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Travel by Wire by Arthur C. Clarke - The First Published Story by Arthur C. Clarke
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Travel by Wire by Arthur C. Clark, that’s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast.
Today on the podcast you will hear the very first published story written by then 19 year old Arthur C. Clarke. It’s a story we probably never would have discovered if not for sci-fi aficionado Jesse Willis. In fact, there are many stories you have heard that he has shared with us. He has a database of more than 7,000 pdf files that you can download and enjoy and a lot more too, at https://www.sffaudio.com.
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Douglas W. F. Mayer was a science fiction fan in Leeds, England in the 1930s. He was a founder, along with two others, of Chapter 17 of the Science Fiction League, which was the first in the UK. He was the editor of three issues of the UK publication titled “Amateur Science Stories”. And that’s where we will find today’s debut of a then unknown Arthur C. Clarke. On page 9 of Volume 1 No 2 of “Amateur Science Stories”, Travel by Wire by Arthur C. Clark…
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