Astounding Tales of the Public Domain

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Astounding Tales of the Public Domain episodes

April 06, 2023 A BAD DAY FOR SALES by Fritz Leiber
Don't wait to "Get 'em while they're hot."
By then, it is too late to get them at all!
15 min
March 23, 2023 OUT OF THE IRON WOMB (Part Two) by Poul Anderson
Behind a pale Venusian mask lay hidden the arch-humanist, the anti-tech killer ... one of
those who needlessly had strewn Malone blood across the heavens from Saturn to the sun.
Now—on distant Trojan asteroids—the rendezvous for death was plainly marked.

The thrilling conclusion!
31 min
March 09, 2023 OUT OF THE IRON WOMB (Part One) by Poul Anderson
Behind a pale Venusian mask lay hidden the arch-humanist, the anti-tech killer ... one of
those who needlessly had strewn Malone blood across the heavens from Saturn to the sun.
Now—on distant Trojan asteroids—the rendezvous for death was plainly marked.
41 min
February 23, 2023 YOU DON'T WALK ALONE by Frank M. Robinson
You've heard reports about strange lights in the sky—flying saucers and all that rubbish!
A Joke? Illusion? Possibly, unless, of course—
24 min
February 09, 2023 THE VANDERLARK by Margaret St. Clair
The peculiar quality of deep space is hard to put into words. On earth, however isolated we are, whatever happens to us, we are yet on our home planet. The man afloat on the life raft in the Pacific, delirious with exposure and loneliness, floats nonetheless on an element whose very saltiness relates it to the red sea water in his veins. The flyer forced down in the desert curses the rising sun; but the same sun that sucks water out of his drying tissues is the glorious temporal lord on whose radiation all terrestrial life processes depend. On earth our extremest terrors, our ultimate catastrophes, are yet like the blows of a familiar hand. It is very different in deep space.

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21 min
January 26, 2023 TIME OUT FOR REDHEADS by Miriam Allen DeFord
It took a trip in time to make a man of Mikel...
31 min
January 12, 2023 MORGUE SHIP by Ray Bradbury
This was Burnett's last trip. Three more shelves to fill with space-slain warriors—and he would be among the living again.
25 min
December 29, 2022 OUTPOST ON I O by Leigh Brackett
In a crystalline death lay the only release for those prisoners of that Ionian hell-outpost.
Yet MacVickers and the men had to escape—for to remain meant the conquering of the
Solar System by the inhuman Europans.
40 min
December 15, 2022 ROUGH BEAST by Roger D. Aycock
The most dangerous, utterly vicious carnivorous animal the Galactics knew had escaped ... to Earth! Because contact with Earth was forbidden, they knew little of Earth ... which led to certain false conclusions.
23 min
December 01, 2022 THE MONSTER MAKER by Ray Bradbury
"Get Gunther," the official orders read. It was to laugh! For Click and Irish were marooned on the pirate's asteroid—their only weapons a single gun and a news-reel camera.
32 min

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