X – 1: Perigi’s Wonderful Dolls

On This Date in 1956

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Exploring Tomorrow: Dreams

On This Date in 1958

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Dimension X: The Green Hills of Earth

On This Date in 1950

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Dimension X: Universe

On This Date in 1950

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Dimension X – Mars Is Heaven

What would you do if you went to Mars and you found that all of the people that you loved and had died were there and sections of the planet looked just like where you grew up?

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Exploring Tomorrow: Planet of Geniuses

As a sociological study, a group of scientists has seeded a planet with colonists and deprived them of technology and all memory of their stellar origin. The experiment is overly successful when the ‘natives’ start developing at an alarming rate—fast enough to worry the Galactic Imperial Armed Forces who dispatch an investigator, Grand Marshall Gorham, to determine whether or not this planet of geniuses should be destroyed.

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Exploring Tomorrow: Flashback

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Flash Gordon: Episode 10 – A Cool Way To Win

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The Mercury Theater on the Air – War of the Worlds

This episode of The Mercury Theater on the Air was performed as a Halloween episode of the series on October 30, 1938. The first two thirds of the 62-minute broadcast were presented as a series of simulated news bulletins, which suggested to many listeners that an actual alien invasion by Martians was currently in progress. Compounding the issue was the fact that the Mercury Theatre on the Air was a sustaining show (it ran without commercial breaks), adding to the program’s realism. There followed sensationalist accounts in the press about a supposed panic in response to the broadcast, the precise extent of which has been debated. Many Americans were listening to Edgar Bergen; however, when Bergen’s opening comedy routine ended and gave way to a musical interlude, many people may have started turning the radio dial to see what else was on. Those people found a radio show that sounded like a real account of an alien attack. The show did issue a disclaimer at the beginning of the show, but the people tuning in late did not hear that announcement and so a small panic did occur.

In the days following the adaptation, however, there was widespread outrage in the media. The program’s news-bulletin format was described as cruelly deceptive by some newspapers (which had lost advertising revenue to radio) and public figures, leading to an outcry against the perpetrators of the broadcast and calls for regulation by the Federal Communications Commission.[1] Despite these complaints—or perhaps in part because of them—the episode secured Welles’s fame as a dramatist.

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Dimension X – With Folded Hands

This story was my first introduction to Author Jack Williamson. Since I heard this I have purchased the book based on this story, “The Humanoids”, as well as several others he has written. Between Jack Williamson, and a few other Science Fiction writers, I have looked to the stars for inspiration since I was a kid. Science Fiction has been a big part of my life and I am so happy to bring you this story. I hope that it moves you the way that it moved me to enjoy stories of the future and beyond.

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