Seeing it in action, anybody would quaver in alarm: What hath Farnsworth overwrought? The Big Bounce by Walter S. Tevis. That’s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast.

Today’s tale comes from an author whose name may not be as instantly recognizable as some, but whose work has left a lasting impact on both science fiction and American literature.

Born in San Francisco in 1928, Walter Tevis spent much of his childhood in poor health, even spending a year in a convalescent home while his family moved to Kentucky without him. He was 11 when he took a train across the country by himself to reunite with his family. That early experience of isolation would later echo through many of his stories.

While best known for his six novels — including the science fiction classic The Man Who Fell to Earth, The Hustler, and The Color of Money, all of which became major motion pictures and The Queen’s Gambit which was adapted in a Netflix miniseries, he also penned over a dozen short stories.

From the pages of Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine in February 1958, turn to page 37, The Big Bounce by Walter S. Tevis…

Next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, A man and his cat. A bond… broken. Then came the madness. The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe.

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Super warfare has destroyed the old race of man, but elsewhere a new civilization is dawning… Flight Through Tomorrow by Stanton A. Coblentz. That’s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast.

Stanton A. Coblentz was born in San Francisco, California, in 1896. He earned a master’s degree in English literature from the University of California, Berkeley, and began his career as a poet and journalist before turning to science fiction in the 1920s.

Coblentz contributed to magazines like Weird Tales, Wonder Stories, Amazing Stories, and Science Fiction Quarterly. Over the course of his career, he wrote more than a dozen novels and dozens of short stories.

Today’s story was published in Fantasy Book, Volume 1, in 1947. Turn to page 29 for, Flight Through Tomorrow by Stanton A. Coblentz…

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Hall and Upjohn had to escape from that "No-man's-land" on Mercury. But to form a plan, they had to think—and their captors could read minds. The Thought-Men of Mercury by Russ Winterbotham. That’s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast.

It’s 1942. The world is at war, but on newsstands across America, another kind of battle rages—in the pulp pages of Planet Stories magazine. Crack open the Fall issue, flip to page 42, and step into a strange new world of thought control, danger, and desperate escape. An adventure where minds are weapons, and freedom hangs by a thread. The Thought-Men of Mercury by Russ Winterbotham…

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