Most experiments were dropped because they failed—and some because they worked too well! The Water Eater by Winston Marks, 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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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.

Keep up the great work!” Thanks Noel, we’re looking for James White stories that we can add to the podcast thanks to you.

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…

Next week on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, Marooned! On the cold satellite of a dying sun,

light-years away from home.... For Rex there was only one escape. But Carl called it murder! Distress Signal by Ross Rocklynne.

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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