19 Nocturne Boulevard

A side trip to check for telepaths at a DC institution....  with the obvious outcome.

(long darn chapters...) How does this telepathy-detecting machine work? The explanation might amaze you. Or baffle you. Or just make your brain hurt.......

The search for a telepath continues...

An FBI agent's work is never easy. note:  this is a very funny little story from 1962, set a decade in the future, and uses non-PC terminology (a lot) to refer to all aspects of psychiatry, including patients.  If you are easily offended by terms like "imbecile", "nuthouse", and "loon", in a historic and comic context, this is probably not the story for you.

The escape!  ________________________ Next week - Brain Twister (aka, That Sweet Little Old Lady) by Gordon Randall Garrett and Laurence Mark Janifer Written in 1959 (rewritten in '62), but set in the far-flung future of the 1970s, an FBI agent must face an impossible task - he must locate a telepath!

An escape plan might be forming!!!

Escape!!!

BRAINS!!!!

Brains in a tank.  How original - well, it was 1932.

Evil evil plans.  Brains are never good party guests.

Oops.  Ku Sui is sneakier than you think.

On the trail of the evil genius, Dr Ku Sui!!

A Buck Rogers clone, this story from 1932 may venture into some very not PC racial stereotypes, so be warned.  But any tale with a spaceport named "Porno" can't  be THAT bad, right? (I have left in a few editorial comments and bouts of hysterical laughter)

The Conclusion!  Good story, but who could expect any less from Philip K. Dick?  I am definitely adapting this into an episode for the show. On Friday, the new story begins - The Affair of the Brains.  Not as classic.  But more typical of old school sci fi.  A bit of a Buck Rogers style story.  Yes, there will be editorial comments.

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In a war-torn future, robots are the ultimate weapon.  But what if they work too well?

It just keeps going....

Missing kids.... Masterminds... noises.... oh my.