Episode 78: The Orphaned Light

This episode is releasing late due to the passing of our mother, Debra Doyle, a few weeks ago. We recorded this before her passing, and we talked about her a lot in it. She was pretty great, and we loved her a lot. We hope to always be the sort of people she’d be proud of, and create the sort of stories she would like.

In this episode we discuss a story Alex is working on currently titled The Orphaned Light, another story of his Space Ace Detective stories.

Content warnings for strong language, exponential growth jokes, and discussions of murder

We reference or spoil: Total Recall, Firefly, NSIS: “A Body in the Void”, Deliverance, Transformers, Mystic Seaport, Black Mirror, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Dorothy SayersPeter Wimsey universe, Arthur Conan Doyle‘s Sherlock Holmes universe, Hello from the Magic Tavern, Martha WellsMurderbot universe, Agatha Christie‘s “And Then There Were None“, Doctor Who‘s “Horror of Fang Rock“, BuzzFeed Unsolved‘s “The Eerie Vanishing Of The Flannan Isles Lighthouse Keepers“, Wilfrid Wilson Gibson‘s “Flannan Isle“, The Lighthouse (2019), The Vanishing (2018), Lore‘s “Rope and Railing“, One-Punch Man, Blake’s 7, Buffy the Vampire Slayer‘s “The Zeppo“, “Interview: Cory Doctorow“, Over the Moon (2020), and Among Us

The transcript will be available soon on nostoryissacred.com.

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