Philip K. Dick Short Stories: The Hanging Stranger - The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast

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Philip K Dick Sci Fi Audiobook Full Length - The Hanging Stranger

Hi, and welcome to the Lost Sci-Fi Podcast featuring at least one lost sci-fi short story in every episode. I’m your host Scott Miller, audiobook narrator and lover of science fiction. When I decided to narrate these sci-fi short stories from the 1940s, 50s and 60s with some from the 30s and one from 1899, I had no idea what story to choose first. Believe it or not, the story you are about to hear was my first selection, a completely random selection.

If you’re old enough you may be surprised to discover that my first choice was written by a man whose work you have enjoyed on the big screen for 40 years! His 1968 novel “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” became the 1982 movie Blade Runner, Starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, and Edward James Olmos.

A 1966 short story he wrote showed up on the big screen as the 1990 smash hit Total Recall with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sharon Stone.

Other box office blockbusters based on his works are Minority Report directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Cruise, and 2011’s The Adjustment Bureau starring Matt Damon and Emily Blunt.

Amazon produced 4 seasons of “The Man In The High Castle”, based on his novel with the same name, set in a parallel universe where the Germans and Japanese win World War II and rule the world.

Sadly, he wasn’t alive to see these incredibly successful movies. Philip K Dick passed away in March 1982, 3 months before Blade Runner debuted. He was only 53.

Philip Kindred Dick was a prolific American science fiction writer. He wrote 44 novels and somewhere around 120 short stories, most of which appeared in science fiction magazines like the one we’re going to share with you in today’s episode of the lost sci-fi podcast. His work, although cherished by many, received very little acclaim for about 10 years until he wrote the novel The Man In The High Castle.

Todays lost sci-fi short story first appeared in December 1953 in “Science Fiction Adventures” Magazine which cost 35 cents. And now for your listening pleasure Philip K Dick’s, “The Hanging Stranger”

Every lost sci-fi short story we record that is under an hour, is on sale, on our website for only 97 cents every day. Lostscifi.com. You can listen to them on your computer or on your phone with the easy to use app, and you can download them on your phone and listen wherever and whenever you want. Bundles of 5 audiobooks are only $2.97 every day, 10 for $4.97 or 20 lost sci-fi audiobooks for only $8.97. You will find all or most of them on many other websites, but you will never find a lower price.

That’s Lostscifi.com. Why so inexpensive? I love narrating these stories. I narrate other genres for publishers and I have no control over the prices of those audiobooks but I can control these prices. Since I want as many people as possible to enjoy them, 97 cents sounds like a good idea to me.

Most of these lost sci-fi short stories are written by authors you’ve probably never heard of. I know I hadn’t heard of most of them. Next week we’ll feature the work of an author who wrote more than 200 books, stories, poems and articles.

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