Ruiz Tremello & Marguerite are in Lagonda, Turks & Cacos, and have gotten lost in the jungle! While waiting for a rescue helicopter, they discuss Part 2 of "Drunkard's Walk" by Frederik Pohl. Cornut is now happily married, and a myriad of unconnected, inexplicable plots are (thankfully) resolved by the end of the episode!

Ruiz Tremello & Marguerite are in Botswana, Peru, for the first of two discussions on Drunkard's Walk, by Frederik Pohl. A math professor avoids suicide, a math department head takes pictures of fuzzy molecules, an undergrad repeatedly flirts with an uninterested fellow student, and an uncontacted South Pacific tribe is recontacted! Several plots begin, and because it's part 1 of 2, none of them conclude!

Part 2 will be posted 1 week from today (July 1st, 2018) rather than our usual bi-weekly format.

Frederik Pohl is the prolific, award-winning author of "Gateway" and countless other books. Ruiz Tremello regrets the fact that Drunkard's Walk is the first Frederik Pohl book he's ever read, and intends to make up for this personality defect by reading more immediately, eventually.

Ruiz Tremello & Marguerite are in New Polygon City, Columbia, and discussing Brian Aldiss' 1964 short story, "The Underprivileged". As usual, Marguerite didn't read the story, so Ruiz provides a helpful summary.

Twists and turns await, laughter and fear abounds, and the planet Dansson sounds incredible and Ruiz wants to go there for his next vacation.

Ruiz Tremello & Marguerite are in New Constantinople, Bolivia, and discussing "Babel II", by Damon Knight, from 1953. As usual, Marguerite had other things going on, so she didn't read the story and Ruiz provides a helpful summary. Along the way, an interdimensional alien comes to Earth for a shopping spree!

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Ruiz Tremello & Marguerite are in Snowcone Mountain, Brazil (real place, fake name) and discussing "Lucky Starr & The Big Sun of Mercury" by Isaac Asimov. Featuring a homicidal robot, political intrigue, and two "best friends", this novel was originally published under the name "Paul French", in part because Isaac Asimov didn't really want to sign his name to it (backstory contained within the episode).

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Ruiz Tremello & Marguerite are on the road, giving a Turing Test to a rogue botnet somewhere near Dort, Nebraska. Taking a break on their day off before going for a hike in the town's sewers, our heroes visit the 1943 time travel classic, "Time Locker", by Henry Kuttner.

"Time Locker" excerpted from "The Best Time Travel Stories of the 20th Century", Edited by Harry Turtledove with Martin H. Greenberg, Copyright 2005, Del Ray Books

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A future Earth, a provincial town; a ruthless government, and a mysterious shop that sells guns... When the most annoying man in town makes it his business to play morality police, can Ruiz Tremello & Marguerite escape alive?

Ruiz Tremello & Marguerite discuss Ben Bova's 1976 short story, Orion, first published in Weird Heroes Vol. 6, Published 1977, Byron Preiss

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