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View the full archive of Beam Me Up # 183 Murphy The Android & His Laws - Danny Birt + Bradley Brackett ep2 - Tim Sayhill On a cold & rainy November weekend, isn't it great to know you can kick back in your warmest jammies and enjoy another exciting episode of Beam Me Up! Yes, it's episode 183 and this week, we have the ongoing adventures of Bradley Brackett - episode 2 by Tim Sayell, where our intrepid ranger manages to go from bad to worse as far as luck is concerned and Danny Birt sends us "Murphy the Android and His Laws". Yes, Murphy the android is dead center of of the worst case of bad luck imaginable ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website # 182 Irrestible - AK Sykora + Good Will From Cylinder 7 - David Kopaska-Merkel November is starting off with a bang if I do say so myself. This week on episode 182 of BMU really does go from the superb to the sublime! Crystal Wizard brings us up to speed as to what is new for November on Abandoned Towers. From the blog, The LHC is down - again- and you won't believe how, a billion ton new-born, Garreth Powell has a great deal for fans, on his collection The Last Reef and other stories, Antipodean sf sends news of their newest issue and more. For this week's stori ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website # 181 Monster on Mandrake pt5 - Davies + Dr. Atomic - Saunders & Oddcube! I hope you're ready for part five and the conclusion to Colin P. Davies serialized "The Monster On Mandrake Street"! Colin has weaved an exciting fast paced tale set on his Pestworld where our protagonist Parvo has maneuvered himself into the position of Head Pestmeister. However that title comes with a hefty price and the coin is Parvo's own nightmares. I can tell you now that you will not be disappointed by the last installment or CrystalWizard's production. But first we have a tale ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website # 180 Monster on Mandrake St. pt4 - Davies + Four Hearts - Wagner Episode 180 of BMU is again a thoroughly terrifying amount of entertainment! First is a great piece of music from John Anealio's site Sci Fi Songs (scifisongs.blogspot.com) called "Beautiful Vampire". Our first story is a mysterious and chilling tale from Sarah Wagner called "Four Hearts" And we close with Colin P. Davies "the Monster on Mandrake Street" - Crystal Wizard reads part four of Colin's story. Colin has revisited his Pestworld universe and his lead character Parvo. Parvo h ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website # 179 Monster on Mandrake st. pt3 - Davies + Bradley Bracket - Sayell It's Beam Me Up episode 179 that 21 episodes to the magic 200! Wooooooooohoooo. Ok now that I have that out of my system... This week it's part 3 of Colin Davies's Monster on Mandrake which if you have been following the serial, know that once again we have rejoined Parvo of Pestworld fame. This time search for a monster while he tries to rid himself of childhoods demons as well. In episode 3, he comes face to face with one of them. Our first story however is a rollicking return to ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #178 Monster on Mandrake St. pt2 - Colin Davies + Letters - Kopaska-Merkel Here we go, for week two of the Halloween season! Two stories for your listening pleasure this week. First I open with a tune from the Atlanta Rhythm Section titled Alien. This is one that I never though of as outright science fiction, and really is more about feeling like you don't fit in. But think about it, who better to feel like they are left out of everything that our proverbial Alien?! Works for me! lol. Our first story is a piece of flash fiction from David Kopaska-Merkel cal ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website # 177 Monster on Mandrake St. - Davies + Snapped String - Sayell Are you ready for the start of the silly season on Beam Me Up? Well good, because we have an hour jam paced with good old fashion strangeness. Our first story is by Tim Sayell reading his very funny "A Single Snapped String" Sayell loves to play with words so you will get a good measure with this short tale. We close the hour by revisiting Colin P. Davies' Pestworld with an exclusive five part tale called The Monster on Mandrake Street. Davies takes out all the stops in this new story. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website # 176 Lobos - Shaun A. Saunders + Time is Leaking out of the Universe!!! Beam Me Up episode 176 is a good full hour of entertainment this week, but it will go super fast! Our story this week is from our veteran writer Shaun A. Saunders who revisits his “Looking for the Future that was” universe. Shaun expands on the original theme of an errant traveler looking for an idealized future to a boy just entering manhood following in the path of an almost forgotten grandfather and again finding a future far more shocking than any of the movies or pulps had ever h ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website # 175 Petite Mal con - Jack Nimersheim + Canned Man - Sarah Wagner Everyone ready for another weekend episode of Beam Me Up? Good! This week I finish with the conclusion to Jack Nimersheim's "Petite Mall" In the final episode, The protagonist makes the ultimate sacrifice, to try and understand why his creations instead of helping patients seems to be killing them. In the process he might lose the very dearest thing he can have..... His humanity. The first story however is "Canned Man" by Sarah Wagner and produced by Crystal Wizard at Abandoned Towers ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website # 174 Petite Mal p1 - Jack Nimersheim + Collector's Item - RF Young Stories and more on 174. Wow poet and don't know it! A couple of stories and a piece of music was all I could fit into the program this week. "My Answer" the closing theme to the most recent block of episodes on Naruto Shippuden starts us off. Next out first story is Collector's Item by R.F. Young read by Ron Huber. Our next story is part one of Petite Mal by Jack Nimersheim which is are really good retelling of the Nano machine medicine sub-genre. The first really good story in this ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Beside Still Water - Robert Sheckley + Worthy Cause - A.K. Sykora Are you ready for some Sci Fi?! cool. In episode 173 we dig deep into the wayback bag and pull out a 1953 story by Robert Sheckley called "Beside Still Waters" Much in the vein of Resnick's Robots Don't Cry or Articles of Faith you will see s common thread run through these stories. I love the story where the protagonist steps outside the restrictions of their nature to show us the true human condition. Asimov was a master at writing about robots, but his failing was in describing the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website # 172 Pest World con Colin Davies + The Big Sale - Shaun Saunders Ok fellow BMUer Episode 172 brings in a broad mix today. I start out with the cast of the online show The Guild doing Do You want to Date My Avatar? A really catchy nod to the mmorpg community and a wildly funny series! The first story is Shaun A. Saunder's "The Big Sell" which extrapolates just how far fast food outlets might go so you can have it "your way" From the Blog returning SF/F shows for the fall season and good news for Wharehouse 13 fan! I review the DVD Babylon AD And fini ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #171 Pest World pt-4 Colin P. Davies + Oddcube reviews Forbidden Planet You all set for some entertainment? lol Well this week episode 171 is Part 4 of Colin P. Davies Pest World story and our friend Parvo manages to get himself in deep! I think you will find that the action is really starting to ramp up and strange things really start happening. It's safe to say that not all is what it seems. That's the bottom of the hour. We start with CrystalWizard asking the question "What is Science Fiction?" Our buddy OddCube takes aim at a sci-fi classic Forbidden P ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website # 170 Pestworld p3 Colin Davies + The Bilboard -Doug Hilton Episode 170 seems to peculate along in good fashion!  Right out of the chocks we have have a story from a new writer to Beam Me Up, Doug Hilton reading his story "The Billboard"  a wry tale of a "mysterious alien encounter" that would appear to take the form of the ubiquitous billboard.  I end the hour with part three of the ongoing adventures of one Pestmeister Parvo in Colin P. Davies Pestworld.  Circumstances take a turn for the weird for Parvo as it seems more peop ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website # 169 Pestworld pt2 - Colin P. Davies & The Sale - Shaun Saunders Beam Me Up episode 169 is a good honest 60 minutes this week and with a minimum of fill!  We start off this week with CrystalWizard reading Shaun Saunders' "The Sale" which as you will recognize is based in his Fabcola/Mallcity universe.  But Saunders has given this short story a decidedly deviant twist.  The set up is simple enough, what would happen if you dialed a wrong number?  As simple as that sounds, Saunders' character, looking for someone in the "service sector" ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website # 168 Pestworld pt1 by Colin Davies & Fermi's Paradox solved? Wow there was so much stuff this week, that I couldn't fill it all in! Well, August is shaping up to be a great month. Today and each Saturday of this month, Beam Me Up will have an episode of Colin P. Davies Pestworld. Colin had rewritten this series to play on the radio, even the music! Pest World, to those of you not familiar with it, is a planet with no indigenous flora or fauna. But due to a series of accidents and not so accidents, bio engineered life has escaped into the wild ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website # 167 The Star con + Census Day - Shaun A. Saunders Episode 167 screams along at a pretty good pace this week. We start off with a short offering from Shaun A. Saunders called Census Day, a dark flash fiction tale that asks the question, when does the cost of providing for one's future, become too high. The ending story this week is the conclusion to H.G. Wells The Star. I hope you have been enjoying this read by CrystalWizard as much as I have. Tony Smith brings us up to date on Aural Delights and my fav podcast Star Ship Sofa, Crystal ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #166 The Star pt2 Wells + Don't mess With my SSTO Sykora A.K. Sykora Leads off episode 166 with her fun story "Don't Mess with my SSTO" and we finish with part 2 of The Star by HG Wells. CrystalWizard does double duty this week giving us two talented and diverse reads. Then Tony Smith gives up a quick update of Star Ship Sofa. From the blog, we say goodbye to Walter Chronkite & Charles Brown, how about 10 things you might not have known about Apollo 11, ISS to decom in 2016 WTF?!! and we review Elizabeth Moon's new collection of short stories ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website # 164 Her Precipitous Pride His Lamentable Ears - Colin P. Davies Episode 164 is full of Colin P. Davies goodness. This week's story is Her Precipitous Pride - His Lamentable Ears a story where banishment and isolation are the only true path to self discovery. However one of the first surprises is this week's update from Crystal Wizard. She brings us up to date on the next issue of the Abandoned Towers print magazine. Her treat for us is her reading of Colin's story The Mail Box, a flash fiction submission describing the loss and yearning of those le ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website # 165 Interrogation #8 - Jamie Richter + TheStar - HG Wells episode 165 is a full full hour of goodness....well its 10 pounds of goodness in a five pound bag! Blivit or not! We start off with Tony Smith sending in an update on what is new this week on Star Ship Sofa I read Interrogation #8 a piece of flash fiction from Jamie Richter. Jamie's site is http://jamierichter.blogspot.com/ and it's well worth the time to trundle over there for a look see. OddCube takes on an early work by Mike Resnick and reviews Goddess of Ganymede. If you have ne ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website