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Yo Ho Ho!

Submitted by Bruce Farrar on Mon, 08/24/2009 - 4:20pm

School’s just started and already you’re thinking of running away to sea to get away from it all?              

Girl Detective, Hard-Boiled Variety

Submitted by Bruce Farrar on Mon, 08/24/2009 - 12:05pm

What do you do when you’re playing with your grandmother’s binoculars, looking out the window at the hotel across the street and you see a burglary in progress—wait, don’t answer yet—and the burglar looks up and sees you watching him?

To boldly go… in your ear: Episode 2: the Radio and Other Full-cast Audio Thrills!

Submitted by Bruce Farrar on Tue, 08/04/2009 - 9:58am

Thanks to Signor Marconi and his fellow inventors we have the marvelous wonders of wireless telegraphy. And what better use could be made of invisible waves traveling at the speed of light than to bring you the drama from long, long ago in a galaxy far, far away.
Star Wars Radio Drama cover    Star Wars: the Radio Drama Brian Daley turned the original 1977 two-hour film by George Lucas into a six-hour thirteen-part radio play for National Public Radio in 1981.

To Boldly Go…In Your Ear: Episode I: Untouched by Human Hands! Downloadable Audio!

Submitted by Bruce Farrar on Mon, 08/03/2009 - 10:17am

From the Net Directly to Your Home or Rocket Ship!

Imagine a brave new world in which you can beam your scientific romances, speculative fiction, and fan-boy/girl favorites directly up to your starship using your already installed computer tractor beam or directly to the control room of your TARDIS! Well now you can! Have your Communications Officer tune your ansible to the Harris County Public Library’s website. (If you don't happen to have an ansible you can also use your home computer.) Send out a probe to detect the word “Downloadable” in the Format Field of the Refine menu on the right-hand side of the page. Then say, in a firm commanding voice, “Energize.” If that doesn’t work then click here.

Native America

Submitted by Bruce Farrar on Tue, 07/28/2009 - 8:25am

The first humans arrived on this continent about twenty thousand years ago; about sixteen thousand years later a new set of immigrants from began to show up in great numbers on its eastern shore. There was both cooperation and conflict between the new population and the old.

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