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Singularity
Announcing 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/adchoices
2008-06-30
03 min
Singularity
Chapter 47: The Last Word
The Great Singularity Q and A Episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2006-10-31
1h 09
Singularity
Chapter 46 - Epilogue: The Bridge
... Or not. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2006-10-23
14 min
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Chapter 45: Mopping Up
All over but the debriefing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2006-10-20
11 min
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Chapter 44: Last Row on the Chessboard
It all comes down to this. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2006-10-17
24 min
Singularity
Chapter 43: Le Mot Juste
This is the way the world ends ... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2006-10-12
12 min
Singularity
Chapter 42: A Stitch in Time
In which the Omega Sequence lives up to its name. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2006-10-07
26 min
Singularity
Chapter 41: The Singularity
If you could gaze into a naked singularity, what would you see? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2006-10-03
26 min
Singularity
Chapter 40: Project Report
Origins of the Antipode Project revealed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2006-09-25
36 min
Singularity
Chapter 39: Descent
The voyage down to Antipode station is interrupted by an unexpected intruder, and an unanticipated revelation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2006-09-22
19 min
Singularity
Chapter 38: Welcome Back
Knox 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/adchoices
2006-09-10
12 min
Singularity
Chapter 37: Dry Run
In which the future repays its debts to the past. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2006-09-06
14 min
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Chapter 36: Big Bang
The Battle of Weathertop. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2006-08-26
23 min
Singularity
Chapter 35: Closed Timelike Curve
What DOES the Shadow KGB want with a naked singularity? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2006-08-22
18 min
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Chapter 34: Spin Doctor
Global causality violation??? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2006-08-20
22 min
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Chapter 33: Hackers
So 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/adchoices
2006-08-17
25 min
Singularity
Chapter 32: Doomsday Scenario
What's the worst that could happen? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2006-08-13
28 min
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Chapter 31: The Way to Weathertop
All roads lead to Mycroft's mountaintop aerie. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2006-08-10
22 min
Singularity
Chapter 30: Midnight to Dawn
Warning: SMUT ALERT. (Bad author! Bad!) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2006-08-06
12 min
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Chapter 29: Discovery
Grishin 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/adchoices
2006-08-03
30 min
Singularity
Chapter 28: Flight Plans
All revved up and no place to go. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2006-07-26
16 min
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Chapter 27: Harm's Way
Jon 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/adchoices
2006-07-21
22 min
Singularity
Chapter 26: Bell's Inequality
At 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/adchoices
2006-07-21
17 min
Singularity
Chapter 25: West with the Night
Marianna 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/adchoices
2006-07-16
17 min
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Chapter 24: Night on the North Atlantic
"The sea is calm to-night" ... and deathly cold. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2006-07-12
14 min
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Chapter 23: Armageddon
August 3rd, 10:47 p.m. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2006-07-08
34 min
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Chapter 22: Departures
Their 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/adchoices
2006-07-04
36 min
Singularity
Chapter 21: Raise the Titanic
Down 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/adchoices
2006-07-01
23 min
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Chapter 20: Alive!
Cosmological reveries presage a wholly unanticipated return from the dead ... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2006-06-25
17 min
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Chapter 19: Party Animals
A 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/adchoices
2006-06-16
40 min
Singularity
Chapter 18: Night Moves
Marianna 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/adchoices
2006-06-12
45 min
Singularity
Chapter 17: Buy-In
It'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/adchoices
2006-06-05
25 min
Singularity
Chapter 16: Idyll
A 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/adchoices
2006-06-05
35 min
Singularity
Chapter 15: Patterns
Seeking the secret harbored at Rusalka's heart -- with paper, pencil, and force majeur. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2006-05-31
36 min
Singularity
Chapter 14: Hull Number Forty-Seven
Knox 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/adchoices
2006-05-21
47 min
Singularity
Chapter 13: Puttin' on the Ritz
Knox 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/adchoices
2006-05-15
28 min
Singularity
Chapter 12: The Illusion of Choice
Marianna 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/adchoices
2006-05-08
22 min
Singularity
Chapter 11: The Beast of Evil Heart
Jack 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/adchoices
2006-04-30
17 min
Singularity
Chapter 10: A Visit to the Smithsonian
Jonathan 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/adchoices
2006-04-22
16 min
Singularity
Chapter 9: Ghost
Plagued 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/adchoices
2006-04-22
13 min
Singularity
Chapter 8: Press Gang
When 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/adchoices
2006-04-14
18 min
Singularity
Chapter 7: Mythologies
Guided 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/adchoices
2006-04-14
23 min
Singularity
Chapter 6: Our Ship Comes In
Knox 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/adchoices
2006-04-09
37 min
Singularity
Chapter 5: Interview with the Shaman
As 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/adchoices
2006-04-02
36 min
Singularity
Chapter 4: Reacquisition
Marianna 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/adchoices
2006-03-13
26 min
Singularity
Chapter 3: Schwarzschild Radius
Marianna 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/adchoices
2006-03-13
56 min
Singularity
Chapter 2: Resource Recovery
Arkady 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/adchoices
2006-03-13
40 min
Singularity
Chapter 1: Proliferation Threat
New 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/adchoices
2006-03-13
25 min
Singularity
Prologue - The Tunguska Event
June 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/adchoices
2006-03-13
22 min