The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast - Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories
Scott Miller
4.7from 436 ratings
- 630
- Episodes
- 362
- Transcribed
- 436
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2022
- First episode
About The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast - Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories
The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast restores and narrates forgotten and underrated vintage science fiction short stories spanning from the 1700s through the mid-1960s. Each episode features a professionally narrated classic drawn from pioneering speculative fiction and the magazine era that shaped modern science fiction. Released several times a week, the podcast explores timeless ideas—alien encounters, artificial intelligence, time travel, dystopian futures, and the human cost of progress—through stories by legendary authors including Philip K. Dick, Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, H. G. Wells, Harlan Ellison, and many others. Now in its fourth year with more than 600 episodes, The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast has reached #1 on Apple Podcasts in 43 countries, reflecting a worldwide appetite for classic science fiction storytelling. Narrated by Scott Miller, each episode brings the wonders, warnings, and possibilities of vintage science fiction to today’s listeners while celebrating the stories and ideas that helped shape the genre.
- Publisher
- Scott Miller
- Category
- fiction
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 24 Feb 2022
- Latest episode
- 20 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
362 of 630 episodes have a transcript.
20 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Kreativity for Kats by Fritz Leiber
20 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Dead Man’s Tale by Willard E. Hawkins from Weird Tales Reborn
18 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Righteous Plague by Robert Abernathy
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Kreativity for Kats by Fritz Leiber
Published 20 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Such disturbances exist only in the spirit world, and are in no way a mirroring of anything in the real world. Gummich knew that his paw did not change when it flicked the surface of the water, although the image of his paw burst into a hundred flickering fragments. Both cats and primitive men first deduced that the world in a water mirror is a spirit world, because they saw that its inhabitants were easily blown apart by the wind and must, therefore, be highly tenuous, though capable of regeneration. Gummitch mildly enjoyed creating rhythmic disturbances in the spirit worlds below water mirrors. […]
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- 4.7 / 5
- 436 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 65 / 100
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- Quality
- 72
- Social presence
- 90
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 99
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