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Golden Age FictionDie, Shadow! by Algis BudrysDavid Greaves began as a hero with his ship, Defiance, crash landing on Venus, but surviving unconscious in his Crash Capsule by using an experimental gas that might offer a chance to survive. Eons later and a universe away, he became instead a god! "Die, Shadow!" appeared in the May 1963 issue of "Worlds of If Science Fiction" on pages 61 - 76. Algirdas Jonas "Algis" Budrys (January 9, 1931 – June 9, 2008) was a Lithuanian-American science fiction author, editor, and critic. He was also known under the pen names Frank Mason, Alger Rome (in collaboration with Jerome Bixby), John A S...
2025-08-2146 min
The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast - Vintage Sci-Fi Short StoriesInfiltration by Algis Budrys - What if the monsters are more human than we are?If werewolves exist, they don't necessarily conform to all the superstitions people have. They may even know fear…. Infiltration by Algis Budrys. That’s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast.Thank you for making The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast one of the most popular science fiction podcasts on the planet—streamed in 188 countries worldwide!That’s nearly every country on Earth! We’re blown away by your support.Your incredible support—through your ratings and reviews—continues to inspire sci-fi fans everywhere to join our journey through the stars.We’re beyond...
2025-05-1828 min
Blood on My Jets08 - Blood on My Jets by Algis BudrysIn the gritty underbelly of the System, Ash Holcomb and his crew of hired guns navigate the most dangerous, thankless jobs in the universe. Life was manageable until a ghost from Ashs past reemerges, carrying deadly secrets in her pockets and a murderous glint in her eyes! This gripping tale was first featured in Rocket Stories, July 1953.
2025-05-1607 minBlood on My Jets07 - Blood on My Jets by Algis BudrysIn the gritty underbelly of the System, Ash Holcomb and his crew of hired guns navigate the most dangerous, thankless jobs in the universe. Life was manageable until a ghost from Ashs past reemerges, carrying deadly secrets in her pockets and a murderous glint in her eyes! This gripping tale was first featured in Rocket Stories, July 1953.
2025-05-1615 minBlood on My Jets06 - Blood on My Jets by Algis BudrysIn the gritty underbelly of the System, Ash Holcomb and his crew of hired guns navigate the most dangerous, thankless jobs in the universe. Life was manageable until a ghost from Ashs past reemerges, carrying deadly secrets in her pockets and a murderous glint in her eyes! This gripping tale was first featured in Rocket Stories, July 1953.
2025-05-1614 minBlood on My Jets05 - Blood on My Jets by Algis BudrysIn the gritty underbelly of the System, Ash Holcomb and his crew of hired guns navigate the most dangerous, thankless jobs in the universe. Life was manageable until a ghost from Ashs past reemerges, carrying deadly secrets in her pockets and a murderous glint in her eyes! This gripping tale was first featured in Rocket Stories, July 1953.
2025-05-1607 minBlood on My Jets04 - Blood on My Jets by Algis BudrysIn the gritty underbelly of the System, Ash Holcomb and his crew of hired guns navigate the most dangerous, thankless jobs in the universe. Life was manageable until a ghost from Ashs past reemerges, carrying deadly secrets in her pockets and a murderous glint in her eyes! This gripping tale was first featured in Rocket Stories, July 1953.
2025-05-1609 minBlood on My Jets03 - Blood on My Jets by Algis BudrysIn the gritty underbelly of the System, Ash Holcomb and his crew of hired guns navigate the most dangerous, thankless jobs in the universe. Life was manageable until a ghost from Ashs past reemerges, carrying deadly secrets in her pockets and a murderous glint in her eyes! This gripping tale was first featured in Rocket Stories, July 1953.
2025-05-1609 minBlood on My Jets02 - Blood on My Jets by Algis BudrysIn the gritty underbelly of the System, Ash Holcomb and his crew of hired guns navigate the most dangerous, thankless jobs in the universe. Life was manageable until a ghost from Ashs past reemerges, carrying deadly secrets in her pockets and a murderous glint in her eyes! This gripping tale was first featured in Rocket Stories, July 1953.
2025-05-1609 minBlood on My Jets01 - Blood on My Jets by Algis BudrysIn the gritty underbelly of the System, Ash Holcomb and his crew of hired guns navigate the most dangerous, thankless jobs in the universe. Life was manageable until a ghost from Ashs past reemerges, carrying deadly secrets in her pockets and a murderous glint in her eyes! This gripping tale was first featured in Rocket Stories, July 1953.
2025-05-1619 min
Auditory AnthologyInfiltration by Algis BudrysThis week’s story is Infiltration by Algis Budrys. An alien sleeper agent—hiding in human form for half a million years—senses the end of his mission approaching, as enemies prepare for the final move in a secret war humanity never knew it was hosting.If you have a story you’d like to contribute to the series, you can visit https://submissions.soundconceptmedia.com/You can support the show by becoming a paid subscriber on Substack: https://auditoryanthology.substack.comBy becoming a paid subscriber you can listen to every ep...
2025-04-1026 min
SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #822 - READALONG: WHO? by Algis Budrys
Jesse, Will Emmons, Cora Buhlert, and Jonathan Weichsel talk about WHO? by Algris Budrys
Talked about on today’s show:
WHO?, as a short story, Fantastic Universe, expanded into a novel, there was a movie adaptation, not a great movie, on the 2nd or 3rd tier of famous science fiction novels, a work of its time, interesting, set in the future, a world government, NATO is in charge, DNA testing, alternate history, political, based on the art, Frank Kelly Freas cover, a cyborg smoking a cigarette at a desk, the image for the cover, Algis Budrys wa...
2025-01-205h 08
Golden Age FictionInfiltration, by Algis Budrys & And Miles To Go Before I Sleep, by William F NolanInfiltration Werewolves don't necessarily conform to all the superstitions people have. They may even know fear... "Infiltration" appeared in "Infinity Science Fiction" October 1958, pages 114 - 123. Algirdas Jonas "Algis" Budrys (January 9, 1931 – June 9, 2008) was a Lithuanian-American science fiction author, editor, and critic. He was also known under the pen names Frank Mason, Alger Rome (in collaboration with Jerome Bixby), John A. Sentry, William Scarff, and Paul Janvier. He is best known for the influential 1960 novel Rogue Moon. Incorporating his family's experience, Budrys's fiction depicts isolated and damaged people and themes of identity, survival, an...
2025-01-1437 min
Golden Age FictionWall of Crystal, Eye of Night, by Algis BudrysRufus Sollenar, creator of EmpaVid, a revolutionary entertainment system, had everything. However, the Special Public Relations Office of the International Association of Broadcasters needs to ensure that its members investements were safe, especially as Cortwright Burr, Sollenar's biggest competitor, recently visited the Martian engineers... "Wall of Crystal, Eye of Night" appeared in "Galaxy Magazine," December 1961, pages 110 - 131. Algirdas Jonas "Algis" Budrys (January 9, 1931 – June 9, 2008) was a Lithuanian-American science fiction author, editor, and critic. He was also known under the pen names Frank Mason, Alger Rome (in collaboration with Jerome Bixby), John A. Sentry, William Scarff, and Pau...
2024-12-1756 min
Classic SF with Andy Johnson#123 In love with death: Rogue Moon (1960) by Algis BudrysOriginally published in 1960, Rogue Moon is an excellent novel by the Lithuanian-American author, critic, and editor Algis Budrys. If you read classic science fiction and encounter contemporary reviews of those books, you are sure to have heard Budrys' name. He was a major critic of SF for many years. However he was also a highly capable writer of his own fiction, both at short story and novel length. Rogue Moon is his best-known novel, a nominee for the 1961 Hugo Award which combines a lunar mystery with penetrating questions about human psychology and the...
2024-07-3008 min
Fifty Years of Shit Robots117. WHO?Between Metropolis and Star Wars lies a 50 year wasteland of terrible movie robots. Every week we rate the robot from a movie, if it gets a score of 7 out of 10 then we say that it is not a shit robot. Today, we deep-dive into the 1974 movie, WHO?, as we try and work out if the robot is who the robot claims. WARNING! The S**t-bomb is used but nothing more To join our incredible new Patreon cult and get access to secret, exclusive podcasts then head to https://www.patreon.com/50YOS...
2024-07-2225 min
Stories - Science FictionThe Stoker And The Stars - Algis BudrysListen Ad Free https://www.solgoodmedia.com - Listen to hundreds of audiobooks, thousands of short stories, and ambient sounds all ad free!
2024-06-2624 min
Classic Science Fiction StoriesThe Barbarians - Algis BudrysListen Ad Free https://www.solgoodmedia.com - Listen to hundreds of audiobooks, thousands of short stories, and ambient sounds all ad free!
2024-06-2255 min
Science Fiction Book Review PodcastSFBRP #543 – Algis Budrys – Rogue MoonLuke and Juliane review Rogue Moon by Algis Budrys, an old SF Masterwork that’s very dated and not very good. Luke on Mastodon: @lukeburrage@masto.nu Juliane on Mastodon: @JuKuBerlin@mastodon.social Support Luke and Juliane financially via Patreon.com/lukeburrage Discuss this book at Goodreads.com Luke writes his own novels, like “Minding Tomorrow”, “Combat”, “Get that rat off my face!” […]
2024-06-1625 min
Science Fiction - Daily Short StoriesCitadel - Algis BudrysListen Ad Free https://www.solgood.org - Listen to hundreds of audiobooks, thousands of short stories, and meditative sounds.
2024-06-1452 minStories - Science FictionThe Stoker And The Stars - Algis BudrysListen Ad Free https://www.solgoodmedia.com - Listen to hundreds of audiobooks, thousands of short stories, and ambient sounds all ad free!
2024-04-1424 min
Science Fiction StoriesThe Stoker And The Stars - Algis BudrysListen Ad Free https://www.solgoodmedia.com - Listen to hundreds of audiobooks, thousands of short stories, and ambient sounds all ad free!
2024-04-1224 min
The Hot Nuance Book ClubWhat We Did Mattered - interview with Kate Elliott - bonus Ep24Welcome to episode 24 of the Hot Nuance Book Club, where it's time for us to sit down with author Kate Elliott and talk about everything involved in a career of writing science-fiction fantasies since the ‘80s. There are some wild twists and turns in this story!Every author and book book mentionedKate Elliott - The Labyrinth Gate; trilogies: The Highroad Trilogy, The Crown of Stars, Crossroads, Cold Magic/Spiritwalker, The Court of Fives, Black Wolves; The Golden Key (Kate Elliott, Melanie Rawn, & Jennifer Roberson); Servant Mage; The Keeper’s Six; The Unconquerable Sun; The History of the...
2024-02-192h 11Science Fiction - Daily Short StoriesThe Stoker And The Stars - Algis Budryshttps://www.solgood.org - Check out our Streaming Service for our full collection; hundreds of audiobooks, thousands of short stories, sounds for sleep/relaxation, and original podcasts - all ad-free!!
2024-01-2624 minScience Fiction - Daily Short StoriesCitadel - Algis Budryshttps://www.solgood.org - Check out our Streaming Service for our full collection; hundreds of audiobooks, thousands of short stories, sounds for sleep/relaxation, and original podcasts - all ad-free!!
2024-01-2052 min
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Daily Short Stories - Science FictionThe Barbarians - Algis Budryshttps://www.solgood.org - Check out our Streaming Service for our full collection of audiobooks, podcasts, short stories, & 10 hour sounds for sleep and relaxation at our website
2023-10-1355 minScience Fiction - Daily Short StoriesThe Stoker And The Stars - Algis Budryshttps://www.solgood.org - Check out our Streaming Service for our full collection of audiobooks, podcasts, short stories, & 10 hour sounds for sleep and relaxation at our website
2023-08-1124 minScience Fiction - Daily Short StoriesCitadel - Algis Budryshttps://www.solgood.org - Check out our Streaming Service for our full collection of audiobooks, podcasts, short stories, & 10 hour sounds for sleep and relaxation at our website
2023-07-2652 min
The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast - Vintage Sci-Fi Short StoriesThe Barbarians by Algis Budrys - Science Fiction Short Stories AudiobookHistory was repeating itself; there were moats and nobles in Pennsylvania and vassals in Manhattan and the barbarian hordes were overrunning the land. The Barbarians by Algis Budrys, that’s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, with at least one lost vintage sci-fi short story in every episode.“He was in some ways the best writer of his kind around. He made sentences come alive better than most writers. I’m not talking just about science fiction writers.” The words of writer, editor, and literary agent Frederik Pohl–at 89 about Algis Budrys.Budrys was born in 1931 in...
2023-07-251h 07
The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast - Vintage Sci-Fi Short StoriesThe Man Who Liked Lions by John Bernard Daley - Sci Fi Short Stories AudiobookA zoo is a place where some people make sport of lower animals. That included Kemper, but for him people were the lower animals! The Man Who Liked Lions by John Bernard Daley, that’s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, with at least one lost vintage sci-fi short story in every episode.We are going live on YouTube in 2 days on Thursday, July 20th at 4 PM US Eastern time. We’ll be narrating some of Harry Harrison’s The Stainless Steel Rat, answer any questions you have, and everything else is up to you. If you want t...
2023-07-1839 min
SFUltraSFULTRA #4 - Rogue Moon - Algis Budrys"And I keep on losing count, I'm the dumbest girl alive And I'm picking up the pacе, I'm so happy, I could die Put emojis on my grave, I'm thе dumbest girl alive And I feel so dangerous, but you say I'm doin' fine now Guess that's how it goes, I'm the dumbest girl alive" - Dumbest Girl Alive, 100 Gecs
2023-04-1250 minSFUltraSFULTRA #4 - Rogue Moon - Algis Budrys"And I keep on losing count, I'm the dumbest girl alive And I'm picking up the pacе, I'm so happy, I could die Put emojis on my grave, I'm thе dumbest girl alive And I feel so dangerous, but you say I'm doin' fine now Guess that's how it goes, I'm the dumbest girl alive" - Dumbest Girl Alive, 100 Gecs
2023-04-1250 min
TALL TALE TV - Sci-Fi and Fantasy Short Stories"Marrak's Chest" - Sci-Fi Short Story - by Bob JohnstonMarrak's Chest ep.605 When a locked star drive gifts the crew with virtual immortality Marrak and Guin discover that they have a long time to consider whether or not some gifts might be better not given. Bob Johnston has been a science fiction and horror fan since childhood. He started scribbling after a too early introduction to the likes of Michael Moorcock, H P Lovecraft, and Algis Budrys and hasn't stopped since. A list of his published works, as well as a quartet of his stories, can be found at bobjohnstonfiction.com More T...
2023-02-2416 minScience Fiction - Daily Short StoriesThe Barbarians - Algis Budryshttps://www.solgood.org - our full collection of audiobooks, short stories, & 10 hour sounds for sleep at our website
2023-02-0755 minDaily Short Stories - Science FictionCitadel - Algis BudrysView our full collection of podcasts at our website: https://www.solgoodmedia.com or YouTube channel: https://www.solgood.org/subscribe
2022-12-0552 minDaily Short Stories - Science FictionThe Stoker And The Stars - Algis BudrysView our full collection of podcasts at our website: https://www.solgoodmedia.com or YouTube channel: https://www.solgood.org/subscribe
2022-10-0824 min
Eating the FantasticEpisode 168: Paul WitcoverPig out on pork BBQ with Paul Witcover as we discuss the reason the pandemic resulted in some of the best years of his freelance career, the way he thrives as a writer when dealing with the boundaries of historical fiction, why his new novel Lincolnstein is "exactly what you think it is," how he writes in yesterday's vernacular without perpetuating yesterday's stereotypes, what can and can't be taught about writing, the reasons he felt lucky to have attended Clarion with Lucius Shepard, the effect reading slush at Asimov's and Twilight Zone magazines had on his own fiction, what...
2022-04-011h 28
People’s Guide to the Cthulhu Mythos: Cosmic Horror, Lovecraft, Weird FictionCitadel by Algis Budrys
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2021-12-0424 minClassic Science Fiction StoriesThe Stoker And The Stars - Algis BudrysView our full collection of podcasts at our website: https://www.solgood.org/ or YouTube channel: www.solgood.org/subscribe
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2021-10-2155 min
Writers of the Future Podcast82. James Glass from writing to PhD in Physics back to writingJames C. Glass, the 1991 Grand prize winning author (WOTF 7) has written 10 novels and 4 compilations, primarily hard science fiction. His first love was writing which transitioned to education for a career with twin Masters in Astronomy and Physics and then a PhD in Physics. After a long successful career, kids grown up, he transitioned back to writing in 1987 when he published his first story. He entered WOTF initially in 1987 after being introduced to the Contest by Algis Budrys, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, and Dean Wesley Smith.
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2020-07-2552 min
The Book Club ReviewStories of Your Life and Others by Ted ChiangStories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang clocked in at number 80 on The Guardian's list of the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. Barack Obama's a fan too. But what about Laura's book club? What did they make of this mesmerising collection of eight stories, one of which formed the basis of the film Arrival starring Amy Adams? Real-life rocket scientists Kristy and Ed join the discussion and weigh in on the big questions. Like, will reading Chiang make you more intelligent? Do you have to be a sci-fi devotee to enjoy these stories? And fina...
2020-03-0137 min
Ignite Your Mind With Free AudiobookHard Landing Audiobook by Algis BudrysListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 350995
Title: Hard Landing
Author: Algis Budrys
Narrator: Kevin Kenerly
Format: Unabridged
Length: 04:14:38
Language: English
Release date: 01-08-19
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Summary:
A science fiction adventure told from the point of view of aliens who crash-land on Earth and must assimilate in secretuntil their human cover is blown
Budryss final novel opens with the report of a man found electrocuted on suburban train tracks in Shoreview, Illinois. Neville Sealman appeared to be just another commuter, but after his tragic death, no one comes forward...
2019-01-084h 14
Step Inside An Next-Level Full Audiobook And Elevate Your Mindset.Hard Landing by Algis BudrysPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/350995to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Hard Landing
Author: Algis Budrys
Narrator: Kevin Kenerly
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 4 hours 14 minutes
Release date: January 8, 2019
Genres: Science Fiction
Publisher's Summary:
A science fiction adventure told from the point of view of aliens who crash-land on Earth and must assimilate in secret—until their human cover is blown Budrys’s final novel opens with the report of a man found electrocuted on suburban train tracks in Shoreview, Illinois. Neville Sealman appeared to be just another commuter, but after his tragic death, no one comes forward to claim his body...
2019-01-084h 14Explore the Latest Full Audiobooks in Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science FictionHard Landing by Algis BudrysPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/350995to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Hard Landing
Author: Algis Budrys
Narrator: Kevin Kenerly
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 4 hours 14 minutes
Release date: January 8, 2019
Genres: Science Fiction
Publisher's Summary:
A science fiction adventure told from the point of view of aliens who crash-land on Earth and must assimilate in secret—until their human cover is blown Budrys’s final novel opens with the report of a man found electrocuted on suburban train tracks in Shoreview, Illinois. Neville Sealman appeared to be just another commuter, but after his tragic death, no one comes forward to claim his body...
2019-01-084h 14
Explore the Latest Full Audiobooks in Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science FictionHard Landing by Algis BudrysPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/350995 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hard Landing Author: Algis Budrys Narrator: Kevin Kenerly Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 14 minutes Release date: January 8, 2019 Genres: Science Fiction Publisher's Summary: A science fiction adventure told from the point of view of aliens who crash-land on Earth and must assimilate in secret—until their human cover is blown Budrys’s final novel opens with the report of a man found electrocuted on suburban train tracks in Shoreview, Illinois. Neville Sealman appeared to be just another commuter, but after his tragic death, no one comes forward to claim his...
2019-01-0803 min
Ignite Your Mind With Free AudiobookWho? Audiobook by Algis BudrysListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 355211
Title: Who?
Author: Algis Budrys
Narrator: Grover Gardner
Format: Unabridged
Length: 06:05:18
Language: English
Release date: 12-11-18
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Summary:
Set against a backdrop of Cold War paranoia, this futuristic novel about identity and technology is one of the unrecognized classics of SF (Locus).
East and West have fused into separate superstates known as the Allied National Government (ANG) and the Soviet International Bloc (SIB). As the Cold War rages, brilliant scientist Lucas Martino works on a top-secret project known only as K-Eighty-eight...
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