In this episode we discuss the 1986 short story "Young Zaphod Plays it Safe" by Douglas Adams. Tune in to see if we experience total vocabulary failure.

Cover art a convention sketch by Steve Leialoha.

Here is a story about a man who had too much podcast, and a man who took too much, but don't worry: I'm not going political on you. Instead it is a podcast about Theodore Sturgeon's 1941 short story, "Microcosmic God"

"Microcosmic God" was originally published in Astounding Stories, volume 27, issue 2, which can be read here: https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v27n02_1941-04_dtsg0318/page/n45/mode/2up

Cover art from the same issue, by Schneeman

See archives of Sturgeon-related material here, including interview at UT discussed during the episode: ⁠https://faculty.college.emory.edu/sites/weeks/misc/duncan.html⁠

Read Uranian Worlds here: https://archive.org/details/uranianworldsgui0000garb/page/202/mode/2up

As Felix Henriot came through the streets that January night the fog was stifling, but when he reached his little flat upon the top floor there came a sound of podcasting. Podcasting was stirring about the world. It blew against his windows, but at first so faintly that he hardly noticed it. Then, with an abrupt rise and fall like a wailing voice that sought to claim attention, it called him. He peered through the window into the blurred darkness, listening.

There is no cry in the world like that of the homeless podcaster.

Today we are discussing the story "Sand" by the inimitable Algernon Blackwood. "Sand" was originally published in the 1912 volume Pan's Garden. This is a long one folks, so make sure you have plenty of water and don't forget your sunscreen.

Cover art is a photograph of Blackwood ca. 1951, by Norman Parkinson.