And It Comes Out Here by Lester Del Rey Episode #98

Lester Del Rey | September 11, 2023

And It Comes Out Here by Lester Del Rey Episode #98
Lester Del Rey

AND IT COMES OUT HERE

Episode #98 · Written by Lester Del Rey · Narrated by Scott Miller

A man answers his door and finds himself face to face with someone who speaks like memory and certainty combined. The conversation that follows is calm, conversational, and deeply unsettling, because nothing said feels new—only confirmed.

Instead of urgency or disaster, the future on display is efficient, generous, and strangely forgiving. People cooperate. Authority smiles. Even theft is treated as a scheduling error. That calm is precisely what makes the situation dangerous. There is no dramatic resistance to push against, only a smooth path that expects compliance.

The tension in And It Comes Out Here comes from recognition rather than surprise. The story asks what happens when invention arrives without origin, when progress circulates without a starting point, and when a man realizes that knowledge of the future does not include permission to change it.

Rather than racing against time, the story lets time close in gently. The pressure builds not from what might happen, but from what already has.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Lester Del Rey was a central figure in American science fiction for more than four decades. His fiction appeared in major magazines including Astounding Science Fiction, Galaxy, and If, and he later became a defining editorial voice through Del Rey Books, helping bring writers like Philip K. Dick, Isaac Asimov, and Arthur C. Clarke to wider audiences.

And It Comes Out Here reflects Del Rey’s long-standing interest in technological inevitability and closed systems, presenting a future shaped not by conquest or catastrophe, but by continuity. It is a story where progress arrives fully formed—and asks only that someone take responsibility for keeping it that way.

LISTEN TO THE STORY

Listen to And It Comes Out Here by Lester Del Rey — a classic science fiction time-loop tale where the future arrives politely and refuses to let go. Vintage sci-fi tension.

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