Podcast Episodes

The Western Star, by Agatha Christie

Season 2 Episode 66

Two priceless diamonds, stolen from their original owner, but destined to be returned. Threatening letters from a mysterious Chinaman. A noblewoman's affair with a famous American actor. Hercule Poir…

Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago

A Thought For Tomorrow, by Robert E Gilbert

Season 2 Episode 65

Orville Potts couldn't escape the asylum to the past, as he didn't have detailed knowledge of it to create an adequate visualization. The future, though, was unwritten; he could visualize it however …

Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago

The Vortex Blaster Makes War, by Edward E 'Doc' Smith

Season 2 Episode 64

From the end of Time it came, a call for help as brave, as ageless as the very galaxies: "Save us or die, Vortex Blaster—but if you die, two worlds shall perish with you!"

Today's story is "The Vorte…

Published on 6 months ago

The Closed Door, by John F Wilson & Mary A Miller

Season 2 Episode 63

Everyone thought Harry Owen had gone mad when he wrecked his own ship, the Shearwater, to save the passenger liner, the SS Western Pacific, from running aground in a violent storm. The story that Gor…

Published on 6 months ago

The Man Who Found Out, by Roger D Aycock

Season 2 Episode 62

It's one thing to blow a bubble of glib, journalistic lies. Quite another to have that bubble burst in a nightmarish, green beyond.

"The Man Who Found Out" appeared in the September 1954 issue of "Fa…

Published on 6 months, 1 week ago

A World to Die For, by Sam Carson

Season 2 Episode 61

The crew of the Markab had been sent by Galactic Service to intercept and stop the alien ship that had attacked ships of the fleet. But Rik Guelf, who was on this mission to search for his father, wa…

Published on 6 months, 1 week ago

The Seven Missionaries, by H C McNeile

Season 2 Episode 60

One would have thought, with the invention of the wireless radio, that piracy would be a thing of the past. Jim Maitland, and the passengers and crew of the SS Andaman were to discover that modern pi…

Published on 6 months, 1 week ago

The Last Question, by Isaac Asimov

Season 2 Episode 59

Generations of men came and went while the computer pondered the data. 

"The Last Question" appeared in the November 1956 issue of "Science Fiction Quarterly" on pages 6 to 15.

Isaac Asimov (c. Janu…

Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago

Woman's Touch, by Evelyn E Smith

Season 2 Episode 58

Their orders were to leave the natives of the new planet strictly alone. But those surveyors' wives were women, and women don't obey orders—or leave people alone!

"Woman's Touch" appeared in "Super-S…

Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago

Storm Cloud on Deka, by Edward E 'Doc' Smith

Season 2 Episode 57

Civilization is established. Lensmen safeguard every world. But the threat of the Atomic Vortices still lingers. Neal 'Storm' Cloud, atomic physicist and human computer, is the only being capable of …

Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago