Science fiction classics

Science fiction classics / Radio Spirits.— Cedar Knolls, NJ : Radio Spirits, 2004.

10 sound discs (10 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (32 p. : ill. ports. ; 12 cm.)

(Legends of Radio)

Contents: Dimension X (6-24-50): Destination Moon / Robert A. Heinlein -- Dimension X (6-17-51): Pebble In The Sky / Isaac Asimov -- Lux Radio Theatre (1-4-54): The Day The Earth Stood Still / Harry Bates -- Shadow (2-29-48): The Man Who Was Death / Alfred Bester -- Dimension X (05-13-50): Almost Human / Robert Bloch -- X-Minus One (2-5-56): There Will Come Soft Rains ; Zero Hour / Ray Bradbury -- Quiet Please (11-07-48): Adam And The Darkest Day / Wyllis Cooper -- X-Minus One (3-7-56): Gun For Dinosaur / L. Sprague De Camp -- X-Minus One (10-10-56): Colony / Philip K. Dick -- Exploring tomorrow (1958): Speak no more / Gordon R. Dickson -- CBS Radio Workshop (7-21-57): Green hills of earth / Robert A. Heinlein -- X-Minus One (3-28-56): Pail of air / Fritz Leiber -- Lights Out (2-16-43): Oxychloride X / Arch Oboler -- X-Minus One (3-6-57): Seventh victim / Robert Sheckley -- Exploring Tomorrow (3-58): No way out / Robert Silverberg -- X-Minus One (2-22-56): Junkyard / Clifford D. Simak -- X-Minus One (7-3-56): Mr. Costello, Hero / Theodore Sturgeon -- Lux Radio Theatre (2-8-55): War of the worlds / H.G. Wells – Science fiction classics (booklet) / by Anthony Tollin.

ISBN: 1570196966

1. Science fiction radio programs—United States.

791.4475

This is an impressive compilation of American science fiction radio programs from the 1950s. Three of them, “Destination Moon,” “The Day the Earth Stood Still,” and The War of the Worlds,” are adaptations of the motion pictures of the same title and vintage, but of most of them are adaptations of the stories of prominent authors of the time: Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, Alfred Bester, Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury, L. Sprague De Camp, Philip K. Dick, Gordon R. Dickson, Fritz Leiber, Clifford D. Simak, Robert Silverberg, and Theodore Sturgeon. There are also a few written originally for radio. An excellent accompanying booklet explains the emergence of the genre and then a program-by-program profile of the authors, with their portraits and a cast list.