The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast - Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories

The powers of earth had finally exterminated the last of the horrible tribes of mutant freaks spawned by atomic war. Menace to homo sapien supremacy was about ended—but not quite. For out of the countryside came a great golden, godlike youth whose extraordinary mutant powers, combining the world's oldest and newest methods of survival, promised a new and superior type of mankind… The Golden Man by Philip K. Dick, that’s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast.On our last episode of the podcast you heard Way of a Rebel by Walter M. Miller which first appeared in the April 1954 issue of If Worlds of Science Fiction magazine. Go to page 4 which is the very first story in that magazine and you will discover, The Golden Man by Philip K. Dick…Next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, A super short science fiction story you’ve probably never heard written by Isaac Asimov, published in Scientific American magazine in 1962. ☕ Buy Me a Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/scottsV===========================👕 Merchandise - https://lostscifi.creator-spring.com===========================Connect with us!🎧 Join Our Newsletter - Get Free Audiobooks http://lostscifi.com/free/Pinterest - https://www.pinterest.com/lostscifi/YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgyNZ7w5w7O714NHkRv5psAFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/TheLostSciFiPodcastTwitter - https://twitter.com/lost_sci_fi===========================❤️ ❤️ Thanks to All Our Listeners Who Bought Us a Coffee$200 Someone$75 James Van Maanenberg$50 Anonymous Listener$25 Bromite Thrip, Marwin de Haan, Future Space Engineer, Fressie, Kevin Eckert, Stephen Kagan, James Van Maanenberg, Irma Stolfo, Josh Jennings, Leber8tr, Conrad Chaffee, Anonymous Listener$15 Curious Jon, Buz C., Fressie, Anonymous Listener$10 Anonymous Listener$5 Chrystene, Richard Hoffman, Anonymous ListenerPlease participate in our podcast survey https://podcastsurvey.typeform.com/to/gNLcxQlk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

No one knows the heart of a rebel until his own search for the reason of right or wrong is made. Lieutenant Laskell found the answer to his own personal rebellion deep beneath a turbulent Atlantic, and somehow, when the time came, his decision wasn't too difficult… Way of a Rebel by Walter M. Miller, that’s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast.We’ve heard from a lot of authors that are new to the podcast lately, and that trend continues today with a story from Walter Michael Miller Jr.. He was born in New Smyrna Beach, Florida in 1923. Served in World War II as a radioman and tail gunner, flying more than fifty bombing missions over Italy.If his name is familiar it’s probably because he won the Hugo Award for A Canticle for Leibowitz in 1961 for Best Novel. It’s considered to be a masterpiece. He wrote about 40 science fiction short stories from 1951 to 1957. Our story can be found on page 39 in the April 1954 issue of If Worlds of Science Fiction Magazine, Way of a Rebel by Walter M. Miller…Next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, The powers of earth had finally exterminated the last of the horrible tribes of mutant freaks spawned by atomic war. Menace to homo sapien supremacy was about ended—but not quite. For out of the countryside came a great golden, godlike youth whose extraordinary mutant powers, combining the world's oldest and newest methods of survival, promised a new and superior type of mankind… The Golden Man by Philip K. Dick.☕ Buy Me a Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/scottsV===========================👕 Merchandise - https://lostscifi.creator-spring.com===========================Connect with us!🎧 Join Our Newsletter - Get Free Audiobooks http://lostscifi.com/free/Pinterest - https://www.pinterest.com/lostscifi/YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgyNZ7w5w7O714NHkRv5psAFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/TheLostSciFiPodcastTwitter - https://twitter.com/lost_sci_fi===========================❤️ ❤️ Thanks to All Our Listeners Who Bought Us a Coffee$200 Someone$75 James Van Maanenberg$50 Anonymous Listener$25 Bromite Thrip, Marwin de Haan, Future Space Engineer, Fressie, Kevin Eckert, Stephen Kagan, James Van Maanenberg, Irma Stolfo, Josh Jennings, Leber8tr, Conrad Chaffee, Anonymous Listener$15 Curious Jon, Buz C., Fressie, Anonymous Listener$10 Anonymous Listener$5 Chrystene, Richard Hoffman, Anonymous ListenerPlease participate in our podcast survey https://podcastsurvey.typeform.com/to/gNLcxQlk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It lay silent and dead under the cold desert moon, but what strange race inhabited the abyss beneath those cyclopean ruin? The Nameless City by H. P. Lovecraft, that’s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast.Howard Phillips Lovecraft was born in 1890 in Providence Rhode Island. If you like weird, wacky, horror fantasy science fiction, Lovecraft could be just what you’ve been looking for. Lovecraft’s stories have been done so much we chose not to narrate them until today. So, why are we featuring H. P. Lovecraft today? Requests. Lots of them. And now that we’ve narrated one, there will be more.He started writing at the age of seven, Howard Lovecraft, not H. P., is credited with writing The Young Folks' Ulysses. He was fourteen when he began writing The Beast in the Cave, first published in the June 1918 issue of the amateur journalism publication The Vagrant. One of the 20th century’s most influential writers the master of weird and a frequent contributor to, appropriately, Weird Tales magazine. In fact more than a hundred of his stories appeared in Weird Tales.And that’s where we found today’s story. But it was published first in Fanciful Tales of Time and Space, in their Fall 1936 issue, on page 5, The Nameless City by H. P. Lovecraft…Next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, No one knows the heart of a rebel until his own search for the reason of right or wrong is made. Lieutenant Laskell found the answer to his own personal rebellion deep beneath a turbulent Atlantic, and somehow, when the time came, his decision wasn't too difficult… Way of a Rebel by Walter M. Miller.☕ Buy Me a Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/scottsV===========================👕 Merchandise - https://lostscifi.creator-spring.com===========================Connect with us!🎧 Join Our Newsletter - Get Free Audiobooks http://lostscifi.com/free/Pinterest - https://www.pinterest.com/lostscifi/YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgyNZ7w5w7O714NHkRv5psAFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/TheLostSciFiPodcastTwitter - https://twitter.com/lost_sci_fi===========================❤️ ❤️ Thanks to All Our Listeners Who Bought Us a Coffee$200 Someone$75 James Van Maanenberg$50 Anonymous Listener$25 Bromite Thrip, Marwin de Haan, Future Space Engineer, Fressie, Kevin Eckert, Stephen Kagan, James Van Maanenberg, Irma Stolfo, Josh Jennings, Leber8tr, Conrad Chaffee, Anonymous Listener$15 Curious Jon, Buz C., Fressie, Anonymous Listener$10 Anonymous Listener$5 Chrystene, Richard Hoffman, Anonymous Listenerhttps://lostscifi.com/podcast/the-nameless-city-by-h-p-lovecraft-episode-235/Please participate in our podcast survey https://podcastsurvey.typeform.com/to/gNLcxQlk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the city of strange wonders, the lure of the flame drew them on and on… destruction loomed ahead… The City of Singing Flame by Clark Ashton Smith, that’s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast.Today marks the debut of Clark Ashton Smith on our podcast. Smith was born in California in 1893. He was an insatiable reader with a photographic memory. He read an unabridged dictionary word for word, studying the definitions of the words and their origins. He read the complete 11th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica at least twice.He started writing at 11. By 14 he had written a short adventure novel titled The Black Diamonds which was lost for decades until was published in 2002 more than 41 years after his death.Smith was poor most of his life and often did manual labor jobs like fruit picking and woodcutting to provide for himself and his parents. To say he was a prolific writer of horror and science fiction would be a huge understatement. Between 1929 and 1934 he wrote more than a hundred short stories. He began corresponding with Robert E. Howard and H. P. Lovecraft and the three of them became friends although they never met.Clark Ashton Smith was praised by his peers, H. P. Lovecraft said, “in sheer daemonic strangeness and fertility of conception, Clark Ashton Smith is perhaps unexcelled” and Ray Bradbury said that Smith, “filled my mind with incredible worlds, impossibly beautiful cities, and still more fantastic creatures”. You are about to discover what Lovecraft and Bradbury were talking about.Turn back the clock 93 years and go to page 202 in Wonder Stories magazine, July 1931, The City of Singing Flame by Clark Ashton Smith…Next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, It lay silent and dead under the cold desert moon, but what strange race inhabited the abyss beneath those cyclopean ruin? The Nameless City by H. P. Lovecraft.☕ Buy Me a Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/scottsV===========================👕 Merchandise - https://lostscifi.creator-spring.com===========================Connect with us!🎧 Join Our Newsletter - Get Free Audiobooks http://lostscifi.com/free/Pinterest - https://www.pinterest.com/lostscifi/YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgyNZ7w5w7O714NHkRv5psAFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/TheLostSciFiPodcastTwitter - https://twitter.com/lost_sci_fi===========================❤️ ❤️ Thanks to All Our Listeners Who Bought Us a Coffee$200 Someone$75 James Van Maanenberg$50 Anonymous Listener$25 Bromite Thrip, Marwin de Haan, Future Space Engineer, Fressie, Kevin Eckert, Stephen Kagan, James Van Maanenberg, Irma Stolfo, Josh Jennings, Leber8tr, Conrad Chaffee, Anonymous Listener$15 Curious Jon, Buz C., Fressie, Anonymous Listener$10 Anonymous Listener$5 Chrystene, Richard Hoffman, Anonymous ListenerPlease participate in our podcast survey https://podcastsurvey.typeform.com/to/gNLcxQlk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

When Dave Carter tried to rescue the Denebians he found himself in a den of thieves. And he had cause to remember Shakespeare's observation: “He who steals my purse steals trash.” The Mystery of Deneb IV by Robert Silverberg, that’s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast.Special thanks to Bromite Thrip who bought us 5 cups of coffee! Thanks for your contribution and support for our podcast. There is a link in the description if you’d like to buy us a coffee.☕ Buy Me a Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/scottsVToday’s author is one of my favorites and he’s been heard many times on the podcast. From the pages of Fantastic Science Fiction in February 1957, turn to page 56 for, The Mystery of Deneb IV by Robert Silverberg…Next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, In the city of strange wonders, the lure of the flame drew them on and on… destruction loomed ahead… The City of Singing Flame by Clark Ashton Smith.☕ Buy Me a Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/scottsV===========================👕 Merchandise - https://lostscifi.creator-spring.com===========================Connect with us!🎧 Join Our Newsletter - Get Free Audiobooks http://lostscifi.com/free/Pinterest - https://www.pinterest.com/lostscifi/YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgyNZ7w5w7O714NHkRv5psAFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/TheLostSciFiPodcastTwitter - https://twitter.com/lost_sci_fi===========================❤️ ❤️ Thanks to All Our Listeners Who Bought Us a Coffee$200 Someone$75 James Van Maanenberg$50 Anonymous Listener$25 Bromite Thrip, Marwin de Haan, Future Space Engineer, Fressie, Kevin Eckert, Stephen Kagan, James Van Maanenberg, Irma Stolfo, Josh Jennings, Leber8tr, Conrad Chaffee, Anonymous Listener$15 Curious Jon, Buz C., Fressie, Anonymous Listener$10 Anonymous Listener$5 Chrystene, Richard Hoffman, Anonymous ListenerPlease participate in our podcast survey https://podcastsurvey.typeform.com/to/gNLcxQlk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

When the energy of Earth’s experimental station in space runs amuck, scientist Roger Sheldon puts up a big battle! Atomic Station by Frank Belknap Long, that’s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast.This is the second appearance on the podcast for Frank Belknap Long. You may remember the Time Travel story The Man From Time. Today’s titillating tale is from the Winter 1946 issue of Thrilling Wonder Stories magazine. Turn to page 83, Atomic Station by Frank Belknap Long…Next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, When Dave Carter tried to rescue the Denebians he found himself in a den of thieves. And he had cause to remember Shakespeare's observation: "He
who steals my purse steals trash.” The Mystery of Deneb IV by Robert Silverberg.☕ Buy Me a Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/scottsV===========================👕 Merchandise - https://lostscifi.creator-spring.com===========================Connect with us!🎧 Join Our Newsletter - Get Free Audiobooks http://lostscifi.com/free/Pinterest - https://www.pinterest.com/lostscifi/YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgyNZ7w5w7O714NHkRv5psAFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/TheLostSciFiPodcastTwitter - https://twitter.com/lost_sci_fi===========================❤️ ❤️ Thanks to All Our Listeners Who Bought Us a Coffee$200 Someone$75 James Van Maanenberg$50 Anonymous Listener$25 Future Space Engineer, Fressie, Kevin Eckert, Stephen Kagan, James Van Maanenberg, Irma Stolfo, Josh Jennings, Leber8tr, Conrad Chaffee, Anonymous Listener$15 Curious Jon, Buz C., Fressie, Anonymous Listener$10 Anonymous Listener$5 Chrystene, Richard Hoffman, Anonymous ListenerPlease participate in our podcast survey https://podcastsurvey.typeform.com/to/gNLcxQlk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This was the audience participation show that couldn’t be topped! You Risk Your Life by Joseph Slotkin, that’s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast.If the name Joseph Slotkin rings a bell you’ve been with us since the very beginning of the podcast. Episode 3, which was released on Wednesday, February 23, 2022 featured two stories, And All The Girls Were Nude by Richard Magruder and The Queen of Space by Joseph Slotkin. I enjoyed Slotkin’s work so I went looking for another Slotkin story but couldn’t find any, until now.On page 49 in Science Fiction Quarterly in May 1955, You Risk Your Life by Joseph Slotkin…Next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, When the energy of Earth’s experimental station in space runs amuck, scientist Roger Sheldon puts up a big battle! Atomic Station by Frank Belknap Long.☕ Buy Me a Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/scottsV===========================👕 Merchandise - https://lostscifi.creator-spring.com===========================Connect with us!🎧 Join Our Newsletter - Get Free Audiobooks http://lostscifi.com/free/Pinterest - https://www.pinterest.com/lostscifi/YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgyNZ7w5w7O714NHkRv5psAFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/TheLostSciFiPodcastTwitter - https://twitter.com/lost_sci_fi===========================❤️ ❤️ Thanks to All Our Listeners Who Bought Us a Coffee$200 Someone$75 James Van Maanenberg$50 Anonymous Listener$25 Future Space Engineer, Fressie, Kevin Eckert, Stephen Kagan, James Van Maanenberg, Irma Stolfo, Josh Jennings, Leber8tr, Conrad Chaffee, Anonymous Listener$15 Curious Jon, Buz C., Fressie, Anonymous Listener$10 Anonymous Listener$5 Chrystene, Richard Hoffman, Anonymous ListenerPlease participate in our podcast survey https://podcastsurvey.typeform.com/to/gNLcxQlk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Leonard–or the thing that had been Leonard–must be destroyed! Changeling by Ray Bradbury, that’s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast.There are many ways to support our podcast and we are thankful no matter how you choose to show your support. Apple Podcasts listener An Unremarkable Sinner gave us 5 stars on and says, “Amazing Stories. The story choice and narration are fantastic. After listening to a lot of more modern science fiction podcasts, these stories remind me why the 30’s-50’s were called the golden age of science fiction.” Thanks Unremarkable sinner!Ray Bradbury has been a regular on the podcast. Stories like Outcast of the Stars, Referent, Death Wish, The Veldt and Final Victim were featured in some of the more recent episodes. Today’s Bradbury contribution comes from Super Science Stories in July 1949. Discover this tragic tale on page 98, Changeling by Ray Bradbury…Next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, This was the audience participation show that couldn’t be topped! You Risk Your Life by Joseph Slotkin.☕ Buy Me a Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/scottsV===========================👕 Merchandise - https://lostscifi.creator-spring.com===========================Connect with us!🎧 Join Our Newsletter - Get Free Audiobooks http://lostscifi.com/free/Pinterest - https://www.pinterest.com/lostscifi/YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgyNZ7w5w7O714NHkRv5psAFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/TheLostSciFiPodcastTwitter - https://twitter.com/lost_sci_fi===========================❤️ ❤️ Thanks to All Our Listeners Who Bought Us a Coffee$200 Someone$75 James Van Maanenberg$50 Anonymous Listener$25 Future Space Engineer, Fressie, Kevin Eckert, Stephen Kagan, James Van Maanenberg, Irma Stolfo, Josh Jennings, Leber8tr, Conrad Chaffee, Anonymous Listener$15 Curious Jon, Buz C., Fressie, Anonymous Listener$10 Anonymous Listener$5 Chrystene, Richard Hoffman, Anonymous ListenerPlease participate in our podcast survey https://podcastsurvey.typeform.com/to/gNLcxQlk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Here is an epic worthy of you, immortal bard. Arise, oh Homer, and hearken to the classic saga of Achilles Maravain! Gangway for Homer by George R. Hahn, that’s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast.An unusual story for you today on the podcast and another debut of an author who isn’t very well known. To be fair almost nobody knows anything about him. His stories, all three of them, were published once a decade in the 1930s, 40s and 50s.Today’s story was published in Science Fiction Quarterly in the Spring of 1942. Let’s turn to page 122, Gangway for Homer by George R. Hahn…Next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, Leonard–or the thing that had been Leonard–must be destroyed. Changeling by Ray Bradbury.☕ Buy Me a Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/scottsV===========================👕 Merchandise - https://lostscifi.creator-spring.com===========================Connect with us!🎧 Join Our Newsletter - Get Free Audiobooks http://lostscifi.com/free/Pinterest - https://www.pinterest.com/lostscifi/YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgyNZ7w5w7O714NHkRv5psAFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/TheLostSciFiPodcastTwitter - https://twitter.com/lost_sci_fi===========================❤️ ❤️ Thanks to All Our Listeners Who Bought Us a Coffee$200 Someone$75 James Van Maanenberg$50 Anonymous Listener$25 Future Space Engineer, Fressie, Kevin Eckert, Stephen Kagan, James Van Maanenberg, Irma Stolfo, Josh Jennings, Leber8tr, Conrad Chaffee, Anonymous Listener$15 Curious Jon, Buz C., Fressie, Anonymous Listener$10 Anonymous Listener$5 Chrystene, Richard Hoffman, Anonymous ListenerPlease participate in our podcast survey https://podcastsurvey.typeform.com/to/gNLcxQlk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth ... these were the familiar laws of man—Far more fiendish was Heric's punishment—eternal life for the death he'd taken! Slave of Eternity by Roger D. Aycock, that’s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast.This is the first time Roger D. Aycock has been on the podcast. Aycock was born in Georgia in 1914. Writing under the pseudonym Roger Dee, D double E, he wrote a dozen novels and more than 50 short stories, most of them in the 1950s. From Super Science Stories in May 1950, today’s story can be found on page 84, Slave of Eternity by Roger D. Aycock…Next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, C'mon out of the shadows, Homer. Here's one who claims you as his patron. Unstring your lyre, mighty bard and sing the epic of Achilles Maravain, who can't be hurt by bullets, bombs, or blasters, and whose touch brings instant death! Gangway for Home by George R. Hahn.☕ Buy Me a Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/scottsV===========================👕 Merchandise - https://lostscifi.creator-spring.com===========================Connect with us!🎧 Join Our Newsletter - Get Free Audiobooks http://lostscifi.com/free/Pinterest - https://www.pinterest.com/lostscifi/YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgyNZ7w5w7O714NHkRv5psAFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/TheLostSciFiPodcastTwitter - https://twitter.com/lost_sci_fi===========================❤️ ❤️ Thanks to All Our Listeners Who Bought Us a Coffee$200 Someone$75 James Van Maanenberg$50 Anonymous Listener$25 Future Space Engineer, Fressie, Kevin Eckert, Stephen Kagan, James Van Maanenberg, Irma Stolfo, Josh Jennings, Leber8tr, Conrad Chaffee, Anonymous Listener$15 Curious Jon, Buz C., Fressie, Anonymous Listener$10 Anonymous Listener$5 Chrystene, Richard Hoffman, Anonymous ListenerPlease participate in our podcast survey https://podcastsurvey.typeform.com/to/gNLcxQlk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.