Vintage SciFi Podcast

Welcome to issue 12, the final issue for season 2 of the Vintage SciFi Podcast. Vintage Scifi Podcast will return, hopefully later in the year. This issue we farewell The World’s Last Wonder with Chapters XIII and XIV. First published in 1901 in the Tocsin newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, this story contains a lot of […] The post Vintage SciFi Podcast 12 The World’s Last Wonder XIII & XIV...

Welcome to Vintage SciFi Podcast 11. It’s great to have you! This issue features chapters XI and XII of the vintage science fiction story The World’s Last Wonder (1901) set on Mars, and features the first of a modern Alien First Contact situation, complete with ideas on how this might happen when not only the […] The post Vintage SciFi Podcast 11 The World’s Last Wonder XI & XII...

Welcome to Vintage SciFi Podcast 10. It’s great to have you! This issue, continuing the adventures of the crews of the space cars The Pioneer and The Annexator en route to Mars, in the first modern Australian scifi space opera story, or if you prefer, the first modern Australian science fiction space fiction story, The […] The post Vintage SciFi Podcast 10 The World’s Last Wonder IX &...

Welcome to Vintage Sci Fi Podcast 9! The World’s Last Wonder was first published in The Tocsin newspaper in Melbourne in 1901, which makes it Australia’s first space opera, though the plot style at the time was known as ‘planetary fiction.’ As many stories that came out soon after look, feel and read like the […] The post Vintage Sci Fi Podcast 9 The World’s Last Wonder VII & VIII firs...

Welcome to Vintage Sci Fi Podcast 8. It’s great to have you! What did you think about The World’s Last Wonder chapters 3 and 4? Things are starting to get exciting! The World’s Last Wonder (1901) is Australia’s first space opera. From about 1871 onwards, Australia was enjoying a surge in newspaper-published invention opera featuring […] The post Vintage Sci Fi Podcast 8 The World’s Las...

The World’s Last Wonder is Australia’s first space opera science fiction story and was serialised in the Tocsin newspaper 1901/02/14-1901/05/16. I hope you enjoyed chapters I and II of The World’s Last Wonder last week. This week, Chapters III and IV explores the insides of the space car, a visit to Brooklyn, New York, and […] The post Vintage SciFi Podcast 7 The World’s Last Won...

The World’s Last Wonder is Australia’s first space opera and was serialised in the Tocsin newspaper in early to mid 1901. It tells the tale of an invention enabling two residents from Melbourne to travel to Mars, with detailed scientific explanations and an accurate understanding of space physics. As a bonus, it includes an altercation […] The post Vintage SciFi Podcast 6: The Wo...

Welcome to Episode 5 of the “Vintage SciFi Podcast,” where we explore early speculative fiction that envisioned the future through the lens of its time. Today, we present Dialogue Fifth from “Australia Advanced: Or Dialogues for the Year 2032” by Mephistophole the Younger, a fascinating piece from 1832 that transports us to a future Australia […] The post Vintage SciF...

Welcome to Episode 4 of the “Vintage SciFi Podcast,” where we explore the early science fiction that imagined the future through the lens of its time. Today, we bring you “Australia Advanced: Or Dialogues for the Year 2032, by Mephistophole the Younger, a visionary piece from 1832 that transports us to a future Australia filled […] The post Vintage SciFi 4 Australia Advance...

Welcome to Episode 3 of the “Vintage SciFi Podcast,” where we explore early speculative fiction that shaped the science fiction genre. Today, we journey into the imaginative world of “Australia Advanced: Or Dialogues for the Year 2032,” written in 1832. This visionary piece transports us to a future Australia, bustling with technological advancements and social […] Th...