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MOONIFEST DESTINY is a novel by Peter Gelman. It is a science-fictional historical fantasy set in 1846. The subtitle is The Rough & Ready Balloon Invasion of the Lunar Peninsula of Texas. The author narrates the novel through the episodes of this podcast, and sometimes offers historical comments. The novel is available on Kindle for just $0.99 (with illustrations): http://goo.gl/OgLcX Thank you!
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MOONIFEST DESTINY podcast 36. MOONIFEST DESTINY is a novel by Peter Gelman. Subtitle: The Rough & Ready Balloon Invasion of the Lunar Peninsula of Texas. This episode includes narration of the last chapter, 35. Jack wanders through battle wreckage in a dream state. A fearsome sight drives him into water. He meets his friend and deserter, Hernani Kl…
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MOONIFEST DESTINY podcast 35. MOONIFEST DESTINY is a novel by Peter Gelman. Subtitle: The Rough & Ready Balloon Invasion of the Lunar Peninsula of Texas. This episode includes narration of Chapter 34. Jack confronts Prince President Franklin Stove, the metal man, and after a struggle, discovers his awful secrets! Afterward I read philosophical comm…
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MOONIFEST DESTINY podcast 34. MOONIFEST DESTINY is a novel by Peter Gelman. Subtitle: The Rough & Ready Balloon Invasion of the Lunar Peninsula of Texas. This episode includes narration of Chapter 33. Jack leaves the fort and searches the broken battleground for Sarah and Prince President Franklin Stove, the metal man. Afterward I explain how I cam…
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MOONIFEST DESTINY podcast 33. MOONIFEST DESTINY is a novel by Peter Gelman. Subtitle: The Rough & Ready Balloon Invasion of the Lunar Peninsula of Texas. This episode includes narration of Chapter 32. As the fate of the second battle becomes clear, Jack searches for Sarah. Afterward I briefly mention my other stories, novels, and podcast projects. …
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MOONIFEST DESTINY podcast 31. MOONIFEST DESTINY is a novel by Peter Gelman. Subtitle: The Rough & Ready Balloon Invasion of the Lunar Peninsula of Texas. This episode includes narration of Chapter 30. Jack receives martial punishment, and explains why--since the Creator won't punish him, he had to punish himself. Afterward I examine historical fict…
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MOONIFEST DESTINY podcast 30. MOONIFEST DESTINY is a novel by Peter Gelman. Subtitle: The Rough & Ready Balloon Invasion of the Lunar Peninsula of Texas. This episode includes narration of Chapter 29. Following his failed challenge to the Creator, Jack is changing. He rebels. He lets loose his outrage against Prince President Franklin Stove. The au…
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MOONIFEST DESTINY podcast 29. MOONIFEST DESTINY is a novel by Peter Gelman. Subtitle: The Rough & Ready Balloon Invasion of the Lunar Peninsula of Texas. This episode includes narration of Chapter 28. Sarah explains the current battle as if it were the middle of a Base-Ball Game. She and Jack argue. To keep her from leaving him, Jack takes a risk a…
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MOONIFEST DESTINY podcast 28. MOONIFEST DESTINY is a novel by Peter Gelman. Subtitle: The Rough & Ready Balloon Invasion of the Lunar Peninsula of Texas. This episode includes narration of Chapter 27. Socrates, aka "Old Sock", is an officer's slave. He tells Jack the story of Alfred Bitt and his master-killing monster. Jack suspects a trick. Histor…
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MOONIFEST DESTINY podcast 32. MOONIFEST DESTINY is a novel by Peter Gelman. Subtitle: The Rough & Ready Balloon Invasion of the Lunar Peninsula of Texas. This episode includes narration of Chapter 31. A battle begins outside the fort! Is this rescue or doom? As Jack recovers from his wounds he finds his camp-wife missing. (New listeners should star…
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MOONIFEST DESTINY podcast 27. MOONIFEST DESTINY is a novel by Peter Gelman. Subtitle: The Rough & Ready Balloon Invasion of the Lunar Peninsula of Texas. This episode includes narration of Chapter 26. Under bombardment, some men suffer wounds. Others argue and fight each other. The "moral surgeon", the automaton, Prince-President Franklin Stove, di…
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MOONIFEST DESTINY podcast 26. MOONIFEST DESTINY is a novel by Peter Gelman. Subtitle: The Rough & Ready Balloon Invasion of the Lunar Peninsula of Texas. This episode includes narration of Chapter 25. Led by Captain Walker, the men rebel against the troublesome automaton, Prince-President Franklin Stove. At the end of the chapter, I explain about t…
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MOONIFEST DESTINY podcast 25. MOONIFEST DESTINY is a novel by Peter Gelman. Subtitle: The Rough & Ready Balloon Invasion of the Lunar Peninsula of Texas. This episode includes narration of Chapter 24. The automaton, Prince-President Franklin Stove, upsets the soldiers when he explains how the planets are shifting their orbits... and why. This has s…
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MOONIFEST DESTINY podcast 24. MOONIFEST DESTINY is a novel by Peter Gelman. Subtitle: The Rough & Ready Balloon Invasion of the Lunar Peninsula of Texas. This episode includes narration of Chapter 23. The automaton, Prince-President Franklin Stove, explains Monroe Doctrine in terms of Old Spheres against New... (New listeners should start with epis…
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MOONIFEST DESTINY podcast 23. MOONIFEST DESTINY is a novel by Peter Gelman. Subtitle: The Rough & Ready Balloon Invasion of the Lunar Peninsula of Texas. This episode includes narration of Chapter 22. A rumor starts that Andrew Jackson is coming... Sam Walker and Sara explain Manifest Destiny in common terms... (New listeners should start with epis…
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MOONIFEST DESTINY podcast 22. MOONIFEST DESTINY is a novel by Peter Gelman. Subtitle: The Rough & Ready Balloon Invasion of the Lunar Peninsula of Texas. This episode includes narration of Chapter 21. A famous historical person breaks through the Lunar siege lines and brings a message to Fort Texas... (New listeners should start with episode 1 plea…
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MOONIFEST DESTINY podcast 21. MOONIFEST DESTINY is a novel by Peter Gelman. Subtitle: The Rough & Ready Balloon Invasion of the Lunar Peninsula of Texas. This episode includes narration of Chapter 20. The Lunar Army continues to besiege Fort Texas. The soldiers in the dugout Bomb-Proof find ways to wait out the bombardment... (New listeners should …
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MOONIFEST DESTINY podcast 20. MOONIFEST DESTINY is a novel by Peter Gelman. Subtitle: The Rough & Ready Balloon Invasion of the Lunar Peninsula of Texas. This episode includes narration of Chapter 19. This is the second day that the Lunar Army besieges Fort Texas. Jack carefully measures his ambitions, and remembers his mother's tale of meeting Pre…
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MOONIFEST DESTINY podcast 19. MOONIFEST DESTINY is a novel by Peter Gelman. Subtitle: The Rough & Ready Balloon Invasion of the Lunar Peninsula of Texas. This episode includes narration of Chapter 18. The Lunar Army bombards Fort Texas on the Moon. Down in the dugout Bomb-Proof, the Metal Man, Prince-President Franklin Stove, volunteers as the "Mor…
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MOONIFEST DESTINY podcast 18. MOONIFEST DESTINY is a novel by Peter Gelman. Subtitle: The Rough & Ready Balloon Invasion of the Lunar Peninsula of Texas. This episode includes narration of Chapter 17. The war begins, and yet Jack discovers a paucity of glory. Instead, bad things happen. (New listeners should start with episode 1 please.) This 1846 …
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MOONIFEST DESTINY podcast 17. MOONIFEST DESTINY is a novel by Peter Gelman. Subtitle: The Rough & Ready Balloon Invasion of the Lunar Peninsula of Texas. This episode includes narration of Chapter 16. As war starts with a violent shock, Jack considers Fate and Freedom, with doubts about the Great Watchmaker. If there is no free will, what does it m…
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MOONIFEST DESTINY podcast 16. MOONIFEST DESTINY is a novel by Peter Gelman. Subtitle: The Rough & Ready Balloon Invasion of the Lunar Peninsula of Texas. This episode includes narration of Chapter 15 and historical notes. Since the Metal Man hit the base-ball over to the Lunar Army, Jack goes to fetch it--despite rumors of war. He meets a Lunar off…
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MOONIFEST DESTINY podcast 15. MOONIFEST DESTINY is a novel by Peter Gelman. Subtitle: The Rough & Ready Balloon Invasion of the Lunar Peninsula of Texas. This episode includes narration of Chapter 14 and historical notes. As the enemy prays before battle, Sarah teaches the soldiers (and the automaton) to play a new game called Base-Ball. (New liste…
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MOONIFEST DESTINY podcast 14. MOONIFEST DESTINY is a novel by Peter Gelman. Subtitle: The Rough & Ready Balloon Invasion of the Lunar Peninsula of Texas. This episode includes narration of Chapter 13 and historical notes. Jack considers Lunar politics, tries to understand religion, and impishly dares another Soldier to wear a "bad luck charm". (New…
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MOONIFEST DESTINY podcast 13. MOONIFEST DESTINY is a novel by Peter Gelman. Subtitle: The Rough & Ready Balloon Invasion of the Lunar Peninsula of Texas. This episode includes narration of Chapter 12 and historical notes. As news of war comes closer, the Commander of Fort Texas explains what he thinks their purpose is. Yes, but Jack develops a conc…
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MOONIFEST DESTINY podcast 12. MOONIFEST DESTINY is a novel by Peter Gelman. Subtitle: The Rough & Ready Balloon Invasion of the Lunar Peninsula of Texas. This episode includes narration of Chapter 11 and historical notes. The Metal Man attempts to explain the fossil as the remains of a champion of the irrational defeated by Man, champion of the rat…
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MOONIFEST DESTINY podcast 11. MOONIFEST DESTINY is a novel by Peter Gelman. Subtle: the Rough & Ready Balloon Invasion of the Lunar Peninsula of Texas. This episode includes narration of Chapter 10 of this #sciencefiction #novel set in 1846. (New listeners should start with episode 1 please.) In this chapter, the army fort sappers (engineers) dig u…
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MOONIFEST DESTINY #podcast 10. MOONIFEST DESTINY is a novel by Peter Gelman. Subtitle: The Rough & Ready Balloon Invasion of the Lunar Peninsula of Texas. This episdoe includes narration of Chapter 9 of this 1846 #sciencefiction #novel. (New listeners should start with episode 1 please.) This chapter explores the politics of the women of the fort, …
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MOONIFEST DESTINY #podcast 9. MOONIFEST DESTINY is a novel by Peter Gelman. Subtitle: The Rough & Ready Balloon Invasion of the Lunar Peninsula of Texas. This episdoe includes narration of Chapter 8 of this 1846 #sciencefiction #novel. In this chapter the Metal Man explains his travels, from political luminary to luminary, seeking to get rid of him…
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MOONIFEST DESTINY #podcast 8. This is a historical-fantastical novel by Peter Gelman set in 1846. Subtitle: The ROugh & Ready Balloon Invasion of the Lunar Peninsula of Texas. This episode is narration of Chapter 7. This novel is available for Kindle for only $0.99 with illustrations: goo.gl/OgLcX (Please support your hard-working writers.) Protect…
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MOONIFEST DESTINY #podcast 7. MOONIFEST DESTINY is a novel, a historical and fantasticalvision of 1846. Subtitle: The Rough & Ready Balloon Invasion of the Lunar Peninsula of Texas. Novel and podcast by Peter Gelman. This episode is narration of Chapter 6 of 1846 #sciencefiction #novel #Kindle goo.gl/OgLcX $0.99 illustrated . Protected by the Creat…
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MOONIFEST DESTINY #podcast 6. MOONIFEST DESTINY is a historic-fantastical novel set in 1846 by Peter Gelman. Subtitle: The Rough & Ready Balloon Invasion of the Lunar Peninsula of Texas. This episode is narration of Chapter 5 of 1846 #sciencefiction #novel #Kindle goo.gl/OgLcX $0.99 Thank you for listening!…
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MOONIFEST DESTINY #podcast 5. MOONIFEST DESTINY is a novel set in 1846 by Peter Gelman. Subtitle: The Rough & Ready Balloon Invasion of the Lunar Peninsula of Texas. This episode is narration of Chapter 4 of #sciencefiction #novel #Kindle goo.gl/OgLcX $0.99
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MOONIFEST DESTINY #podcast 4. MOONIFEST DESTINY is a science fiction novel by Peter Gelman set in 1846. Subtitle: The Rough & Ready Balloon Invasion of the Lunar Peninsula of Texas. This episode is narration of Chapter 3 of 1846 #sciencefiction #novel. #Kindle, illustrated $0.99.goo.gl/OgLcX Thank you for listening!…
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MOONIFEST DESTINY #podcast 3. MOONIFEST DESTINY is a novel by Peter Gelman. Subtitle: The Rough & Ready Balloon Invasion of the Lunar Peninsula of Texas. This episode is Narration of Chapter 2 of this 1846 #sciencefiction #novel. $0.99 on #Kindle, illustrated. goo.gl/OgLcX Thank you for listening!
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MOONIFEST DESTINY #podcast 2. MOONIFEST DESTINY is a novel by Peter Gelman. Subtitle: The Rough & Ready Balloon Invasion of the Lunar Peninsula of Texas. This episode is narration of Chapter 1 of #sciencefiction #novel. $0.99 on #Kindle, with illusrations: goo.gl/OgLcX Thank you for listening!
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This is the introductory episode of the MOONIFEST DESTINY podcast. The podcast will narrate a novel I wrote in 1991. Now on #kindle goo.gl/OgLcX $0.99 . This initial podcast explains what it is about & the novel's history. Thank you for listening!
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