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Podcast: The Cosmic Library
Episode: 2.1 The Worlds of Scheherazade: Introduction
Description: You know Shahrazad, who tells a story every night in order to survive and save lives; you also know the collection of stories that results: 1,001 Nights. At least, you've felt the influence of those stories. On TV, in books, in comics—you’ve experienced things informed by the episodic narratives of Shahrazad. And in this season of The Cosmic Library, you’ll hear how the Nights opened paths to infinite story possibility within repetitive constraints.Even as the threat of death looms over Shahrazad in the Nights, her narrative inventions promise something that exceeds the power of a tyra...