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Nov 2023
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Tony and the Beetles by Philip K. Dick -...

SCOTT MILLER
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A ten-year-old boy grows up fast when history catches up with the human race! Tony and the Beetles 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 back on the podcast today with a tale about war and a young boy living on a faraway alien planet whose life is turned upside down when Earthmen face the unthinkable. From Orbit Science Fiction Magazine No. 2 in 1953, our story begins on page 60, Tony and the Beetles by Philip K. Dick…

 

In two days on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, Like every farmer on every planet, Duncan had to hunt down anything that damaged his crops—even though he was aware this was—The World That Couldn’t Be by Clifford D. Simak­­­­­­. That’s in two days on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast.



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