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Oh, hi.

Oh, hi. I'm Mick.

Welcome to the Past and the Curious. I guess you're here for the

podcast, which is good because that's what I have for you and it's a good one. First off, if you're

anywhere near Lexington, Kentucky on November 16th, I'm going to be at the

Kentucky State Book Fair. The Kentucky Book Fair. It's going to be a lot of fun. I'll be there with the meat shower, so come say hey.

This episode of The Past and the Curious features my friend Heather Gottlie telling a story about Mary Shelley,

who was not just the author of a really famous book, but also kind of sort of invented a genre that we would call science fiction, which is pretty amazing.

Also, you will hear me tell you the story of a man named Von Kemplin and his automaton, which was a chess-playing robot that amazed people in a time long before robots were anything. It really, really freaked people out. I'm here to tell you about it.

Thanks for joining us for episode 36 of the past and the curious.

There's a saying people use when they talk about lots of things that might not seem related,

but when they come together they make something really big.

They call it a perfect storm. It's a good image for the story I'm about to tell,

especially because one of the ingredients of this particular perfect storm was actually a storm.

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