Golden Age Fiction

When Captain Makki is found dead on a routine hop from Earth to Mars, there are only three suspects; Lefler, the astrogator, Taat, the ship's doctor, and Robwood, the engineer. One of them must have done it. But who? And why? "Earth Transit" appeared in "Infinity Science Fiction," September 1957, pages 18 - 33. ----- Charles Louis Fontenay (March 17, 1917 – January 27, 2007) wa...

The war with the Ganymedeans has been going on for two months, and Terra has been unable to use the launch cradles at Ganymede to send space ships to its colonies at Proxima Centauri. The colonists at Proxima Centauri are slowly starving, and Terra is about to capitulate to the Ganymedeans' demands. As a vote to capitulate is being taken in the Senate, an urgent message arrives; a new type of...

An account of a day in the busy life of Mr. Fritz Napoleon Smith, proprietor of the Earth Chronicle, specifically, September 25th, 2889, in the city of Centropolis. "In the Year 2889" appeared in "The Forum," February 1889, vol. 6, issue 6, pages 662 - 677. ----- Jules Verne (8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. He has sometimes been called...

The skit-trees grew in neat rows as far as the eye could see. There were dams and irrigation systems, graded and terraced ground, and large clearings where, it was supposed, the cities in which lived those who planted the skit-trees would have been. But where were they? What had happened to them? Not one artifact, not one shaped rock or piece of metal remained. And why did the radio keep picking u...

Something had caused Neptune to act erratically as it orbited far out in the solar system. And that something was coming nearer. Would it collide with the Earth? No one knew, although speculation abounded. Closer and closer it came, brightening the night skies across the globe. As the new star passed close to Jupiter, it's direction changed. Where would it end up? And what effect would it have...

Welcome to Golden Age Fiction. My name is Paul and in this podcast, I will be introducing you to, and narrating, stories from the golden age of pulp fiction magazines. This is generally considered to be from the last two decades of the 19th century to around the middle of the 20th century. Evolving from the earlier dime novels and boys' magazines, there were a plethora of these pulp fiction ma...