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The Portable Star by Isaac Asimov - Isaac Asimov Short Story

The Portable Star by Isaac Asimov - Isaac Asimov Short Story

FromThe Lost Sci-Fi Podcast - Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories


The Portable Star by Isaac Asimov - Isaac Asimov Short Story

FromThe Lost Sci-Fi Podcast - Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories

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Length:
40 minutes
Released:
Jun 19, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode

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Holden made love to his friends wife. Because he couldn’t help it. The Portable Star by Isaac Asimov, that’s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast.There will come a time when we will run out of stories in the public domain to share with you that were written by Isaac Asimov, fortunately today, is not that day.Considering when it was published in 1955 this story was more than a little risqué. By today's standards not so much.Our story appeared in the final issue of Thrilling Wonder Stories Magazine in the Winter of 1955. There were 111 issues of the publication which began in August 1936. The magazine was born in 1929 as Wonder Stories but the name was changed when the publication was sold.Turn to page 54, The Portable Star by Isaac Asimov…Next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, A Fantasy of perfection and imperfection. A take of a quaint city in the jungle and the curious fate that overtook a very clever thief who came there. The Unfinished City by Donald A. Wollheim☕ Buy Me a Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/scottsV===========================? Merchandise - https://lostscifi.creator-spring.com===========================Connect with us!YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgyNZ7w5w7O714NHkRv5psAFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/TheLostSciFiPodcastTwitter - https://twitter.com/lost_sci_fi===========================❤️ ❤️ Thanks to All Our Listeners Who Bought Us a Coffee$200 Someone$75 James Van Maanenberg$50 Anonymous Listener$25 Marwin de Haan, Future Space Engineer, Fressie, Kevin Eckert, Stephen Kagan, James Van Maanenberg, Irma Stolfo, Josh Jennings, Leber8tr, Conrad Chaffee, Anonymous Listener$15 Curious Jon, Buz C., Fressie, Anonymous Listener$10 Anonymous Listener$5 Chrystene, Richard Hoffman, Anonymous Listener Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Released:
Jun 19, 2024
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Join us every week for a trip back in time to the early days of science fiction. Travel the solar system with aliens, robots and space pirates aboard space ships capable of travel beyond light-years to discover planets and people, conflicts and conundrums. Short science fiction stories from some of the greatest vintage sci-fi authors of all time, Philip K. Dick, Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, H. G. Wells, Harlan Ellison, Fritz Leiber, Alan E. Nourse,  Frederik Pohl, Kurt Vonnegut and many more.We’ll go back in time sixty to a hundred years, or more, when these amazing sci-fi short stories were written and very often find ourselves in the future. Narrator Scott Miller is your host for this journey through space and time.