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Pop Quiz – A Halloween Spine Tingler
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Woooo! Choose the three you are most afraid of:

Monsters (and super creeps) 21%[…]

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end times watch: robocop on a unicorn ’08
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this has been fairly widely linked in the last few days, but as a journal of record of such matters…[…]

parlour invitation
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just a quick post to remind our loyal Sluggos that there’s lots more info and links – and pictures! ooh – about each episode of Slug of Time on the Slugs and Stars homepage (accessible via that link at the top)
the last episode of t[…]

A Bite of Stars, A Slug of Time, and Thou – Episode 15
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It’s Katie Grocott in the studio this week with Mark Sinker and Elisha Sessions to talk about “Things”, written by Ursula Le Guin in 1970. This is a short story about a society sharply divided between nihilist marauders and maudlin […]

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Sam Sparro Science Fiction
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There are two sort of science fiction films out int he cinema at the moment.The “Logan’s Run For Kiddies” romp City Of Ember, and the “Enemy Of The State meets Stealth by way of Foul Play for idiots” that is Eagle-Eye. C[…]

Pop Quiz – An easy life
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Choose the three most easy things

Sunday morning 30%[…]

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Poppin and stalkin
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The BBC has come up with another thinly-disguised attempt at tracking its listeners online while providing nothing in return – this one’s called “Radio Pop”.

“Got to get home and type up what I was listening to befo[…]

A Bite of Stars, A Slug of Time, and Thou – Episode 14
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Richard Tunnicliffe joins Mark Sinker and Elisha Sessions to talk about Thomas M. Disch’s “The Squirrel Cage”. It’s a story about a writer writing for no one, or for everyone – he’s not sure which (lol Livejournal)[…]

Memories of the future
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A nice memoir from the in-staff Psygnosis writer who created the WipeOut Universe. Expect my own memoir of playing WipeOut when Popular gets to the Prodigy’s “Firestarter” (NB I was rubbish at it but I loved it anyway).

“That[…]

A Bite of Stars, A Slug of Time, and Thou – Episode 13
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Rebecca Levene sits in with Mark Sinker and Elisha Sessions to talk about Brian Aldiss’ 1957 short story, “All the World’s Tears”. It’s about a vitiated ecology, a mechanized society, and a desolate, wind-swept mansion w[…]

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