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This collection includes Science Fiction listener favorites from and wide range of old time radio classic series. From Suspense to Lights Out to favorites such as Mysterious Traveler and Quite Please, this collection contains the best of old time radio science fiction. Also included are some very rare shows Cloud Nine and Planet Man .
Though many of these series are better known for other genres such as horror, drama, and others, their endeavors into the adaptable field of science fiction proves successful. As a genre, science fiction generally reflects cultural mores of the era in which it was produced. So popular were the stories of science experiments gone catawampus or the alien invader that symbolized the larger fear of the spread of communism and Nuclear War.
H.G. Wells mind-boggling story "The Time Machine" about the 19th century scientist who discovered a way to travel through time 100,000 years into the future is performed on Escape. Lux Radio'sThe Day the Earth Stood Still presents the famous story about the day that aliens invaded Earth is also included in this fine collection. Nathanial Hawthorne's short story Dr. Heidegger's Experiment on Favorite Story questions the marvels of modern medical science and examines the consequence of a medicinal version of the fountain of youth.
Eat martian cupcakes, examine mysterious holes in the earth, and take a rocket to the moon. The Zero Hour has struck and the oldest man in the world is just wrinkling along. So get on your space boots and buckle the strap on that self-oxygenating helmet because it's time to BLAST OFF with with this collection of science fiction listener's favorites!
See also: the available sci-fi compilation available including Ray Bradbury Collection, Robots Collection, Science Fiction Authors Collection, and Aliens, Martians, and UFO's Collection. For additional reading see also: Article on Science Fiction in Radio.For additional reading see also: Article on Science Fiction in Radio.