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

An intelligence from beyond Earth arrives convinced it has found salvation for its dying race. What follows is a terrifying collision between certainty and misunderstanding, where survival depends on knowing what it truly means to belong. The Invader by Alfred Coppel. That’s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast.

Today’s story is the seventh for author Alfred Coppel on our podcast and it is a quiet classic that proves invasion doesn’t always arrive with explosions. Published in the February 1953 Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy on page 132, The Invader by Alfred Coppel…

Next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, A lone explorer confronts a force that fractures identity, memory, and destiny itself. In a place where time refuses to behave, survival depends on facing what you were, what you are, and what you may yet become. Time Trap by Frank Belknap Long.

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When technology enters politics, human instincts collide with inhuman logic. What begins as a clever shortcut toward power escalates into a reckoning no backroom deal can control. Electronic Landslide by Clyde Hostetter. That’s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast.

More 5 star reviews on Apple Podcasts, this from JCMargerison on Apple Podcasts US. “Best of all Worlds. No Sci-Fi podcast content or context compares to LSF (Lost Sci-Fi) and no one does it like Scott Miller. He doesn’t just read the stories. He tells them.”

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Clyde Hostetter makes his debut on the podcast with one of just two stories he published during the golden age of science fiction. His first appeared in 1958, and today’s selection comes from the February 1960 issue of Future Science Fiction, page 110, Electronic Landslide by Clyde Hostetter…

Next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, An intelligence from beyond Earth arrives convinced it has found salvation for its dying race. What follows is a terrifying collision between certainty and misunderstanding, where survival depends on knowing what it truly means to belong. The Invader by Alfred Coppel.

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Drawn by a summons he does not understand, a solitary wanderer follows an old path back into forgotten places. What he finds there tests instinct, loyalty, and the cost of survival in a world shaped by human science. Keepers of the House by Lester del Rey. That’s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast.

We’re often asked why we narrate the stories we do. With today’s selection, the answer is simple: it’s different, it breaks the mold and reminds us why we love narrating these vintage sci-fi stories.

Published in the January 1956 issue of Fantastic Universe on page 82, Keepers of the House by Lester del Rey…

Next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, When technology enters politics, human instincts collide with inhuman logic. What begins as a clever shortcut toward power escalates into a reckoning no backroom deal can control. Electronic Landslide by Clyde Hostetter.

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A mysterious delivery brings Joe Linger a device that can reshape reality itself — and suddenly the universe feels wide open. But with limitless power comes danger, curiosity, and a decision that will change his place in the cosmos forever. We’re Off to Mars! by Joe Gibson. That’s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast.

Joe Gibson, born in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1924, was a lifelong science fiction enthusiast who also worked as an illustrator, with his artwork appearing only in fanzines. Between 1948 and 1961, Gibson published roughly a dozen short stories, contributing quietly but steadily to the genre he loved. Today’s story was originally published in the September 1951 issue of Imagination, appearing on page 126 under the byline Carlton Furth, We’re Off to Mars! by Joe Gibson…

Next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, Drawn by a summons he does not understand, a solitary wanderer follows an old path back into forgotten places. What he finds there tests instinct, loyalty, and the cost of survival in a world shaped by human science. Keepers of the House by Lester del Rey.

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Far from help and beyond certainty, a returning astronaut confronts a problem that logic cannot solve. Survival depends on a forbidden experiment that could unlock impossible insight—or erase him completely. Last Resort by Stephen Bartholomew. That’s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast.

Whether you’ve been listening since day one or you’re just joining us now, we want to sincerely thank you for being part of The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast. In one short month, we’ll reach our 4th Anniversary, a milestone that still feels unreal, and we’ve set our sights on something extraordinary: Episode 500 on February 24, 2026, exactly four years after our very first episode went live.

Reaching that moment means pushing harder than ever, releasing nearly an episode every day over the next month, driven by a deep love for forgotten and underrated vintage science fiction—and by the listeners who made this journey possible. This milestone isn’t just ours; it belongs to everyone who pressed play, shared an episode, gave us a 5 star rating and review and kept these stories alive. Thank you!

An astronaut alone between Mars and Earth discovers a problem no computer can solve. Whether he makes it back to earth depends on him or does it? The publication Analog Science Fact - Science Fiction, the date April 1963 the page where it begins, 36, Last Resort by Stephen Bartholomew…

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