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This episode's reading is based on "An Ever-Reddening Glow" by David Brin and found in The Hard SF Renaissance edited by David G Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer (Orb: A Tom Doherty Associates Book. 2002. pp.360-363).

David Brin is a physicist who tries to stick to the hard and fast laws of the known universe in his writing. He likes to keep the superman, heroic temptation so common in science fiction out of his writing; "I believe no protagonist should be so awe-inspiring that a committee of twenty really hard-working, intelligent people couldn't do the same thing."

David Brin has won both the Hugo (1983 & 1987) and Nebula (1983) awards.

Spring Training, Opening Day, batting averages, and playing outfield take on new meanings when you have to calculate planetary circumference, gravity constants, and the color of the field and sky into the equation.

This episode is based on the short story " Arthur Sternbach Brings the Curveball to Mars" by Kim Stanley Robinson, first appearing in the August 1999 issue of Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine and, for this reading, taken from The Hard SF Renaissance, edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer (Orb: Tom Doherty Associates; NY. 2002.pp.117-124).

Kim Stanley Robinson is well known for his images and stories of Mars and Mankind's long remaking of the planet into a more earth-like habitat. His Mars trilogy - Red Mars (1992), Green Mars (1994), and Blue Mars (1996) is considered one of the masterworks of that decade. His titles can be found in most public libraries, on Amamzon.com, BN.com, and Powell's.com.

Episode 3 is adapted from two short stories by Spider Robinson - The Guy With the Eyes and The Centipede's Dilemma - and are found in the anthology The Callahan Chronicals (Tom Doherty Associates, 1997).

A reading of Arthur C. Clarke's "The Star" copyright 1955 by Royal Publications, Inc. and found (for this reading) in The Other Side of the Sky by Arthur C. Clarke, copyright 1958 by Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc.

Gather round the blistering bandwidth, dear listeners, for tales of adventure, love, courage and cowardice; local and galactic, recent and far-off. Every paragraph promises to give you pause and purpose, every story sure to inspire and satisfy. Get comfortable, tune in, and open your mind...