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Jul. 15th, 2013
A small, seemingly ordinary British town with two distinguishing features: a surprising fraction of the town moved there in the last few years and the place has a murder rate that makes Cabot Cove look like Avonlea. The two may be related, as it turns out that through a bureaucratic oversight during an attempt to turn what were a bunch of small programs into one nation-administered one, every person in the British version of Witness Protection ends up in that town.
I think the one person who does not have any idea about the pasts of the townsfolk is the only copper, assigned to that town because he's notorious for never asking questions.
Not sure who actually solves the crimes. Maybe the bridge club....
I think the one person who does not have any idea about the pasts of the townsfolk is the only copper, assigned to that town because he's notorious for never asking questions.
Not sure who actually solves the crimes. Maybe the bridge club....
List courtesy of Andrew Wheeler
Sorry this took so long but there were a lot of anthologies to type, some of them rather thick. Come on, Elwood!
[Maybe I got shown how to cut and paste after this one]
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Sorry this took so long but there were a lot of anthologies to type, some of them rather thick. Come on, Elwood!
[Maybe I got shown how to cut and paste after this one]
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Time Traveler Show #3 Arena by Fredric Brown
Almost the entire episode is devoted to a reading by William Spurlin of Fredric Brown's "Arena", in which a godlike alien forces one representative of the human race to fight one representative of an alien race. The godlike alien thinks the two races can never share the universe and they are so evenly matched that the war will effectively be of mutual annihilation; the fight is to the death and whoever dies will be joined in short order by the rest of their entire species.
Ah, genocide. Is there no diplomatic problem you cannot solve? This was written in 1944 and I suspect it is no coincidence the enemy Roller looks a red sphere with tentacles:
Almost the entire episode is devoted to a reading by William Spurlin of Fredric Brown's "Arena", in which a godlike alien forces one representative of the human race to fight one representative of an alien race. The godlike alien thinks the two races can never share the universe and they are so evenly matched that the war will effectively be of mutual annihilation; the fight is to the death and whoever dies will be joined in short order by the rest of their entire species.
Ah, genocide. Is there no diplomatic problem you cannot solve? This was written in 1944 and I suspect it is no coincidence the enemy Roller looks a red sphere with tentacles: