Unknown Orbits

0051: Killdozer, by Theodore Sturgeon

Killdozer, Theodore Sturgeon's contribution to the killer machine sub-genre is discussed, along with the infamous TV movie adaptation from the 1970s. We also discuss inanimate objects that kill from the Golden Age of Science Fiction.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killdozer!_(short_story)
https://youtu.be/vU73kzrhWig?si=br1fI9yduQBwe0Qk

Low Orbits 04: Mudd’s Women, Star Trek

Today we talk about the first appearance of Harcourt Fenton Mudd in Mudd's Women, where a group of women are travelling to meet, and marry, lonely dilithium miners.
Link:
Star Trek - Mudd's Women:https://archive.org/details/star-trek-tos-original-effects/Star+Trek+TOS+-+Orginal+Effects/Season+1/Star+Trek+-+1x04+-+Mudd's+Women.avi

Low Orbits 03: The Invaders, The Twilight Zone

In The Twilight Zone second-season episode "The Invaders," an older woman living alone in a shack with no gas, electricty, or modern conveniences, finds herself fighting off the inhabitants of a spacecraft from another planet.  
Link:
Twilight Zone - The Invaders:https://www.paramountplus.com/shows/video/622077806/

Low Orbits 02: The Special One, The Outer Limits

In The Outer Limits' episode "The Special One," a father begins to suspect the motives of man who claims to be from a government program, sent to tutor their genius son.
Link:
The Outer Limits - The Special One:https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6kfw6z
 

Low Orbits 01: The Doomsday Machine, Star Trek

The USS Enterprise encounters the wrecked USS Constellation and its distraught commodore who's determined to stop the giant planet-destroying robot ship that killed his crew. 

Unknown Orbits One-year Anniversary Episode

52 episodes already? On this special anniversary episode, we make an attempt to define science fiction, reveal our favorite stories from the past year, and finish up with our favorite discoveries about the science fiction world. 

0050:City, by Clifford D. Simak

City by Clifford D. Simak is the story of the end of the city, the abandonment of Earth by humans, and the rising hegemony of Dogs. Then we talk about early genre publishing houses.

0049: Mimsy Were the Borogroves, by Lewis Padgett

Children find a mysterious box of future toys in Henry Kuttner's and C. L. Moore's Mimsy Were the Borogoves, which have unexpected properties. Then after hating the movie it was made into, we discuss other stories with powerful objects that were gifts from aliens or that travelled through time. 

0048: The Great Nebraska Sea, by Allan Danzig

The Great Nebraska Sea by Allan Danzig is a future history account of the greatest disaster to hit the United States, the forming of the Great Nebraska Sea. Millions die, but there are new opportunities for fishing and water skiing.

OO47: Exploration Team, by Murray Leinster

In Exploration Team by Murray Leinster, a squatter and government surveyer have to team up to travel across a dangerous world to look for survivors from an earlier settlement. Leinster also wrote several television novelizations, which leads us to a debate over what was the worst TV show or movie Irwin Allen ever produced.