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

A taxi driver becomes the most feared man in the city when passengers keep vanishing from his cab, leaving behind only watches, coins, and scattered pieces of metal. While police hunt a murderer and reporters invent a monster, the real danger sits quietly in a retired tinkerer’s workshop. The Middle Of The Week After Next by Murray Leinster. That’s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast.

You might call today’s story offbeat, absurdist, chaotic, inventive and downright hysterical.

First published in Thrilling Wonder Stories in August 1952 on page 71, The Middle Of The Week After Next by Murray Leinster…

Next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, A dead man chooses what looks like the safest punishment in hell, convinced he understands the trap better than everyone before him. But as endless time passes in silence and fog, one terrible question begins to grow: what if the suffering only ends for those willing to keep going? What A Man Believes by Robert Sheckley.

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The patrolmen on Titan expected another brutal week guarding the chroidex mines, but a sudden disaster leaves them trapped outside their own fortress with a thousand enemies behind its walls. As ammunition runs low and escape disappears, Captain Staley gambles everything on a plan so bizarre his own men think he has finally cracked under the pressure. Crisis on Titan by James R. Adams. That’s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast.

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The Spring 1946 issue of Planet Stories sold for just 20 cents and packed in a full novelette along with seven short stories. Turn to page 79 and you would find a desperate battle for survival on Saturn’s largest moon, Crisis on Titan by James R. Adams…

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A drifting relic from the earliest days of interstellar travel crashes onto a lonely world, carrying the echo of a doomed voyage nobody fully understands. When a second ghost ship appears above Straba, one greedy visitor pushes too far into something that may still remember the people it lost. Strangers to Straba by Carl Jacobi. That’s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast.

Carl Jacobi has been on the podcast twice. The Street That Wasn’t There, a story he cowrote with Clifford D. Simak and a personal favorite of mine The Last Drive.

In today’s tale we travel to the lonely frontier world of Straba, where an old recluse and an ambitious young surveyor uncover one of the greatest lost legends of early space travel.

Turn to page 90 in the October 1954 issue of Fantastic Universe, Strangers to Straba by Carl Jacobi…

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A silent invader hangs over New York while entire buildings and war machines vanish without a sound. As governments prepare for surrender, one desperate idea forces a handful of men to walk straight toward a weapon no one has survived. The World In The Balance by J.P. Marshall. That’s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast.

It’s always exciting to introduce a new author on the podcast. Only to discover that there is almost no information available about them. Author James. P. Marshall had only two stories published, one in 1927 and the other in 1929. That’s all we know.

Published in Argosy All-Story Weekly on April 16th, 1927, on page 620, The World In The Balance by J.P. Marshall…

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Factory workers race to meet impossible wartime production demands while hidden enemies move through the endless machinery of a spinning city in space. One man notices a detail no one else catches, and suddenly millions of lives depend on whether he acts before the shift ends. Factory In The Sky by Basil Wells. That’s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast.

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Basil Wells takes us back to the Golden Age of science fiction with a strange journey high above the Earth, where industry has escaped the ground entirely and danger waits in the clouds. From page 68 in the September 1941 issue of Astonishing Stories, here’s Factory In The Sky by Basil Wells…

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