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THE NEXT LOGICAL STEP Bonus Episode #1 · Written by Ben Bova · Narrated by Scott Miller What happens when a war is no longer imagined, calculated, or predicted—but experienced in full detail before it ever begins? In The Next Logical Step, Ben Bova takes the familiar idea of military […]

THE PASSENGER Episode #529 · Written by Kenneth Harmon · Narrated by Scott Miller After years spent far from Earth, Lenore Smithson finally begins the long journey home. The transport carries her through silent space, giving her time to remember what she left behind and imagine what waits for her […]

THE TOWERS OF TITAN Episode #528 · Written by Ben Bova · Narrated by Scott Miller On the frozen surface of Titan, beneath the looming glow of Saturn’s rings, an alien structure has been operating for longer than recorded history. Its towers rise from the ice in silent defiance of […]

THIS MEANS WAR! Episode #527 · Written by A. Bertram Chandler · Narrated by Scott Miller An expedition to the Third Planet returns with fewer ships, fewer answers, and a report that refuses to fit old assumptions. What was once treated as a reliable source of resources has become a […]

THE MISERLY ROBOT Episode #526 · Written by R. J. Rice · Narrated by Scott Miller Nestor is a relic from a different era—built when robots were designed with care, precision, and purpose. While modern machines parade through society with noise and flair, Nestor works quietly, managing an entire fortune […]

THE LAST OF THE DELIVERERS Episode #525 · Written by Poul Anderson · Narrated by Scott Miller What becomes of ideology after the world it fought for is gone? In a small Ohio town where fields are planted without hurry and machines are shared without contracts, two elderly men arrive […]

THE MORDANT Episode #524 · Written by Merab Eberle · Narrated by Scott Miller What if youth could be preserved at its height—held in place while the rest of life continues forward? In The Mordant, a quiet scientist discovers a way to fix the body in its prime, keeping beauty […]

THE SWEEPER OF LORAY Episode #523 · Written by Robert Sheckley · Narrated by Scott Miller On a distant planet written off as insignificant, a single moment shatters a carefully constructed worldview. Professor Carver has built his career on proving that intelligence declines the farther one travels from Earth—but what […]

THE FASTEST DRAW Episode #522 · Written by Larry Eisenberg · Narrated by Scott Miller Amos Handworthy has spent a lifetime mastering problems that can be solved. He builds, refines, and perfects until nothing is left to chance. Yet the victories leave him restless, because they lack something he can’t […]