What Mad Universe?!?
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S3E74 -Chapter Seventy-Four: The Pyramids of Venus!

On TO VENUS IN FIVE SECONDS by Fred T. Jane

As far as satire goes, there's being of the moment, and there's being way ahead of your time. The short 19th-century comedic SF novel To Venus In Five Seconds ends up parodying a bunch of tropes, from ancient astronauts to technobabble, at a time long before you would have assumed they'd sunk in to pop culture, and on this episode we're diving into it (for longer than five seconds)

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