Escape Pod 495: Aficionado
Aficionado
by David Brin
Story text is available at the author’s website: http://www.davidbrin.com/fiction/aficionado.html
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Genres: Aliens
Escape Pod 165: Those Eyes
Show Notes
Rated PG. Contains some sexual situations and scattered profanity in both English and Spanish.
Those Eyes
By David Brin
“…So you want to talk about flying saucers? I was afraid of that.
“This happens every damn time I’m blackmailed into babysitting you insomniacs, while Talkback Larry escapes to Bimini for a badly needed rest. I’m supposed to field call-in questions about astronomy and outer space for two weeks. You know, black holes and comets? But it seems we always have to spend the first night wrangling over puta UFOs.
“…Now, don’t get excited, sir…. Yeah, I’m just a typical ivory tower scientist, out to repress any trace of unconventional thought. Whatever you say, buddy.”
Escape Pod 112: The Giving Plague
Show Notes
Referenced Sites:
Geek Fu Action Grip
Heinlein Society Blood Drives
The Giving Plague
by David Brin
Yeah, you viruses need vectors, don’t you. I mean, if you kill a guy, you’ve got to have a life raft, so you can desert the ship you’ve sunk, so you can cross over to some new hapless victim. Same applies if the host proves tough, and fights you off — gotta move on. Always movin’ on.
Hell, even if you’ve made peace with a human body, like Les suggested, you still want to spread, don’t you? Big-time colonizers, you tiny beasties.
Oh, I know. It’s just natural selection. Those bugs that accidentally find a good vector spread. Those that don’t, don’t. But it’s so eerie. Sometimes it sure feels purposeful…