"Get Gunther," the official orders read. It was to laugh! For Click and Irish were marooned on the pirate's asteroid—their only weapons a single gun and a news-reel camera… The Monster Maker by Ray Bradbury, 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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Ray Bradbury turned out more than 600 short stories during his celebrated career, so far, we’ve narrated seven of them and this is our second Ray Bradbury short story on our podcast. You’ll hear Bradbury’s Morgue Ship in Episode 19. All seven of the short stories written by this amazing author that we’ve narrated so far have one thing in common, they all take place in space.

Today’s story comes from the spring 1944 edition of Planet Stories magazine. The story featured on the cover is Wanderers of the Wolf-Moon by Nelson S. Bond. Two other authors are mentioned on the cover, Leigh Brackett and Robert Abernathy. Interestingly there is no mention of Ray Bradbury on the cover.

A camera is one devil of a poor weapon with which to capture a pirate’s fortress. Let’s turn to page 39 for The Monster Maker by Ray Bradbury…

Next week on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast… You were bored—keeping the endless, dull space-lanes clear. You wanted excitement, danger, to see the weird planets of the System. You wanted—And then it happened, all the swift, blazing danger of the void—and you found yourself being blasted out of existence.

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

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