Mind Webs - The Show Must Go On
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Mind Webs - The Show Must Go On

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 21, 202623 min
  • 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'm going to the Thorn! Welcome to a half hour of Mindwebs. short stories from the worlds of speculative fiction.

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This might web story comes from the book The Pseudo-People, Androids, and Science-Friction, edited by William F. Nolan. This is James Cozzie's The Show Must Go On. Opening night, the stage was starkly medieval.

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sawdust and three rings and the glistening tightrope wires. From their cages beasts snarled and trumpeted. The ringmaster snapped his whip and bow to the eight giant lenses that stared bleakly down. In back of those lenses was our audience. 60 millions of audience scattered throughout the hemisphere. In the

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