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

You were bored—keeping the endless, dull space-lanes clear. You wanted excitement, danger, to see the weird planets of the System. You wanted—And then it happened, all the swift, blazing danger of the void—and you found yourself being blasted out of existence. Space-Lane of No-Return by George Whittington, that’s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, with at least one lost vintage sci-fi short story in every episode.Support the show - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/scottsV Merch - https://lostscifi.creator-spring.com/ Sign up for our newsletterhttps://dashboard.mailerlite.com/forms/266431/102592606683269000/shareIf you find yourself addicted to these vintage sci-fi short stories there’s a 50-book bundle of audiobooks on our website, lostscifi.com. Twenty-seven hours of vintage sci-fi for only $14.97. As a Lost Sci-Fi Podcast listener, you get it for only $9.88 when you use the coupon code “podcast”. Twenty-seven hours of vintage sci-fi for only $9.88 at LostSciFi.com.We are back in familiar territory, another author we know almost nothing about. In fact, all we know about George Whittington is that he wrote four short science fiction stories, that we could find, with the first released in 1944, two in 1945 and one in 1946 and then, at least as far as we can tell, he was gone!Let’s go back in time 76 years ago and go through the pages of the Summer 1946 edition of Planet Stories magazine and enjoy Space-Lane of No-Return by George Whittington…Next week on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast… Prescott stood to make a young fortune if he could capture a martian zloor—dead or alive! Was there a catch to it? Only for the hunter!... That’s next week onThe Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, with at least one lost vintage sci-fi short story in every episode.Support the showPlease participate in our podcast survey https://podcastsurvey.typeform.com/to/gNLcxQlk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

"Get Gunther," the official orders read. It was to laugh! For Click and Irish were marooned on the pirate's asteroid—their only weapons a single gun and a news-reel camera… The Monster Maker by Ray Bradbury, that’s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, with at least one lost vintage sci-fi short story in every episode.Support the show - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/scottsV Merch - https://lostscifi.creator-spring.com/ Sign up for our newsletterhttps://dashboard.mailerlite.com/forms/266431/102592606683269000/shareThe Lost Sci-Fi Podcast continues to grow with new listeners all over the world every week, thank you for listening and thank you for sharing The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast.If you find yourself addicted to these vintage sci-fi short stories there’s a 50-book bundle of audiobooks on our website, lostscifi.com. Twenty-seven hours of vintage sci-fi for only $14.97. As a Lost Sci-Fi Podcast listener, you get it for only $9.88 when you use the coupon code “podcast”. Twenty-seven hours of vintage sci-fi for only $9.88 at LostSciFi.com.Ray Bradbury turned out more than 600 short stories during his celebrated career, so far, we’ve narrated seven of them and this is our second Ray Bradbury short story on our podcast. You’ll hear Bradbury’s Morgue Ship in Episode 19. All seven of the short stories written by this amazing author that we’ve narrated so far have one thing in common, they all take place in space.Today’s story comes from the spring 1944 edition of Planet Stories magazine. The story featured on the cover is Wanderers of the Wolf-Moon by Nelson S. Bond. Two other authors are mentioned on the cover, Leigh Brackett and Robert Abernathy. Interestingly there is no mention of Ray Bradbury on the cover.A camera is one devil of a poor weapon with which to capture a pirate’s fortress. Let’s turn to page 39 for The Monster Maker by Ray Bradbury…Next week on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast… You were bored—keeping the endless, dull space-lanes clear. You wanted excitement, danger, to see the weird planets of the System. You wanted—And then it happened, all the swift, blazing danger of the void—and you found yourself being blasted out of existence.That’s next week on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, with at least one lost vintage sci-fi short story in every episode.Support the showPlease participate in our podcast survey https://podcastsurvey.typeform.com/to/gNLcxQlk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Snaring both Earthmen in a mind-web was easy for the mutant telepath. But once you've caught your prey—how do you get rid of them?... that’s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, with at least one lost vintage sci-fi short story in every episode.Support the show - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/scottsV Merch - https://lostscifi.creator-spring.com/ Sign up for our newsletterhttps://dashboard.mailerlite.com/forms/266431/102592606683269000/shareThis is our second sci-fi short story from Robert Silverberg in the last 3 weeks. Let’s go back to December 1957 to the pages of Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy for Rescue Mission, written by Robert Silverberg…Next week on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast… "Get Gunther," the official orders read. It was to laugh! For Click and Irish were marooned on the pirate's asteroid—their only weapons a single gun and a news-reel camera.That’s next week on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, with at least one lost vintage sci-fi short story in every episode.Please participate in our podcast survey https://podcastsurvey.typeform.com/to/gNLcxQlk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Her husband changed, but she’d married for better or worse… legendary science fiction author Philip K. Dick is back, that’s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, with at least one lost vintage sci-fi short story in every episode.Support the show - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/scottsV Merch - https://lostscifi.creator-spring.com/ Sign up for our newsletterhttps://dashboard.mailerlite.com/forms/266431/102592606683269000/shareWhat can be said about Philip K. Dick that hasn’t already been said hundreds if not thousands of times? This is the 4th short sci-fi story by Philip K. Dick we’ve featured on our podcast. You can find Sales Pitch in episode 16, The Eyes Have It in episode 11 and The Hanging Stranger in episode 1.Human Is first appeared in the Winter 1955 edition of Startling Stories magazine. If you wanted to pick up a copy you should check out AbeBooks.com which has several copies ranging in price from $15 to $57.50. Let’s turn to page 67 for Human Is by Philip K. Dick…Please participate in our podcast survey https://podcastsurvey.typeform.com/to/gNLcxQlk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Robert Silverberg is an accomplished author, prolific, award winning, you may have noticed I said is, not was, because unlike all the authors we’ve featured so far on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast he’s still with us. Born in 1935, Silverberg has won the Hugo and Nebula awards many times, was named to the science fiction hall of fame in 1999, and in 2004 was designated as a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America. It’s been said that when you include introductions, reviews and editorials to his vast number of novels and short stories it would total more than 1,200.Support the show - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/scottsV Merch - https://lostscifi.creator-spring.com/ Sign up for our newsletterhttps://dashboard.mailerlite.com/forms/266431/102592606683269000/shareAt last report the 87-year-old Silverberg and his wife Karen live in the San Francisco bay area. The magazine where our story originates originally credited Randall Garrett for Six Frightened Men, perhaps because Robert Silverberg contributed another story to this issue, Woman’s World. From Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy in June 1957 turn with me to page 76 for Six Frightened Men by Robert Silverberg…Next week on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast… legendary science fiction author Philip K. Dick is back, Her husband changed, but she’d married for better or worse…That’s next week onThe Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, with at least one lost vintage sci-fi short story in every episode.Support the showPlease participate in our podcast survey https://podcastsurvey.typeform.com/to/gNLcxQlk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to our new listeners in Homer Alaska, Wenatchee Washington, Mankato Minnesota, Lincoln Nebraska, Chile, Grenada, Israel, Kuala Lumpur, Thailand and the Isle of Man. Thanks for listening to The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast. We love hearing from you, send us an email, scott@lostscifi.com. Support the show - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/scottsV Merch - https://lostscifi.creator-spring.com/ Sign up for our newsletterhttps://dashboard.mailerlite.com/forms/266431/102592606683269000/shareYou'll find every story you hear on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast and many more on our website https://lostscifi.com.A 27 hour, 50 book bundle is available every day for only $14.97. Use the promo code "podcast" and you can get all 27 hours for only $9.88.Today’s author is a man of mystery. Erik Fennel, that’s Erik with a k, wrote 10 short science fiction stories from 1947 to 1957 and that’s all we know about him. From Planet Stories Magazine in the spring of 1950 Madmen of Mars by Erik Fennel…Next week on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast… It was an unexplored planet and anything could happen—yet none of us expected to face a creature impossible to fight, let alone kill....That’s next week on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, with at least one lost vintage sci-fi short story in every episode. Thanks for listening!Support the showPlease participate in our podcast survey https://podcastsurvey.typeform.com/to/gNLcxQlk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Horace Browne Fyfe Jr. also known as H. B. Fyfe, was born in Jersey City, New Jersey in 1918. He had his first sci-fi short story published in 1940 but released only one other story until 1947. Where was Fyfe and what was he doing all those years? Well, he was in the US Army serving his country during World War II.Support the show - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/scottsV Merch - https://lostscifi.creator-spring.com/ Sign up for our newsletterhttps://dashboard.mailerlite.com/forms/266431/102592606683269000/shareFrom 1947 to 1967 H. B. Fyfe was a busy man, turning out almost 60 stories. Today’s offering is the first of 14 stories published in the 1960s.From Amazing Stories Magazine in August 1960 Fee Of The Frontier by H.B. Fyfe…Please participate in our podcast survey https://podcastsurvey.typeform.com/to/gNLcxQlk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It was a new and mysterious plant. It could make its own weather; it was sentient, and it prospered on Venus. ButEarth needed it desperately. And Bat Kendo, the radar-mutant, was told to bring it in… that’s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, with at least one lost vintage sci-fi short story in every episode.Support the show - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/scottsV Merch - https://lostscifi.creator-spring.com/ Sign up for our newsletterhttps://dashboard.mailerlite.com/forms/266431/102592606683269000/share Thanks for listening! Our most recent review on Apple Podcasts comes from the username “inlovewiththisappp” “I love listening to the stories when I am just doing chores around the house. Thank you so much for the entertainment.” Thanks inlovewiththisappp!And David sent us an email through our website Lostscifi.com. David is from the UK, lives in a county called Yorkshire in the North of England. “Your podcast is the most enjoyable I have heard in many years. Good material and a good actor. What a perfect mixture.” Thanks David!Today’s story was written by Alfred Coppel. Born Alfredo Jose de Arana-Marini Coppel in Oakland California in November 1921. Coppel started his career as a writer after serving as a fighter pilot in theUnited States Army Air Forces during World War II.He became one of the most prolific pulp magazine authors of the 1950s and 1960s, with about 60 short science fiction stories and 10 novels.Let’s go back in time almost 69 years ago. From Planet Stories magazine in September 1953, a story originally credited to Sol Galaxon, a pseudonym for Alfred Coppel. The Flight Of The Eagle…Next week on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast…  They didn’t think of themselves as pioneers. They simply had a job to do. And if they had to give up money, or power, or love— or life itself — that was the Fee Of The FrontierThat’s next week onThe Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, with at least one lost vintage sci-fi short story in every episode.Please participate in our podcast survey https://podcastsurvey.typeform.com/to/gNLcxQlk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We would love it if you would rate The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, leave a review wherever you can, leave comments or requests and give us a thumbs up. We appreciate your feedback, send an email with your requests or comments to scott@lostscifi.com.Support the show - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/scottsV Merch - https://lostscifi.creator-spring.com/ Sign up for our newsletterhttps://dashboard.mailerlite.com/forms/266431/102592606683269000/shareToday’s author, Samuel John Sackett wrote only 6 short sci-fi stories from 1953 to 1955. He spent 25 years as an English Professor. He also wrote a sequel to Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, entitled Huckleberry Finn Grows Up, published in 2012 when he was 84.Our story today is the last of his 6 sci-fi stories. From Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy in October 1955, The Last Plunge by S.J. SackettNext week on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast… It was a new and mysterious plant. It could make its own weather; it was sentient, and it prospered on Venus. But Earth needed it desperately. And Bat Kendo, the radar-mutant, was told to bring it in.That’s next week onThe Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, with at least one lost vintage sci-fi short story in every episode.Please participate in our podcast survey https://podcastsurvey.typeform.com/to/gNLcxQlk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today’s author is yet another sci-fi fan turned sci-fi writer. But unlike many sci-fi writers he was also a harsh sci-fi critic. Damon Francis Knight was born September 19th, 1922 in Baker City, Oregon. A brave soul, Knight moved across the country to New York City when he was 17 to live in poverty in a number of shared apartments with science-fiction fans, writers and editors. He was a member of the Futurians along with CM Kornbluth, Frederic Pohl and others. Support the show - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/scottsV Merch - https://lostscifi.creator-spring.com/ Sign up for our newsletterhttps://dashboard.mailerlite.com/forms/266431/102592606683269000/shareHis first real impact in the world of science fiction came from his first review, which appeared in a fanzine, when the original version of AE Van Vogt's “The World Of A” appeared in Astounding Science Fiction magazine in 1945. By the way “The World Of A” was the first hardcover science fiction novel published after World War II in 1948.When Van Vogt revised his novel in 1970, he commented on Knight's review saying "I foresaw a brilliant writing career for the young man who had written so poetical an attack." Damon Knight is generally acknowledged to have been the first outstanding Science Fiction critic. He wrote around 17 novels and more than 100 short stories.His work found its way to TV when the short story “To Serve Man” appeared on The Twilight Zone in 1962. It’s been said that it’s one of the best known and highly regarded episodes of the series. “To Serve Man” won a 50-yearRetro-Hugoin 2001 as the best short story of 1950.From Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy in December 1952 turn with me to page 76 for The Beachcomber by Damon Knight...The Beachcomber by Damon Knight. Damon Francis Knight, sci-fi fan, writer, award winner, critic and teacher died April 15th, 2002. He was 79.Next week on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast Granting the need for money, a man will doany dangerous job that comes along; Borgmann was such a man; air lion diving off Uranus—the job! That’s next week onThe Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, with at least one lost vintage sci-fi short story in every episode.Please participate in our podcast survey https://podcastsurvey.typeform.com/to/gNLcxQlk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.