Episode 25 - The Last Flight of Dr. Ain (James Tiptree, Jr)

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TBD - To Be Determined

Bill Williamson, Dan Kamm

33 episodes

7 months ago

Classic scifi short stories ... some you know, some you don't. But all of them are worthy of another look.

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Classic scifi short stories ... some you know, some you don't. But all of them are worthy of another look.

Episode 25 - The Last Flight of Dr. Ain (James Tiptree, Jr)

TBD - To Be Determined

37 minutes

1 year ago

Episode 25 - The Last Flight of Dr. Ain (James Tiptree, Jr)

Theme: A plague of humans.

Episode Connections
Authors, stories. Lynn Margulis, the Gaia Hypothesis. Stephen King, The Stand. Richard Matheson, I Am Legend. Richard Preston, The Hot Zone. Albert Robina, The War in the Twentieth Century. Aldo’s Huxley, Brave New World. H.G. Wells, “The Stolen Bacillus.” Nicholas Christakis, Apollo’s Arrow.
Films. The Matrix. Resident Evil films. The Omega Man. The Last Man On Earth. I Am Legend. 12 Monkeys. The Andromeda Strain. Outbreak.
Games. Plague Incorporated. The Goliath Virus.
Ideas. Post-apocalyptic sci fi. Environmental degradation. The Gaia Hypothesis. Biological warfare.
Whoa - Hmmm - WTF. Dan says Hmmm. A very plausible hmmm. Bill wishes that it could be a WTF story, but it is just too real.

Previous episode: Larry Niven, “Inconstant Moon”
Next episode: Ray Bradbury, “There Will Come Soft Rains”

Music Credit: "Ouroboros" Kevin MacLeod (Incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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