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Nov 2023
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Foster You're Dead by Philip K. Dick - P...

SCOTT MILLER
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Almost everyone had a bomb shelter. You had to have one, in fact, you needed the latest model because the Russians were always developing new weapons that could penetrate the old bomb shelters. Foster You're Dead by Philip K. Dick, 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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Philip K. Dick is the most popular author on our podcast. Today we present a story that could have happened during the cold war. From the pages of Star Science Fiction Stories number 3 in 1955, Foster You're Dead by Philip K. Dick…

 

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