Kindred of Old Podcast

A desert rite of passage turns into a sci‑fi legend in this origin episode by KA Langfeld. Meet Thumee, a young woman on a desert planet, who is stung by a GoRak—a creature whose venom is said to be incurable. Facing certain death, Thumee discovers she can enter a meditative trance called the Dive, where she manipulates Light to purge poison and keep her body alive without food, water, or shelter....

Time feels universal, but the speed of light—fixed at about 300,000 km/s—forces a startling conclusion: if light’s speed can’t “add” to a moving train the way a thrown tennis ball does, then time itself must flex . In this episode, we explore that simple contradiction to the reality of personal time —time differences too small to notice in daily life, yet confirmed by atomic clocks, particle accel...

This Deep Dive discusses a science fiction short story, set in the  Kindred-of-Old  universe, following a young woman named  TaaRell  as she embarks on a traditional  rite of passage  into adulthood. Leaving her village to wander the vast, three-mooned desert, she relies on a spiritual connection to  MoTHer  and a unique  mental sense  to survive....