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Dec 2023
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The Magnificent Possession by Isaac Asim...

SCOTT MILLER
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Walter Sills labored for years as an unknown laboratory worker—but at fifty he makes his great discovery! Fame, riches are to be his fate—until interference looms up in the form of a few unlikeable characters — and Nature herself! The Magnificent Possession by Isaac Asimov, that’s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, with at least one lost vintage sci-fi short story in every episode.


Future Fiction Magazine published its first issue in November 1939, two issues later in July 1940 the new science fiction magazine featured stories by Dennis Clive, John Coleridge and Neil R. Jones on the cover, but didn't mention Isaac Asimov. Of the 7 authors in that issue, the 20 year old Asimov would have a career that outlasted and outshined all the others. Today’s story can be found on page 71, The Magnificent Possession by Isaac Asimov…


Next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, Perhaps you’re read how Everest has now been climbed? But have you heard of Planetary Survey? Here’s the real truth about it. Everest has been climbed twice. Everest by Isaac Asimov, that’s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast.


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