Episodes

  • Cistellaria; or, The Casket-Titus Maccius Plautus

    Cistellaria; or, The Casket-Titus Maccius Plautus
    Aug 26 2026
    Science fiction is more often a reflection of existing societal trends than a prediction of trends to come. The upsurge in drug use is precisely mirrored by the upsurge in the use of such themes in science fiction. Science fiction is as much a guide to where we are as it is a vision of where we are going. A literature so popular with the young, commanding so intense and devoted a following, can be of significant value in revealing the patterns contemporary society is taking and will take in the years just ahead. - Summary by Robert Silverberg, from Introduction
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    59 mins
  • Reflections on the rise, progress, and probable consequences, of the present contentions with the colonies. By a freeholder-John Erskine

    Reflections on the rise, progress, and probable consequences, of the present contentions with the colonies. By a freeholder-John Erskine
    Aug 25 2026
    Science fiction is more often a reflection of existing societal trends than a prediction of trends to come. The upsurge in drug use is precisely mirrored by the upsurge in the use of such themes in science fiction. Science fiction is as much a guide to where we are as it is a vision of where we are going. A literature so popular with the young, commanding so intense and devoted a following, can be of significant value in revealing the patterns contemporary society is taking and will take in the years just ahead. - Summary by Robert Silverberg, from Introduction
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    2 hrs and 13 mins
  • Black Cat Vol. 01 No. 01 October 1895-Various

    Black Cat Vol. 01 No. 01 October 1895-Various
    Aug 24 2026
    Science fiction is more often a reflection of existing societal trends than a prediction of trends to come. The upsurge in drug use is precisely mirrored by the upsurge in the use of such themes in science fiction. Science fiction is as much a guide to where we are as it is a vision of where we are going. A literature so popular with the young, commanding so intense and devoted a following, can be of significant value in revealing the patterns contemporary society is taking and will take in the years just ahead. - Summary by Robert Silverberg, from Introduction

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    2 hrs
  • Love's Labour's Lost-William Shakespeare

    Love's Labour's Lost-William Shakespeare
    Aug 23 2026
    Science fiction is more often a reflection of existing societal trends than a prediction of trends to come. The upsurge in drug use is precisely mirrored by the upsurge in the use of such themes in science fiction. Science fiction is as much a guide to where we are as it is a vision of where we are going. A literature so popular with the young, commanding so intense and devoted a following, can be of significant value in revealing the patterns contemporary society is taking and will take in the years just ahead. - Summary by Robert Silverberg, from Introduction
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    2 hrs and 31 mins
  • Our Journey to Sinai-Agnes von Blomberg Bensly

    Our Journey to Sinai-Agnes von Blomberg Bensly
    Aug 22 2026
    Science fiction is more often a reflection of existing societal trends than a prediction of trends to come. The upsurge in drug use is precisely mirrored by the upsurge in the use of such themes in science fiction. Science fiction is as much a guide to where we are as it is a vision of where we are going. A literature so popular with the young, commanding so intense and devoted a following, can be of significant value in revealing the patterns contemporary society is taking and will take in the years just ahead. - Summary by Robert Silverberg, from Introduction
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    4 hrs and 42 mins
  • Address to Free Colored Americans-An Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women

    Address to Free Colored Americans-An Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women
    Aug 21 2026
    Science fiction is more often a reflection of existing societal trends than a prediction of trends to come. The upsurge in drug use is precisely mirrored by the upsurge in the use of such themes in science fiction. Science fiction is as much a guide to where we are as it is a vision of where we are going. A literature so popular with the young, commanding so intense and devoted a following, can be of significant value in revealing the patterns contemporary society is taking and will take in the years just ahead. - Summary by Robert Silverberg, from Introduction
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    1 hr and 31 mins
  • Witch Shall Be Born-Robert E. Howard

    Witch Shall Be Born-Robert E. Howard
    Aug 20 2026
    Science fiction is more often a reflection of existing societal trends than a prediction of trends to come. The upsurge in drug use is precisely mirrored by the upsurge in the use of such themes in science fiction. Science fiction is as much a guide to where we are as it is a vision of where we are going. A literature so popular with the young, commanding so intense and devoted a following, can be of significant value in revealing the patterns contemporary society is taking and will take in the years just ahead. - Summary by Robert Silverberg, from Introduction
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    2 hrs and 6 mins
  • Bible (YLT) 06 Joshua-Young's Literal Translation

    Bible (YLT) 06 Joshua-Young's Literal Translation
    Aug 19 2026
    Science fiction is more often a reflection of existing societal trends than a prediction of trends to come. The upsurge in drug use is precisely mirrored by the upsurge in the use of such themes in science fiction. Science fiction is as much a guide to where we are as it is a vision of where we are going. A literature so popular with the young, commanding so intense and devoted a following, can be of significant value in revealing the patterns contemporary society is taking and will take in the years just ahead. - Summary by Robert Silverberg, from Introduction
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    1 hr and 49 mins