Episode 158: The Green Girl, chapters 1-8

In which Earth is under attack via the ether.
And we meet Melvin Dane and the girl of his dreams. Literally.

Episode 158, chapters 1-8
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• For The Fifth Annual SFFaudio Challenge
  Courtesy of the Wonder Ebooks edition.
  NOTES: “Early sense of wonder SF.” First published in the March and April 1930 issues of Amazing Stories. Later collected in 1950 as Avon Fantasy Novel #2. “Melvin Dane has been seeing a vision of a green girl since he was a child. Images of her came over the ether. Is she just fantasy? Or a reality that managed to cross time and space? And now, with the Earth under threat of extinction, will Melvin ever meet that girl of his dreams?”
• Story rating: G (so far)

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Episode 111: Breaking Point, part 1

In which we meet the crew and land on an alien planet.

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When humans meet aliens will it be war? Or peace?

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