They gather each day beneath a transparent dome, hungry for stories of a world they have never seen. The old space veteran speaks of oceans, cities, sunlight, and choices once taken for granted—but what they truly want to hear is how it all ended. Not the glory. Not the pride. The mistake.From Outer Space unfolds as a quiet confession. The first contact came through scientific triumph, when new wavelengths reached beyond Earth’s atmosphere and drew an answer from the stars. Brillia...

Zack invites and welcomes storytelling, interviews, and conceptual dialogue all on the same page, interwoven into a timeless weaving process. Story-memories of his childhood, growing up in jim crow Alabama, becomes sage story-songs of joy and resilience. These story-memories don't leave you hanging. They are combined with concepts and solution-based ideas on ways to find common ground through the unique human experience. When you thought that was all, Zack brings in another component: "Int...

Lost Sci-Fi Books 166 thru 170 brings together five extraordinary stories spanning more than a century, from Mary Shelley in 1833 to Leigh Brackett, Ross Rocklynne, Fritz Leiber, and Robert Zacks. Immortality becomes a burden, a vanished moon promises danger, and encounters with the impossible rarely end as expected.The Mortal Immortal by Mary Shelley begins with an astonishing declaration: its narrator has reached his 323rd birthday. What once see...

Our 54th issue is another good one. On the mystery side, we have a great original tale by Jacqueline Feimor (courtesy of Acquiring Editor Michael Bracken), plus strong stories by Stephen D. Rogers (selected by Barb Goffman) and James Holding, another solve-it-yourself puzzler from Hal Charles (the writing team of Hal Blythe and Charlie Sweet), and an Edwardian mystery novel by Dick Donovan—whose popularity rivaled that of Arthur Conan Doyle in their day.On the science fiction side,...

Encounters From Beyond 3: Classic Tales of Alien Contact presents sixteen unforgettable journeys into the unknown, where mysterious visitors, distant worlds, and extraordinary encounters challenge everything humanity believes about the universe. These timeless adventures from the Golden Age of science fiction blend suspense, wonder, and imagination into stories that continue to captivate readers decades after they were first published.This remarkable collection fea...

50 Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories 4: More Than 29 Hours of Classic Science Fiction is another extraordinary collection celebrating the imagination and innovation of the greatest science fiction writers of all time. Spanning more than 29 hours, these fifty timeless stories take listeners on unforgettable journeys through strange worlds, distant futures, impossible inventions, and mysteries that continue to inspire generations of science fiction fans.Featuring legendar...

Long before humanity reached the Moon, writers were already traveling far beyond it.Lost Sci-Fi Books 161 thru 180 gathers twenty extraordinary stories spanning more than two centuries of imagination, including a remarkable tale from 1752 and classics from the 1930s, 40s, 50s and 60s. These are stories from an age when the universe seemed limitless and every distant planet, mysterious visitor and unexplained phenomenon offered another doorway into the unknown.The collection...

Informed by thousands of pages of newly released FBI files, The Kidnapping and Murder of Little Skeegie Cash tells the gripping story of the only crime investigated by J. Edgar Hoover himself, the sensational 1938 murder of a five-year-old boy from the Florida Everglades.In his long and storied career, J. Edgar Hoover investigated only one case personally, the 1938 kidnapping and murder of five-year-old Floridian James “Skeegie” Cash. What prompted the director himself to ...

The grizzled old space veteran leaned back in his chair and stared up through the transparent dome. In the black sky, myriad white specks gleamed without twinkling, their light unbent by atmosphere or dust. The steady pulse of the airmakers kept rhythm with the heartbeats of the young men seated in a semi-circle, listening with glistening eyes to these ancient tales of an Earth they’d never seen—the home of their species.They stared hungrily at the old man’s face. There was a silve...

Don't Shoot by Robert Zacks delivers a tense and thought-provoking science fiction narrative that challenges the instinct to react with force in the face of the unknown. Zacks crafts a story where a single decision—to act or to hold back—can determine the fate of individuals, or even entire civilizations. As the narrative unfolds, readers are drawn into a high-stakes situation filled with uncertainty, misinterpretation, and the looming threat of irreversib...

Today the atmosphere cracks with excitement and the anticipation of dynamic challenges as we transition from one government to another. We must take drastic actions to recovery because we cannot afford to elect leaders that are political Svengali who will cozen their way to the top to enrich themselves at the expense of everyone else. Liberia is at the crossroad and in the state of shock because of all the happenings in the country; the time for change has come to take us to the foundation...

Lost Sci-Fi Books 161 thru 170 - Ten Lost Sci-Fi Short Stories from the 1930s, 40s, 50s and 60sThe Sky Was Full of Ships by Theodore Sturgeon - They tried Gordon Kent for murder–but who was really responsible?He That Hath Wings by Edmond Hamilton - The story of a modern Icarus — David Rand was a freak of nature, a glorious, winged freak, who had experienced the freedom of the sky and could no longer be tied to the ground