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Monday, 24 June 2024

MONDAY June 24th at 7pm: SciFi Adventure - THRESHOLD by Janet and Chris Morris

      

From Gyro Muggins Cavernous SciFi Library -
THRESHOLD

originally presented 05-02-2022
restarting now from Chapter 2 with a catch-up introduction

Joe South, American astronaut, has been on month-long mission to test a new faster than light ship.  When he emerges into normal space his A.I. co-pilot informs him the star / planet configurations say it's 500 years in his future.  He has memories of having visited aa strange planet with soulful eyed aliens, and politics on the space station, Threshold, are dangerous and bewildering. 



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http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Nowhereville/204/44/27

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Monday, 17 June 2024

MONDAY June 17th at 7pm: SciFi Adventure - THE MONKEY'S PAW

      

From Gyro Muggins Cavernous SciFi Library -
THE MONKEY'S PAW

It can grant your every wish. But, the answer to that wish carries a terrible price

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Monday, 10 June 2024

MONDAY June 10th at 7pm: SciFi Adventure - BORN CHARMER by Edward P Hughes

      

From Gyro Muggins Cavernous SciFi Library -
BORN CHARMER

In a world where people with true magic are feared and persecuted a shepherd's son deals with the fact that he can work real spells

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at SEANCHAI LIBRARY in SECOND LIFE
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from the anthology," Magical Wishes # 7 
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Monday, 3 June 2024

MONDAY June 3rd at 7pm: SciFi Adventure - WHATEVER HAPPENED TO CORPORAL CUCKOO? by Gerald Keith

     

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO
CORPORAL CUCKOO?
From Gyro Muggins Cavernous SciFi Library -

A civilian meets an ex-Army man who looks to be in his 30s but amazingly recovered from some hideous accident.  The Corporal's story is as bizarre as his appearance

PRESENTED IN LIVING VOICE BY GYRO MUGGINS
at SEANCHAI LIBRARY in SECOND LIFE
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from the anthology, "Star science Fiction No. 3




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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.

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at SEANCHAI LIBRARY in SECOND LIFE
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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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