Feb 1, 2024
From high in the air, there is a terror descending upon us. No, no,
not like that, it's some kind of menace in the air lanes! Well, if
we're getting out of the way of that, we should head to space
proper! Need something really special? Why not head for someplace
uncharted! Well, I've heard tell of a forgotten planet that'd have
all sorts of neat stuff within. Ah, I see, I see, you don't have
the stomach for space travel, well, there's quite the series of
events going on down south, if you've still got the taste for
adventure. It's really quite the tale, there's zombies, mesmerism,
derring-do, the whole nine yards! Okay, alright, none of that
sounds good, just stick at home and discover this fantastic tale of
a wonderful new scientific discovery! None of that sound good? Give
the episode a listen anyway, I only described some of the
Astounding short stories on offer in this episode!
Want to read along with us? Find the book here:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29198
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Disclaimer:
TL;DR up front: Paper Cuts is almost all public domain stuff, and some of it hasn't aged well. I'll be doing my best to warn you, but I'm not changing any of it, I don't believe censorship is the path forward here.
Paper Cuts, by necessity, has to be a majority books that are in the US public domain. That means it's almost exclusively going to be content produced in the 1920s, or earlier. These works may have aspects that have not aged well to a modern viewer/listener. Now, I'm never one for censorship, but I do believe we are entitled to being able to filter the leisure content we don't want to see. So, this results in the following policy:
I'll do my level best to warn you, the viewer, at the beginning
of the episode, what's likely to come up.
A great example is something like 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea,
which had some passages describing natives of various places in a
fashion I'd charitably describe as unkindly.
In cases where something sneaks up on me unwarned, I will be
reading the content unedited, with my sincerest apologies for the
lack of active warning.
All that said, I'm gonna cover my bases with some common warnings that have come up often in books I've read before:
Descriptions of "savage natives"
Various racial slurs, unkind terms, and/or Descriptions of groups
that have taken on a worse connotation
General mistreatment and misrepresentation of cultures
Generally speaking, if something I'm reading is on the page? Don't expect me to have opinions aligning with it. We're here to have fun, not disparage people!