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dept of you gotta be wtfkn kiddin me YOU BIG HERBERT
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— 30 Jun 2008 mark sinker Comment

i: i am rereadin THE SANTAROGA BARRIER by frank herbert ftb i am co-host of A BITE OF STARS A SLUG OF TIME AND THOU, and we need to start our homework for SERIES TWO
ii: i have probbly not reread it since i was in my teens (= the 70s what were we thi[…]

A Bite of Stars, a Slug of Time, and Thou – Episode 8
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— 20 May 2008 Elisha Sessions 13 comments

Kat Stevens joins Mark Sinker and Elisha Sessions to talk about Choose Your Own Adventure books, speaking with animals, and “Build Up Logically”, an unclassifiable short story written in 1950 by Howard Schoenfeld. It’s about two men[…]

A Bite of Stars, a Slug of Time, and Thou – Episode 4
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— 22 Apr 2008 Elisha Sessions 1 comment

Martin Skidmore joins Mark Sinker and Elisha Sessions to discuss the first space-travel story of the series, and the first truly obscure find, “Beyond the Reach of Storms” by Donald Malcolm. As always, Elisha reads excerpts at the front o[…]

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A Bite of Stars, a Slug of Time, and Thou – Episode 1
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— 2 Apr 2008 Elisha Sessions 7 comments

Sarah Clarke joins Mark Sinker and Elisha Sessions to discuss John W. Campbell’s “Who Goes There”, a 1938 science fiction novella about ice-bound scientists confronted with an alien who can become them. Elisha reads from the book in[…]

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THE FUTURE NEXT WEEK: or LOLLARDS IN SPACE
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— 26 Mar 2008 mark sinker 12 comments

Lollards is winding down — last show tonight! — but dry yr eyes and defuzz yr lesser thoracic palps bcz we have EXCITING NEWS for our LOYAL LISTENERS, viz 1 x new eight-week series on Resonance FM 104.4 starting next Tuesday, 1 April 10-1[…]

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