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

Crack of Doom by Stephen Marlowe

A familiar world becomes terrifying when everyone around Sam Weber accepts a new order that he cannot understand. As children take command and adults surrender without pr

Coffin For Two by Winston Marks

Three years away has left Bill unprepared for an Earth where people can send perfect artificial bodies out to live for them. When an old rival threatens the woman he stil

Blood Lands by Alfred Coppel

The people of Kana refuse to abandon their forgotten world, and Kenyon is determined to discover what could make them choose isolation over the stars. Deep beneath the st

The Vidiot by Ib Melchior

Don Hartley has stumbled upon an invention that could make him fabulously wealthy—and give anyone who controls it the power to watch anyone, anywhere. Before he cashes in

The Watchers by George H. Smith

A lone Watcher abandons the safety of his hidden post when a human survivor falls into enemy hands. Outnumbered and almost unarmed, he must turn a frozen alien moon into

Killer by James E. Gunn

A fugitive believes he has found a world willing to give him everything he has lost, including someone who seems made for him. But the closer paradise comes to matching h

Replace the Horse by Laurence M. Janifer

Arthur Holly thinks he has found the surest bet in horse racing when a brilliant scientist discovers how to make an aging nag run like a champion. The scheme works beauti

Doomsday Deferred by Murray Leinster

Deep in the Brazilian jungle, a terrified family has found a way to bargain with something no human being was meant to bargain with. When an American naturalist realizes

The Remarkable Case of Davidson’s Eyes by H. G. Wells

Sidney Davidson can hear his friends in England, feel the furniture beneath his hands, and yet his eyes insist he is somewhere impossibly far away. As the vision refuses

Back Before The Moon by S. Omar Barker

This episode of the podcast is dedicated to my Mom who passed two days ago at the age of 86. Thank you Mom, for everything A desperate father races through flooded mount

A Difficult Time

Some of you have reached out to ask why there haven’t been any new episodes of The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast recently. My mother is nearing the end of her life, and I am trave

Back Before The Moon by S. Omar Barker

This episode of the podcast is dedicated to my Mom who passed two days ago at the age of 86. Thank you Mom, for everything A desperate father races through flooded mount

Me, Myself and I by Philip Klass

One careless trip into prehistory leaves Gooseneck McCarthy facing the one man stubborn enough to ruin everything—himself. Every attempt to fix the problem creates anothe

Forever is So Long by John Jakes

Frank Ridley has been given centuries to live, but the woman he loves may have only decades. To keep her, he must ask her to accept the same extraordinary future that has

The Mech Fighter by Stuart McIver

A veteran Mech fighter steps into what should be another routine match, only to discover that someone has turned the arena into a death trap with thousands cheering for t

The Contact Point by Jack Sharkey

A routine first contact becomes far more complicated when two spacefaring expeditions discover they have misunderstood almost everything about one another. Just as genuin

Open All Doors by Harry Harrison and Hubert Pritchard

A young researcher risks his career, his freedom, and his sanity to prove that madness can be reversed with a single injection. But when the only way to demonstrate the c

Probability by Louis Trimble

A quiet man spends decades chasing an impossible invention, only to discover that success carries a responsibility far greater than wealth or fame. When the future reveal

Pendulum by Ray Bradbury and Henry Hasse

A scientist condemned to a punishment unlike anything ever devised watches centuries slip past while every civilization around him rises, changes, and disappears. As the

Translator’s Error by Charles Dye

A world that should have bloomed again instead slips beyond reach, leaving one visitor to wonder whether the greatest mistake was made long before humans ever arrived. As