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SingularitySingularityAnnouncing Doctor Jack's Soapbox Seminars!Singularity's over, but the science behind it goes on. Join everybody's favorite cosmologist as he delves deeper into the Tunguska Event right here on Podiobooks.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2008-06-3003 minSingularitySingularityChapter 47: The Last WordThe Great Singularity Q and A Episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2006-10-311h 09SingularitySingularityChapter 46 - Epilogue: The Bridge... Or not. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2006-10-2314 minSingularitySingularityChapter 45: Mopping UpAll over but the debriefing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2006-10-2011 minSingularitySingularityChapter 44: Last Row on the ChessboardIt all comes down to this. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2006-10-1724 minSingularitySingularityChapter 43: Le Mot JusteThis is the way the world ends ... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2006-10-1212 minSingularitySingularityChapter 42: A Stitch in TimeIn which the Omega Sequence lives up to its name. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2006-10-0726 minSingularitySingularityChapter 41: The SingularityIf you could gaze into a naked singularity, what would you see? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2006-10-0326 minSingularitySingularityChapter 40: Project ReportOrigins of the Antipode Project revealed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2006-09-2536 minSingularitySingularityChapter 39: DescentThe voyage down to Antipode station is interrupted by an unexpected intruder, and an unanticipated revelation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2006-09-2219 minSingularitySingularityChapter 38: Welcome BackKnox regains consciousness only to find he's back aboard Rusalka, this time with a score to settle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2006-09-1012 minSingularitySingularityChapter 37: Dry RunIn which the future repays its debts to the past. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2006-09-0614 minSingularitySingularityChapter 36: Big BangThe Battle of Weathertop. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2006-08-2623 minSingularitySingularityChapter 35: Closed Timelike CurveWhat DOES the Shadow KGB want with a naked singularity? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2006-08-2218 minSingularitySingularityChapter 34: Spin DoctorGlobal causality violation??? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2006-08-2022 minSingularitySingularityChapter 33: HackersSo intent is Mycroft upon breaching the barricades of CROM's communications security that he fails to notice he's being hacked himself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2006-08-1725 minSingularitySingularityChapter 32: Doomsday ScenarioWhat's the worst that could happen? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2006-08-1328 minSingularitySingularityChapter 31: The Way to WeathertopAll roads lead to Mycroft's mountaintop aerie. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2006-08-1022 minSingularitySingularityChapter 30: Midnight to DawnWarning: SMUT ALERT. (Bad author! Bad!) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2006-08-0612 minSingularitySingularityChapter 29: DiscoveryGrishin has discovered Jon and Marianna's whereabouts once again -- but who is it that has discovered Jack Adler's? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2006-08-0330 minSingularitySingularityChapter 28: Flight PlansAll revved up and no place to go. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2006-07-2616 minSingularitySingularityChapter 27: Harm's WayJon and Marianna land in New York, to find Arkady Grishin's welcoming committee lying in wait. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2006-07-2122 minSingularitySingularityChapter 26: Bell's InequalityAt Marianna's urging, Knox dredges up the past -- and, with it, the drug-induced, quantum mechanics-inspired origins of his strange talent. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2006-07-2117 minSingularitySingularityChapter 25: West with the NightMarianna still can't seem to come to terms with Knox's weird pattern-matching ability. But, then, neither can Knox. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2006-07-1617 minSingularitySingularityChapter 24: Night on the North Atlantic"The sea is calm to-night" ... and deathly cold. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2006-07-1214 minSingularitySingularityChapter 23: ArmageddonAugust 3rd, 10:47 p.m. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2006-07-0834 minSingularitySingularityChapter 22: DeparturesTheir innocents-abroad cover story shredding fast, Knox and Marianna count themselves lucky to catch an unscheduled chopper flight from Rusalka back to the Azores -- until they see that Yuri's coming along for the ride. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2006-07-0436 minSingularitySingularityChapter 21: Raise the TitanicDown in Rusalka's secret lab, chief scientist Galina Postrelnikova makes final preparations for the culmination of Grishin's mysterious Antipode Project -- tonight! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2006-07-0123 minSingularitySingularityChapter 20: Alive!Cosmological reveries presage a wholly unanticipated return from the dead ... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2006-06-2517 minSingularitySingularityChapter 19: Party AnimalsA spur-of-the-moment indiscretion is instantly regretted. A post mortem is conducted in the cold, gray light of dawn. And a midnight dinner in Rusalka's sumptuous banquet hall features a curious bit of scientific legerdemain and an even more curious toast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2006-06-1640 minSingularitySingularityChapter 18: Night MovesMarianna raids Rusalka's clandestine lab and discovers riddles wrapped in enigmas: a strange undersea base and an even stranger wall-safe. Meanwhile Knox, running interference for her up on bridge deck, inadvertently learns more from a casual conversation than he was supposed to -- if only he could figure out what it was. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2006-06-1245 minSingularitySingularityChapter 17: Buy-InIt's back to business, as Marianna drags a reluctant Knox into a raid on Rusalka's secret lab, while back in DC her boss is planning an assault on a whole different order of magnitude. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2006-06-0525 minSingularitySingularityChapter 16: IdyllA day aboard the megayacht Rusalka offers every manner of indulgence, from romance and frivolity, to remembrance and regret. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2006-06-0535 minSingularitySingularityChapter 15: PatternsSeeking the secret harbored at Rusalka's heart -- with paper, pencil, and force majeur. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2006-05-3136 minSingularitySingularityChapter 14: Hull Number Forty-SevenKnox and Marianna's tour of the megayacht Rusalka unexpectedly hands them the key they need to break the Grishin case wide open. As far as Knox can see it's mission accomplished, but Marianna's only getting started, and all the while Rusalka is setting sail ... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2006-05-2147 minSingularitySingularityChapter 13: Puttin' on the RitzKnox attends the Kennedy Center gala intent upon winding up his involvement in the Grishin investigation as quickly and painlessly as possible, only to find that Marianna has something quite different in mind. Meanwhile, the target of that investigation, Arkady Grishin himself, retires to GEI's fabulous megayacht Rusalka, there to summon up a computer-generated chronogram of recent Russian history, and drink an ominous toast to its might-have-beens ... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2006-05-1528 minSingularitySingularityChapter 12: The Illusion of ChoiceMarianna manages to extricate Knox from the clutches of Russian State Security in the nick of time. But the rescue comes with strings attached ... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2006-05-0822 minSingularitySingularityChapter 11: The Beast of Evil HeartJack Adler's academic adversaries seek to quash his research via bureaucratic maneuvering. GEI hitman Yuri, however, favors the direct approach. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2006-04-3017 minSingularitySingularityChapter 10: A Visit to the SmithsonianJonathan Knox wanders the halls of the museum and the corridors of his own memories, pondering whether to help CROM, so lost in thought that he fails to notice he's got company. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2006-04-2216 minSingularitySingularityChapter 9: GhostPlagued by insomnia, Jack Adler wrestles late into the night with balky equipment and his own doubts -- which means he is there to witness it when his primordial black hole goes flashing across his screens. Is it the greatest discovery of all time, or the greatest danger the world has ever faced? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2006-04-2213 minSingularitySingularityChapter 8: Press GangWhen Marianna fails at sweettalking Knox into joining CROM's anti-Grishin taskforce, her boss Pete Aristos puts the pressure on, only to have that backfire too -- big time! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2006-04-1418 minSingularitySingularityChapter 7: MythologiesGuided by an aged shaman's chants, Jack Adler reconstructs the aftermath of the Tunguska Event, and the evidence for a tiny black hole as the culprit. And all the while, Grishin's hired killer Yuri is closing in on his next target -- Jack himself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2006-04-1423 minSingularitySingularityChapter 6: Our Ship Comes InKnox learns more than he ever wanted to know about CROM's secret inner workings -- and about how his own checkered past fits into their undercover investigation of Grishin Enterprises. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2006-04-0937 minSingularitySingularityChapter 5: Interview with the ShamanAs Jonathan Knox makes some unusual preparations for his morning meeting, on the far side of the planet Jack Adler toils to the top of a sacred mountain, to a meeting with an ancient holy man who can teach him the secret of the Tunguska Event and, just possibly, the meaning of his own life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2006-04-0236 minSingularitySingularityChapter 4: ReacquisitionMarianna drags Jon Knox into her investigation against his will, and gets more than she bargained for. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2006-03-1326 minSingularitySingularityChapter 3: Schwarzschild RadiusMarianna pins her hopes of building a case against Grishin on a man with a past, an unconventional analyst for the Archon Consulting Group named Jonathan Knox. Meanwhile, half a world away, maverick cosmologist Jack Adler tries prove that the true cause of the Tunguska Event was - a submicroscopic black hole! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2006-03-1356 minSingularitySingularityChapter 2: Resource RecoveryArkady Grishin, billionaire chairman of Grishin Enterprises International, has a secret agenda of his own where the Tunguska Event is concerned - a secret his minions are only too willing to kill for. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2006-03-1340 minSingularitySingularityChapter 1: Proliferation ThreatNew York City, present day. Marianna Bonaventure, rookie field agent for the supersecret agency known as CROM, tries to nail the shadowy Grishin Enterprises International conglomerate for trafficking in weapons of mass destruction research, and nearly pays for it with her life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2006-03-1325 minSingularitySingularityPrologue - The Tunguska EventJune 30th, 1908, a forty-megaton explosion obliterates a swath of ancient Siberian forest half the size of the state of Rhode Island, yet leaves behind not a trace of the object that caused it. What was it? A meteor? A comet? An alien spacecraft in reactor overload? — Or something stranger still? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2006-03-1322 min