WELCOME TO PARADISE

Episode #491 · Written by Allyn Donnelson · Narrated by Scott Miller

Joe Peters isn’t looking for adventure, secrets, or trouble. He’s just doing his job when an accident drops him into a place that shouldn’t exist—and puts him in the middle of a project the government would rather keep invisible.

What Joe discovers isn’t terrifying because of alien danger or military force. It’s terrifying because of what it could fix. Injuries vanish. Diseases stop progressing. And back on Earth, no one is being told.

As officials debate security and strategy, Joe is left carrying knowledge he never asked for. He isn’t equipped with rank, authority, or training—only a stubborn sense that some things are too important to stay buried, even when silence would be safer.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Allyn Donnelson is known today for a single published science fiction story, Welcome to Paradise, which appeared in the September 1954 issue of Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy. Beyond that appearance, little reliable information survives about Donnelson’s life or literary career, and no additional science fiction stories have been conclusively attributed to him.

That lone publication places Donnelson among a large group of writers who briefly entered the science fiction field during its postwar expansion and then vanished from the record. Welcome to Paradise stands as a complete and self-contained contribution—an intact artifact from a moment when the genre was actively inviting new voices, even if only for a single appearance.

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Listen to Welcome to Paradise by Allyn Donnelson — a vintage science fiction tale where an ordinary worker uncovers a secret that could change medicine forever.

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