The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast - Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories
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Groff ruled the world through Fear. Fear of his awful power ... his twisted, mad brain. For one day that brain would crack. When it did, the World would dissolve in cataclysmic Chaos. The Man Who Killed the World by Ray Cummings, that’s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast.
This is the first time author Ray Cummings has appeared on our podcast. Cummings was born in New York City in 1887. Before his career as a science fiction author took off he worked for inventor Thomas Edison as a personal assistant and technical writer for 5 years. He wrote more than 200 short stories in his career.
Back in 1940 you could’ve purchased the Spring issue of Planet Stories Magazine for 20 cents. You would have discovered two short stories by Ray Cummings in that issue, The Girl From Infinite Smallness on page 30 and today’s story which appears on page 94 and is credited to Ray King, one of many pen names he used. The Man Who Killed the World by Ray Cummings…
Next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, Barstac found it hard to believe that this girl had helped him escape—until he learned her reason. Moon of Memory by Bryce Walton.
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Outcast of the Stars by Ray Bradbury - Science Fiction Short Story From the 1950s
The Weapon by Isaac Asimov - Short Sci Fi Story From the 1940s
The Monsters by Robert Sheckley - Short Sci Fi Story From the 1950s
The Missing Room by Lynn Venable - Short Sci Fi Story From the 1950s
The Moon is Green by Fritz Leiber - Short Science Fiction Story From the 1950s
The Engineer by Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth - Short Sci Fi Story From the 1950s
The Good Husband by Evelyn E. Smith - Sci Fi Short Stories From the 1950s
Space-Wolf by Ray Cummings - Short Science Fiction Story From the 1940s
Beyond the Ultra Violet by Frank M. Robinson - Science Fiction Short Story From the 1950s
You Are Forbidden by Jerry Shelton - Short Sci Fi Story From the 1940s
The Star by H. G. Wells - Sci-Fi Short Story From the 1800s
Skin Game by Charles E. Fritch - Short Sci Fi Story From the 1950s
The Enormous Word by William Oberfield - An Apocalyptic Sci-Fi Adventure
The Spy in the Elevator by Donald E. Westlake - Apocalyptic Sci-Fi
Not a Creature Was Stirring by Dean Evans - Apocalyptic Sci-Fi Short Story from the 1950s
Proof of the Pudding by Robert Sheckley - Apocalyptic Sci-Fi Short Story from the 1950s
A Hitch in Time by Frederik Pohl - Short Sci Fi Story From the 1940s
The Planet of Illusion by Donald A. Wollheim - Short Sci Fi Story From the 1940s
Pogo Planet by Donald A. Wollheim - Short Science Fiction Story From the 1940s
Homecoming by Miguel Hidalgo - 1950s Science Fiction Short Stories
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