49. Crevasse III - Revenge [ 34:16 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Marco had been top ranked in player verses player one on one in the MMO Crevasse for over a year until a nobody with GM like powers poned him. Everett, the lead designer of Crevasse, lost his job over the negative reaction to his updates in Crevasse II. Mad at the studio that creates the game, Everett leaves an Easter egg in the code for the next release that has some unexpected results during a PVP match between Marco and the player who defeated him.

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48 Time Shift [ 29:17 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

In 1977 Zah Helen, an undercover operative, receives a new high profile assignment to interfere with the human search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI), so the efforts at one particular radio telescope will not spot a radio signal that has been accidentally sent toward the earth.

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47. The Caretaker of Destiny [ 27:00 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

An accident forces the crew of the interstellar ship Destiny to go in to hibernation while the robotic maintenance systems diagnose and fix the problems. During the emergency crucial instructions are lost causing the ship to go into orbit around around a star for 50 thousand years.

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46. The Top of the Sky [ 34:55 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

During a period of intense solar flare activity Marianne and her family take a holiday at a remove wilderness cabin. This brings them close to a place called, the top of the sky, that some people think has mystical significance. What Marianne and her parents don’t realize, is that the top of the sky is also the destination for a group of aliens who live in the corona of the sun.

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45. Hale Bopp [ 30:42 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

In an attempt to regain its reputation as a leader in space research and exploration, the ancient Institute of Solar Studies in Babylon puts all its resources into a mission to the newly discovered comet Hale Bopp to study the object’s unusual behaviour.

The mission is a success but the outcome is not what Fath Shah, the institute’s director, had planned on.
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44. A Crime in 3D [ 22:33 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

In 1884 a school master named Edwin Abbott Abbott wrote the novella “Flatland: A Romance in Many Dimensions.” The book explored what it would be like to live in a two dimensional universe, and speculated that there might be other dimensions. The Abott’s story lay in obscurity until it was rediscovered in the early 20th century after Einstein wrote “The Theory of General Relativity” which discussed the possibility of a fourth dimension. Since then several films and animations have been made based on Abbott’s novella.

This month’s story revisits Abbott’s flat universe from the point of view of a down and out private detective in search of his first big case.

43. Ghost in the Machine [ 22:00 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

History is littered with discarded technologies and obsolete skills. In the last few decades whole industries have been swept away by ever moving waves of change, and it seems unavoidable that today’s high tech is destined to become tomorrow’s landfill or does it?

In our story this month new meets old, makes friends and finds something valuable in the obsolescence of the recent past.
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42. The Citizen's New Town [ 28:54 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

This month’s story is very loosely based on the Hans Christian Andersen short tale The Emperor’s New Clothes, the idea that humans could extend their brains using the net and mass hypnosis.

Amber is working as a stage director for the opening celebration of the project of century when her implanted communications chip starts to malfunction affecting her perception of reality.

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41. The Last Astronomer [ 39:37 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

This month’s story is based on a comment Steven Hawkins once made, that we should probably not try to contact extraterrestrial civilizations. According to Hawkins, our own history has shown that contact between a two cultures does not always go well for the people whose land is being visited.

The last two scientists on a distant planet try to reverse the damage done to their culture by a group of suspect Aliens. The scientists eventually succeed but not through the actions they had intended to use.

Standard Podcast [ 42:30 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Alonzo is forced to take his ailing, wealthy mother and her robotic wheel chair to an ultra expensive all inclusive health spa. The doctors and specialists told him that the legendary algae baths, unique to the exclusive beach resort of Vida Del Mar, are his mother’s best chance for recovery.

Alonzo believes that the treatment is a hoax and sets out to prove it, but accidentally finds out the algae can do a lot more than heal ill people.

38. Dreams of a Life [ 29:07 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Aura lives with her mother and brothers making a modest living from a concession stand. Her life in the themed dome park called Timber World is thrown into chaos when an unexpected event forces her to leave to save her family’s livelihood. In the process Aura discovers a secret that must be kept from her family and friends.

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36. Lifeboat [ 34:23 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

With the first Moon landings in the late 1960’s many may have felt that a Mars mission was no too far off, but since that time no human has left near Earth orbit.

On the 200th anniversary of the first moon landing an international mission is poised to be the first human presence on Mars, but events are more complex than they seem.

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33. C11s Quest [ 26:48 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

An automated planetary mission goes awry when it is hit by solar flares. Unit C-11 one of the landing group’s communication nodes attempts to repair its damaged memory with information erroneously downloaded from the mission’s orbiter. Once assimilated, the information along with a comment from one of the mission control hubs, convinces the tiny robot that it is a knight-errant on an important quest.

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32. Universe 8.1 [ 20:58 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Lambent Nape Nor works at the Infinite Macro Cosmic Reality Corporation as the assistant head of product design and customer services for Universe 8. Despite Lambent’s concerns management insists on a last minute change to an already rushed update. It quickly becomes evident that change does more than they had intended.

The week’s story is based on the idea proposed by physicist David Bohm that the Universe is might be similar to a holographic projection and discussion around our house on recent news headlines that graphically point out how things don’t always go as planned.

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30. Invasion [ 16:15 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

A 500 hundred year old terraforming project is derailed by an imminent invasion. No one, except a small group of scientists, understands the true nature of the threat and its real implications for the future of their civilization.

This story evolved out of a discussion on James Lovelock‘s Gaia hypothesis that the earth is an single complex organism, the recent announcement of the creation of a synthetic genome, and a story that appeared about the possibility of life on Titan, based on an entirely different chemistry then our own.

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28. Perspectives & the Mission [ 13:50 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

This month we present to two short stories. In first one called, Perspectives, a routine mission is suddenly changed by a chance encounter in depth space. This story evolved out of a one of David’s writing assignments at school.

In our second story, entitled, The Mission, the leader of a multi-generally space craft reports their research findings after nearly 50 years of silence. This story grew out a conversion around Steven Hawking’s comments on the possibility of Alien Life, made at NASA’s the 50th anniversary.

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26. Laika - Dog From Space [ 15:06 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

A passing celestial being is trapped by earth’s gravity and dragged reluctantly to its surface in the middle of a Moscow winter. Stranded in the body of a dog the alien being is forced to intervene in the early Russian Space program in order to get a ride home. The story is loosely based on the Sputnik 2 mission that carried a dog named Laika into space on November 3, 1957.

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24. The Shimmering Field [ 16:38 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Time can seem to slow down when there is nothing to do, and this was particularly true for Abeo who had been forced to endure a summer without her friends on a lonely research station. Her father and the other adults were too distracted by some unusual observations too pay attention to Abeo. One day she finds a mysterious friend her own age in a field, and her summer begins to pass quickly, but the visits of her new companion have unexpected consequences.

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22. The Boy Who Loved Candy [ 13:26 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Sometimes you can love something just a little too much. Under the influence of a mysterious dream Marco discovers that he can’t stop eating candy and begins to grow to alarming proportions.
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