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Long Odds
by James
Long Odds is an anthology about crossing blind. A small, underfunded, secret federal program has found a way into other universes. Nobody can choose the destination, only roughly how different it will be from ours. Teams go in with a case, a cover story, and a budget that cannot survive too many empty-handed trips, hoping to bring home something that helps: a medicine another world bet on, an engine we never built, a road not taken. Getting back to a world they have already visited works about one time in ten. Every episode is a complete story with its own ending, in the spirit of X Minus One and The Twilight Zone, but not sad all the time. Underneath, slow currents move: relationships grow, people lose patience with each other and with the program, and some of them think it will end badly. Some crossings are wondrous, some are funny, some are quiet, and some go wrong. Episodes where the team does real harm to the world it visited open with a spoken
Episodes
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Off the Books: Declared Value
A side story outside the main Long Odds numbering. Told from home. Walt Sobieski spends one very long day at the annex, hearing his field team only through ninety second radio windows, while a customs officer in a world where the Constitution never happened impounds their equipment, a federal...
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Off the Books: The Remarkable Raymond
A side story outside the main Long Odds numbering. Ines, Luis, and Owen cross to a world just next door and land in the middle of a seven year old's backyard birthday party, halfway through a magic trick. The only person who doesn't panic is the magician. The Remarkable Raymond has spent forty...
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Long Odds 02: The Helper
A small, underfunded, secret federal program crosses into other universes, mostly blind, to bring home anything that helps. Going back to a world they have already visited works about one time in ten. In this episode, return engineer Femi Adeyemi talks his way onto a blind jump with Team Two out…
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Long Odds 01: The Porch Light
A small, underfunded, secret federal program crosses into other universes, mostly blind, to bring home anything that helps. Going back to a world they have already visited works about one time in ten. In the first episode, cover specialist Hana Whitlock volunteers for a return test to a gentle...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Long Odds is an anthology about crossing blind.
A small, underfunded, secret federal program has found a way into other universes. Nobody can choose the destination, only roughly how different it will be from ours. Teams go in with a case, a cover story, and a budget that cannot survive too many empty-handed trips, hoping to bring home something that helps: a medicine another world bet on, an engine we never built, a road not taken. Getting back to a world they have already visited works about one time in ten.
Every episode is a complete story with its own ending, in the spirit of X Minus One and The Twilight Zone, but not sad all the time. Underneath, slow currents move: relationships grow, people lose patience with each other and with the program, and some of them think it will end badly. Some crossings are wondrous, some are funny, some are quiet, and some go wrong. Episodes where the team does real harm to the world it visited open with a spoken
HOSTED BY
James
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Long Odds is an anthology about crossing blind. A small, underfunded, secret federal program has found a way into other universes. Nobody can choose the destination, only roughly how different it will be from ours. Teams go in with a case, a cover story, and a budget that cannot survive too many...
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Long Odds is created and hosted by James.
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