Lazarus Come Forth by Ray Bradbury Episode #263

Ray Bradbury | August 20, 2024

Lazarus Come Forth by Ray Bradbury Episode #263
Ray Bradbury

LAZARUS COME FORTH

Episode #263 · Written by Ray Bradbury · Narrated by Scott Miller

A grieving father searches the cold emptiness of space for the body of his lost son—but instead discovers a perfectly preserved corpse from three hundred years ago, wearing the badge of a legendary scientific order. What begins as a mission of closure becomes a race against war, betrayal, and the impossible question of whether the dead can truly rise again.

On a ship built to collect the dead, Brandon has only one reason to keep moving through the cold aisles of frozen soldiers—he’s searching for the body of the son he lost to the war against Mars. Every retrieval is a moment of dread and hope. But one day, the retrieval claw does not deliver the body of a young soldier. It delivers a mystery.

The corpse is perfectly intact. The uniform is not from this war. And the bronze badge labeled 51 belongs to the long-lost circle of elite Scientists who were rumored to be developing a universe-changing weapon just before Earth fell to Martian attack three hundred years earlier. Their disappearance became legend. Now one of them has returned—preserved, calm, untouched by time.

Brandon believes the man may still live. Logan, his bitter and greedy shipmate, believes the body could be sold to the enemy. What follows is a claustrophobic, suspense-filled struggle between duty and desperation, between loyalty and profit, and between life and death itself. When machines hum, adrenaline flows, and a pulse begins to beat after centuries of stillness, the question becomes not Can Lazarus rise?—but what price will be paid when he does?

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

“Lazarus Come Forth” is Ray Bradbury at his finest—stripped-down, tense, emotional, and cinematic. It blends science fiction, war drama, resurrection myth, and moral reckoning into a story that feels eerily modern despite being written in the Golden Age of sci-fi. It asks: If we could raise the dead for the sake of victory, would we dare? And once awakened, would they forgive us?

Ray Bradbury doesn’t need introduction, but he deserves celebration. The author of Fahrenheit 451, The Illustrated Man, The Martian Chronicles, and dozens of other classics, Bradbury was never just a writer of science fiction—he was a storyteller of human longing, regret, wonder, fear, and hope. Whether set on Mars, in a small town, or inside the future’s shadow, his stories never forget the beating heart at the center of every invention.

This is not just a sci-fi adventure—it is a resurrection story, a war story, a father-and-son story, and a chilling reminder that some things lost in time are not meant to be found.