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Audiobook - Standards, by R. K. Lyon
A brilliant piece to download for free! |
Standards, by Richard K. Lyon, is an Escape Pod Flash audiobook of about 4 minutes. A brilliant piece!
After careful examination of your manuscript no 113785, Corbamite, An Insulator Against Gravity, the editors of Review of Physics have concluded that it is not suitable for publication in this journal. This decision is final and further correspondence on this subject will serve no useful purpose.
Since the above may seem somewhat harsh, let me say what I can to mitigate it. The editors do appreciate that you are working under difficult circumstances: when the senior author of a paper is deceased, it is always hard for the junior author to complete the work in an appropriate manner. Also let us assure you that we do believe you. You have told us that with his dying breath Professor Steinhardt handed you his notebook and said, “Have this published in Review of Physics.” Such an action would be completely in character for Steinhardt since he was a true scientist.
As for your claim that Professor Steinhardt made this statement as he was expiring from disintegrator rays wounds suffered during your escape from the City of Disembodied Brains on Altair IV, our believing that is a somewhat different matter but we need to go into that. [...]
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• Escape Pod Flash: Standards
Author: Regular Expression, for AZ10.com ~ 1 Jul 2009
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• Grandpa? By Edward M. Lerner »
The 'Grandfather Paradox' - This Escape Pod Flash of only 5 minutes approx. deals in an amusing way with the 'Grandfather Paradox' :-) Read by Ben Phillips. The lecture hall was pleasantly warm. Behind Prof. Thaddeus Fit...
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• Audiobook - Get me to the job on time »
A free flash fiction audiobook by Escape Pod - Get me to the job on time, by Ian Randal Strock and read by Elie Hirschman, is now available as a free audiobook at Escape Pod. It's a beautiful and funny flash fiction stor...
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• N-words, by Ted Kosmatka »
A free story from Escape Pod - Everybody knows about "the N-Word", and if your first language is not English watch this funny video and you'll understand. But what if, in the future, "the N-Word" would stand for somethin...
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• Beachcomber, a free audiobook »
Beachcomber, by Mike Resnick - This Escape Pod flash is only about 8 minutes, but the story by Mike Resnick is brilliantly written, and the reading by Elie Hirschman just beautiful. Arlo didn't look much like a man. (Not...
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• Titanium Mike Saves The Day »
A free audiobook at Starship Sofa - This free sci-fi story by David D. Levine, available as a free audiobook at Starship Sofa, is played sort of backwards. It starts with chapter 5, and goes back to chapter 1. But it all...
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• Women are dangerous »
A free audiobook, and not about cars or traffic - Available as a free audiobook from Escape Pod, a nice short story by Michael Bekemeyer: • It Was Death By A Bullet, But I Was Killed By A Woman Only about four mins,...
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