Earth is visited by a race of beings known as the Kanamit. 

"To Serve Man", by Damon Knight, was first published in the November 1950 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction and was later adapted by Rod Serling for the 24th episode of season three of The Twilight Zone, which originally aired on March 2, 1962. 

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Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and Happy New Year!

"The Festival", by H.P. Lovecraft, was written in October 1923 and first published in the January 1925 issue of Weird Tales.  

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A fugitive who has run from justice finds himself confronted by a sole law enforcement officer on an uncharted planet. The fugitive has no intentions of being taken in by the officer, while the officer has another plan in mind. 

"Star Chamber', by H.B Fyfe, was first published in the March 1963 issue of Amazing Stories. 

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Are we all just cogs in the wheel of life? 

The first short story of Season 2 of Beyond the Center comes to us from author, Fritz Leiber, and is entitled "The Big Engine". It was first published in the February 1962 issue of Galaxy Magazine. 

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Earth hatches a plan, with the aid of a new miracle drug, to colonize Mars. A new generation of humans are born from parents who were carefully selected for the experiment and then inoculated with the miracle drug. 

This short story comes to us from author, Fredric Brown, and is entitled "Keep Out". It was first published in the March 1954 issue of Amazing Stories. 

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A prophetic short story involving mankind's subordination to, reliance upon, and worship of, modern technology. 

This longer short story is being split up into three parts, with today's part three titled "The Homeless", from "The Machine Stops", written by E. M. Forster.  It was first published in The Oxford and Cambridge Review in November of 1909.  

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A prophetic short story involving mankind's subordination to, reliance upon, and worship of, modern technology. 

This longer short story is being split up into three parts, with today's part two titled "The Mending Apparatus", from "The Machine Stops", written by E. M. Forster.  It was first published in The Oxford and Cambridge Review in November of 1909.  

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A prophetic short story involving mankind's subordination to, reliance upon, and worship of, modern technology. 

This longer short story will be split up into three parts over today and the following two Sundays. Today's part one of this three part story is titled "The Air-Ship", from "The Machine Stops", written by E. M. Forster.  It was first published in The Oxford and Cambridge Review in November of 1909.  

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A ship with an experimental faster-than-light drive, the first ever to voyage outside of our solar system, arrives some distance from their destination of Alpha Centauri A. Upon arriving, the crew witnesses an unexpected event which has an astronomically low probability of occurrence.   

For this episode, the short story is titled "Time Fuze" by Randall Garrett, which was first published in the March 1954 publication of If Worlds of Science Fiction.

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Saknarth, the Master Astrologer, yearned for the day when mankind would no longer be enslaved; when they would conquer their fears and miseries through learning and enlightenment.  
 
The short story for this episode is titled "Saknarth" by Millard Verne Gordon (AKA Donald A. Wolheim), which was first published in the Spring 1942 edition of Science Fiction Quarterly.

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