Slay-Ride by Winston Marks - Vintage Sci-Fi Short Story

Who ever thought that Frane Lewis—wholesale triggerman, spaceways pirate—would be the sweating victim of a simple, webbed, nylon garment known as spaceman's underwear? Slay-Ride by Winston Marks, that’s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, with at least one lost vintage sci-fi short story in every episode.

We get a lot of emails at [email protected] and a lot of comments on our YouTube channel. Some of the more recent YouTube comments include this from “trevorwheatley4166” “Thank you for all your story telling. It's a fresh breath of life to hear, also extremely MELLO.”

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This from “sleepywilliams6381” who commented on “Let’s Get Together by Isaac Asimov” “Another great story by a great author and narrator, as usual. Keep up the good work.”

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DebMurphyBits also commented on “Let’s Get Together” “Good one!!!! I’ve listened to quite a few of your episodes now and why you don’t have hundreds of thousands of followers yet is beyond me. Great narrations and awesome story picks!! What timing this one is, now, with artificial intelligence coming together with robotics and the dawn of a real life technological revolution. Keep up the stories please”

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If you’ve been listening to the podcast for a while, you know Winston Marks is one of my personal favorites. He was a busy man from 1953 to 1955 with 46 stories published in a variety of magazines. Although our story originally appeared in Planet Stories magazine in 1953 it can also be found in Science Fiction Monthly published in Australia in September 1956. 

Let’s turn to page 25 in the November 1953 issue of Planet Stories magazine for Slay-Ride by Winston Marks…

In two days on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, The wars of the far future will be fought with giant spaceships, but it will still take the infantryman to hold down the planets. And some of the thoughts bred in the foxholes of Mars or Alpha Centauri Duo or Rigel Tres will be fully as bitter as some of those dredged up in the foxholes of Earth. The Foxholes of Mars by Fritz Leiber.

That’s In two days on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, with at least one lost vintage sci-fi short story in every episode.

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