Startide Rising, Ch. 5-6 Two chapters today, each one rather short. Tom Orley comes to the fore as well as his secret computer; and we visit another of the fleet of Galactics in battle above Kithrup. Please leave a comment below. Thank you! Chapter 5 – Tom Orley (length – 15:05) Chapter 6 – Galactics…

Startide Rising, Ch. 2-4 As I said in my first post in this new podcast series featuring Startide Rising by David Brin, the average chapter length is 3-1/3 pges. So I’ve grouped three chapters together for this post. We meet more of the main characters: Takkata-Jim and Creideiki, Vice-Captain and Captain, respectively, of Streaker; Akki,…

Startide Rising, Ch. 1 Now we move on to one of my favorite science fiction novels, one that won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards for Best Novel in the same year (1984). Written by David Brin, it’s part of his “Uplift” series, and, I believe, his best novel. I will at times read a…

The Pyrates, Ch. the Last We come to the end of The Pyrates with Chapter the Last. It’s a long one: an hour and 43 minutes! But we see every one of our principals, good, bad, and middlin’: Captain Ben Avery, Colonel Tom Blood, Lady Vanity Rooke, Donna Meliflua Etcetera, Black Sheba, Rackham, Bilbo, Happy…

The Pyrates, Ch. 18 The penultimate Chapter the Eighteenth, wherein Long Ben and Calico Jack come to terms and Anne Bonney shows her quality. Leave a comment below! (length – 53:51) < Previous Chapter Next Chapter >

The Pyrates, Ch. 17 The current situation of Lady Vanity, Donna Meliflua, Black Sheba, Long Ben Avery, Colonel Tom Blood, and the rest revealed in Chapter the Seventeenth, aarrrhh! Please be leavin’ a mort o’ comments below, forsooth! (length – 34:51) < Previous Chapter Next Chapter >

The Pyrates, Ch. 16 Captain Avery is steered into the clutches of Anne Bonney in Chapter the Sixteenth, Macintosh Groonbaum completes the set, and ho! More pyrates, look ‘ee! Please leave a comment! (length – 49:44) < Previous Chapter Next Chapter >

The Pyrates, Ch. 15 Chapter the Fifteenth sees the reappearance of Admiral Rooke, as well as the current fortunes of the Coast Brotherhood members. ‘Tis time you left a comment, d’ye see? (length – 25:35) < Previous Chapter Next Chapter >

The Pyrates, Ch. 14 Our leading characters still in all sorts of peril in Chapter the Fourteenth, in the grip of the Cohaclgzlnians and Don Lardo Baluna del Lobby y Corridor! List! And leave a comment! (length – 1:01:47) < Previous Chapter Next Chapter >

The Pyrates, Ch. 13 In Chapter the Thirteenth, Captain Avery awakens in the jungle with Sheba, they stumble upon Blood, who is about to get the point, and Vanity is about to be treated quite rudely. Please leave a comment! (length – 43:21) < Previous Chapter Next Chapter >