Escape Odd, episode 665. Flashback Friday.

The man who lost the sea by Theodore Sturgeon. I'm going to do. Welcome to Flashback Fridays, which this week features episode 500, the man who lost the sea by

Theodore Sturgeon and read by Anson Mount.

Sturgeon is one of those authors who needs very little introduction but perhaps a little bit of context.

He was a critic as well as a writer. The internet speculative fiction database credits him

with about 400 reviews and more than 200 stories. His most famous work may

be the science fiction novel more than human from 1953, but he was also one of those

authors who was passionately interested not only in science fiction, but in the shape it was,

why, and how that shape could conceivably be hammered into something else.

He's an interesting guy and very much worthy of further investigation.

As is our narrator this week, who is probably a lot more familiar to you, especially those of you who

have CBS all access, and he was the last time this story, Wren.

Anson Mount is a consummate actor.

He's a man who has consistently been the best thing in anything I've seen him in.

And the most recent thing I've seen him in is Star Trek Discovery, as Captain Christopher Pike, where if you look very

closely you can see just about how hard he's working to hold the grin in all the time.

Born in White Bluff, Tennessee, he holds a master of fine arts in acting from Columbia,

where he now serves as an associate agent professor.

He's a proud humanitarian, and in 2012, he completed a 200-mile relay to help raise funds for Team Rubicon in support of the victims of Hurricane Sandy and he currently resides in New York.

In addition to Discovery, Anson is best known for his recent work on shows

like The Inhumans, he was Cullen Bohannon on Hell on Wheels, and he

started opposite Eilof Fisher in the horror thriller Visions. However, if there is one piece of Anson's

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