Sci-Fi Radio

was a relatively modern effort. It was produced out of Commerce, Texas, and broadcast on National Public Radio during 1989-90. The producers drew their inspiration from some of the best stories from some of the best science fiction authors of the 20th century, including Ray Bradbury, Roger Zelazny, Henry Kuttner, and Poul Anderson. There is an impressive array of sound, and while the acting was occasionally amateurish, at least the stories were—for the most part—ones which no one else had thought to produce before.

Sources used to create my own log and double-check titles, dates and cast members: Internet Speculative Fiction Database.

Currently this archive contains 21 of 21 plotlines and 5 reviews

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Ballad of Lost C'Mell, The

It is the distant future, and humans have re-engineered certain animal species to possess both intelligence and quasi-human form. These mutants are restricted to a second-class status, so when the feline daughter of their recently deceased leader has the audacity to fall in love with a high-ranking human statesman, her affections endanger the status quo of society.

Call Me Joe

On a moon of Jupiter, scientist Edward Anglesey - a paraplegic - combines ESP with a thought projector to link with the mind of a genetically engineered pseudo-Jovian, as part of a project to colonize the surface of the gas giant. But is the project endangered by Anglesey's jealously guarded attachment to the Jovian, through whom he finds the empowerment to transcend his disabilities?

Close Encounters with the Deity

Demetrio Uraza, an aging and crippled physicist whose genius is comparable to Einstein's, decides to spend his remaining years on a deep space pilgrimage, seeking to discover God in the singularity of a black hole.

Cold Equations, The

Classic story of a space pilot on an emergency medical run who finds himself carrying a stowaway. His shuttle, however, does not have enough fuel to land with the extra weight.

Versions of this story also appeared on X Minus One , Future Tense, Exploring Tomorrow, and the CBC pilot Faster Than Light.

Dark Benediction

A space-borne plague has swept the Earth, whose victims go insane. Civilization has broken down, and the survivors fragmented into small bands of armed paranoiacs with scant better grip on rationality than the victims.

Diary of the Rose

A future psychologist is forced to question her own social ethics when she is assigned to diagnose the paranoid mania of a patient accused of disaffection to the State.

Field of Vision, The

Only two astronauts have returned from a fateful mission to Mars, suffering from sensory overloads and incapable of describing what they encountered in the Martian ruins.

Frost and Fire

Human colonists struggle to survive on a world where radiation has truncated their life spans to a mere eight days, and those divided into daytimes of searing heat and nights of unendurable cold.

Grantha Sighting, The

A old country couple in the Ozarks find themselves the recipients of First Contact.

Home is the Hangman

An intelligent robot dispatched to explore the far reaches of space returns to Earth with the intention of destroying its creators for the crime of playing God.

Houston, Houston, Do You Read?

A space crew caught in a time vortex emerge to find the future Earth populated only by women. They are the only men, but instead of being welcomed by a supposedly love-starved planet, they are treated like a malignant cancer.

See also: "When It Changed" (Mindwebs)

I'm Scared

A radio DJ receives a tape in the mail from a man who is convinced that the linear structure of Time itself is starting to go awry.

Impostor

After Mankind has finally abolished war, the Earth finds itself besieged by the alien 'Outspacers'. Only a protective force field about the world prevents large scale invasion - but one scientist finds himself the supposed target of a small scale invasion when paranoid authorities are convinced he is an alien robot armed with a powerful bomb.

Light of Other Days, The

A traveling couple stop at a remote farmhouse in response to an advertisement for 'slow glass' a unique type of glass through which light takes may years to pass. Thus a viewer can watch events from decades ago unfold as if they were currently happening.

Sales Pitch

Fed up with the fast pace of life in a future where consumerism has run rampant, a man flees to the depths of interstellar space, only to be pursued by a prototype android intent on selling itself to him - whether he likes it or not.

Shape

A race of strictly regimented, shape-shifting aliens feel compelled to invade and conquer Earth, but every scouting mission to our planet has disappeared without a trace. A squad of elite commandos is sent in find the answer.

Sundance

In preparation for colonization, an alien world must first be cleansed of the Eaters, millions of herbivores which feed on the planet's precious oxygen-producing plants. But one Native American member of the team begins to suspect the Eaters may just be sentient...

Twonky, The

An alien technician temporarily 'displaced' to Earth constructs a 'twonky' that looks like a common stereo, much to the dismay of its purchaser, who soon learns the true meaning of the phrase caveat emptor.

Vintage Season

A couple with a mundane, everyday house to sell find themselves unwilling landlords to a trio of renters who are anything but mundane and who seem to have a particular and uncommon interest in their home. And they are not the only ones - another equally odd group also want exclusive rights to the house, at any cost.

Wall of Darkness

The inhabitants of an alien world have always known an impenetrable boundary in the form of a great soaring wall which must, they theorize, separate them from the secrets of the Universe. Until now...

Yanqui Doodle

American 'supersoldiers' whose skills and endurance have been enhanced by drugs struggle through detox as they recover from battle wounds in a field hospital.

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