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    The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast – Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories

    The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast restores and narrates forgotten and underrated vintage science fiction short stories spanning from the 1700s through the mid-1960s. Each episode features a professionally narrated classic drawn from early speculative fiction, pioneering 19th-century tales, and the pulp magazine era that shaped modern science fiction.

    Released several times a week, the podcast explores timeless speculative ideas—alien encounters, artificial intelligence, time travel, dystopian futures, and the human cost of progress—through the works of legendary authors such as Philip K. Dick, Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, H. G. Wells, Harlan Ellison, and many others.

    Now in its fourth year and with more than 650 episodes released, The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast has reached #1 on Apple Podcasts in 43 countries, reflecting a worldwide appetite for classic science fiction storytelling. Each restored short story gives modern listeners direct access to the imagination and bold ideas that shaped the genre from its earliest days through the Golden Age.

    Narrated by Scott Miller, each episode serves as an accessible entry point into science fiction’s rich literary history—bringing the wonders, warnings, and possibilities of vintage sci-fi to a new generation of listeners.


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    The Addicts by William Morrison May 23, 2023
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    Wives always try to cure husbands of bad habits, even on lonely asteroids! The Addicts by William Morrison, that’s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, with at least one lost vintage sci-fi short story in every episode.


    The Lost Sci-Fi podcast has hit #2 on Apple Podcasts in the Cayman Islands, #3 in Belarus, and we’ve recently been #3 in Poland, Denmark, #6 in Brazil and #9 in Australia! Thanks to all our loyal listeners wherever you are.


    We have several more 5-star reviews on Apple Podcasts. This review comes from SasquatchSieber, “Best Classic Sci-Fi Out There! Greetings from Okinawa, Japan. I am hooked on this podcast! I love how the owner gives us history of the author. His voice is perfect for the stories! I have binge-listened to all the podcasts and now cannot wait for each weeks­­­­­ additions!” Thanks SasquatchSieber!


    And this 5 star rating and review comes to us from ThatsMeMomLetMeIn via Apple Podcasts Ukraine, “Always a highlight in my weekly listen. I don’t remember how exactly I found this podcast, but I fell in love with it right away, probably after the first two paragraphs of the narrated story I listened to first. I have a rather big list of podcasts I’m subscribed to, but whenever I see an update from the Lost Sci-Fi, it immediately gets to the first position in my listening queue. Great selection of SciFi works, unparalled narration where everything only adds up to creating a very enjoyable listening experience: the narrator’s deep and clear voice, just the right speed of the narration, and a perfect balance between narrating and voice acting. Are there any plans to include works originally written in languages other than English?” Thank you ThatsMeMomLetMeIn for your review. Most vintage sci-fi was written in English and then translated into foreign languages and distributed around the world. But who knows what the future holds?


    A free way to support The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast is by leaving a five-star rating and review on Apple Podcasts. It’s a chance to tell us what you love about the show and it helps others discover us. And you can also give us a 5-star rating on Spotify, as 19 others have done so far, if you think we deserve a 5-star rating of course.


    Author William Morrison, who was really Joseph Samachson, has been on our podcast 4 times before today. He also wrote comic books, and he created the Martian Manhunter. You can find out more about Joseph Samachson aka William Morrison in the episode which featured two of his stories, “Unwelcomed Visitor and Spoken For”.


    Morrison also wrote under the pen name Brett Sterling. His work, as Sterling, appeared in the Spring 1943 issue of “Captain Future – Man of Tomorrow”. You’ll find his book length novel, “Worlds to Come” in that issue and I’ve included a link to it in the description. It’s the first time we’ve done that so please let me know if you like it. scott@lostscifi.com


    The link https://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/luminist/SF/CF_1943_1.pdf


    You’ll find today’s story in the January 1952 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine. Turn to page 122 for The Addicts by William Morrison...


    Next week on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, For twenty long unholy years Hurtz, the pilot, dreamed of retirement ... and found his "acre of heaven" on a Death Star. Death Star by James McKimmey Jr.


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    A Practical Man's Guide by Jack Vance - Scifi Audiobooks from the 1950s May 16, 2023
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    Ralph Banks editor of Popular Crafts Monthly, was a short stocky man with a round pink face, a crisp crew cut, an intensely energetic manner.

    When a letter from the Smithsonian Institute came across his desk it caught his attention, A Practical Man's Guide by Jack Vance, that’s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, with at least one lost vintage sci-fi short story in every episode.


    Thanks to K Vomer for another 5-star rating and review on Apple Podcasts, “Very enjoyable! Lots of vintage sci-fi stories! Love the narrator’s voice. Also­ – he gives a little snippet about the history of the writer or what magazine it came from. It’s fun to hear what people have imagined for the future and what life on other planets would be like. Double thumbs up!” Thanks K Vomer! Your reviews and ratings are always appreciated.


    John Holbrook Vance, better known as Jack Vance, was born and raised in California. Vance struggled to make ends meet as a young man and worked a number of jobs to survive, a bell-hop, in a cannery, and on a gold dredge, before entering the University of California, Berkeley where he studied mining engineering, physics, journalism and English. He worked for a while as an electrician in the naval shipyards at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. He left that job about a month before the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941.


    He started writing science fiction in the 1940s and his first published story was “The World-Thinker” in Thrilling Wonder Stories in the summer of 1945. He would go on to write about 50 short stories in the 40s, 50s and 60s and numerous novels.


    One of his best-known titles, “The Dying Earth”, began as a collection of short stories in 1950 and eventually expanded to become a whole series of books set in a far-off future. He won numerous awards: among them three Hugo awards, a Nebula and a World Fantasy award for lifetime achievement. In 1997 he was made a Grand Master of sci-fi, by the ScienceFiction Writers of America.


    A 2009 profile in the New York Times Magazine described Vance as "one of American literature’s most distinctive and undervalued voices."

    Our story written by the highly acclaimed author is featured in the second edition of Space Science Fiction Magazine, Volume 1 Number 2 in August 1957. And there would be no more Space Science Fiction Magazine. Two issues and that’s it. If you’re interested, you can pick up a copy of the August 57 Space Science Fiction Magazine on Ebay for $35.


    Turn to page 102 for A Practical Man's Guide by Jack Vance...


    Next week on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, Wives always try to cure husbands of bad habits, even on lonely asteroids! The Addicts by William Morrison.


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    A Walk in the Dark by Arthur C. Clarke - Arthur C Clarke Short Stories May 09, 2023
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    Fear and misfortune stalk the strange byways of a lonely planet. A Walk in the Dark by Arthur C. Clarke, that’s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, with at least one lost vintage sci-fi short story in every episode.


    Thanks to uncle shaun for his 5 star review on Apple Podcasts! “Just what I wanted! This is a superb Sci-Fi podcast. I love everything about it. Keep ‘em coming!” Thanks uncle shaun, we will.


    Today marks the debut of Sir Arthur Charles Clarke on our podcast. Most people know him from the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, widely regarded as one of the most influential films of all time. Clarke was born in England in December 1917. He said his interest in science fiction began with the November 1928 issue of Amazing Stories magazine at the age of 11, which he read in 1929 after it had been shipped from the United States. Sir Arthur Charles Clarke remembered buying this life changing magazine at Woolworth’s and said, “How I used to haunt that once-famous store during my lunch hour, in search of issues of Amazing, Wonder, and Astounding, buried like jewels in the junk-pile of detective and western pulps!”


    Clarke did have some stories published between 1937 and 1945, those stories were published in fanzines. His first professional sale was published in Astounding Science Fiction in April 1946. He was still a member of the Royal Air Force at the time he sold his first two stories to Astounding in 1945. Rescue Party sold first, followed by Loophole which was the first story actually published. Over the next few years his stories appeared regularly in leading pulps, and he always acknowledged them as his ‘launch pad’ to become a writer.


    He wrote around 100 short science fiction stories during his career and dozens of novels.


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    A Walk in the Dark by Arthur C. Clarke May 08, 2023
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    Fear and misfortune stalk the strange byways of a lonely planet. A Walk in the Dark by Arthur C. Clarke, that’s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, with at least one lost vintage sci-fi short story in every episode.

    Thanks to uncle shaun for his 5 star review on Apple Podcasts! “Just what I wanted! This is a superb Sci-Fi podcast. I love everything about it. Keep ‘em coming!” Thanks uncle shaun, we will.

    Today marks the debut of Sir Arthur Charles Clarke on our podcast. Most people know him from the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, widely regarded as one of the most influential films of all time.

    Clarke was born in England in December 1917. He said his interest in science fiction began with the November 1928 issue of Amazing Stories magazine at the age of 11, which he read in 1929 after it had been shipped from the United States. Sir Arthur Charles Clarke remembered buying this life changing magazine at Woolworth’s and said, “How I used to haunt that once-famous store during my lunch hour, in search of issues of Amazing, Wonder, and Astounding, buried like jewels in the junk-pile of detective and western pulps!”

    Clarke did have some stories published between 1937 and 1945, those stories were published in fanzines. His first professional sale was published in Astounding Science Fiction in April 1946.

    He was still a member of the Royal Air Force at the time he sold his first two stories to Astounding in 1945. Rescue Party sold first, followed by Loophole which was the first story actually published. Over the next few years his stories appeared regularly in leading pulps, and he always acknowledged them as his ‘launch pad’ to become a writer.

    He wrote around 100 short science fiction stories during his career and dozens of novels.

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    Breeder Reaction by Winston Marks May 02, 2023
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    The remarkable thing about Atummyc Afterbath Dusting Powder was that it gave you that lovely, radiant, atomic look—just the way the advertisements said it would. In fact, it also gave you a little something more!Breeder Reaction by Winston Marks, that’s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, with at least one lost vintage sci-fi short story in every episode.


    We received more emails and comments last week than ever before and you overwhelmingly said longer episodes would be a good thing. So, in a few weeks look for either a Ray Bradbury not so short story or a Philip K. Dick story. Send us an email, scott@lostscifi.com or leave a comment and tell us which vintage sci-fi author you prefer.


    Thanks to you our podcast is now #4 in Poland for Science Fiction Podcasts. Thanks to our listeners in Warsaw and Gdansk and all of Poland.


    We received our first email from Zambia recently, “I found your channel a couple of months ago on YouTube and I love how you narrate and listen to you almost every morning. I have a hard time finding Jack Vance books maybe you could narrate some of his work. Please and thank you. Namukale” Well, Namukale, your request is my command, you will hear Jack Vance in two weeks.


    Winston Marks returns to The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast today for his 4th appearance and just 3 weeks after “The Water Eater”’.


    Today’s story can be found in the April 1954 “If Worlds of Science Fiction” magazine. The very first story in the magazine is Philip K. Dick’s “The Golden Man” which you will hear in a future episode.


    Turn with me to page 29, Breeder Reaction by Winston Marks...


    Next week on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, Fear and misfortune stalk the strange byways of a lonely planet. A Walk in the Dark by Arthur C. Clarke.


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    A Matter of Ethics by Russ Winterbotham Apr 25, 2023
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    Homer was a shy Faderfield bachelor; his visitor was a beautiful Pleiades girl. At any rate she was a girl, and Homer had a problem—A Matter of Ethics by Russ Winterbotham, that’s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, with at least one lost vintage sci-fi short story in every episode.


    Thanks to Mur Dam for his 5 star review a few days ago on Apple Podcasts Great Britain, “Killer sci fi. Eagerly awaiting each new episode. Every one is a gem.” Thanks Mur Dam. We thank all of you for your reviews, ratings and comments. Send us an email and let us know how we’re doing or make a request for a vintage sci-fi story or author that you want to hear on the podcast. We are considering some longer stories on the podcast and we’d like your feedback please. If we added some vintage sci-fi that is an hour and a half up to almost two hours long would you listen? Please send us an email and let us know scott@lostscifi.com or leave a comment.


    We’ve got requests to fulfill coming soon. We will hear from Arthur C. Clarke in 2 weeks and Jack Vance a week after that, both by request.


    We’ve heard from today’s author, Russ Winterbotham before, you may remember “Three Spacemen Left To Die!” from last year. That story was paired with “Wanderlust” by Alan E. Nourse.


    We’ll find our story in the April 1955 “Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy” magazine. Turn to page 78. Her mission on Earth was scientific; yet Homer saw her curves as a social crisis! A Matter of Ethics by Russ Wintherbotham...


    Next week on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast,


    The remarkable thing about Atummyc Afterbath Dusting Powder was that it gave you that lovely, radiant, atomic look—just the way the advertisements said it would. In fact, it also gave you a little something more!Breeder Reaction by Winston Marks


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    Distress Signal by Ross Rocklynne Apr 18, 2023
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    Marooned! On the cold satellite of a dying sun, light-years away from home.... For Rex there was only one escape. But Carl called it murder! Distress Signal by Ross Rocklynne, that’s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, with at least one lost vintage sci-fi short story in every episode.


    Born in 1913 in Cincinnati, Ohio, Ross Rocklynne said his love of science fiction began at the age of 12 when he said a Black janitor introduced him to the genre. Rocklynne remembered the story that turned him into a life-long fan, it was the first installment of E.E. Smith’s "The Skylark of Space" in the August 1928 issue of Amazing Stories.


    In 1939, he attended the firstWorld Science Fiction Conventionin New York City where met and became life-long friends withRay Bradbury, among others.


    Rocklynne’s professional writing debut, “Man of Iron” was published in Astounding Stories magazine in August 1935. He was 22. He followed that up with 7 more stories in the 1930s. The peak of his writing career occurred in the 1940s when he had 60 short science fiction stories published. There were 15 more in the 50s.


    Rocklynne stopped writing in 1954 because he developed an extremely painful affliction of the face and jaw. He found that he could forget the pain only when he was involved in some kind of physical activity or when socially engaged with others. When he was alone the pain tended to monopolize his attention and thus made writing very difficult, if not impossible.


    So, what do you do when you can’t do what you love? Well, Ross Rocklynne supported himself as a cab driver and dispatcher for the next 15 years. He resumed writing with about a dozen stories in the late 60s and early 70s.

    Today’s story was his first and only offering in 1947. It appeared just before his friend Ray Bradbury’s story Rocket Summer in the Spring 1947 edition of Planet Stories Magazine. Turn to page 35 for Distress Signal by Ross Rocklynne…

    Next week on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, Homer was a shy Faderfield bachelor; hisvisitor was a beautiful Pleiades girl. At anyrate she was a girl, and Homer had a problem—A Matterof Ethics by Russ Winterbotham

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    The Water Eater by Winston Marks - Sci Fi Short Story Audiobook Apr 11, 2023
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    Most experiments were dropped because they failed—and some because they worked too well! The Water Eater by Winston Marks, that’s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, with at least one lost vintage sci-fi short story in every episode.


    Our latest 5-star review comes from Bedford Nick on Apple Podcasts in the UK. “Great discovery - Just found this and it’s a real gem. I love the enthusiasm and the narration. I find it a great escape.” Thanks Bedford Nick!


    The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast has climbed into the top 10 Science Fiction Podcasts in Ireland at #9! We’re #19 in France and #20 in Canada. Thank you for listening, rating, and sharing The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast.


    And we love getting your emails, we received this from Noel in Edmonton AB Canada… “Thanks for the terrific podcast. I’m new to the show and am loving both the choice of stories and the narration. I also enjoy the introductory comments, which add colour to each episode.


    When I hear you talk about lost or forgotten authors it makes me think of James White, who wrote some of my favourite sci-fi short stories ever. He was, I believe, a British sci-fi writer in the 1960’s. I have never heard anything of his on audio.


    Keep up the great work!” Thanks Noel, we’re looking for James White stories that we can add to the podcast thanks to you.


    Winston Marks wrote a couple of short stories in the early 1940s and then disappeared for more than a decade. He showed up on the sci-fi scene again in 1953 when magazines published 4 of his short stories include The Water Eater.


    If Winston Marks sounds familiar it’s possibly because we’ve featured him twice before. You may remember “Never Gut-shoot A Wampus” and “So They Baked A Cake”.


    From the old, yellowed pages of Galaxy Science Fiction in June 1953 our story can be found on page 56. The Water Eater by Winston Marks…


    Next week on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, Marooned! On the cold satellite of a dying sun,

    light-years away from home.... For Rex there was only one escape. But Carl called it murder! Distress Signal by Ross Rocklynne.


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    The Plattner Story by H. G. Wells Apr 04, 2023
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    Whether the story of Gottfried Plattner is to be credited or not, is a pretty question in the value of evidence. On the one hand, we have seven witnesses—to be perfectly exact, we have six and a half pairs of eyes, and one undeniable fact; and on the other we have—what is it?—prejudice, common sense, the inertia of opinion. The Plattner Story by H. G. Wells that’s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, with at least one lost vintage sci-fi short story in every episode.


    Special thanks to kumarido. Kumarido is the latest person to give us a 5 star rating and a very nice review on Apple Podcasts. “This is everything I ever wanted in a podcast. Great reading, great stories and a narrator who is a bit of a historian. He’s saving these works from oblivion as many of them may never be published again. If you like Sci Fi or if you are even mildly interested in speculative fiction you will enjoy this”


    Thank you kumarido. Did you know your ratings and reviews, comments and compliments encourage others to listen to The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast? They do! If you think we deserve it please rate, review, and share our podcast. And we received an email from Kristen Sierra at Shilshole Bay Marina, “Hi from the sailing vessel Bristol Blue in Ballard Washington (Seattle).


    I have been listening to your podcast for two weeks. Great work!” Thanks Kristen, if you sail south for a few days you can come visit us in Costa Rica! Your emails are always appreciated, scott@lostscifi.com.


    Today’s author, H. G. Wells is one of two men most often referred to as the father of science fiction. Can you guess the other? We’ll give you the answer at the end of our story.


    Herbert George Wells was an English writer born in London in 1866. Wells was a visionary who saw the arrival of aircraft, tanks, space travel, nuclear weapons, and satellite television long before they were invented. He coined the term “time machine” almost 130 years ago which is still used today. His science fiction novels, The Time Machine 1895, The Island of Dr. Moreau 1896, The Invisible Man 1897 and The War of the Worlds 1898 remain popular today and all have been seen on the big screen at least twice.


    Wells was busy writing novels but still found time to write almost 90 short stories. First published in the UK in 1897, The Plattner Story by H. G. Wells…


    So, besides H.G. Wells who is also often referred to as the father of science fiction? The answer, Jules Verne.


    Next week on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, Most experiments were dropped because they failed—and some because they worked too well! The Water Eater by Winston Marks.


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    Piper in the Woods by Philip K. Dick Mar 21, 2023
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    Earth maintained an important garrison on Asteroid Y-3. Now suddenly it was imperiled with a biological impossibility—men becoming plants! Piper in the woods written by Philip K. Dick… that’s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, with at least one lost vintage sci-fi short story in every episode.


    Piper in the Woods is the 10th Philip K. Dick story here on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast. While it won’t be the last story by Philip K. Dick, in the coming weeks were going to bring you stories by several authors who haven’t been heard from so far on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, H. G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke, Jack Vance and Ross Rocklynne to name a few.


    Special thanks to Lifeonmarz via Apple Podcasts Canada on February 16th 2023. Lifeonmarz gave us a 5 star rating and a glorious review. “Scott Millers readings of these science fiction stories by well known and not so well know authors is fantastic. So glad I found this podcast.”


    Thank you Lifeonmarz. Your ratings and reviews, comments and compliments encourage others to listen to The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, so if you think we deserve it please rate, review, and share our podcast. As always, your emails matter to us, scott@lostscifi.com


    We’ve got a rare treat for you today, from the inside cover of Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy in February 1953, just over 70 years ago, Philip K. Dick in his own words… “Once, when I was very young, I came across a magazine directly below the comic books called STIRRING SCIENCE STORIES. I bought it, finally, and carried it home, reading it along the way. Here were ideas, vital and imaginative. Men moving across the universe, down into sub-atomic particles, into time; there was no limit. One society, one given environment was transcended. It was Faustian; it carried a person up and beyond.


    I was twelve years old, then. But I saw in it the same thing I see now: a medium in which the full play of human imagination can operate, ordered, of course, by reason and consistent development. Over the years science fiction has grown, matured toward greater social awareness and responsibility.


    I became interested in writing science fiction when I saw it emerge from the ray gun stage into studies of man in various types and complexities of society.


    I enjoy writing science fiction; it is essentially communication between myself, and others as interested as I in knowing where present forces are taking us. My wife and my cat Magnificat are a little worried about my preoccupation with science fiction. Like most science fiction readers, I have files and stacks of magazines, boxes of notes and data, parts of unfinished stories, a huge desk full of related material in various stages. The neighbors say I seem to “read and write a lot”. But I think we will see our devotion pay off. We may yet live to be present when the public libraries begin to carry the science fiction magazines, and someday, perhaps, even the school libraries.”

    Philip K. Dick in his own words.


    Let’s turn to page 88 for Piper In The Woods…


    Next week on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, Whether the story of Gottfried Plattner is to be credited or not, is a pretty question in the value of evidence. On the one hand, we have seven witnesses—to be perfectly exact, we have six and a half pairs of eyes, and one undeniable fact; and on the other we have—what is it?—prejudice, common sense, the inertia of opinion. The Plattner Story by H. G. Wells...


    That’s next week on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, with at least one lost vintage sci-fi short story in every episode.


    https://lostscifi.com/podcast/piper-in-the-woods-by-philip-k-dick-episode-64/


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