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Episode: 4319
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Title: HPR4319: Am Rande - on the edge
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr4319/hpr4319.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-25 22:54:59
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This is Hacker Public Radio episode 4,319 for Thursday the 20th of February 2025.
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Today's show is entitled, Amran Don the Edge.
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It is part of a series science fiction and fantasy.
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It is the 10th show of Fucky, and is about four minutes long.
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It carries a clean flag.
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The summary is, on a science fiction book from Eastern Germany from the 1970s.
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You are listening to a show from the Reserve Q.
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We are airing it now because we had free slots that were not filled.
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This is a community project that needs listeners to contribute shows in order to survive.
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Please consider recording a show for Hacker Public Radio.
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Hi, this is Fucky.
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OK not Fucky's voice, because he is testing the text to speech system Piper with my voice.
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Nind Alber.
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He found me because he is using rock books on his Santa Clip Plus and Santa Clip Sip and
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the main developer announced that he is switching to Piper for the voice files in the daily
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builds, which made Fucky curious and he installed Piper to T.S. on his thinkpad with voices
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in English, Swedish and German.
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All of these sound really good in Fucky's ears, but now to the main issue of this show,
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are we continue with Fucky as the one writing me and I.
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In show 4,180 Hacker started a new series about science fiction and fantasy, as always
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very good planned and structured.
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I won't do it just as well as him, but want to distribute in the series.
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As you already know from previous shows, I was born and lived in a former DDR and that
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way I have some other influences than most of you.
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For example, we read more The Wizard of the Emerald City by Alexander Volkov instead
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of Elle.
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Frank Bams, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
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Believe it or not we had science fiction too.
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My first book in the genre was called I'm Rand Wohnen-Diwilden, which means on the
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edge of life the savages.
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I remember it as written by some Russian author, but when I researched a bit for this show
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I discovered it was in East German like me and he wrote a lot more books than this.
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His name was Klaus Fruhoff, was because he died in 2005.
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I remember this book so well, because it had some themes still talking to me.
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Imagine a world inhabited by an advanced civilization that killed all other life on the planet
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because of hadginaic objectives.
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Instead of trees and plants there are beautiful crystal structures.
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The inhabitants of this world are communicating by means of a planet-wide network, working
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with some kind of thought-reading caponet on the head.
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This works so well that all political decisions are taken by direct votes in this network.
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Some de-astronomers are detecting a small planet on the edge of the galaxy, which seems
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to have intelligent life, but also of their biological life.
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And that is unbelievable for this society so proud about their clean planet.
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It can't be true that intelligent beings would live with dirty animals and plants, and
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worst of all, dangerous microbes.
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So a big discussion is started on the network, which nearly splits the society.
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One fraction wants to explore the strange planet by sending a spaceship.
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The other one is strictly against it, because it's unreasonable to invest such an amount
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of resources, just to take a look at savages.
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In the end the first fraction is winning, and the spaceship is arriving with a team of scientists
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at this strange planet, Tellus.
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Yek, you guessed right, it's what we call the Earth.
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They send them in a way team, taking contact to tellus slash Earth's inhabitants.
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They are being welcomed and get shown around the different places and climate zones of
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the planet.
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But in an accident in some rainforest, their vehicle is taking damage, and they breathe
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Earth's air and get polluted.
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Now the medical experts of Tellus are an alarm, and research if there is any compatibility
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between the organisms.
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Luckily they find some anti-agents in the blood of some human seeming to work on the other
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beings, and they are getting cured.
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But now the members of the way team can't return to their own world, because they would
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contaminate the others, and there wouldn't be enough medicine for them.
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The spaceship is flying home without them.
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That's all I remember from the book.
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Some of it might not totally correct, but you get the right impression of it in any case.
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As far as I could find, there is no English translation of this book with the other work
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of this author.
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I think that's a pity.
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Have a good time and give more shows on science fiction, and slash or fancy yourself.
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You have been listening to Hecker Public Radio at Hecker Public Radio does work.
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Today's show was contributed by a HBR listener like yourself.
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If you ever thought of recording podcasts, then click on our contribute link to find out
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how easy it really is.
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Hosting for HBR has been kindly provided by an honesthost.com.
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The Internet Archive and R-Sync.net.
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On the Sadois stages, today's show is released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
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License.
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