It was a new and mysterious plant. It could make its own weather; it was sentient, and it prospered on Venus. ButEarth needed it desperately. And Bat Kendo, the radar-mutant, was told to bring it in… that’s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, with at least one lost vintage sci-fi short story in every episode.

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Today’s story was written by Alfred Coppel. Born Alfredo Jose de Arana-Marini Coppel in Oakland California in November 1921. Coppel started his career as a writer after serving as a fighter pilot in theUnited States Army Air Forces during World War II.He became one of the most prolific pulp magazine authors of the 1950s and 1960s, with about 60 short science fiction stories and 10 novels.

Let’s go back in time almost 69 years ago. From Planet Stories magazine in September 1953, a story originally credited to Sol Galaxon, a pseudonym for Alfred Coppel. The Flight Of The Eagle…

Next week on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast… They didn’t think of themselves as pioneers. They simply had a job to do. And if they had to give up money, or power, or love— or life itself — that was the Fee Of The Frontier

That’s next week onThe Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, with at least one lost vintage sci-fi short story in every episode.

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