I’ve done a bigger post on The Defenders by Philip K. Dick, that’s HERE, but I’ve just uploaded a YouTube version of the X Minus One adaptation that I’ve put together with the original art from its publication in Galaxy Science Fiction, January 1953 issue: Posted by Jesse Willis
I guess I’m starting on another Dick kick. I’ve been thinking, and reading a lot of his short stories lately. Thanks in part to the two Blackstone Audio audiobook collections entitled The Selected Stories Of Philip K. Dick. The first story in Blackstone Audio’s The Selected Stories Of Philip K. Dick, Volume 2 is Colony. […]
skulk (v.) /skəlk/ – Keep out of sight, typically with a sinister, evil or cowardly motive Example: The thief skulked in the shadows. Skulking Permit is a cute Robert Sheckley story. Frankly, it is not one of his best. His best stuff will send your brain into a week long head-shaking fugue state that’ll leaving […]
The Lifeboat Mutiny is a part of Robert Sheckley’s “AAA Ace Series.” The series has eight stories, each involving two partners in the far future encountering various unusual problems. One fan on LibraryThing described the series as being about “two of the unluckiest fellas who ever set out to make a fortune” – I’m still […]
The C-Chute is one of the few Isaac Asimov stories that features aliens. Set during an interstellar war, it tells the story of a group of humans that are captured and imprisoned by an alien species. Most of the action of the tale comes in the playing out the group’s psychology. They all have differing […]
Now here is a cool project, and it’s one recently mentioned on one of our podcasts! It’s an effort to source and record and proof the “public domain science fiction stories which were turned into half-hour plays for the classic mid-1950’s American radio series, X Minus One.” This collection includes eight such stories. Which one […]