Here’s the second reading from last Friday’s podcast with our friends at hilobrow.com where Pazzo’s very own me reads:
Tom Nealon reads at the Jan. 15 podcast.
Transcript of Joshua Glenn’s introduction to the 2nd reading (of the 1st episode):
Up next is Tom Nealon, who will read an excerpt from “The Last Poet and the Robots,” a 1934 story by A. Merritt. At the time Merritt was considered the greatest science fiction writer of the era, not because of his sometimes clumsy art nouveau style, but because of the grand sweep of his ideas. In this story, Narodny, a Russian superman who is both the world’s greatest scientist and its best poet, grows bored of a world in which all work is performed by robots. He retires, with a few chosen companions, to an underground lair where he experiments with advanced vibration technologies. But when the robots acquire intelligence and rise up, Narodny steps in.
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