Countdown for blastoff... X minus five, four, three, two, X minus one... Fire!
X Minus One was an NBC-created show that ran weekly from 1956 to 1958 and had an attempted but failed comeback in 1973. It was a science-fiction anthology series; each week was a completely different story, with no recurring characters or cast. Most of the stories came from the pages of ÒGalaxy Science FictionÓ and ÒAstounding Science FictionÓ magazines and were written by the likes of Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, Fletcher Pratt, Robert Bloch, Clifford Simak, and a host of other major authors.
This book is a listenerÕs guide to the series. We will carefully examine all 126 of the original stories from a listenerÕs point of view, including complete synopses and reviews with comments. The book includes links to hear the episodes (online from Archive.org), and the idea is to listen to the original episodes as you read through the book. If you enjoy short science fiction with big ideas and a helping of humor, this is a great findÑ there are stories involving spaceships, mind control, Martians, mad scientists, charlatans, and robots aplenty. If you are anything at all like the author, you loved reading the sci-fi classics of the fifties, and now you experience that thrill againÉ with X Minus One.