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Jan 2024
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Jokester by Isaac Asimov - Isaac Asmiov ...

SCOTT MILLER
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What really happened to the traveling salesman and the farmer’s daughter–and why? Here’s the ultimate, horrifying answer… Jokester 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.


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From Infinity Science Fiction Magazine in December, 1956 let us go to page 39 and discover Jokester by Isaac Asimov


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