The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast - Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories
by Scott Miller · 600 episodes
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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 pioneering speculative fiction and the magazine era that shaped modern science fiction. Released several times a week, the podcast explores timeless ideas—alien encounters, artificial intelligence, time travel, dystopian futures, and the human cost of progress—through stories by legendary authors including Philip K. Dick, Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, H. G. Wells, Harlan Ellison, and many others. Now in its fourth year with more than 600 epis...
Latest episodes
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25 min
Underground Movement by Allen K. Lang
In a world where the government controls every movement and punishes dissent, even its most decorated citizens can become enemies of the state. When a respected military doctor dis…
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26 min
The Ordeal of Colonel Johns by George H. Smith
A Revolutionary War hero discovers that the America he helped create has become a place he barely recognizes. When his descendants proudly reveal what they stand for, one disgusted…
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45 min
An Artist's Life by Harry Harrison
Brent Dalgreen traveled to the Moon and nearly died trying to capture its alien beauty on canvas. Now, back on Earth, he discovers another artist has accomplished what he couldn’t—…
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24 min
The Pluto Lamp by Charles A. Stearns
Knucklebone Smith has spent his entire life searching for the one thing he was born to do, but nobody believes he’s good for anything. On the frozen surface of Pluto, a desperate e…
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30 min
Synthetic Hero by Erik Fennel
A celebrated space pioneer becomes humanity’s greatest hero, but the story the world believes conceals a devastating deception. As a deadly disease threatens millions, one forgotte…
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28 min
The Holes and John Smith by Edward W. Ludwig
A brilliant musician claims he has fallen through a hole in time, but his new friends are more interested in keeping him employed than believing his extraordinary story. As his obs…
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28 min
The Barrier by Bryce Walton
John Stevens has survived something no human being was meant to experience, but the greatest danger may still lie ahead. When the military prepares to send him beyond Earth once mo…
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25 min
The Protector by Betsy Curtis
A race that cannot feel physical pain faces surprisingly terrifying danger. When an alien civilization begins to crumble under human cruelty, a boxing manager and his heavyweight c…
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43 min
The Crystal Ray by Raymond Z. Gallun
A mysterious blue crystal possesses a power that could change the course of a devastating global war. But turning a deadly discovery into humanity’s last hope will demand more from…
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33 min
The Uncharted Isle by Clark Ashton Smith
A forgotten civilization struggles to understand why the stars no longer match its ancient maps, while a stranded sailor discovers that its inhabitants cannot even see him. But the…
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29 min
Moxon’s Master by Ambrose Bierce
A brilliant mind pushes a forbidden idea too far, testing whether intelligence can exist without flesh or conscience. When reason gives way to rivalry, the cost of curiosity become…
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1 h 33
The Werewolf of Ponkert by H. Warner Munn
A prosperous merchant is forced into a secret brotherhood whose members hunt as beasts and obey an ancient master who can reach into their minds. When that obedience threatens the…
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43 min
The Mississippi Saucer by Frank Belknap Long
A violent river feud leaves a boy desperate to save the only family he has left. But when Jimmy reaches for help, something far beyond the Mississippi may be listening. The Mississ…
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52 min
The Man the Martians Made by Frank Belknap Long
On a harsh frontier world, fear spreads faster than truth when a brutal crime fractures a fragile human settlement. As suspicion turns inward, the greatest danger may come from wha…
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24 min
The Flowering of the Strange Orchid by H. G. Wells
A harmless obsession becomes something far more dangerous when beauty conceals an appetite no botanist expects. H. G. Wells turns a quiet greenhouse into a trap where fascination m…
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22 min
D. P. From Tomorrow by Mack Reynolds
A desperate warning from ten years ahead lands in the hands of men who pride themselves on knowing almost everything. They laugh at the messenger, but one name may prove that the f…
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29 min
Milk Run by Robert Donald Locke
Three ancient aliens awaken aboard a human freighter, and neither species can understand what the other intends. With the crew helpless and the ship racing through hyperspace, some…
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1 h 18
Against the Stone Beasts by James Blish
A desperate war rages between sky-borne colonists and unseen creatures that rule the stone beneath their feet. One accidental visitor from another age may decide whether an alien c…
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27 min
Murderer’s Chain by Wenzell Brown
A fortune stands just out of reach, and one beautifully crafted Martian necklace seems capable of removing the only person standing in the way. But a perfect murder requires more t…
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26 min
When You Giffle… by Joseph Wesley
Captain Hannah has found people who can reshape a spaceship with their minds, but their astonishing powers come with the judgment of ordinary kids. When a helpful teenager starts “…