, Franca noted.
“You are willing to follow a recipe? So many chefs of your caliber think themselves above the direction of others.”
She lifted her chin. “I was head chef for Parliament once — before that bastard Berlusconi, anyhow. While I was there I had to make Florentine dishes like a Florentine and Venetian dishes like a Venetian and the Madonna help me if I did them wrong. If the recipe is sound, I can follow it.”
Rated G. Warning: Food descriptions may be intoxicating. Do not listen before grocery shopping.
Referenced sites:
Resonance FM
The Exciting Hellebore Shew
