Escape Artists
PodCastle => Episode Comments => Topic started by: Ocicat on September 24, 2019, 04:44:02 PM
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Podcastle 593: Balloon Man (http://podcastle.org/2019/09/24/podcastle-593-balloon-man/)
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Rated PG
Originally published in Giganotosaurus.
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Am I the only one who thought this tale reminiscent of Douglas Adams. Wry humour. Surreal. Hell, I was even envisioning an Indian version of Discworld.
:o I’d like a hug, danger-noodle. Impressed,
ScubaMan.
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A nagin. I’m butchering the language & spelling. A serpent. “A fearful king, is a formal king”. There are SO MANY other truisms, THIS is good stuff.
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The nested format was perfectly crafted and was like nice flaky layers of roti. Excellent all around.
P.S. I still want a Bollywood Kaiju film adaptation of Lord of Light. But I would also be happy with an adaptation of this story.