Lazarus Come Forth by Ray Bradbury Episode #263
Ray Bradbury | August 20, 2024-
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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.
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Listen to Lazarus Come Forth by Ray Bradbury — a classic science fiction tale of war, hope, and a man brought back from centuries of death.
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Few writers shaped the emotional landscape of classic science fiction the way Ray Bradbury did.
Bradbury did not rely on hardware or technical spectacle to make the future feel real. He filled rockets with longing, placed ghosts in small towns, and turned distant planets into mirrors held up to the human heart. Whether he was writing about children seduced by virtual worlds, lonely travelers on Mars, or quiet suburban lives unraveling under strange pressure, his stories pulse with warmth, dread, nostalgia, and wonder.
On The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast we’ve explored Bradbury’s astonishing range. In The Veldt (also known as The World the Children Made), technology grants children terrifying power over their parents. Asleep in Armageddon traps a lone astronaut on a hostile world where even the wind seems alive. Dwellers in Silence carries us across the red deserts of Mars, where hope flickers against ancient ruins.
Then there are the quieter shocks: Referent, which exposes envy and obsession with razor precision. Defense Mech and The Monster Maker, where invention and ambition twist into unintended consequences. Even in collaborations like Final Victim (with Henry Hasse), Bradbury’s touch is unmistakable.
From the cold Martian well in The One Who Waits, where an ancient entity waits patiently beneath the sand for new flesh and new thoughts, to Martian longing in The Visitor, from the biting irony of Changeling to the haunting unease of Death Wish, these selections reveal a writer who could make a single image linger for decades. Explore the stories below and experience the voice that helped define vintage science fiction for generations.
- The Veldt (The World the Children Made) by Ray Bradbury
- Outcast of the Stars by Ray Bradbury
- The Creatures That Time Forgot by Ray Bradbury
- Jonah of the Jove-Run by Ray Bradbury
- Lazarus, Come Forth by Ray Bradbury
- It Burns Me Up by Ray Bradbury
- Defense Mech by Ray Bradbury
- A Little Journey by Ray Bradbury
- Asleep in Armageddon by Ray Bradbury
- The Monster Maker by Ray Bradbury
- Rocket Summer by Ray Bradbury
- The Visitor by Ray Bradbury
- Morgue Ship by Ray Bradbury
- The Shape of Things by Ray Bradbury
- Referent by Ray Bradbury
- Final Victim by Ray Bradbury and Henry Hasse
- Death Wish by Ray Bradbury
- Changeling by Ray Bradbury
- Undersea Guardians by Ray Bradbury
- The One Who Waits by Ray Bradbury
- Dwellers in Silence by Ray Bradbury
- And Then—The Silence by Ray Bradbury
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