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Sep 2023
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Invasion by Murray Leinster - The greate...

SCOTT MILLER
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The whole fighting fleet of the United Nations is caught in Kreynborg's marvelous, unique trap. Invasion by Murray Leinster, that’s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, with at least one lost vintage sci-fi short story in every episode.

 

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We get a lot of requests, and we get to them as soon as we can. Dr. Shane Kush this one’s for you. Murray Leinster made his debut a few months ago with, “The Other Now”. He returns today with a 90-year-old story from the March 1933 issue of Astounding Stories Magazine. Let’s turn to page 118 for Invasion by Murray Leinster…

 

In two days on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, Johnson wanted to leave the verdant world, but Brent was bound he’d have a look around. He did, and found a reason to stay–unluckily… Strange Eden by Philip K. Dick. That’s in two days on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, with at least one lost vintage sci-fi short story in every episode.

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