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  1. Rec 12

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    A perfectly nice radio astronomer and his adorable cat are minding their own business when they get abducted by a pyromaniac mathematician and a USAF colonel with questionable loyalties. A nightmarish, quixotic adventure draws them ever closer to cracking the enigmatic nine-chevron address.

    Hostile information landscapes and the threat of mind control make it hard to know anything for sure. One thing is certain though: no one smokes in space.

    And. This week, on Ad Noc:

    “Please tell me,” Volker whispered, “that you didn’t stab an undercover USAF colonel to deliver the message: we need cat food.”

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  2. Rec 7

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    "And what game would you suggest?"

    Her words aren't even slurred — that's a good sign, right? Probably. It's not like Johnny's a doctor. Maybe she's got brain damage and it's killing her. Maybe Johnny's got brain damage and it's killing him. Maybe they're about to get jettisoned into space like garbage. Maybe —

    "A question game," he tells her confidently, shoving all those thoughts aside. "You know, like kids play."

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    05 Jul 2025

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  3. Rec 15

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    Right now, he’s watching her as she closes her eyes, ducking her head as she tries to come up with the words. And probably, he should say that she doesn’t need to tell him. It’s none of his business. But she’s been following him for weeks and he thinks that he’s owed an explanation, at least. And a real one, not something that’s easy to swallow but has no truth in it.

    “The truth is,” she says eventually, “that you – uh. Well.”

    She sighs. And then, like a miracle, opens her eyes and looks at him.

    “You look like someone I used to care about very much,” she says. “That’s all.”

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    The Master uses the Chameleon Arch.

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    26 Apr 2025

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    “Vidal,” Agnes says, twirling her stake between her fingers. Her voice carries over the empty cemetery, disturbing the chorus of crickets. “Don’t tell me you’re visiting your own grave. That’s just sad.”

    Vidal grins. Her pointed teeth catch the moonlight. “Oh, please,” she says, brushing a bit of dirt from the name carved into the gravestone. “I wouldn’t be caught dead dying in this town. I’m just checking up on one of the locals.”

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    Before guest-starring as Agent Vidal in Agatha's cop drama, Rio plays along for a few of Agatha's other TV-inspired delusions.

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    24 Sep 2024

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    After millennia of lonely wandering, a derelict starship decides to incorporate a human mathematician into its hardware and software. Of course, the Ancients have rules about that kind of thing. So does the USAF’s most stubborn colonel.

    A transhumanist fairytale that takes place on a matter wave traveling faster than light. An epic saga of love and loss and loyalty. A song of machine yearning.

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    17 Dec 2023

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