The Hated by Frederik Pohl
After space, there was always one more river to cross ... the far side of hatred and murder! The Hated by Frederik Pohl, 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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You’ll find today’s story in the January 1958 edition of Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine. If you have a copy of the magazine, you’ll see the author is listed as Paul Flehr, even though it was written by Frederik Pohl. It’s possible that The Hated was credited to one of Mr. Pohl’s many alternate names because the first 46 pages of the magazine were taken up by a Frederik Pohl novella titled The Knights of Arthur. Right after that, starting on page 47, The Hated by Frederik Pohl …
Next week on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, a longer podcast thanks to your requests. It’s our first podcast that’s a little longer than two hours. We go back 77 years to the fall of 1946,
Mad, impossible world! Sun-blasted by day,cold-wracked by night—and life condensed byradiation into eight days! Sim eyed theShip—if he only dared reach it andescape! ... but it was more than half anhour distant—the limit of life itself!The Creatures That Time Forgot by Ray Bradbury.
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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