UNSONG Audiobook Version

A serialized story narrated by Matt Arnold with the permission of the author, Scott Alexander. Original text version: http://unsongbook.com/ The novel was completed in October of 2020. Now this podcast has switched to short stories by the same author.

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Interlude Aleph: The Cracks In The Sky

"Richard Nixon was confused and upset. It wasn’t that he hadn't expected problems. He’d only been on the job six weeks, but he knew a president had to be ready for anything. But "anything" was supposed to mean economic downturns, or crime waves, or The Russians. Instead Apollo 8 had crashed into some kind of weird space glass, the sky was cracking open, the clouds were forming ominous patterns, and Tuesdays had stopped happening." A serialized story narrated by Matt Arnold with the permission of...

Feb 23, 2016•8 min•Season 1Ep. 3

Chapter 1: Dark Satanic Mills

"The apocalypse began in a cubicle." A serialized story narrated by Matt Arnold with the permission of the author, Scott Alexander. Here is the website on which he is publishing the text: http://unsongbook.com/chapter-1-dark-satanic-mills/ Episode 2 Duration 20:31

Feb 23, 2016•21 min•Season 1Ep. 2

Prologue

"In retrospect, there had been omens and portents." A serialized story narrated by Matt Arnold with the permission of the author, Scott Alexander. Here is the website on which he is publishing the text: http://unsongbook.com/prologue-2/ Episode 1 Length 6:38

Feb 19, 2016•7 min•Season 1Ep. 1

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