Rish presents HG Wells's 1897 Science Fiction tale, "The Crystal Egg." It tells us about Mister Cave, an antique shop owner who is oddly protective of a decorative glass egg in the store's possession.
Yeah, 1897.
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Logo by Gino "The Crystal Smeg" Moretto.
Rish presents one of the most famous Science Fiction stories of the 20th Century, 1954's "The Cold Equations" by Tom Godwin.
Afterward, Rish talks about the story at length. How big a shock is the reveal of the stowaway, and what does that say about the reader? What was the hardest part of performing it? If Rish were editing the story now, how much would he cut out?
Rish, with special guest Big Anklevich, presents Paul W. Fairman's 1952
story, "Brothers Beyond The Void," about the first man to visit Mars.
They also talk about the classic episode of television it inspired.
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Years ago, I tried to watch Mario Bava's 1965 film PLANET OF THE VAMPIRES, but only made it a few minutes in before losing consciousness. Years later, while visiting my friend in Germany, I tried it again, and maybe it was jetlag, but I fell asleep once again.
Here we are today (well, last year, actually), and I am attempting to watch it a third time, this time for Marshal Latham's "Outfield Excursions" podcast. Can I stay awake? Is the movie good? And was there any influence on Ridley Scott's ALIEN, the way the folks say? Find out HERE.
For the holiday episode this year, Rish presents his story "The Last Christmas." Jason finds a box on his doorstep, presumably a present for him . . . but it's one that will change everything. Enjoy?
Note: we'll postpone Episode 317 to next time.
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So, another of my readings is available for you to listen to. This one is "The Cat That Went To Uranus," by Dan Peacock. Yeah, the story with THAT word in it. It's over at the Cast of Wonders podcast now.
In editing my reading, I questioned the voice I assigned the main character (if it's set today, no way would a NASA mission have a commander with an English accent), but the story's author is OBVIOUSLY not American, by the words, spelling, and phraseology he uses, and things sounded more natural with that accent*, so that's the choice I made.
I did two other voices for the other human characters, as well as meowing for the cat, and my own made-up language for the remaining character. Feel free to check it out HERE.
*Can you imagine if the American actors in THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING had retained their filthy Yank accents while delivering that odd pseudo-medieval dialogue?
So, here's the holiday story I wrote last year, "The Last Christmas," available for you to buy or give a bad review to . . . or preferably both.
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| Another great cover by Big Anklevich. |
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| A much better cover for the story than the story itself . . . but isn't that often the case? |
Rish presents Arthur C. Clarke's 1949 Sci-Fi tale, "30 Seconds - 30 Days" (later known as "Breaking Strain).
After an onboard disaster between Earth and Venus, there's only enough air for one of the two crewmembers onboard.
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Rish performs Stephen King's 1981 short story "The Jaunt." In this dark Sci-Fi tale, a father tells his nervous family how the Jaunt came to be before they take off to Mars.
Rish presents the third--and longest--chunk of his Sci-Fi/Horror novella "Ten Thousand Coffins." So, there are now three awakened humans aboard the Dawn Breaks, and one vampire. Or is it two and two?
Afterward, a bit about the Skipper, and is it just me, or is Rish more defensive of this story than usual?
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Logo by Gino "No Clever Pun This Week" Moretto.
Here's another Outfield Excursions between Marshal and me, over at his Journey Into... podcast.
Once again, we've got a Roger Corman-directed Ray Milland film to talk about. This time, it's THE MAN WITH THE X-RAY EYES, from 1963. Doctor Xavier uses an experimental formula to improve his range of eyesight . . . but at what cost?
Check out our review HERE.
Rish presents the second section of his novella "Ten Thousand Coffins."
Medtech Brook Lisst has seen the hand of the intruder on the ship . . . a vampire's hand. But vampires don't really exist, do they?
At long last, Rish presents the first section of his Sci-Fi/Horror piece "Ten Thousand Coffins."
Onboard her colony ship, Medtech Brook Lisst finds a sleeper pod that has become a coffin . . . but what will find her?
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Logo by Gino "Ten Thousand Kiwis" Moretto.
This week, my buddy Big and I finally got together to talk about cover art--specifically, the bad art I've had on my stories that he's seen fit to improve for me--and we talked so much that we ran out of time and will have to do it again next week. A lot of time, the images I picked were good, but my text looked unprofessional, or worse, like recently-microwaved walrus dung.* Other times, it was just bad, top to bottom.
And while we were looking over old covers, I stumbled upon the image Sonny See created for us back in 2014 for my story "Greetings From The Ninth Sector." That was a story I wrote for a contest where I had to use the words "Squad," "Reports," and "George Lucas" in there somehow.** In it, Corporal Bruce Otterson, onboard the IFS Lucas, sends messages back to his girlfriend Mandy, as their ship enters the mysterious Ninth Sector, which many onboard think is haunted or cursed. As his transmissions continue, Bruce becomes more and more concerned that his shipmates may be right
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| Big added the star field and the text. Not sure why he picked that shade of blue. |
Big said he could make the logo on the image look better than what I had done myself (goes without saying), and to my surprise, I discovered I had NEVER put it out on Amazon.*** So, today I remedied that. The story is available HERE, if you never read the longer version. I plan on publishing other stories in the next couple of weeks, so I'll keep you posted.
I also thought I would sit down one evening this month and video myself performing the story, then make it available on my Patreon. And if people like that, do it again. And again. What do you think?
*Looking forward to the episode yet? I know I am, and I haven't even started editing it.
**I figured I could just go look up the words on the Dunesteef page . . . but the Dunesteef page is long gone. :(
***That's not technically true; it was part of a collection that's no longer available. I really ought to put together five or eight story collections in case somebody somewhere wants to buy them. But I probably won't.
Rish shares Ray Bradbury's 1969 tale "Night Call, Collect." Just let it go to voicemail, kids.
Warning: Some sound quality issues.
The other day, I took advantage of the children being gone to talk about (and more) Robert Sheckley's short story "The Store of the Worlds." Enjoy.
Over on the Outfield Excursions show (part of the Journey Into... channel), Marshal Latham and I talk about BATTLE BEYOND THE STARS, a Roger Corman-produced Sci-Fi adventure starring Johnboy Walton and John Saxon, from 1980. Is it a rip-off of STAR WARS or a rip-off of THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN? Can it be both?
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Rish and special guest Big Anklevich present Rish's story "Dying Is Easy."
This really should've been split across two episodes, but ah well. Happy 200th show, kids!
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Logo by Gino "All Too Easy" Moretto.
Note: For some reason, the file took almost fifteen minutes to upload to Archive.org. I'd like to think that it was the spirits of the noble dead doing their best to keep you from listening to it. Darn spirits.
