"In retrospect, there had been omens and portents." A serialized story narratedby Matt Arnold with the permission of the author, Scott Alexander. Here is the website on which he is publishing the text: http://unsongbook.com/prologue-2/ Episode 1 Length 6:38
"The apocalypse began in a cubicle." A serialized story narratedby Matt Arnold with the permission of the author, Scott Alexander. Here is the website on which he is publishing the text: http://unsongbook.com/chapter-1-dark-satanic-mills/ Episode 2 Duration20:31
"Richard Nixon was confused and upset. It wasn’t that he hadn't expected problems. He’d only been on the job six weeks, but he knew a president had to be ready for anything. But "anything" was supposed to mean economic downturns, or crime waves, or The Russians. Instead Apollo 8 had crashed into some kind of weird space glass, the sky was cracking open, the clouds were forming ominous patterns, and Tuesdays had stopped happening." A serialized story narratedby Matt Arnold with the permission of the author, Scott Alexander. Here is the website on which he is publishing the text: http://unsongbook.com/interlude-%D7%90-the-cracks-in-the-sky/ Episode 3 Duration 8:05
"Right down the road from Berryessa Station there’s a big house with a hidden basement. The people who live there – usually six to eight of us, rarely the same from one month to the next – are the sort of artsy college students and aimless twenty-somethings who think that houses should have names. We call it Ithaca." A serialized story narratedby Matt Arnold with the permission of the author, Scott Alexander. Here is the website on which he is publishing the text: http://unsongbook.com/chapter-2-arise-to-spiritual-strife/ Chapter 4 Duration21:02
""The Code Of The World", by Aaron Smith-Teller, Published in the March 2017 issue of the Stevensite Standard The Talmud says that God created the Torah nine hundred seventy-four generations before He created the world. Generations of who, I don’t know. The Talmud is kind of crazy." A serialized story narratedby Matt Arnold with the permission of the author, Scott Alexander. Here is the website on which he is publishing the text: http://unsongbook.com/interlude-%D7%91-the-code-of-the-world/ Episode 5 Duration11:51
"Ever since the sky cracked there has been a hurricane off the coast of Louisiana that never moves or decays. In its eye stands the Archangel Uriel." A serialized story narratedby Matt Arnold with the permission of the author, Scott Alexander. Here is the website on which he is publishing the text: http://unsongbook.com/chapter-3-on-a-cloud-i-saw-a-child/ Episode 6 Duration15:25
"Even before Erica finished formally adjourning the meeting, I wove my way through the crowd of garrulous people and up the stairs into my bedroom. I grabbed my laptop from the desk, then knocked on Ana’s door. She was there waiting for me." A serialized story narratedby Matt Arnold with the permission of the author, Scott Alexander. Here is the website on which he is publishing the text: http://unsongbook.com/chapter-4-tools-were-made-and-born-were-hands/ Episode 7 Duration9:00
"I remember the first time I met Ana Thurmond." A serialized story narrated by Matt Arnold with the permission of the author, Scott Alexander. Here is the website on which he is publishing the text: http://unsongbook.com/chapter-5-never-seek-to-tell-thy-love/ Chapter 5 is 10 times as long as most chapters. Its 5 sections will be recorded as individual episodes. Episode 8 Duration 11:14
"I remember my first morning there, the morning it all came together. The girls finally dragged me out of bed and insisted on making me breakfast." A serialized story narrated by Matt Arnold with the permission of the author, Scott Alexander. Here is the website on which he is publishing the text: http://unsongbook.com/chapter-5-never-seek-to-tell-thy-love/ Chapter 5 is 10 times as long as most chapters. Its 5 sections will be recorded as individual episodes, of which this is the second. Episode 9 Duration 15:48
"I remember the day I first saw Ana in her element." Here is a personal note to explain the unannounced hiatus which this podcast experienced over the last two months. Thank you to those who asked after me. There's a happyreason and a sadreason. Let's get the sad out of the way. I no longer have access to the laptop which I was using to record this. It had several more episodes recorded on it, which I had not yet published, and which must now be re-recorded. That audiowas the rest of Chapter Five, which is complex and surprisingly exerting to narrate for multiple reasons. The good reason is that over the last twomonths, I switched from my 9-to-5 employment routine, and have been focusing my efforton some other passion projects that bring in money. I look forward to telling you about them when the websites launch. Until then, suffice it to say: I hope you like games. I also run an annual convention, Penguicon, a combination of a science fiction/fantasy literature convention with an o...