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

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.

When you think of science fiction the word controversy doesn’t normally come to mind, but today’s author stirred up more than his share of controversy in the 1940s.Born Richard Sharpe Shaver in Berwick Pennsylvania in 1907 he claimed to have worked in a factory in 1932 when a welding gun, ‘by some freak of its coil's field atunements’ was allowing him to hear the thoughts of the men working around him. If that’s not weird enough he also said he telepathically received record of a torture session conducted in caverns deep within the earth. When retelling the story of how he first learned of this cavern world, Shaver's stories didn’t remain consistent.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/shareShaver said he quit his job and became a hobo. He was hospitalized briefly for psychiatric problems in 1934, but there does not appear to have been a clear diagnosis.  For almost 10 years after that we don’t know what happened to him or where he lived. Then in 1943 he wrote a letter to Amazing Stories magazine claiming to have discovered an ancient language. When the editor wrote back to him, Shaver wrote that extremely advanced prehistoric races had built cavern cities inside the Earth before leaving the Earth for another planet, but leaving some of their offspring behind. The editor of the magazine, Ray Palmer, took Shavers 10,000 word response about these cavern dwellers, rewrote the manuscript and “I Remember Lemuria!” was published in the March 1945 edition of Amazing Stories. The issue sold out and elicited quite a response. The magazine editor, Ray Palmer, said that tens of thousands of letters were sent to Amazing Stories saying that Shavers story was true. How popular was Richard S. Shaver? Well the “Shaver Mystery” as his work was known, appeared in the June 1947 issue of Amazing and the entire magazine featured his stories and only his stories. Shaver had his share of critics who were quick to point out that the author was suffering from several of the classic symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia.Today’s science fiction short story was written after the “Shaver Mystery” stories had ended and contains no references to alien cave dwellers or their offspring. From Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy in April 1953, Paradise Planet by Richard S. Shaver…Next week on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast Alice saw the Beachcomber as a glorious hunk of man; Maxwell saw him as a super being from the future. Tragically, he was both!... 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.

How does a plumber, construction worker, carpenter, power plant engineer, shipyard welder and longshoreman become a science fiction writer? Rog Phillips seems like the kind of guy you’d want to sit down and have a beer with, a hard-working blue-collar guy. Born in 1909 in Spokane Washington, Roger Phillip Graham wasn’t only a man with many different jobs, he was also a man of many names. In fact, Phillips had more pseudonyms than any sci-fi writer that we’ve discovered so far. Twenty of them!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/shareHe wrote more than 160 short sci-fi stories published in the 1940s and 50s, and 3 more in the early 60s. His first published work was a detective story, "Murder Note," credited to Charles Mann. “Murder Note” appeared in the Winter 1943 issue ofThe Masked Detective. Raymond Palmer, the editor of Amazing Stories started Rog on his science fiction career with a $500 advance in 1945 for his first story, "Let Freedom Ring! That was a hefty sum in 1945, worth more than $7,000 today.Today’s story can be found in the March 1952 edition of If Worlds of Science Fiction, you can find it on ebay for $12.99. The Old Martians by Rog Phillips.Phillips, the blue-collar guy, turned sci-fi writer once taught a writing course to prisoners at San Quentin.He died of heart failure in California in 1966 days after his 57th birthday.Next week on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast It was a nice little world; everything about it reminded Steve of Earth—except for the people. They looked as human—as steel could make them!... Thanks for listening and we hope you’ll join us 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.