TBD - To Be Determined

Mar 18 2025 33 ep. 39 mins 3
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Classic scifi short stories ... some you know, some you don't. But all of them are worthy of another look.

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Episode 31 - The Forest of Zyl (Chis Neville)

Mar 18 2025 31 mins  
Theme: It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature.Episode ConnectionsAuthors, stories. Murray Leinster, The Lonely Planet. Ursula K. LeGuin, “Vaster Than Empires and More Slow.” Stanislaw Lem, Solaris. Tom Godwin, “The Cold Equations.” Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game. Jack McDevitt. Robert Heinlein, “They.” Films. The Happening. TV episodes, series. That margarine commercia

Episode 30 - Captive Audience (Ann Warren Griffith)

Feb 21 2025 40 mins  
Theme: Paying your debt to CapitalismEpisode ConnectionsAuthors, stories. Ann Warren Griffith, “Zeritsky’s Law.” Henry Cuttner, “Nothing But Ginger Bread Left.” Arthur C. Clarke, “The Ultimate Melody.” Fritz Leiber, “The Girl With the Hungry Eyes.” Frederic Pohl, The Space Merchants. Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash. George Orwell, 1984. Films. Blade Runner. Music. Rus

Episode 29 - 10:01 AM (Alexander Malac)

Jan 03 2025 45 mins  
Theme: Justice, fast-food styleEpisode ConnectionsAuthors, stories. Alexander Malac, Extrapolosis. Harry Harrison, The Stainless Steel Rat series. Daniel H. Wilson, Where’s My Jetpack? Alice Glaser, “The Tunnel Ahead.”Films. Star Wars. Running Man. Judge Dread. RoboCop. Blade Runner. TV episodes, series. Firefly. Judge Judy. The People’s Court , Judge Mathis. The Hot Bench.

Episode 28 - Chicago (Thomas F. Monteleone)

Nov 30 2024 39 mins  
Theme: If I had a million robots ...Episode ConnectionsAuthors, stories. Dean Koontz. Monteleone, The Time Swept City. Fritz Lieber, “A Pail of Air.” Roger Zelazny, “For a Breath I Tarry.” Tom Godwin, “The Cold Equations.” Ray Bradbury, “There Will Come Soft Rains.” Cyril Kornbluth, “Marching Morons.” Harlan Ellison, “I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream.” Jack

Episode 27 - For a Breath I Tarry (Roger Zelazny)

May 21 2024 56 mins  
Theme: What does it mean to be human?Episode ConnectionsAuthors, stories. Roger Zelanzny, Chronicles of Amber. Neil Gaiman, Sandman. The Bible. Isaac Asimov, Bicentennial Man. Jack Williamson, “With Folded Hands.”Films. Bicentennial Man. AI. Blade Runner. I, Robot. Finch. TV episodes, series. Star Trek: The Next Generation. Ideas. Literary sci fi. Mythological connections. Logi

Episode 26 - There Will Come Soft Rains (Ray Bradbury)

Mar 20 2024 35 mins  
Theme: Our house … is a very, very, very smart houseEpisode ConnectionsAuthors, stories. Sara Teasdale, “There Will Come Soft Rains.” Dean Koontz, The Demon Seed. Alan Weisman, The World Without Us. James Tiptree Jr., “The Last Flight of Dr. Ain.” McSweeney’s.com. Fritz Lieber, “A Pale of Air.” Larry Niven, “Inconstant Moon.”Films. The Demon Seed. I, Robot. Back

Episode 25 - The Last Flight of Dr. Ain (James Tiptree, Jr)

Dec 20 2023 37 mins  
Theme: A plague of humans.Episode ConnectionsAuthors, stories. Lynn Margulis, the Gaia Hypothesis. Stephen King, The Stand. Richard Matheson, I Am Legend. Richard Preston, The Hot Zone. Albert Robina, The War in the Twentieth Century. Aldo’s Huxley, Brave New World. H.G. Wells, “The Stolen Bacillus.” Nicholas Christakis, Apollo’s Arrow. Films. The Matrix. Resident Evil film

Episode 24 - Inconstant Moon (Larry Niven)

Aug 17 2023 40 mins  
Theme: It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel … angst.Episode ConnectionsAuthors, stories. Larry Niven, Ringworld series. Fritz Lieber, “A Pail of Air.” Arthur C. Clarke, “Rescue Party,” and “The Star.” Jerry Pournelle. Ursula K. LeGuin. Films. Finch. Castaway. Solar Flare. Sunshine. Sharknado. The World’s End. Knowing. Apollo 19. TV episodes, series.

Episode 23 - A Pail of Air (Fritz Lieber)

Feb 21 2023 36 mins  
Theme: I can see my breath. I can scoop mine with a bucket. Now that’s COLD!Episode ConnectionsAuthors, stories. Fritz Lieber, Newhon series. James M. Ward & Rob Kuntz, Deities & Demigods (TSR, AD&D). Stephen King, “The Jaunt.” Jerome Bixby, The Holes Around Mars. Hal Clement, Mission of Gravity. Tom Godwin, “The Cold Equations.” Films. Snowpiercer. The Day Af

Episode 22 - Encased in Ancient Rind (R.A. Lafferty)

Feb 14 2023 40 mins  
Theme: Does more life bring greater wisdom?Episode ConnectionsAuthors, stories. Neil Gaiman, Sandman series. Phillip K. Dick. Samuel R. Delaney & Marilyn Hacker, Quark series. J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings. Stephen R. Donaldson, The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. Jerome Bixby, “Old Testament.” Clifford Simak, “Desertion.” J.G. Ballard, “Voices of Time.” Jaso