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Startide Rising, Ch. 1

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…

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The Pyrates, Ch. the Last

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…

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The Pyrates, Ch. 18

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 >

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The Pyrates, Ch. 17

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 >

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The Pyrates, Ch. 16

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 >

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The Pyrates, Ch. 15

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 >

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The Pyrates, Ch. 14

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 >

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The Pyrates, Ch. 13

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 >

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The Pyrates, Ch. 12

The Pyrates, Ch. 12 There has to be a scene i’ the dungeon, and Chapter the Twelfth delivers it to us! Captain Avery gives aid to the Coast Brethren enchained there… but what o’ Donna Melliflua? (length – 41:36) < Previous Chapter Next Chapter >

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The Pyrates, Ch. 11

The Pyrates, Ch. 11 In Chapter the Eleventh, Colonel Blood and Lady Vanity find themselves at the mercy of Happy Dan Pew, and Blood inadvertently makes a huge discovery. Give yourself over to leavin’ a comment, by the Powers! (length – 33:54) < Previous Chapter Next Chapter >

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