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Serqet Chapter 6: And Wasn't Eddie Just Full of Surprises

Cosy Science Fiction Thrillers by AudioIron - April 27, 2020 07:00 - 29 minutes
Serqet is a full cast science fiction thriller about loyalty, brothers, invention, and power. Set just ten minutes into the future, it's an adventure you won't soon forget. If you like what you hear visit AudioIron.com to find more to enjoy.

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Serqet Chapter 5: Not Everyone Wanted Him Dead

Cosy Science Fiction Thrillers by AudioIron - April 25, 2020 19:00 - 23 minutes
Serqet is a full cast science fiction thriller about loyalty, brothers, invention, and power. Set just ten minutes into the future, it's an adventure you won't soon forget. If you like what you hear visit AudioIron.com to find more to enjoy.

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Serqet Chapter Four: A Science Fiction Story About Power

Cosy Science Fiction Thrillers by AudioIron - April 14, 2020 03:00 - 15 minutes
Richard never wanted anything to do with Eddie's work while he was alive, but now that he's dead some how he feel's compelled to travel to the middle of nowhere at the behest of Eddie's message from the grave. What he discovers on arrival disappoints and dismays until it shocks and horrifies. B...

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Serqet Chapter Four: In the Belly of Eddie's Beast

Cosy Science Fiction Thrillers by AudioIron - April 14, 2020 03:00 - 15 minutes
Serqet is a full cast science fiction thriller about loyalty, brothers, invention, and power. Set just ten minutes into the future, it's an adventure you won't soon forget. If you like what you hear visit AudioIron.com to find more to enjoy.

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Serqet Chapter 4: In the Belly of Eddie's Beast

Cosy Science Fiction Thrillers by AudioIron - April 14, 2020 03:00 - 15 minutes
Richard never wanted anything to do with Eddie's work while he was alive, but now that he's dead Richard feels compelled to heed his message from the grave. Who killed Eddie and why? Richard soon discovers a secret he doesn't understand that others will happily kill to know. SoundFX and Musi...

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Serqet Chapter Four: A Science Fiction Story About Unlimited Power

Cosy Science Fiction Thrillers by AudioIron - April 14, 2020 03:00 - 15 minutes
Richard never wanted anything to do with Eddie's work while he was alive, but now that he's dead some how he feel's compelled to travel to the middle of nowhere at the behest of Eddie's message from the grave. What he discovers on arrival disappoints and dismays until it shocks and horrifies. B...

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Serqet Chapter Three: A Science Fiction Story About Power

Cosy Science Fiction Thrillers by AudioIron - April 12, 2020 17:50 - 11 minutes
Richard and Paige take up the threads of their own live only to find Eddie reaching out from the grave to invite them to a mystery. His message, and his unsettling gift, will change their lives forever. In this episode Paige begins to learn what make Richard and Eddie unique, and starts to unco...

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Serqet Chapter 3: What Sets Us Apart Makes Us the Same

Cosy Science Fiction Thrillers by AudioIron - April 12, 2020 17:50 - 12 minutes
Serqet is a full cast science fiction thriller about loyalty, power, brothers, and engineers. Set just ten minutes into the future, it's an adventure you won't soon forget. If you like what you hear visit AudioIron.com to find more to enjoy.

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Serqet Chapter Three: A Science Fiction Story About Unlimited Power

Cosy Science Fiction Thrillers by AudioIron - April 12, 2020 17:50 - 11 minutes
Richard and Paige take up the threads of their own live only to find Eddie reaching out from the grave to invite them to a mystery. His message, and his unsettling gift, will change their lives forever. In this episode Paige begins to learn what make Richard and Eddie unique, and starts to unco...

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Serqet Chapter Two: A Science Fiction Story About Unlimited Power

Cosy Science Fiction Thrillers by AudioIron - April 09, 2020 01:00 - 16 minutes
What can you do with a family full of crazy people except leave them behind and get on with your life? That's been Richard Copernicus Maxwell's solution for longer than he'd like to admit. But the past has a way of catching up with people, and in this episode Richard finds out that the history h...

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Serqet Chapter 2: Blood Will Tell

Cosy Science Fiction Thrillers by AudioIron - April 09, 2020 01:00 - 16 minutes
Serqet is a full cast science fiction thriller about loyalty, power, brothers, and engineers. Set just ten minutes into the future, it's an adventure you won't soon forget. If you like what you hear visit AudioIron.com to find more to enjoy.

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Serqet Chapter Two: A Science Fiction Story About Power

Cosy Science Fiction Thrillers by AudioIron - April 09, 2020 01:00 - 16 minutes
What can you do with a family full of crazy people except leave them behind and get on with your life? That's been Richard Copernicus Maxwell's solution for longer than he'd like to admit. But the past has a way of catching up with people, and in this episode Richard finds out that the history h...

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Serqet Chapter One: A Science Fiction Story About Power

Cosy Science Fiction Thrillers by AudioIron - April 08, 2020 03:00 - 3 minutes
Is there anything worth fighting for? Anything worth dying for? Eddie Maxwell thinks so. He's the most unlikely terrorist you can imagine, but it turns out the technology he's engineered is a weapon that will turn the world upside down. Sadly for Eddie, there are folks who like the world the way ...

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Serqet Chapter 1: A Secret, An Attack, and a Failure

Cosy Science Fiction Thrillers by AudioIron - April 08, 2020 03:00 - 3 minutes
Serqet is a full cast science fiction thriller about loyalty, brothers, invention, and power. Set just ten minutes into the future, it's an adventure you won't soon forget. If you like what you hear visit AudioIron.com to find more to enjoy.

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Serqet Chapter One: A Science Fiction Story About Unlimited Power

Cosy Science Fiction Thrillers by AudioIron - April 08, 2020 03:00 - 3 minutes
Is there anything worth fighting for? Anything worth dying for? Eddie Maxwell thinks so. He's the most unlikely terrorist you can imagine, but it turns out the technology he's engineered is a weapon that will turn the world upside down. Sadly for Eddie, there are folks who like the world the way ...

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Bloodchild

Books Without Pictures - September 24, 2015 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
Wendee and Dan end Dan's minor freakout at having confused different portions of the DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince catalog by remembering to thank Patreon subscriber Rick with a discussion of Octavia E. Butler's remarkable novelette Bloodchild. Visit www.patreon.com/bookswp to learn more about...

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Hyperion, Part B: Hard-Boiled Time-Displaced Baby Thing

Books Without Pictures - August 27, 2015 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
Wendee and Dan finish their discussion of Hyperion, squeezing this in, naturally, between mentions of award slates, convention experiences, and possible new horizons for the podcast itself. Please consider subscribing to the BWP Patreon campaign at patreon.com/bookswp.

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Armageddon 2015 AD - The Hugo Awards

Books Without Pictures - August 20, 2015 13:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
In this special episode of Books Without Pictures, while taking a look at the 2015 nominees for Best Short Story, Wendee and Dan have strong words about slate organizers, some of the works they were successful in forcing onto this year's ballot, sandwiches, and their cat. This particular episode ...

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Hyperion, Part A: Clergy, Soldiers, Poets, and Semirobotic Harbingers of Murderdeath

Books Without Pictures - August 14, 2015 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
Books Without Pictures returns with the first half of Dan Simmons' Hyperion, and also the story of that time Dan saw boobs with his mom sitting next to him. Attaboy, Luther! Please consider subscribing to the BWP Patreon campaign at patreon.com/bookswp.

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A Princess of Mars

Books Without Pictures - April 10, 2015 17:20 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
The cosmos did everything in its power to delay the return of Books Without Pictures, but nothing could hold Wendee back from venting her rage against John Carter of Mars, the hero of Edgar Rice Burroughs' hugely influential 1912 science fantasy classic A Princess of Mars. How long does it take f...

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Epsiode 22- Storytelling

Chatting with Brad and Doug - January 26, 2015 00:42
Brad and Doug are back, talking about something Doug is passionate about, storytelling. We start off, with an old favorite, the hero cycle, and how it connects to perennial favorites, A Song of Ice and Fire, Star Wars, Hunger Games, and Harry Potter. We discuss some of the hate towards Ayn Rand a...

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The Time Machine

Books Without Pictures - July 03, 2014 16:35 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
HG Wells' The Time Machine holds the distinction of meriting the briefest synopsis in the podcast's history. While deciding if historical importance always equals artistic merit, Wendee and Dan wander off topic towards Dan's hatred of Dickens and all his dark works, Eric Cartman's adventures in s...

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Brave New World, Part B: What We Thought

Books Without Pictures - June 05, 2014 17:20 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
When he was 14, Brave New World opened Dan's horizons to include philosophical arguments about the cruelty of dehumanization. Also, the book had boobs in it. With that in mind, he and Wendee discuss the themes behind this book, occasionally lapsing into Foghorn Leghorn impressions. (It was late. ...

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Brave New World, Part A: What It's About

Books Without Pictures - March 12, 2014 14:05 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
Wendee's groove thing, and the shaking of same, ties directly into a con report and her involvement in the NOH8 campaign. From there, she and Dan break down the plot of Aldous Huxley's groundbreaking 1932 dystopic vision of dehumanization, Brave New World. They also wonder what accessories would ...

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A Study in Emerald

Books Without Pictures - January 12, 2014 15:30 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
They discuss Alan Moore, they discuss the Mickey Mouse copyright shenanigans, they even discuss whether this story's author's wife is a firestorm of two-fisted awesome or perhaps not, but will Wendee and Dan ever discuss "A Study in Emerald" by Neil Gaiman? Tune in to find out!

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Childhood's End

Books Without Pictures - December 29, 2013 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
Dan's new job selling cheap crap to terrible people and Wendee's success in not dying horribly on Boston's terrifyingly antiquated public transit system are some of the excuses given for the epic lateness of this episode. Eventually they get around to actually discussing Arthur C. Clarke's avowed...

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The War of the Worlds, Part B: The Novel

Books Without Pictures - October 06, 2013 17:50 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
Luxurious Victorian mustaches! Wandering Raisinets! And does Dan know the difference between Tanzania and Tasmania? All this and more as the hosts discuss HG Wells' The War of the Worlds, arguably the most influential novel in the genre's history!

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The War of the Worlds, Part A: The Panic Broadcast

Books Without Pictures - September 08, 2013 16:25 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
Sometimes life conspires to keep us from sitting at a computer to talk about HG Wells' The War of the Worlds. To hold you over, here is the famous 1938 radio drama that sent a not-zero number of people screaming into the night. Think of it as homework.

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The Little Black Bag

Books Without Pictures - August 27, 2013 16:45 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
One host loves CM Kornbluth's story "The Little Black Bag." The other most decidedly does not. Words are exchanged. Also, remember Night Gallery? That show was awesome.

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The Forever War

Books Without Pictures - August 15, 2013 15:50 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
After welcoming new sponsor Audible to the podcast, Dan and Wendee manage to stop speculating about an alternate reality where Hulk Hogan endorsed the George Foreman Grill long enough to discuss Joe Haldeman's Vietnam War allegory The Forever War. But seriously, Burgermania? Steakamania? How woul...

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