Tape Land 211 – Severe Repair: The Broken Text – Audiobook Part 10 – Cuplines 19 and 20 (11/1/26)
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2:17:22 – Welcome to Tape Land! On each episode, I’ll present the audio of a cassette tape or historic recording from my collection. It’s a way to help motivate me to release more of my archives.
Continuing the audiobook version of my “failed science fiction novel” Severe Repair. This time: CUPLINE 19: THE MILDRED CORK and CUPLINE 20: CLOWN CENTAUR ARCHITECT, read by computer voice “Azure Harper MAI-Voice-2.1”.
You know, it’s been quite a trip revisiting Severe Repair by having a computer voice read it. As I wrote most of it around 30 years ago, much of it has faded from memory, so it’s almost like hearing it for the first time. As much as I loved the last two entries in this series, this one was back to me cringing and questioning my younger self. Why all these tangents? Why not continue the main storyline? While these two Cuplines have some redeeming qualities, overall it just leaves me shaking my head… why the heck couldn’t I have just focused on the main storyline, and finished one book’s worth of story? As it is, these two Cuplines were very hard to listen to at times. I’ve grown and changed as a person, and I can’t imagine writing some of this stuff now. But… once again, it’s not called a “failed science fiction novel” for nothing…
Find the text version of the full book here: severerepair.com
License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Attribution: by Frank Edward Nora– more info at onsug.com
