Tape Land 213 – Severe Repair: The Broken Text – Audiobook Part 12 – Cuplines 24, 25 and 26 (11/13/26)
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2:48:07 – 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 24: THE DARK OF COLLEGE, CUPLINE 25: HADRIAN FOZZCOLT, CUPLINE 26: CARNE’S MOISTURE DETECTION FRIEND.
Severe Repair never fails to amaze me, here thirty or so years after I wrote most of it. This part starts out pretty well, but then goes off the deep end with the Carne’s Cupline, in something of a good way. I enjoyed my “cameo” by the train. I had forgotten that Hadrian Fozzcolt was a character from Johnny Pitch, a Severe Repair TV show inspired by Doctor Who. Vartoon & Fathgocken was pretty amazing how it had so many references to other parts of Severe Repair, and how it implies they became the characters Likes Trains and Doesn’t Like Trains. Carne’s Moisture Detection Friend started out as a separate project, but I later added it to Severe Repair. It’s full of “real world” Gen X type conversations, but then connected to the rest of Severe Repair by implying this billionaire guy had been affected by the superhero Lemon. And then there’s Nurship’s story ideas, including a super detailed character list for Cup’s Club, which while fictional in the “real world”, did actually exist, as Millicent in Canada found out earlier in the book. And in “Years of Beathcat” (based on a dream I had, as I remember) – it almost sounds like they wind up on the Weird Little Highway at the end! That freaked me out a little. And “The Solvent Ijsane” connects back to Daptin via Fox.
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
