The Water Eater by Winston Marks - Sci Fi Short Story Audiobook
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When I hear you talk about lost or forgotten authors it makes me think of James White, who wrote some of my favourite sci-fi short stories ever. He was, I believe, a British sci-fi writer in the 1960’s. I have never heard anything of his on audio.
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Winston Marks wrote a couple of short stories in the early 1940s and then disappeared for more than a decade. He showed up on the sci-fi scene again in 1953 when magazines published 4 of his short stories include The Water Eater.
If Winston Marks sounds familiar it’s possibly because we’ve featured him twice before. You may remember “Never Gut-shoot A Wampus” and “So They Baked A Cake”.
From the old, yellowed pages of Galaxy Science Fiction in June 1953 our story can be found on page 56. The Water Eater by Winston Marks…
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