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Blowups Happen

By: Robert A. Heinlein
Narrated by: Peter Coates
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Blowups Happen is a 1940 science fiction short story by American writer Robert A. Heinlein. It is one of two stories in which Heinlein, using only public knowledge of nuclear fission, anticipated the actual development of nuclear technology a few years later.

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Heinlein seems to have known a lot about nuclear energy before it was exposed to the public.

Knowledge of the author before Trinity

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I have listened to this story in another collection that was read by a human. That one was way better. The virtual voice in this instance is awful. I find myself not being able to follow the story at all.

Virtual voice. UGH.

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