Mind Webs - The Machine In Shaft10
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Mind Webs - The Machine In Shaft10

C1AdvancedOctober 27, 202630 min
  • Documentary
  • Fiction & stories

A surreal sci-fi series exploring speculative concepts, dreams, and philosophical what-ifs. Each episode is a cerebral journey into the mind’s deepest questions. This episode includes AI-generated content.

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I was prevented by a series of personal disasters from taking much interest in the original announcement of his curious discovery at the center of the Earth.

Buried at the core of the planet lay unread in my desk for a month.

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I'm going to be a little bit more Welcome to a half hour of Mindwave. short stories from the world's expected fiction. This is Michael Anson with a Mindweb Story from New World's Quarterly Number 3, which

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was edited by Michael Moorcock. This is the Machine in Shaftan, written by Joyce Churchill. Although I was later to become intimately involved with Professor Nicholas Bruton in the final fatal events at the base of Shaft 10, I was prevented by a series of personal disasters from taking much interest in the original announcement of his curious discovery at the center of the Earth.

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A copy of National Geographic containing the professor's immaculate geological proof of the presence of an emotion converter Buried at the core of the planet lay unread in my desk for a month. And I'm ashamed to say the international scientific uproar precipitated by the sinking of the B-series of exploratory shafts passed me by. One is morally entitled, I believe, to some life of one's own, even to the detriment of one's public self.

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