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PATCH Episode #505 · Written by William Shedenhelm · Narrated by Scott Miller The ships are bigger now. The systems are smarter. The pilots mostly sit back and monitor panels that promise precision. But when a meteor tears a ten-foot hole through a fully loaded liner, no circuit can improvise […]

A LONG WAY BACK Episode #504 · Written by Ben Bova · Narrated by Scott Miller The world below is shattered, its cities scarred by war and its knowledge fading year by year. A small settlement has staked its future on an abandoned satellite designed to beam solar power back […]

QUIXOTE AND THE WINDMILL Episode #503 · Written by Poul Anderson · Narrated by Scott Miller Earth has reached a point earlier generations only imagined. Machines handle the labor. Factories run themselves. Food and comfort are abundant. Most citizens spend their days creating art, enjoying leisure, or pursuing specialized work […]

CASTAWAY Episode #502 · Written by A. Bertram Chandler · Narrated by Scott Miller The sea nearly takes him. The island offers sand, brackish water, and the faint comfort of a signal fire that once promised rescue. Yet when he follows the only footprints on the beach, he finds not […]

THE MAN WHO KNEW EVERYTHING Episode #501 · Randall Garrett · Narrated by Scott Miller Philip Merriwether has never frightened anyone. He is mild, forgetful, and easily overlooked. Then, without warning, his mind becomes a vault filled with every fact it touches. Questions no longer puzzle him. They answer themselves. […]

MICROCOSMIC GOD Episode #500 · Theodore Sturgeon · Narrated by Scott Miller Some stories warn us about the dangers of power. Others explore the loneliness of genius. Microcosmic God does both—then pushes far beyond, into territory that feels disturbingly inevitable. Theodore Sturgeon imagines a world where knowledge accelerates faster than […]

THE HOUNDS OF TINDALOS Episode #499 · Written by Frank Belknap Long · Narrated by Scott Miller Some experiments do not explode. They unfold quietly, with pencil marks, candlelight, and a single forbidden theory taken too seriously. In The Hounds of Tindalos, a restless intellectual becomes convinced that time is […]

THE ULTIMATE PROBLEM Episode #498 · Written by Victor Rousseau · Narrated by Scott Miller Dr. Ivan Brodsky is certain that death is not destruction but transition, and he has built a machine to prove it. In a sealed laboratory, he prepares to drive both himself and a soulless child […]

THE ULTIMATE WORLD Episode #497 · Written by Bryce Walton · Narrated by Scott Miller What does a perfect civilization do when perfection becomes unbearable? In The Ultimate World, Bryce Walton takes listeners to a future where every problem has been solved and every desire has already been fulfilled. The […]