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Oct 2024
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Yellow Streak Hero by Harlan Ellison - T...

SCOTT MILLER
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All your life you’ve crouched, waiting, in the path of impending disaster. That has been your job–what you were trained for. But you can’t help visualizing its arrival–prophesying what form it will take. So how could you be blamed for not recognizing it on arrival? Yellow Streak Hero by Harlan Ellison, that’s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast.


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We haven’t heard from Harlan Ellison in over two years, so for those of you who enjoy hearing from the Bad Boy of Sci-Fi we have a story for you today and another in three weeks.


From the May 1957 Amazing Stories turn to page 110, Yellow Streak Hero by Harlan Ellison


Next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, There is no life in space–can’t be, because there’s no air. But that undeniable fact loses point when your own existence is threatened by that life which can’t exist. The Space Beasts by Clifford D. Simak.


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