Written by: Orson Scott Card Insect-like aliens attack Earth and are repelled but since they will probably come back at some point we start monitoring little kids for fighting talent and then train them to fight in a special school. Then we train them to command ships that simulate attacking the alien homeworld. During his […]
Written by: Robert A. Heinlein Boy meets girl. Boy and girl go to Mars, have baby, die. Baby raised by Martians, becomes man. Man returns to Earth with special powers, lives with hippies in a water nest. Government scared. Length: 16.25 hrs 9/2003: This is where the term ‘grok’ comes from, a word that nobody […]
Written by: Stephen King This is kind of a weird book. A group of kids in New Hampshire or Rhode Island or somewhere cold, rural, and northeast become friends with a retard named “Duditz” (Douglas) who somehow telepathically warns them 30 years later when they are at a frozen cabin in the woods being attacked […]
Written by: Neal Stephenson As in his other books, Stephenson creates a whole universe in tremendous detail. You get to watch the girl Nell grow up here, and follow other characters throughout their lives. Eventually their stories spiral closer and closer together until they join in a coherent and exciting conclusion. Nanotechnology, an amazing stolen […]
Written by: Douglas Adams Some good stories but like many other post-mortem publications it isn’t so much a cohesive work as a bunch of stuff found under the couch. This doesn’t make it not good stuff, just don’t eat the cheetos. Length: 8 hrs 8/2002: I really don’t remember this one except for the one […]
Written by: Dr. Edgar Mitchell with Dwight Williams With both astronauts and hippies, this book has two elements of the holy trinity. It’s neat and does have several worthwhile points of universal connectedness, with lots of details about the founding and goings on at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (not to be confused with the storied halls […]
Written by: Philip K. Dick Apparently the inspiration for Blade Runner, though kind of like “Moby Dick” was the inspiration for “Jaws”. I think it was dark with a lot of narration from inside people’s minds. Pretty much a short story with a little future space stuff. Length: 3 hrs 6/2002: I totally don’t remember anything […]
whispered words from literary masters, cheesy hacks, inspirational gurus, and fluffy crap artists into my ears. These are there stories.