Episode 348: Lone Star Planet, ch. 10-11, finale!

In which a conspiracy is revealed, the guilty are punished, and the Ambassador follows a new calling.

Episode 348, Lone Star Planet, chapters 10-11, finale!
(download or listen via this link)

Book Information

• Story rating: G for Texans, gunfights, supercows, and talking dogs.
• This story is in the public domain, via LibriVox, read by Mark Nelson.

Episode 347: Lone Star Planet, ch. 7-9

In which Ambassador faces a conundrum: to not have the Bonneys
convicted as politicians but still bring them to justice.

Episode 347, Lone Star Planet, chapters 7-9
(download or listen via this link)

Book Information

• Story rating: G for Texans, gunfights, supercows, and talking dogs.
• This story is in the public domain, via LibriVox, read by Mark Nelson.

Podcast Highlight

• Burnt Toast

Episode 346, Lone Star Planet, chapters 5-6

In which we witness a "murder" trial, learn more about New Texas politics,
and decide to always keep our six-shooter handy.

Episode 346, Lone Star Planet, chapters 5-6
(download or listen via this link)

Book Information

• Story rating: G for Texans, gunfights, supercows, and talking dogs.
• This story is in the public domain, via LibriVox, read by Mark Nelson.

Episode 345: Lone Star Planet, ch. 3-4

We're welcomed to New Texas with an ambush, a giant barbecue, and a trial.
Sounds as if they did manage to recreate the culture in space.

Episode 345, Lone Star Planet, chapters 3-4
(download or listen via this link)

Book Information

• Story rating: G for Texans, gunfights, supercows, and talking dogs.
• This story is in the public domain, via LibriVox, read by Mark Nelson.

Episode 344: Lone Star Planet, ch. 1-2

When a galactic diplomat makes a political misstep he's punished by being assigned as ambassador to New Texas ... where the last ambassador left feet-first.

Episode 344, Lone Star Planet, chapters 1-2
(download or listen via this link)

Book Information

• Story rating: G for Texans, gunfights, supercows, and talking dogs.
• This story is in the public domain, via LibriVox, read by Mark Nelson.

Podcast Highlight

• Lexicon Valley

Episode 302: Talents Incorporated, finale

In which we see what happens when you depend on Talents,
only to find Talents missing when they are needed!

Episode 302, Talents Incorporated, finale
(download or listen via this link)

Book Information

• Story rating: G for avoiding planetary invasion, straining incredulity by Talents, and space battles.
• This story is in the public domain.
• Narration by Mark Nelson is from LibriVox.

Highlights

• Mark Nelson

Episode 301: Talents Incorporated, chapters 9-10

In which King Humphrey snatches defeat from the jaws of victory. 
And we learn more about precognition.

Episode 301, Talents Incorporated, chapters 9-10
(download or listen via this link)

Book Information

• Story rating: G for avoiding planetary invasion, straining incredulity by Talents, and space battles.
• This story is in the public domain.
• Narration by Mark Nelson is from LibriVox.

Highlights

• The Green Book  (99% Invisible)
• K-poparazzi (Radiolab)

Episode 300: Talents Incorporated, chapters 7-8

In which we see how a Talent gets you there faster.
And how to fight like a space pirate.

Episode 300, Talents Incorporated, chapters 7-8
(download or listen via this link)

Book Information

• Story rating: G for avoiding planetary invasion, straining incredulity by Talents, and space battles.
• This story is in the public domain.
• Narration by Mark Nelson is from LibriVox.

Highlights

• Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian, narrated by Patrick Tull

Episode 299: Talents Incorporated, chapters 5-6

In which we discover how a victory can be a catastrophe. 
Can Captain Bors turn it back into a victory again?

Episode 299, Talents Incorporated, chapters 5-6
(download or listen via this link)

Book Information

• Story rating: G for avoiding planetary invasion, straining incredulity by Talents, and space battles.
• This story is in the public domain.
• Narration by Mark Nelson is from LibriVox.

Podcast Highlights

• The Window at the White Cat by Mary Roberts Rinehart at LibriVox

Episode 298: Talents Incorporated, chapter 4

In which we battle the Mekin space fleet, using Talents Incorporated information.

Episode 298, Talents Incorporated, chapter 4
(download or listen via this link)

Book Information

• Story rating: G for avoiding planetary invasion, straining incredulity by Talents, and space battles.
• This story is in the public domain.
• Narration by Mark Nelson is from LibriVox.

Podcast Highlights

• The Mad King at The Fantastic Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs

Episode 297: Talents Incorporated, chapters 2-3

In which we meet the talents of Talents Incorporated --
who come up with an interesting idea about fighting Mekin.

Episode 297, Talents Incorporated, chapters 2-3
(download or listen via this link)

Book Information

• Story rating: G for avoiding planetary invasion and straining incredulity by Talents.
• This story is in the public domain.
• Narration by Mark Nelson is from LibriVox.

Podcast Highlights

• Mythgard Academy - Dracula
• H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast - Carmilla, begins on episode 298
• Dante's Inferno read by Heathcote Williams

Episode 296: Talents Incorporated, chapter 1

In which planetary invasion is imminent. 
Can Talents Incorporated information save Kandar? 
You can depend on it!

Episode 296, Talents Incorporated, chapter 1
(download or listen via this link)

Book Information

• Story rating: G for avoiding planetary invasion by Talents.
• This story is in the public domain.
• Narration by Mark Nelson is from LibriVox.

Podcast Highlight

• Classic Tales Podcast: The Wind in the Willows

Episode 279: A Matter of Importance, Part 2

In which we learn how to outsmart delinks ... and Huks

Episode 279, A Matter of Importance, part 2
(download or listen via this link)

Book Information

• Story rating: G for policemen, missing space ships,Huks, delinks, detective work .
• This story is in the public domain

 PODCAST HIGHLIGHT

• The Black Tapes Podcast

Episode 278: A Matter of Importance, part 1

In which we search for a mysteriously missing space transport
and learn the difference between the police and the military.

Episode 278, A Matter of Importance, part 1
(download or listen via this link)

Book Information

• Story rating: G for policemen, missing space ships,Huks, delinks, detective work .
• This story is in the public domain

 PODCAST HIGHLIGHT

• Food News

Episode 277: Strange Exodus

In which we experience a unique alien invasion and victory.

Episode 277, Strange Exodus
(download or listen via this link)

Book Information

• Story rating: PG for alien invasions, strange meals, even stranger sanctuaries, disturbing images of humankind's future.

 PODCAST HIGHLIGHT

• Gravy
• OkraCast

OTHER HIGHLIGHTS

• Another Place (Binscombe Tale) by John Whitbourne
• Enchanted April - The Classic Tales Podcast
• The Skylark of Space - Uvula Audio

Episode 236: Lighter Than You Think

In which we learn that what this country needs is a good cigar-shaped spaceship.

Episode 236, Lighter Than You Think
(download or listen via this link)

Book Information

• Story rating: G for inventions, horse racing,
• Lighter Than You Think by Nelson Slade Bond is in the public domain.

Podcast Highlight

• Born Yesterday

Muscle Shoals - The Movie

Episode 235: The Ultimate Melody

In which we have a pint at the White Hart while hearing a scientific tall tale.

Episode 235, The Ultimate Melody
(download or listen via this link)

Book Information

• Story rating: G for pop music, British pubs, tall tales, and science
• The Ultimate Melody by Arthur C. Clarke is under copyright. This story is shared under the Fair Use Act as an illustration of Arthur C. Clarke's writing. Views to the contrary, please contact me (my email is in the sidebar).

Podcast Highlight

• Synthetic Voices

Muscle Shoals - The Movie

Lagniappe 52: Fahrenheit 451

It was a pleasure to burn.

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
(listen or download from link above)

According to Webster

la·gniappe \ˈlan-ˌyap, lan-ˈ\
Function: noun
Etymology: American French, from American Spanish la ñapa the lagniappe, from la + ñapa, yapa, from Quechua yapa something added
Date: 1844
: a small gift given a customer by a merchant at the time of a purchase; broadly : something given or obtained gratuitously or by way of good measure

Episode 164: The Green Girl, chapters 25-29

In which disaster strikes and Mel faces the Lord of Flame.

Episode 164, chapters 25-29
(download or listen via this link)

Book Information

• 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)

Podcast Highlight

• The Tobolowsky Files

My Huffduffer Feed
(where you can easily download sample episodes of the podcast highlight or other various podcasts I want to share)

• Julie D's Huffduffer feed

Episode 162: The Green Girl, chapters 17-24

In which Melvin and Sam encounter Lord of Flame
and Alexander learns some new tricks.

Episode 162, chapters 17-24
(download or listen via this link)

Book Information

• 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)

Podcast Highlight

• The Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences

My Huffduffer Feed
(where you can easily download sample episodes of the podcast highlight or other various podcasts I want to share)

• Julie D's Huffduffer feed