Low Orbits 04: Mudd’s Women, Star Trek
Today we talk about the first appearance of Harcourt Fenton Mudd in Mudd's Women, where a group of women are travelling to meet, and marry, lonely dilithium miners. Link: Star…
Low Orbits 03: The Invaders, The Twilight Zone
In The Twilight Zone second-season episode "The Invaders," an older woman living alone in a shack with no gas, electricty, or modern conveniences, finds herself fighting off the inhabitants of…
Low Orbits 01: The Doomsday Machine, Star Trek
The USS Enterprise encounters the wrecked USS Constellation and its distraught commodore who's determined to stop the giant planet-destroying robot ship that killed his crew. Link: https://archive.org/details/star-trek-tos-original-effects/Star+Trek+TOS+-+Orginal+Effects/Season+2/Star+Trek+-+2x06+-+The+Doomsday+Machine.avi
Unknown Orbits One-year Anniversary Episode
52 episodes already? On this special anniversary episode, we make an attempt to define science fiction, reveal our favorite stories from the past year, and finish up with our favorite…
0050: City, by Clifford D. Simak
City by Clifford D. Simak is the story of the end of the city, the abandonment of Earth by humans, and the rising hegemony of Dogs. Then we talk about…
0049: Mimsy Were the Borogroves, by Lewis Padgett
Children find a mysterious box of toys in Henry Kuttner's and C. L. Moore's Mimsy Were the Borogoves, which have unexpected properties. Then after hating the movie it was made…
0048: The Great Nebraska Sea, by Allan Danzig
The Great Nebraska Sea by Allan Danzig is a future history account of the greatest disaster to hit the United States, the forming of the Great Nebraska Sea. Millions die,…
0047: Exploration Team, by Murray Leinster
In Exploration Team by Murray Leinster, a squatter and government surveyor have to team up to travel across a dangerous world to look for survivors from an earlier settlement. Leinster…
0046: The Large Ant, by Howard Fast
What would you do if you turned around and found a fourteen-inch Zanti misfit staring at you? So would I. In Howard Fast's The Large Ant the protagonist makes the…
0045: A Can of Paint, by A. E. van Vogt
In A Can of Paint by A. E. van Vogt, the first landing on Venus finds a simple can of paint. But is it really simple, or an advanced alien…