Episodes
Thanks for listening. If you enjoyed Time, emiT, and Time Again, please look for my other titles on Podiobooks.com, including: Forget What You Can't Remember, More Lost Memories, Cheating, Death (a zombie novel), Lost and Not Found, Dragons' Truth, & the first three books of a series called "Untrue Tales From Beyond Fiction - Recollections of an Alternate Past".
Published 11/22/10
This story gives merely a glimpse of two young people who fall in love at first sight, and of the time-bending company they both work for: Chronomatics. Learn about Chronomatics' unique services, all of which make use of a form of time dilation to either seem to add more hours to your day (relative to the world at large) or allow you to skip over whole decades of time as though only a single night's sleep had passed. Learn about the challenges, one after another after another, which spring up...
Published 11/22/10
In part 2, Robert gets to see the future (and Earth's destruction) for himself, finds out that there's more to his future self's story than at first he'd let on, then learns that even repeated time travel may not be enough to prevent a terrible future.
Published 11/15/10
This story is about the inventor of a revolutionary new technology embodied in a device which allows stable wormholes to be created in spacetime, linking any two of them together. Such a device would allow humanity to travel to space for next to no cost, and herald a new age of expansion into the Solar system. It could allow humanity to contact an alien race and attempt a peaceful relationship. But first, before the technology is ever tested, it gets used by a future version of the inventor...
Published 11/07/10
In this brief essay, I address the narrative style wherein an author, usually at the last minute, cancels out everything else they wrote and makes the entire experience a waste of time.
Published 11/07/10
In part 2, the lives of Prince and Penny's new offspring are glimpsed in their youth (their first kiss), adolescence (heading to college), adulthood (having the first child of their own), maturity (when they have to say goodbye to their parents, possibly for good), and beyond.
Published 10/31/10
This story follows the actions of a couple who seem to have been together forever, who want to be able to create children of their own, and who will stop at nothing to do so. Involving stem cell research, cloning, mind control, human sacrifices, eventual success ... and what comes after, this story isn't afraid to touch on sensitive issues to get where it wants to go, or to take things even further from there. In part 1, Prince and Penny Pallas find themselves and their requests turned down...
Published 10/25/10
An essay about a possible interpretation of God's perspective of time, relative to the "seven day week" of creation and our place in it. On the nth readthrough, I realized that I summarized much of the entire Bible in a few short pages, providing yet another iteration of the fractal story of creation. Which may make sense after you hear/read this essay.
Published 10/19/10
In part 2, Sal walks them through a few details of the meta-analyzed future their child will experience, both less specific than the average PreVision (in terms of personal details) and yet much more precise (in absolute terms). The result will be a child almost totally unlike Harold and Anne themselves, while being created strictly from their own DNA.
Published 10/12/10
In a future where processing speeds allow computers to predict the future and advancements in genetic engineering allow people to design custom children, what happens when these technologies -and a couple who haven't kept pace with post-singularity advances in technology- are combined to try to create a family? When one can not only select for simple things like gender, eye color, and hair color, but also for likely future outcomes like when and where your child will have their first kiss, or...
Published 10/05/10
This essay is a personal exploration of my own unusual relationship with time. It touches both on my mind and body's disconnection from a "normal" circadian rhythm and on my imagination and creative mind being six months (to many years) ahead of the pace of technology.
Published 09/29/10
In part 3, after discussing a few of the more ambitious possibilities presented by Brent's new ability, then deciding not to talk about an argument Brent reversed out of existence, they receive an unexpected visitor from their future gone wrong.
Published 09/20/10
In part 2, Charlie surprises Brent with a single ounce of unmarked gold, and over the course of several exhausting hours they use time manipulations to turn it into tens of millions of dollars' worth of precious metal.
Published 09/13/10
Imagine you could change the direction you travel through time and actually go backward in time. In this story, Brent finds himself able to do just that and, along with his brother Charlie, explores some of the possibilities that ability creates. Together they look at problems of ethics, causality, and the possibility of doing heroic deeds and making themselves vast amounts of wealth very quickly. In part 1, Brent gives just a couple quick (if confusing) examples of what can be done, and...
Published 09/08/10
This essay is about an alternate conception about visualizing the shape of time. Rather than the standard circles, squares, and grids created by the limitations of paper and other physical displays, I suggest a new model which fits time better and is very reasonable to be displayed by today's ubiquitous digital displays.
Published 08/30/10
In part 3, after losing interest in a direct encounter with a frozen bolt of lightning, he finds himself less and less interested in his surroundings and simply walks on, across the country, across the ocean, then finally finds himself standing in a place he'd never expected to be.
Published 08/23/10
In part 2, upon waking up to find himself in the same frozen moment he'd gone to sleep, explores the oddities of the everyday objects of his home before heading outside again, this time simply following the road where it takes him.
Published 08/16/10
This is a story about getting so caught up in love with someone that you stop living your own life, stop moving forward. - This is a story about finding yourself so stuck in seeking the same somebody that you become unstuck from the world. This is a story about love, and about waiting. - In part 1 the main character, finding himself alone in a single frozen moment of stopped time, explores his neighborhood to see the extent of the situation.
Published 07/14/10