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Jul 2024
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The Beast of Boredom by Richard R. Smith...

SCOTT MILLER
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The Beast of Boredom wasn't a weapon or a bribe, as he thought. But it was the most ingenious trap of all time! The Beast of Boredom by Richard R. Smith, that’s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast.


Thanks to Tif Love who bought us a coffee and says, “I listen to your podcast, and absolutely love it. So I just listened to “All the Girls were Nude” and I’m pretty sure this was well-known in some circles by the 80s, because when I was a child I would browse the back of dirty magazines in the grocery store (while moms shopped lol) and they were always advertising X-ray glasses. I found a lot the stories and ads more interesting than the nudity, I was different. Hilariously this story was probably where those ads got their start!” Thanks Tif for buying us a coffee and your interesting comment!


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Richard R. Smith has been on the podcast before with Alien Equivalent. Todays’s story appears in the April 1958 issue of Infinity Science Fiction Magazine on page 46, The Beast of Boredom by Richard R. Smith…


Next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, If time-travel is possible, then why haven't we been visited by people from the future? But Pete LeFranc found the answer to that.. Absolutely No Paradox by Lester Del Rey.


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