Vintage SciFi Podcast https://vintagescifiguy.com/podcasts/vintage-scifi/ Each episode features a short commentary by the Vintage SciFi Guy about an old science fiction story followed by the story itself, read by an advanced AI voice. Extra long stories are serialised across successive podcast episodes. Thu, 20 Feb 2025 02:23:45 +0000 en-US © 2024 Vintage SciFi Guy Exploring Early Science Fiction Vintage SciFi Guy episodic Each episode features a short commentary by the Vintage SciFi Guy about an old science fiction story followed by the story itself, read by an advanced AI voice. Extra long stories are serialised across successive podcast episodes. Vintage SciFi Guy contact@vintagescifiguy.com false https://vintagescifiguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/vintage-scifi-podcast-1-scaled.jpg Vintage SciFi Podcast https://vintagescifiguy.com/podcasts/vintage-scifi/ contact@vintagescifiguy.com Each episode features a short commentary by the Vintage SciFi Guy about an old science fiction story followed by the story itself, read by an advanced AI voice. Extra long stories are serialised across successive podcast episodes. No 41c98205-48cb-50d6-9039-7345f7f80b1e https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Vintage SciFi Podcast 12 The World’s Last Wonder XIII & XIV https://vintagescifiguy.com/podcast/vintage-scifi-podcast-12-the-worlds-last-wonder-xiii-xiv/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=vintage-scifi-podcast-12-the-worlds-last-wonder-xiii-xiv Thu, 20 Feb 2025 02:23:43 +0000 https://vintagescifiguy.com/?post_type=podcast&p=164 Welcome to issue 12, the final issue for season 2 of the Vintage SciFi Podcast. Vintage Scifi Podcast will return, hopefully later in the year. This issue we farewell The World’s Last Wonder with Chapters XIII and XIV. First published in 1901 in the Tocsin newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, this story contains a lot of […]

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]]> full 12 2 Welcome to issue 12, the final issue for season 2 of the Vintage SciFi Podcast. Vintage Scifi Podcast will return, hopefully later in the year. This issue we farewell The World’s Last Wonder with Chapters XIII and XIV. First published in 1901 in the Tocsin newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, this story contains a lot of […]

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]]> https://vintagescifiguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/vintage-scifi-podcast-12-the-worlds-last-wonder-chapters-xiii-xiv-cover-1-scaled.jpg Vintage SciFi Podcast 12 The World’s Last Wonder XIII & XIV false no 18:39 No no Vintage SciFi Podcast 11 The World’s Last Wonder XI & XII https://vintagescifiguy.com/podcast/vintage-scifi-podcast-11-the-worlds-last-wonder-xi-xii/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=vintage-scifi-podcast-11-the-worlds-last-wonder-xi-xii Thu, 13 Feb 2025 09:34:55 +0000 https://vintagescifiguy.com/?post_type=podcast&p=160 Welcome to Vintage SciFi Podcast 11. It’s great to have you! This issue features chapters XI and XII of the vintage science fiction story The World’s Last Wonder (1901) set on Mars, and features the first of a modern Alien First Contact situation, complete with ideas on how this might happen when not only the […]

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]]> full 11 2 Welcome to Vintage SciFi Podcast 11. It’s great to have you! This issue features chapters XI and XII of the vintage science fiction story The World’s Last Wonder (1901) set on Mars, and features the first of a modern Alien First Contact situation, complete with ideas on how this might happen when not only the […]

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]]> https://vintagescifiguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/vintage-scifi-podcast-11-the-worlds-last-wonder-chapters-xi-xii-cover-1-scaled.jpg Vintage SciFi Podcast 11 The World’s Last Wonder XI & XII false no 19:29 No no Vintage SciFi Podcast 10 The World’s Last Wonder IX & X https://vintagescifiguy.com/podcast/vintage-scifi-podcast-10-the-worlds-last-wonder-ix-x/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=vintage-scifi-podcast-10-the-worlds-last-wonder-ix-x Thu, 06 Feb 2025 00:16:00 +0000 https://vintagescifiguy.com/?post_type=podcast&p=155 Welcome to Vintage SciFi Podcast 10. It’s great to have you! This issue, continuing the adventures of the crews of the space cars The Pioneer and The Annexator en route to Mars, in the first modern Australian scifi space opera story, or if you prefer, the first modern Australian science fiction space fiction story, The […]

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]]> full 10 2 Welcome to Vintage SciFi Podcast 10. It’s great to have you! This issue, continuing the adventures of the crews of the space cars The Pioneer and The Annexator en route to Mars, in the first modern Australian scifi space opera story, or if you prefer, the first modern Australian science fiction space fiction story, The […]

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]]> https://vintagescifiguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/vintage-sci-fi-podcast-10-the-worlds-last-wonder-chapters-ix-x-cover-1-scaled.jpg Vintage SciFi Podcast 10 The World’s Last Wonder IX & X false no 23:40 No no Vintage Sci Fi Podcast 9 The World’s Last Wonder VII & VIII https://vintagescifiguy.com/podcast/vintage-sci-fi-podcast-9-the-worlds-last-wonder-vii-viii/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=vintage-sci-fi-podcast-9-the-worlds-last-wonder-vii-viii Thu, 30 Jan 2025 22:00:00 +0000 https://vintagescifiguy.com/?post_type=podcast&p=145 Welcome to Vintage Sci Fi Podcast 9! The World’s Last Wonder was first published in The Tocsin newspaper in Melbourne in 1901, which makes it Australia’s first space opera, though the plot style at the time was known as ‘planetary fiction.’ As many stories that came out soon after look, feel and read like the […]

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]]> full 9 2 Welcome to Vintage Sci Fi Podcast 9! The World’s Last Wonder was first published in The Tocsin newspaper in Melbourne in 1901, which makes it Australia’s first space opera, though the plot style at the time was known as ‘planetary fiction.’ As many stories that came out soon after look, feel and read like the […]

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]]> https://vintagescifiguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/vintage-sci-fi-podcast-9-the-worlds-last-wonder-chapters-vii-viii-cover-1-scaled.jpg Vintage Sci Fi Podcast 9 The World’s Last Wonder VII & VIII false no 25:22 No no Vintage Sci Fi Podcast 8 The World’s Last Wonder V & VI https://vintagescifiguy.com/podcast/vintage-sci-fi-podcast-8-the-worlds-last-wonder-v-vi/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=vintage-sci-fi-podcast-8-the-worlds-last-wonder-v-vi Fri, 17 Jan 2025 13:10:58 +0000 https://vintagescifiguy.com/?post_type=podcast&p=140 Welcome to Vintage Sci Fi Podcast 8. It’s great to have you! What did you think about The World’s Last Wonder chapters 3 and 4? Things are starting to get exciting! The World’s Last Wonder (1901) is Australia’s first space opera. From about 1871 onwards, Australia was enjoying a surge in newspaper-published invention opera featuring […]

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]]> Welcome to Vintage Sci Fi Podcast 8. It’s great to have you! What did you think about The World’s Last Wonder chapters 3 and 4? Things are starting to get exciting! The World’s Last Wonder (1901) is Australia’s first space opera. From about 1871 onwards, Australia was enjoying a surge in newspaper-published invention opera featuring […]

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]]> https://vintagescifiguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/vintage-scifi-podcast-8-the-worlds-last-wonder-chapters-v-vi-cover-1-scaled.jpg Vintage Sci Fi Podcast 8 The World’s Last Wonder V & VI false no 20:39 No no Vintage SciFi Podcast 7 The World’s Last Wonder III & IV https://vintagescifiguy.com/podcast/vintage-scifi-podcast-7-the-worlds-last-wonder-iii-iv/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=vintage-scifi-podcast-7-the-worlds-last-wonder-iii-iv Thu, 09 Jan 2025 10:15:48 +0000 https://vintagescifiguy.com/?post_type=podcast&p=135 The World’s Last Wonder is Australia’s first space opera science fiction story and was serialised in the Tocsin newspaper 1901/02/14-1901/05/16. I hope you enjoyed chapters I and II of The World’s Last Wonder last week. This week, Chapters III and IV explores the insides of the space car, a visit to Brooklyn, New York, and […]

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]]> full The World’s Last Wonder is Australia’s first space opera science fiction story and was serialised in the Tocsin newspaper 1901/02/14-1901/05/16. I hope you enjoyed chapters I and II of The World’s Last Wonder last week. This week, Chapters III and IV explores the insides of the space car, a visit to Brooklyn, New York, and […]

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]]> https://vintagescifiguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/vintage-scifi-podcast-7-the-worlds-last-wonder-chapters-iii-iv-cover-1-scaled.jpg Vintage SciFi Podcast 7 The World’s Last Wonder III & IV false no 23:23 No no Vintage SciFi Podcast 6: The World’s Last Wonder I & II https://vintagescifiguy.com/podcast/vintage-scifi-podcast-6-the-worlds-last-wonder-i-ii/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=vintage-scifi-podcast-6-the-worlds-last-wonder-i-ii Wed, 01 Jan 2025 11:56:23 +0000 https://vintagescifiguy.com/?post_type=podcast&p=119 The World’s Last Wonder is Australia’s first space opera and was serialised in the Tocsin newspaper in early to mid 1901. It tells the tale of an invention enabling two residents from Melbourne to travel to Mars, with detailed scientific explanations and an accurate understanding of space physics. As a bonus, it includes an altercation […]

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]]> full 6 The World’s Last Wonder is Australia’s first space opera and was serialised in the Tocsin newspaper in early to mid 1901. It tells the tale of an invention enabling two residents from Melbourne to travel to Mars, with detailed scientific explanations and an accurate understanding of space physics. As a bonus, it includes an altercation […]

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]]> https://vintagescifiguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/vsfpc-6-wlw1-2-cover-edit-3-scaled.jpg Vintage SciFi Podcast 6: The World’s Last Wonder I & II false no 22:47 No no Vintage SciFi Podcast: Australia Advanced 5 https://vintagescifiguy.com/podcast/vintage-scifi-podcast-australia-advanced-5/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=vintage-scifi-podcast-australia-advanced-5 Fri, 19 Jul 2024 12:47:05 +0000 https://vintagescifiguy.com/?post_type=podcast&p=115 Welcome to Episode 5 of the “Vintage SciFi Podcast,” where we explore early speculative fiction that envisioned the future through the lens of its time. Today, we present Dialogue Fifth from “Australia Advanced: Or Dialogues for the Year 2032” by Mephistophole the Younger, a fascinating piece from 1832 that transports us to a future Australia […]

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]]> Welcome to Episode 5 of the “Vintage SciFi Podcast,” where we explore early speculative fiction that envisioned the future through the lens of its time. Today, we present Dialogue Fifth from “Australia Advanced: Or Dialogues for the Year 2032” by Mephistophole the Younger, a fascinating piece from 1832 that transports us to a future Australia […]

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]]> https://vintagescifiguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/australia-advanced-vintage-scifi-podcast-5.jpg Vintage SciFi Podcast: Australia Advanced 5 false no 14:15 No no Vintage SciFi 4 Australia Advanced 4 https://vintagescifiguy.com/podcast/vintage-scifi-4-australia-advanced-4/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=vintage-scifi-4-australia-advanced-4 Tue, 09 Jul 2024 11:33:18 +0000 https://vintagescifiguy.com/?post_type=podcast&p=111 Welcome to Episode 4 of the “Vintage SciFi Podcast,” where we explore the early science fiction that imagined the future through the lens of its time. Today, we bring you “Australia Advanced: Or Dialogues for the Year 2032, by Mephistophole the Younger, a visionary piece from 1832 that transports us to a future Australia filled […]

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]]> Welcome to Episode 4 of the “Vintage SciFi Podcast,” where we explore the early science fiction that imagined the future through the lens of its time. Today, we bring you “Australia Advanced: Or Dialogues for the Year 2032, by Mephistophole the Younger, a visionary piece from 1832 that transports us to a future Australia filled […]

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]]> https://vintagescifiguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/australia-advanced-cover-image-4.jpg Vintage SciFi 4 Australia Advanced 4 false no 15:10 No no Vintage SciFi 3: Australia Advanced 3 https://vintagescifiguy.com/podcast/vintage-scifi-3-australia-advanced-3/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=vintage-scifi-3-australia-advanced-3 Sun, 30 Jun 2024 01:17:06 +0000 https://vintagescifiguy.com/?post_type=podcast&p=106 Welcome to Episode 3 of the “Vintage SciFi Podcast,” where we explore early speculative fiction that shaped the science fiction genre. Today, we journey into the imaginative world of “Australia Advanced: Or Dialogues for the Year 2032,” written in 1832. This visionary piece transports us to a future Australia, bustling with technological advancements and social […]

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]]> Welcome to Episode 3 of the “Vintage SciFi Podcast,” where we explore early speculative fiction that shaped the science fiction genre. Today, we journey into the imaginative world of “Australia Advanced: Or Dialogues for the Year 2032,” written in 1832. This visionary piece transports us to a future Australia, bustling with technological advancements and social […]

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