Podcast Episodes

Fire of Retribution, by Laurence Donovan

Season 2 Episode 96

For a man who never flew before to step from an airplane into space thousands of feet above the earth--that takes nerve! Yet old Beth knew that was the only slim chance for his fire-trapped logging c…

Published on 2 months, 4 weeks ago

The Machine Stops, by E M Forster

Season 2 Episode 109

"The Machine," they exclaimed, "feeds us and clothes us and houses us; through it we speak to one another, through it we see one another, in it we have our being. The Machine is the friend of ideas a…

Published on 3 months ago

All You Zombies, by Robert A Heinlein

Season 2 Episode 94

I was there to recruit the Unmarried Mother. But first I had to gain his confidence by allowing him to 'settle' with the one who'd gotten him pregnant when he was a woman, and had ruined his chances …

Published on 3 months ago

The Black Kiss, by Robert Bloch & Henry Kuttner

Season 2 Episode 93

They rise in green robes roaring from the green hells of the sea, 
Where fallen skies and evil hues and eyeless creatures be. 
— Chesterton: Lepanto.

Today's story is The Black Kiss, by Robert Bloch …

Published on 3 months, 1 week ago

The Men Return, by Jack Vance

Season 2 Episode 92

The Relict, Finn, retained a few tattered recollections of Old Earth, ruled by the laws of cause and effect, which enabled the environment to be subject to the dominion of man. The Organisms survived…

Published on 3 months, 1 week ago

The Star-stealers, by Edmond Hamilton

Season 2 Episode 91

Ran Rarak, captain of a cruiser belonging to the Federation of Stars, has been called back from duty to confront an extraordinary threat. The Dark Star, which is being tracked by the Bureau of Astron…

Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago

One Touch of Terra, by Hannes Bok

Season 2 Episode 90

Trixie O'Neill had had enough of the miners in Finchburg not treating her like a lady. So, she was going to go to Saturday Wells with Goreck, the Martian. What was worse was that she was taking her d…

Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago

Answer, Please Answer, by Ben Bova

Season 2 Episode 89

Looking for signs of intelligent life on other planets by trying to detect radio signals was a waste of time; it would take too much power to broadcast any significant distance. Light, however, was e…

Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago

Henry Goes Prehistoric, by W C Tuttle

Season 2 Episode 88

The Sheriff of Tonto City could expect anything to come out of the night in Wild Horse Valley—even an idea...

Today's story is "Henry Goes Prehistoric" by W C Tuttle. It appeared in the January 25th,…

Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago

Die, Shadow! by Algis Budrys

Season 2 Episode 87

David Greaves began as a hero with his ship, Defiance, crash landing on Venus, but surviving unconscious in his Crash Capsule by using an experimental gas that might offer a chance to survive. 

Eons …

Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago