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Podcast: Pratchat - a Terry Pratchett and Discworld book club
Episode: do { Podcast(); } while (unreadPratchetts > 0); (“#ifdefDEBUG + 'world'/'enough' + 'time'”)
Description: We travel down a leg of a very 1990s pair of the trousers of time this month, as author and musican Sean Williams joins Liz and Ben to get stuck into the artificial reality of Pratchett’s 1990 short story “#ifdefDEBUG + ‘world’/’enough’ + ‘time’“.
Darren Thompson is a repairman who specialises in Seagems: artificial reality consoles that can edit aspects of your everyday life, or plug you into a whole artificial world. His latest job is to inspect a machine in which the user has died. That’s not a first for Darren – but there’s something about this particular corpse in...