Time Traveler Show #16: 2BR02B (Kurt Vonnegut)

2BR02B (Kurt Vonnegut)

As read by William Coelius, this is a story about a man in a world with strict population limits looking for an innovative way to find room for his three newborns.

Of course, this all falls apart if birth control is available and reliable because then you can schedule births once deaths have freed up slots; even if it's not 100% reliable - and it won't be - it should make it possible to avoid situations like this guy is in. Often I'd give stories like this a pass for predating the Pill but this is from Worlds of If, January 1962 and the Pill was approved for use in 1960.

Time Traveler Show #17:

The New Accelerator (H.G. Wells)

Read by Tim Rowe. Two Edwardian (just) gentlemen experiment with a substance that can accelerate human metabolism many-fold, which is to say they walk through a crowd of their fellow British subjects at speeds of several miles a second. Happily a horrific carnage does not result.

The narrator is quite keen on all the extra time this will give people but it seems to me the wonderful unimpeded time only is available if a few have the Accelerator.

Sunday, March 2, 2014

Some time near that date is when I will write my five thousandth item for pay (ignoring the various items that didn't make it into my finished folder over the years). What's an appropriate way to celebrate? Aside from reading another book?

The Science Fiction Book Club Reviews Revisited: 1981 (first quarter)

List courtesy of Andrew Wheeler.

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