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Sunday 31 December 2023

GYRO 2023 SCHEDULE

October 2023

Gyro

9th

Tiny and the Monster(from "A Way Home" by Theodore Sturgeon}

But he's just a dog!

16th

The Sea Thing (from "Science Fiction Monsters" by A.E. van Vogt

a 2 legged monstrosity rises from the sea(from "Science iction Monsters"


23rd

Nightfallshort version by Isaac Asimov (from The "Science Fiction Hall of Fame"

30th

Escape Clause  (from "Tales from the Twilight Zone"

It's a deal you couldn't refuse.  Are you sure you want out?















 Jan 9th, 2023

Street of Dreams, Feat of Clay, from World's Best Science Fiction  1969(hardback anthology )

An ordinary man fleeing his umpleasant city life finds the 'perfect' city, or so the city itself claims.

Jan 16th, 2023

Fear hound,, from World's Best Science Fiction  1969(hardback anthology )

In the slums of a city, a vagrant young man is drafted by a member of the city's psi squad in a seaech for a trapped psychic radiating her fear to people dfor miles around


Jan 23rd
Open Secret, 1946, by Lewis Padgett

Mike Jerrold has accidentally discovered the existence of intelligent robots - something that is not supposed to exist.

 

Jan 30th
Number Nine, 1950, by Cleve Cartmill

 A scientist develops a rabbit, “Rabbit Number 9”, a highly intelligent variant of the fast breeding species. And not intelligence in rabbit terms, but human terms

The Rest of 2023 OPEN

Gyro


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So, just to clarify, the following is correct????


Mon Jan 23rd

Open Secret, 1946, by Lewis Pagett


Mon Jan 30th

Fearhound , 1968, by Katherine McLean 


Mon Feb 6th

Number Nine, 1950, by Cleve Cartmill


2023 stories

Jan 23rd


Open Secret, 1946, by Lewis Pagett



NEW

Fearhound , 1968, by Katherine McLean 


Feb 5th

Number Nine, 1950, by Cleve Cartmill


Sunday 19 February 2023

MONDAY February 20th at 7pm: SciFi Adventure - GOLDEN COMPASS by Philip Pullman

    

From Gyro Muggins Cavernous SciFi Library -
GOLDEN COMPASS
--from World's Best Science Fiction 1950--

11-year-old Lyra goes on a quest from East Anglia to the top of the world in search of her kidnapped playmate Roger and her imprisoned uncle, Lord Asriel.

PRESENTED IN LIVING VOICE BY GYRO MUGGINS
at SEANCHAI LIBRARY in SECOND LIFE
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Nowhereville/204/44/27
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Monday 30 January 2023

MONDAY January 30th at 7pm: SciFi Adventure - NUMBER NINE by Cleve Cartmill

   

From Gyro Muggins Cavernous SciFi Library -
NUMBER NINE
--from World's Best Science Fiction 1950--

A scientist develops a rabbit, “Rabbit Number 9”, a highly intelligent variant of the fast breeding species. And not intelligence in rabbit terms, but human terms.

PRESENTED IN LIVING VOICE BY GYRO MUGGINS
at SEANCHAI LIBRARY in SECOND LIFE
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Nowhereville/204/44/27
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.

Monday 23 January 2023

MONDAY January 23rd at 7pm: SciFi Adventure - OPEN SECRET by Lewis Padgett

   

From Gyro Muggins Cavernous SciFi Library -
OPEN SECRET
--from World's Best Science Fiction 1946--

Mike Jerrold has accidentally discovered the existence of intelligent robots - something that is not supposed to exist.

PRESENTED IN LIVING VOICE BY GYRO MUGGINS
at SEANCHAI LIBRARY in SECOND LIFE
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Nowhereville/204/44/27
.
.

Monday 16 January 2023

MONDAY January 16th at 7pm: SciFi Adventure - FEAR HOUND by Katherine MacLean

  

From Gyro Muggins Cavernous SciFi Library -
FEAR HOUND

--from World's Best Science Fiction 1969--
In the slums of a city, a vagrant young man is drafted by a member of the city's psi squad in a search for a trapped psychic radiating her fear to people for miles around.

PRESENTED IN LIVING VOICE BY GYRO MUGGINS
at SEANCHAI LIBRARY in SECOND LIFE
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Nowhereville/204/44/27
.
.

Monday 9 January 2023

MONDAY January 9th at 7pm: STREET OF DREAMS, FEAT OF CLAY by Robert Sheckley

  

From Gyro Muggins Cavernous SciFi Library -
STREET OF DREAMS, FEAT OF CLAY 

--from World's Best Science Fiction 1969--
An ordinary man fleeing his unpleasant city life finds the 'perfect' city, or so the city itself claims.

PRESENTED IN LIVING VOICE BY GYRO MUGGINS
at SEANCHAI LIBRARY in SECOND LIFE
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Nowhereville/204/44/27
.
.

Saturday 31 December 2022

GYRO 2022 SCHEDULE



Hello, Cale and Shandon,

all three stories have an approximate  reading time of 50 minutes or less.


Dec 12, 2022

Call Me Joe-fromThe Science Fiction all of Fame volume II A (papereback anthology)

variation on the theme of the movie Avatar, with a man soured by partial paralysis stars  as the one living in an alien body

Jan 2nd, 2023 --POSTPONED--

Street of Dreams, Feat of Clay, from World's Best Science Fiction  1969(hardback anthology )

An ordinary man fleeing his umpleasant city life finds the 'perfect' city, or so the city itself claims.

Jan 9th2023

Fear hound,, from World's Best Science Fiction  1969(hardback anthology )

In the slums of a city, a vagrant young man is drafted by a member of the city's psi squad in a seaech for a trapped psychic radiating her fear to people dfor miles around


near the end of January I'll send you a list of stories for 2023.


Gyro



















story for Decmber 5th

Persephone and Hadesby Scott W. Schumack, copyright 1972

Seanchai Library, December 5th: War has destroyed Earth's biosphere. under the care of a robot body with the brain of Dr.Robert Wayne Carver surviving life in the form of frozen humans, seeds and ova await their rebirth when the world is habitable.

The fly in the ointment is Carol Armandez. Prematurely thawed with a body genetically destined to die of multiple cancers, she holds vital software hostage to force Dr. Carver to save her. The two battle for survival in a giant underground genetic repository.


est reading time 20 mins

Gyro





hi Cale and Shandon,

I've been lucky enough to find some good shortstories to fill November.

From "LIVE Without a Net:"

Nov14th "Reality Check" by David Brin est. reading time 12 - 15 mins, (Are you hallucinating Reality? Wake up if you can!)


Nov 21st "Rougue Farm" by Charles Stross est. reading time 40-45 mins 9If a demented AI controlled farm decides to squat on your land, what do you do?)


November 28th "Frek in the Grullo Woods"by Rudy Rucker est. reading time 40-45 mins

(based on the first two chapters of the massive length novel "Frek and the Elixer" where Frek, a boy in the far future avoids

 gov't brain wiping while searching roe Earth's lost genome)


I'll find more short stoies to fill open December slots


Gyro------------------------------------------


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Hi Shandon, here's an update for you

For now I'm planning to read shorter, lighter stories. I think Wolfen was both too long and dark for most listeners.

I hope this fits the bill.

For Monday, Nov 6th: this is one I read years ago

."The Hellbound Train"by Robert Bloch, est reading time 30 mins

A shiftless man son of a railroad man makes a bet with the devil with surprising results.

Gyro







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Here is a link to access an annotated calendar story list.

You can repeatedly download it all through the year.

https://web.tresorit.com/l/wxjVf#1nEaEgwW-vJOdi7T-iaYjw

Below is a quick list you can read in SL.

BELOW IS A TEXT FORM OF THE 2022 =REVISED= CALENDAR
NOTE:  the pictoral calendar is best viewed with a 3:4 ratio (not a 4:3)


January           World Out of Time, A (Larry Niven) DONE

February        When They Came (Kody Boye) 

I've looked at January's story and realized the remaining four weeks won't be enough.
I'll pause it on the 31st and resume in March.
Other stories will get shifted to make room.
 I'll revise my schedule and send to you and Shandon.
None of this will affect this or February's stories.
World Out of Time has just too much content to reduce to 4 weeks or even the 5 I'd originally planned.

March             World Out of Time, A (Larry Niven) conclusion

April                When They Saw (Kody Boye)

May                 Threshold (Janet and Chris Morris)

June                 Gripping Hand (Larry Niven)

July                  When They Fell (Kody Boye)

August            Visitors, The (Clifford Simak)

September    Cyber Way (Alan Dean Foster)

October          They Walked Like Men (Clifford Simak)

November     Visitors, The (Clifford Simak)

December    story  TBD


10-10-2022
Hi Shandon, I've read ahead into "Wolfen." There seem to be four(4) story sessions required to reach the end.  I plan to cut out enough text to require only two (2) Sessions to end the story on Oct 31st.

I will start a new story, "The Visitors*" by Clifford Simak on November 7th with plans to cut it so I will reach the conclusion by Dec 12th. Please let me know if ending Wolfen on Oct. 31st and Visitors on Dec 12th is workable.  

*"Visitors" blurb:" gigantic feaureless black rectangles descend near the Earth's surface and calmly eat forests and excreting celluloselooking like bales of cotton.  They seem to ignore humanity, benign, but aloof. 

Gyro





SEE BOTTOM OF GYROS LISTING BELOW FOR DETAILS, YOU HAVE TO ZOOOOOOM IN!!
and of course -->    https://web.tresorit.com/l/wxjVf#1nEaEgwW-vJOdi7T-iaYjw


Feb - Kody Boye

When They Came 

Teenage Ana Mia in home defense helps fight an alien invasion.


March - Janet and Chris Morris

Threshold

A disoriented time traveler astronaut deals with an uncaring future.



April - Kody Boye

When They Saw

Ana becomes connected to the aliens in ways even they did not anticipate.



May - 



June - 



July - Kody Boye

When They Fell










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old - replaced

    1. Jan 3rd Starmont (conclusion)

    2. Jan 10th World Out of Time (begins)

    3. When They Came

    4. Threshold

    5. When They Saw

    6. Twonky, The (short story)

    7. Gripping Hand

    8. When They Fell

    9. Visitors, The (Clifford Simak)

    10. Cyber Way

    11. They Walked Like Men (Clifford Simak)

    12. short stories