Mind Webs - The Meeting
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Mind Webs - The Meeting

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 18, 202630 min
  • Documentary

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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Welcome to a half hour of Mindwebs, short stories from the worlds of speculative fiction.

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The Welcome to a half hour of Mindwebs, short stories from the worlds of speculative fiction. This is Michael Hansen. The Mindweb Story for this half hour was first published in the magazine of fantasy and science

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fiction November of 1972. This is The Meeting, written by Frederick Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth. Harry Vlodik was too large a man for his Volkswagen, but he was too poor a man to trade it in.

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And as things were going, he was going to stay that way a long time. He applied the brakes carefully. parked in a neatly-graveled lot and squeezed out of the door. The upsetting telephone call from Dr. Nicholson on his mind, he locked the car up and went into

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