And All The Girls Were Nude by Richard Magruder and The Queen of Space by Joseph Slotkin
02/24/22 • 71 min
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Today we’ve got two lost sci-fi short stories for you. On the surface they would appear to be dissimilar. But they do have a few things in common. Both stories were written by men, if you can believe the names used when the stories were published in 1954. The use of pseudonyms was very common in science fiction magazines during the 40’s, 50’s and 60’s. We know nothing about these two men and neither produced many stories that appear in the publications of the time, or since for that matter.
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Our first story is one of my personal favorites for what you may consider an odd reason. When narrating an audiobook the writing style of some authors just, for lack of a better word, works. It flows off the tongue and it’s easy narrate. If I could find more stories by Richard Magruder I would narrate them. But this is the only one I could find.
Our main character is an inventor, Nathanial Evergood was an eccentric old man with a photographic passion for pretty girls. So he invented a camera lens for special effects. From Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy in December 1954 And All The Girls Were Nude by Richard Magruder...
I don’t know what it is about that story but I absolutely love it. One of the reasons I started narrating these lost sci-fi stories was that many of them had never been available as audiobooks. And All The Girls Were Nude was one of those. Is it just me or is that a great story?
I’d love to hear your thoughts if you’d be kind enough to share them. Please feel free to send me an email at [email protected] with any ideas, thoughts, comments or suggestions. I look forward to hearing from you.
On to our second lost sci-fi short story. As mentioned previously I have been unable to discover anything about author Joseph Slotkin. This is the only short story I can find by Slotkin and like And All The Girls Were Nude it has never before been available as an audiobook. Helen LaTour had the best hip wriggle in galactic Burleyque. In fact, it was so good she hipped herself smack into another dimension!
From Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy August 1954, The Queen of Space, by Joseph Slotkin...
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Today we’ve got two lost sci-fi short stories for you. On the surface they would appear to be dissimilar. But they do have a few things in common. Both stories were written by men, if you can believe the names used when the stories were published in 1954. The use of pseudonyms was very common in science fiction magazines during the 40’s, 50’s and 60’s. We know nothing about these two men and neither produced many stories that appear in the publications of the time, or since for that matter.
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Our first story is one of my personal favorites for what you may consider an odd reason. When narrating an audiobook the writing style of some authors just, for lack of a better word, works. It flows off the tongue and it’s easy narrate. If I could find more stories by Richard Magruder I would narrate them. But this is the only one I could find.
Our main character is an inventor, Nathanial Evergood was an eccentric old man with a photographic passion for pretty girls. So he invented a camera lens for special effects. From Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy in December 1954 And All The Girls Were Nude by Richard Magruder...
I don’t know what it is about that story but I absolutely love it. One of the reasons I started narrating these lost sci-fi stories was that many of them had never been available as audiobooks. And All The Girls Were Nude was one of those. Is it just me or is that a great story?
I’d love to hear your thoughts if you’d be kind enough to share them. Please feel free to send me an email at [email protected] with any ideas, thoughts, comments or suggestions. I look forward to hearing from you.
On to our second lost sci-fi short story. As mentioned previously I have been unable to discover anything about author Joseph Slotkin. This is the only short story I can find by Slotkin and like And All The Girls Were Nude it has never before been available as an audiobook. Helen LaTour had the best hip wriggle in galactic Burleyque. In fact, it was so good she hipped herself smack into another dimension!
From Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy August 1954, The Queen of Space, by Joseph Slotkin...
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Today on the lost sci-fi podcast we’ll feature an author born in Colorado Springs, Colorado on June 20th, 1911. Our featured author is a pretty talented guy. He studied writing at the University of Colorado in Boulder and drawing, painting and lithography at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. His art was so good that some of his paintings of Indian ceremonial dances are part of the permanent collection at the Denver Art Museum. Keeping true to his Colorado roots he worked as an assistant curator of the Colorado State Historical Museum during the 1940s.
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He was also talented in the literary arts, having written over 200 stories and articles, poems, essays and one novel. In 1948 he published a chapbook, The Sphinx Child. What is a chapbook you ask? It’s a small collection of poems.
From Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy in April 1955 enjoy this lost sci-fi short story written by Stanley Mullen. Earthmen had never ventured into the vast unknown beyond the galaxy. But now a survey was ordered and a ship sent out. So Braun went on—The Voyage Of Vanishing Men...
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Never Gut-shoot A Wampus by Winston Marks - Winston Marks Science Fiction Audiobook
Last week we heard from two authors who produced few works and we were unable to discover anything about them. However we know more about the author we’ll feature on the lost sci-fi podcast today. He was born in 1915 in Spooner, Wisconsin, just 6 years after the tiny town became a city. He wrote a story in 1940 and one in 1941 and then nothing for 12 years. In 1953 he produced 4 short stories, then 23 more in 1954 and 19 in 1955 when the story we’ll share with you was written. He was published throughout the 1950’s, then stopped once again for 8 years with one short story in 1967 and one in 1968. In my past I was a television news reporter and I would love to have interviewed this man, but he passed away in 1979.
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Today’s episode of the lost sci-fi podcast features author Winston Marks. He was also known as Win Kinney, Winston March, Win Marks, Winston K. Marks and Ken Winney.
It may seem strange but I was attracted to narrate this story by its rather unique title. An interstellar hunting trip with Major Daphne could teach a man a number of lessons. Like being kind to fellow human beings, or—Never Gut-shoot A Wampus. From Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy, February 1955, Never Gut-shoot A Wampus written by Winston Marks...
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