The Map Makers by Frederik Pohl - X Minus One, (Deep-Space SF Audio Drama)

[@willfowler2713]

both Dimension X and X minus one comes to us from the middle 1950s and are the basis of most all the Sci-fi movies we have been watching since then. The future has always been with us.

[@thekaiser4333]

You seem to know your stuff. Please tell me, what on earth is hyperspace?!

[@njm3211]

Gotta love the sound effects and music. NBC had their own orchestra.

[@WilmerCook]

In the fifties you could smoke in space! Just discovered these radio shows with covid19. Used to listen to them as a kid in th 50s, love them! Thanks!

[@sugarhieroglyph]

What were the 50s like?

[@johnnybgoode7983]

You can still smoke in space ...but, ...you would probably blow up now! In the 50's smoking wasn't harmful ...well. thats what the people were told ...yesterday's tobacco is today's Vax

[@johnnybgoode7983]

​@@sugarhieroglyph the 50's was like happy days on TV.

[@WilmerCook]

@@sugarhieroglyph 50s were a wonderful time everybody had a job house and a car the American dream, but people looked the other way a poverty and racial injustice.

[@sugarhieroglyph]

@@WilmerCook what about the police?

[@bodegabreath4258]

Thanks for all of your wonderful uploads. These are from the golden age of science fiction before it degenerated into sci-fi that mutated into science schlock.

[@artgueret]

I have been "addictive" to these radio shows since I was 12 years old. Thank you to my older sister, Bobbie..........

[@mostlynew]

artgueret Me too. X Minus One, right?

[@kirpalani-griffin3706]

Great ending! Thank you very much.

[@tweakiepop]

One of those shiver givers! Good stuff. Wonder if films such as Event Horizon took bits of this, the trope of not needing eyes to ‘see’. There must be essays about blindings in literature. Immediately thought of the Cyclops in the Odyssey. Just found an interesting piece on literal and figurative blindness in literature, also realised the last book I read was Wyndhams Day of the Triffids, the initial celestial blinding disabling the human ‘prey’. Gosh what a treasure trove, excuse my rambling.

[@dbsommers1]

Great one

[@theresaromeo5484]

I love this classic sci-fi stuff. Many hours spent reading as a kid.

[@roguebuddha]

The Force is strong with this navigator.

[@babalon7778]

I want a mural of this cover art! So many of these are really cool.

[@deant6361]

I to love the cover art , it’s priceless 🤘🇦🇺🌌

[@neilreynolds3858]

It looks like it was by Ed Valigursky if that's any help.

[@bumpusjones.1978]

This story is gripping the science seems far less ridiculous then some of these and it’s so much better than any of the other stuff. I could have missed other good OTR sci fi but I can’t imagine it being much better than this

[@stevesyncox9893]

Thanks!

[@andya7272]

Thank you for this love em

[@gerry5134]

Enjoyed that story ! Thank you

[@robertborie8479]

Will they ever make it home? 🚀🗺💀 This concept is very similar to elements of Dune like Guild Navigators and Mentats.

[@steviedonaghue2175]

More please, great,....

[@richmcgee434]

People familiar with the Warhammer 40,000 game setting will recognize more than a bit of their genetically-engineered mutant Navigators showing up in this story. Hyperspace is less horrific here than in the game, but the idea of a gifted individual being able to steer by sight in FTL is very much the same. Be interesting to know if there was direct inspiration or it's just a coincidence - Games Workshop's designers are notorious for stealing ideas from multiple sources and some of them are old enough to have been reading pulps when they were young men.

[@michealridenoour5320]

X-wing in hyperspace!

[@deant6361]

Good one 🤘🇦🇺🌌

[@roseoreilly762]

Way back when computers filled rooms and weighed tons.

[@paulduncan3214]

The void captains tale?

[@Seven-Planets-Sci-Fi-Tuber]

HSAD: HyperSpaceActivityDisorder🧐

[@ancapftw9113]

And that's how we started hiring blind people as pilots. Then we can out, due to future medical advances, so we started blinding them ourselves.

[@paulsarnik8506]

OK they explained about the kerosene lamps but five story computers and smoking cigarettes, total product of the 50's. Kinda surprised they didn't work in a Brand for in show advertising!😮😅. 🛸👾🤖. 🤓😎✌🏻

[@maxwellmorgan8014]

LOL ! We ant-lion‘s walk in blind faith.

[@maxwellmorgan8014]

I like to listen, it helps me concentrate. My ADD takes my ears to other places sometimes though, like I want to hear everything, and miss nothing. Weird of me, just one of many of my complex's. ;) I smell to much, and see to much (to much light that is). Anyway, nice to meet you. Nice was just a two moment. At the same time I wrote the word the TV said it too. I picked up on that why typing, and listening to the story above. See I am weird. Peace

[@juanf666highboson5]

Robert George. hey!!! what about me?

[@BryinWillis-e8g]

Woman > I requi’ - now Vs. later… - hurt ?…

[@TheMintyMelon]

Srsly.......Kerosene lamps in outer space ???🤣😂🥴

[@brothermine2292]

And a shocking lack of redundancy, like you might expect on a Klingon ship.