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Mind Webs - The Rules Of The Road
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- 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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But there was something about it that shrieked, alien.
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Rather, it was more like the silver of shimmer.
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A2 · Elementary
Everyday topics, clear speech
- 96% of the words are B1 or easier.
- 128 words a minute: slow, clear speech.
- 147 harder words (B2 and up) in the whole episode.
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The opening of the episode. The whole transcript is in the player.
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The Welcome to a half hour of Mind Web. stories from the world's speculative fiction. This is Michael Hansen with a mind-wub story by Norman Spinrad.
Copyright by Galaxy Magazine in 1964. The story also appears in Spinrad's book, The Last Hoorah of the Golden Horde, published by Avon. The great silver dome sat in the desert at Yucca Flats.
It was a featureless save for an innocent appearing open entranceway. But there was something about it that shrieked, alien. The silver shimmer was not quite the shimmer of silver. Rather, it was more like the silver of shimmer.
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