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The Monster Maker by Ray Bradbury Episode #31

Ray Bradbury | August 23, 2022

“Get Gunther,” the official orders read. It was to laugh! For Click and Irish were marooned on the pirate’s asteroid—their only weapons a single gun and a news-reel camera… The Monster Maker by Ray Bradbury, that’s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, with at least one lost vintage sci-fi short […]

Human Is by Philip K. Dick Episode #29

Philip K. Dick | August 9, 2022

HUMAN IS Episode #29 · Written by Philip K. Dick · Narrated by Scott Miller A cold, emotionless scientist returns from a distant planet as a completely different man—warm, kind, and strangely human. But when the government arrives to expose the truth, his wife must decide which version of her […]

Madmen of Mars by Erik Fennel Episode #27

Erik Fennel | July 26, 2022

Today’s author is a man of mystery. Erik Fennel, that’s Erik with a k, wrote 10 short science fiction stories from 1947 to 1957 and that’s all we know about him. From Planet Stories Magazine in the spring of 1950 Madmen of Mars by Erik Fennel… Listen to Madmen of […]

Fee of the Frontier by H. B. Fyfe Episode #26

H. B. Fyfe | July 19, 2022

Horace Browne Fyfe Jr. also known as H. B. Fyfe, was born in Jersey City, New Jersey in 1918. He had his first sci-fi short story published in 1940 but released only one other story until 1947. Where was Fyfe and what was he doing all those years? Well, he […]

The Flight of the Eagle by Alfred Coppel Episode #25

Alfred Coppel | July 13, 2022

It was a new and mysterious plant. It could make its own weather; it was sentient, and it prospered on Venus. ButEarth needed it desperately. And Bat Kendo, the radar-mutant, was told to bring it in… that’s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, with at least one lost vintage sci-fi short […]

The Last Plunge by S.J. Sackett Episode #34

S.J. Sackett | July 5, 2022

Today’s author, Samuel John Sackett wrote only 6 short sci-fi stories from 1953 to 1955. He spent 25 years as an English Professor. He also wrote a sequel to Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, entitled Huckleberry Finn Grows Up, published in 2012 when he was 84. Our story today is the last of his […]

The Beachcomber by Damon Knight Episode #23

Damon Knight | June 28, 2022

Today’s author is yet another sci-fi fan turned sci-fi writer. But unlike many sci-fi writers he was also a harsh sci-fi critic. Damon Francis Knight was born September 19th, 1922 in Baker City, Oregon. A brave soul, Knight moved across the country to New York City when he was 17 to live in poverty […]

Paradise Planet by Richard S. Shaver Episode #22

Richard S. Shaver | June 21, 2022

When you think of science fiction the word controversy doesn’t normally come to mind, but today’s author stirred up more than his share of controversy in the 1940s. Born Richard Sharpe Shaver in Berwick Pennsylvania in 1907 he claimed to have worked in a factory in 1932 when a welding […]

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 […]

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