this post was submitted on 14 Feb 2026
148 points (100.0% liked)

Science Fiction

18006 readers
139 users here now

Welcome to /c/ScienceFiction

December book club canceled. Short stories instead!

We are a community for discussing all things Science Fiction. We want this to be a place for members to discuss and share everything they love about Science Fiction, whether that be books, movies, TV shows and more. Please feel free to take part and help our community grow.

  1. Be civil: disagreements happen, but that doesn’t provide the right to personally insult others.
  2. Posts or comments that are homophobic, transphobic, racist, sexist, ableist, or advocating violence will be removed.
  3. Spam, self promotion, trolling, and bots are not allowed
  4. Put (Spoilers) in the title of your post if you anticipate spoilers.
  5. Please use spoiler tags whenever commenting a spoiler in a non-spoiler thread.

Lemmy World Rules

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

I've been listening to X-Minus-One episodes for the last few days and am really starting to appreciate the radio play format. Some of the stories are pretty dated, being from the 40's and 50's, but a lot of them still hold up if you're a little forgiving on the science details.

top 9 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old

Nice. I'll give them a shot. Thanks.

[–] DrFunkenstein@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 hours ago

I love x minus one! I listened to it as an audiobook forever ago, so cool that it's available for free now! One of my favorite was "Nightfall," based on an Isaac Asimov story

[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 4 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

When I was a kid in Europe, they used to play CBS Radio Mystery Theater on the English-language radio station for the American military forces stationed there. I liked those, too. I hated history as a subject, but they did a dramatization of The Murder of Caesar that always stuck with me. Guess I just needed history to be entertaining to get something from it.

Thanks for reminding me of this. I spend a lot of time behind the wheel for my new(ish) job, so I could use this type of entertainment as most podcasts I've tried just don't do it for me. The only spoken thing I listen to with any regularity is Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, which isn't even really a podcast.

[–] Klanky@sopuli.xyz 2 points 9 hours ago

Hey I recognize that art from the cover of The White Mountains of the Tripods Trilogy!

[–] atotalblank@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago

I recommend the Journey into Space series especially the trilogy Operation Luna, The Red Planet, and World in Peril.

[–] bbqlegs@lemmy.world 10 points 23 hours ago

There's also a ton on the Old Time Radio Researchers yt channel. I want to say when I looked into it there was more on yt. Also check out Dimension X! Old time radio can be a WILD listen sometimes, interesting snapshots of the entertainment industry at the time.

[–] YetAnotherNerd@sopuli.xyz 9 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

What’s also great is that there are a fair number of famous stories by famous sci-if authors. Hell, Heinlein and Bradbury are 4 of the first 10 episodes!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_X_Minus_One_episodes

(Jeeze… Sheckley, Pohl, Simak, Sturgeon, Anderson, Silverberg, Leiber - and that’s just in 1957!)

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 6 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Nice are they available to download?