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The Old Martians by Rog Phillips Episode #21

Rog Phillips | June 14, 2022

How does a plumber, construction worker, carpenter, power plant engineer, shipyard welder and longshoreman become a science fiction writer? Rog Phillips seems like the kind of guy you’d want to sit down and have a beer with, a hard-working blue-collar guy. Born in 1909 in Spokane Washington, Roger Phillip Graham wasn’t only […]

Morgue Ship by Ray Bradbury Episode #19

Ray Bradbury | May 31, 2022

Ray Douglas Bradbury was an American author and screenwriter and one of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers. Born on August 22nd, 1920, in Waukegan, Illinois. His mother, Esther, was a Swedish immigrant and his father, Leonard, was of English ancestry. He was given the middle name Douglas after the […]

Stop, You’re Killing Me! By Damon Knight Episode #18

Damon Knight | May 24, 2022

As a private eye I get a lot of screwball cases, but nothing to match my own; my wife and kid trying to kill me—and neither aware of it! FromImagination Stories of Science and Fantasy, in February 1956, our story starts on page 50, enjoy Stop, You’re Killing Me! by Damon Knight Listen […]

Task of Kayin by William Morrison Episode #17

William Morrison | May 17, 2022

Today’s episode of The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast features another short science fiction story from one of our favorite authors, William Morrison, whose real name was Joseph Samachson. Two of Morrison’s stories can be heard in episode 13, Unwelcomed Visitor and Spoken For. From out beyond the second sun he came; a […]

Sales Pitch by Philip K. Dick Episode #16

Philip K. Dick | May 10, 2022

Ed Morris didn’t know what sales technique was until the fasrad invaded his life…There are pushy salesmen and then there are PUSHY salesmen who refuse to give up… until they make the sale! Turn with me to page 71 in Future Science Fiction magazine in June 1954 for Sales Pitch by Philip […]

WANTED: One Sane Man by Frank M. Robinson Episode #15

Frank M. Robinson | May 3, 2022

Do you remember the 1974 Hollywood blockbuster, The Towering Inferno? The movie starred Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Fred Astaire, Susan Blakely, Robert Vaughn, Robert Wagner and Richard Chamberlain. So what does that have to do with the author of our lost sci-fi short story? Well, after writing […]

Three Spacemen Left To Die! by Russ Winterbotham Episode #14

Russ Winterbotham | April 26, 2022

Like last weeks author Joseph Samachson, also known as William Morrison, Winterbotham was a comic strip writer. Chris Welkin, Planeteer was distributed by the Newspaper Enterprise Association from 1952 to 1964. It was created by Winterbotham along with cartoonist Art Sansom. Two TV pilot episodes were created for Chris Welkin, Planeteer but it […]

Wanderlust by Alan E. Nourse Episode #14

Alan E. Nourse | April 26, 2022

We’ve already heard from our second author, Alan E. Nourse. You can hear his short sci-fi story The Fifty-Fourth Of July on Episode 5 of The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast. From the pages of Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy in October 1952 Wanderlust by Alan. E. Nourse… Listen to Wanderlust

Spoken For by William Morrison episode #13

William Morrison | April 19, 2022

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