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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 […]

CAT AND MOUSE Episode #521 · Written by Ralph Williams · Narrated by Scott Miller Ed Brown knows how to read a landscape. After decades in the wilderness, he trusts what he can see, what he can track, and what he can test with his own hands. So when a […]

ONE-SHOT Episode #520 · Written by James Blish · Narrated by Scott Miller Something has been dropped into New York Harbor, and no one can say what it is. The instruments return nothing useful, the divers work blind in the silt, and every proven method begins to stall as the […]

THE LONG QUESTION Episode #519 · Written by David Mason · Narrated by Scott Miller What would you do if someone offered you a hundred thousand dollars for predicting the future? Don Gerson, a quiet accountant with a talent for careful reasoning, wins the chance to try. A television quiz […]

THE GATE TO XORAN Episode #518 · Written by Hal K. Wells · Narrated by Scott Miller A quiet encounter becomes the first crack in reality when an intelligence from far beyond Earth steps into the human world unnoticed. What initially feels like personal danger soon reveals itself as something […]

DEATH OF A SPACEMAN Episode #517 · Written by Walter M. Miller · Narrated by Scott Miller Old Donegal once worked the blastrooms of the early rocket age. He stood inside roaring engines while ships clawed their way toward the Moon, guiding the violent surge of fuel that carried men […]

THE BODY-MASTERS Episode #516 · Written by Frank Belknap Long · Narrated by Scott Miller In a future society devoted to stability and order, emotional extremes are treated as mechanical failures rather than human experiences. Desire is managed, jealousy is corrected, and violence is explained away as a chemical error […]

THE CROWDED COLONY Episode #515 · Written by Jerome Bixby · Narrated by Scott Miller Mars looks finished. The canals have dried into long scars across the sand, and the ancient trading villages crumble under the desert wind. When the human expedition arrives at Kinkaaka, the place feels like a […]