Beyond the Center Ross Freier

A prophetic short story involving mankind's subordination to, reliance upon, and worship of, modern technology. This longer short story is being split up into three parts, with today's part three titled "The Homeless", from "The Machine Stops", written by E. M. Forster. It was first published in The Oxford and Cambridge Review in November of 1909. Thank you to Beyond the Center's Stellar Supporters:Jim PollockEmail: beyondthecenterpodcast@gmail.comSend us a Text Message.Suppo...

A prophetic short story involving mankind's subordination to, reliance upon, and worship of, modern technology. This longer short story is being split up into three parts, with today's part two titled "The Mending Apparatus", from "The Machine Stops", written by E. M. Forster. It was first published in The Oxford and Cambridge Review in November of 1909. Thank you to Beyond the Center's Stellar Supporters:Jim PollockEmail: beyondthecenterpodcast@gmail.comSend us a Text Messag...

A prophetic short story involving mankind's subordination to, reliance upon, and worship of, modern technology. This longer short story will be split up into three parts over today and the following two Sundays. Today's part one of this three part story is titled "The Air-Ship", from "The Machine Stops", written by E. M. Forster. It was first published in The Oxford and Cambridge Review in November of 1909. Thank you to Beyond the Center's Stellar Supporters:Jim PollockEmail:...

A ship with an experimental faster-than-light drive, the first ever to voyage outside of our solar system, arrives some distance from their destination of Alpha Centauri A. Upon arriving, the crew witnesses an unexpected event which has an astronomically low probability of occurrence. For this episode, the short story is titled "Time Fuze" by Randall Garrett, which was first published in the March 1954 publication of If Worlds of Science Fiction.Thank you to Beyond the Center's St...

Saknarth, the Master Astrologer, yearned for the day when mankind would no longer be enslaved; when they would conquer their fears and miseries through learning and enlightenment. The short story for this episode is titled "Saknarth" by Millard Verne Gordon (AKA Donald A. Wolheim), which was first published in the Spring 1942 edition of Science Fiction Quarterly.Thank you to Beyond the Center's Stellar Supporters:Jim PollockEmail: beyondthecenterpodcast@gmail.comSend us a Text Mes...

Mr. Thomas, a surveyor's clerk from Croydon, travels to the Sussex Weald to meet with a client about having a copse removed. Upon arriving near his destination, he spots the line of Downs with Chanctonbury Ring at its crest. As he comes upon the crest, he realises that this must be the wood his client wants cut down, and decides to walk through to have a look.The short story for this episode is titled "Ancient Lights" by Algernon Blackwood, which was first published in The Eye-Witness, Vol. 3...