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Fast Living

Ephemerae and Swift People

In Podcast #24 the Rocketeer looks at several stories about people living in hyper-accelerated states. Talk about a change in perspective!

Opening title for Star Trek: TOS, “Wink of an Eye”
In a hyper-accelerated regular weapons don’t work very well.
Title page for “The Ephemerae” (1938) by Edmond Hamilton

Title page for “The Swift People” (1943) by Basil Wells

Just in…literally…I saw this on X today. Apparently, a nova is about to explode and this will lead to a new star in the sky. This is EXACTLY what happened in one of the stories I’m reviewing this week: “The Ephemerae”. So get out your ray-proof suits kids, because we haven’t seen a great supernova from Earth since 1054 A.D.!

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