Podcast Episodes

Peter Merton's Private Mint, by Harlan Ellison

Season 2 Episode 36

Your name is Merton and you find that all you have to do is reach into your safe to get money. The more you take, the more you find. And just when Quiggs has cut your future down to nothing. A wonder…

Published on 8 months, 3 weeks ago

The New Accelerator, by H G Wells

Season 2 Episode 35

Gibberne's nerve stimulant, The New Accelerator, which could speed a man up to two or three times normal, was going to revolutionise human life.

"The New Accelerator" appeared in "Amazing Stories," A…

Published on 8 months, 3 weeks ago

Flood Waters, by Leland S Jamieson

Season 2 Episode 34

A week of rain had undermined the tracks, causing the train to derail. But the nearest place to land was twelve miles away! How was Nick Wentworth, chief pilot of the U. S. Air Patrol, going to land …

Published on 9 months ago

The Square Pegs & Defense Mech, by Ray Bradbury

Season 2 Episode 33

The Square Pegs

Lisabeth was not insane, not according to her, and not according to Asteroid Thirty-Six, where she was being taken by her brother and sisters, where the old Catherine the Great had di…

Published on 9 months ago

Title Fight & The Woman Obsession, by William C Gault

Season 2 Episode 32

Title Fight

There would be blood on the streets tonight when Alix 1340, a robot, beat the current middleweight champion of the world, Nick Nolan, a human. Alix was fighting for the rights of the robo…

Published on 9 months ago

Arm of the Law, by Harry Harrison

Season 2 Episode 31

What would happen when a police robot was posted to a law enforcement outpost on Mars? How could a robot—a machine, after all—be involved in something as complex as the application of law? At one tim…

Published on 9 months, 1 week ago

The Ice Goes Out & Raw Men, by Frank Richardson Pierce

Season 2 Episode 30

The Ice Goes Out

This is a story of Alaska, in which honest men and crooks propose, but inscrutable Nature disposes.

"The Ice Goes Out" appeared in "Adventure," July 1st 1928, pages 58 - 61. 

Raw Me…

Published on 9 months, 1 week ago

Classified Object, by John Victor Peterson

Season 2 Episode 29

There was a comic book in the alien space ship—of a sort. But it wasn't meant for children.

"Classified Object" appeared in "Fantastic Universe", July 1954, pages 115 to 129.

John Victor Peterson wa…

Published on 9 months, 2 weeks ago

A Long Way Back & The Next Logical Step, by Ben Bova

Season 2 Episode 28

A Long Way Back

After the war that ravaged the world, he held the future of civilization in his numbed hands. The satellite was ready to beam power back to Earth, and knowing that he wouldn't live to…

Published on 9 months, 2 weeks ago

Travelogue & The Minster had to Wait, by Roger D Aycock

Season 2 Episode 27

Travelogue

Adventure called late in the diffident, gentle, dreaming life of Wesley Filburn, mediocre writer of science fiction stories. But when it did call—in the shape of a strange child drowning i…

Published on 9 months, 3 weeks ago