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Homecoming by Miguel Hidalgo - 1950s Science Fiction Short Stories

Published: March 19, 2024, 7:39 p.m.

What lasts forever? Does love? Does death?... Nothing lasts forever.... Not even forever Homecoming by Miguel Hidalgo, that\u2019s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast.

When I discovered this story I knew I had to narrate it, and that was before I discovered that it was written by a 15 year old descendant of Simon Bolivar, the Liberator of America. Bolivar led what are currently the countries of Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Panama and Bolivia to independence from the Spanish Empire.

Homecoming appeared in If Worlds of Science Fiction magazine and they had this to say, \u201cIt\u2019s a story that might have come from one of America\u2019s more mature and experienced writers. Our assumption at first was that it did. But we were wrong. It\u2019s a \u201cfirst published\u201d story (in America) by a young man named Miguel Hidalgo who is all of 15 years old. At first we didn't believe it, but it was confirmed and we found ourselves with not only a \u201cfirst\u201d but one that was written by the youngest writer (to our knowledge) ever to break into science fiction.\u201d

Born in Caracas, Venezuela, Miguel came to the United States, in a basket, at the age of two months. Began writing poetry at the age of five and before he was ten he had published numerous short stories as well as poetry. He traveled the world with his mother, who was one of the first women diplomats from Venezuela to the United States. How\u2019s that for a bio.

This story, and others like it, is the reason we created The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, to share with the world a story that has been forgotten. An undiscovered gem.

From If Worlds of Science Fiction in April 1958, discover this forgotten treasure on page 59, Homecoming by Miguel Hidalgo\u2026

Next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, Introducing that modest little superman, that shrinking violet of destiny, Ajax Calkins, and a world where you had to hop, in some way, to get where you wanted to go! Pogo Planet by Donald A. Wollheim

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