Public Speaking and the perils of reading Sci-Fi to an audience

I dreamt today that I had to stand up infront of a room full of people in a large hall and read a passage from a story. Except the story was hard Sci-Fi, full of made up names stupidly hard to pronounce.

As expected I screwed up constantly, getting stuck on all the random words I had to deal with, back tracking, asking the other people on the stage what things meant.

The audience surprisingly just sat there and listened....the bastards.

Then I woke up.