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🗓️ 10 September 2019
⏱️ 45 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Lovar Burton and this is Lovar Burton Weeds. |
0:11.6 | In every episode, I handpick a different piece of short fiction and I read it to you. |
0:16.5 | The only thing these stories have in common is that I love them and I hope you will too. |
0:26.9 | I know I love a good transporter story. |
0:30.8 | I mean, the transporter is such an enduring and iconic part of Star Trek. |
0:36.2 | Now, you trekkies out there listening might know this already, but the transporter that allowed the crew to beam from place to place did not come from some grand romantic creative vision. |
0:48.4 | It actually came from an astoundingly practical place. |
0:52.4 | The enterprise was this giant ship warping through space and visually creating the landing of the ship would have blown the whole budget. |
1:03.0 | And you know, we didn't have CGI in the 60s for the original series. |
1:07.4 | Not to mention that it would take a lot of time to show the ship landing and then everybody did boarding. |
1:12.4 | So the transporter was born in Star Trek lore and ensured that the ship would never need to land. |
1:19.8 | The transporter could quickly beam you up or onto the surface of a new planet. |
1:26.3 | Well, today I'm reading a story that involves transporters written by an author who has a self-described love affair with them. |
1:37.4 | The author's name is Sean Williams and he's an award-winning number one New York Times best-selling author of over 40 novels and 120 short stories for adults, young adults, and children, many of which feature his beloved matter transmitters. |
1:55.6 | This man is a matter transmitter writing monster. |
2:03.3 | His recent books include impossible music, an emotional journey through disability, to new hope, and twin maker which shares a world with the story that we're reading today. |
2:16.2 | It's called face value and it tackles matter transmitters and fabricators which have changed the way society and the economy function and the way humans work and live and maintain civility. |
2:31.5 | This story has also got a great poireau vibe to it which is very fun for me because I love poireau who doesn't. |
2:43.4 | So if you're ready let's take a deep breath. |
3:01.8 | And begin face value by Sean Williams. |
3:18.9 | News of the disappearance of inventor Felix Frey spread through the air with electric ease. |
3:25.6 | It was exactly the kind of distraction I needed. |
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