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Asleep in Armageddon by Ray Bradbury - Ray Bradbury Science Fiction

Asleep in Armageddon by Ray Bradbury - Ray Bradbury Science Fiction

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


Asleep in Armageddon by Ray Bradbury - Ray Bradbury Science Fiction

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

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Length:
45 minutes
Released:
Jan 10, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Avoid Planetoid 787. Lush and sunny, with fine air and no dangerous beasts, it'll tempt you to curve in for some nice solid-ground sleep. DON'T! Asleep in Armageddon by Ray Bradbury, that’s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, with at least one lost vintage sci-fi short story in every episode.We’re hearing from a lot of you lately, Paul writes, "Being a sci-fi fan my whole life I was often times disappointed reading old time stories. While your performances are excellent, that's not the main thing that makes the stories so good. It's your choice of stories. Keep up the good work." Thanks. Paul Braun - Dairy farmer from Wisconsin. Thanks Paul!Good to hear from Jack Ford again, "Happy New Year, hope all is well. I very much enjoyed #50 the super short stories bundle, please do more as and when you see fit." Thanks, Jack in England. Thank you, Jack!And Dane Scott says, “I've been greatly enjoying your podcasts. What a wonderful way to share all these buried treasures with the world. I just posted information about your podcast to my big Facebook group, "Keep Watching the Skies," and also to my more-specialized sci-fi audio group, "The Seeing Ear ."Thanks Dane. If you want to share our podcast on Facebook, Twitter or wherever please do and if you want to communicate with us please send us an email, [email protected]’re happy to report that The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast is now the 8th most listened to science fiction podcast in the Netherlands, #9 in South Africa, #33 in Germany, #57 in Canada and we’ve moved up to #54 in the United States. Thank you for listening, rating, and sharing The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast. We appreciate you. Ray Bradbury began writing at a young age and published his first story at the age of 20. He went on to write hundreds of short stories and novels, and his work has been adapted into numerous films, television shows, and stage productions. This is the 4th Ray Bradbury Short story on our podcast, two weeks ago one of his stories was included in the Super Short Sci-Fi stories episode, and we’ve also featured The Monster Maker and Morgue Ship.In the Winter of 1948 if you plunked down 20 cents on the counter you could walk away with the Winter edition of Planet Stories Magazine where you would find Asleep in Armageddon on page 58…Next week on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast…The most fitting place for a man to die is where he dies for man. Yet Willie chose a sterile, alien world that wouldn't even see a man for millions of years.... Willie’s Planet by Mike Ellis. That’s next week on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, with at least one lost vintage sci-fi short story in every episode.Support the show
Released:
Jan 10, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

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Join us every week for a trip back in time to the early days of science fiction. Travel the solar system with aliens, robots and space pirates aboard space ships capable of travel beyond light-years to discover planets and people, conflicts and conundrums. Short science fiction stories from some of the greatest vintage sci-fi authors of all time, Philip K. Dick, Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, H. G. Wells, Harlan Ellison, Fritz Leiber, Alan E. Nourse,  Frederik Pohl, Kurt Vonnegut and many more.We’ll go back in time sixty to a hundred years, or more, when these amazing sci-fi short stories were written and very often find ourselves in the future. Narrator Scott Miller is your host for this journey through space and time.