Hello and welcome to the Drabblecast.

Episode 441.

The Drabblecast is a weekly audio fiction magazine that brings strange stories

by strange authors to strange listeners such as yourself.

I'm your host, Norm Sherman.

I've always found it really exciting to think about and have conversations with people about the future.

It used to blow my mind that my

grandmother who passed away several years ago in her 90s grew up in a time without

automobiles, without air conditioning. Screw not having the internet on your cell phone.

This woman was born in 1921 when only a third of American homes even had a phone.

I'd ask her questions like, what was it like back then, when to hear music, any music?

You had to like go to a concert or learn how to play an instrument yourself.

Vinals were like 30 or 40 more years down the road.

Stuff like that, and she was always frustratingly more interested in talking

about my stupid uninteresting modern life with all its endless modern conveniences.

Ugh. See, it's not really the past that I always was interested in knowing more about.

The core of my questioning was more about getting into her mind as a little girl growing up in the

roaring 20s and 30s, and then reflecting on that perspective now with essentially what has become the unpredictably,

unimaginably future-y future.

We have Mars rovers, nuclear bombs, and virtual reality, and lizard people disguised and living among us, and that's a statement. and hundred years. I mean of course it's exciting and scary as hell but also exciting and

that's where science fiction comes in. This week we bring you a trifecta special on

strange futures, three stories by three different authors, read by three different

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