Science Fiction
Short Science Fiction Collection
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Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is p…
The Veldt
Ray Bradbury
First published in 1950, the action is set 100 years in the future, as Lydia and George struggle with their technologically advanced home ta…
His Wisdom, the Defender
Read by Terry Kroenung
Simon Newcomb
A millionaire genius invents a flying armored suit, a la Iron Man. - Summary by Terry Kroenung
The Egyptian Cat Mystery
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Harold L. Goodwin
Rick & Scotty are invited to solve a mystery in Egypt. Traveling with Dr Winston our hero's investigate a mystery that has a global rea…
Theme and Variations
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Michelle M. Welch
What if music could open visions of the future? What if a mysterious melody drove an entire world mad? What if the greatest composer in hi…
The Social War
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Simon Landis
Described by io9.com contributor Jess Nevins as “the worst science fiction novel of the 19th century,” The Social War of 1900, or The Conspi…
The Radio Beasts
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Ralph Milne Farley
This is the second book of a fanciful series written by Ralph Milne Farley, pen name for Roger Sherman Hoar. It is an interplanetary advent…
2000 Plus
A Earth space ship crosses through some sort of vortex and finds itself transported back in time to around 3,000 B.C., and crash lands in Eg…
Bring Me The Head Of Philip K Dick
Gregory Whitehead
Bring Me the Head of Philip K Dick is a dark, surreal, and satirical drama set in contemporary America. The story revolves around a deadly f…
Exploring Tomorrow
John Campbell
Tomorrow was hosted by John Campbell, the editor of Astounding Science Fiction Magazine, and later, Analog Magazine. He was also a science f…
Web of the Spider!
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My dear friends... Do you find that you suffer from the condition known as ARACHNOPHOBIA? Do you cower in fear at the feeling of those hair…
The Man with a Thousand Legs
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Frank Belknap Long
Ripped from the pages of legendary magazine Weird Tales comes this epistolary novelette of unspeakable, oozing horror! In this bizarre tale …
The Moon Hoax
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Richard Adams Locke
This hoax, subtitled “A Discovery that the Moon Has a Vast Population of Human Beings,” was originally serialized in 1835 in the New York Su…
Dimension X
A space ship is stranded on a planet once occupied by a mysterious lost race of aliens. The crew is plagued by sabotage to the ship by someo…
Faster Than Light Tales of Time & Imagination
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Joe Mahoney and Robert J. Sawyer
A science fiction themed radio show featuring two short plays by Joe Mahoney. The first, "Cold Equations," is an adaptation of a T…
The Centaurians
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L. D. Biagi
Published in 1911, 15 years before the first verified discovery of the North Pole and in the same year when F. Cook published a memoir claim…
The Onslaught from Rigel
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Fletcher Pratt
“Mr. Pratt is well known for .… his excellent knowledge of warfare, and what a future war might be like. In this story he combines that know…
The Machine that Saved the World
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Murray Leinster
They were broadcasts from nowhere--sinister emanations flooding in fromspace--smashing any receiver that picked them up. What defense couldE…
The Call from Beyond
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Clifford D. Simak
Alone, accursed, he set out on the long, dark voyage to the forbidden gateway to worlds beyond life itself—restless forever with an ultimate…
The Syndic
Read by Ben Tucker
C. M. Kornbluth
There have been a thousand tales of future Utopias and possible civilizations. They have been ruled by benevolent dictatorships and pure dem…