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Ripped by an asteroid stray, the space-ship drifted helplessly \\u2026 until suddenly, across the shuddering deeps, a strange voice called to her. Runaway by Alfred Coppel, that\\u2019s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast.

Alfred Coppel has been on the podcast before, with The First Man on the Moon, Wreck Off Titan and The Flight of the Eagle. Every one of them a story set in space and today\\u2019s offering is more of the same, with a twist.

In 1949 United States Secretary of State Dean Acheson signed the North Atlantic Treaty otherwise known as NATO and the Cold War entered a dangerous new chapter when the Soviet Union became the second country to develop the atomic bomb. Gasoline cost 26 cents a gallon, Bread 14 cents a loaf and a gallon of Milk would set you back 84 cents. And the Spring 1949 issue of Planet Stories magazine contained stories by Henry Hasse, Ray Bradbury, Damon Knight and on page 31, Runaway by Alfred Coppel\\u2026

Next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, The essential requirements of a first-class triggerman are two: that he know how to pull the trigger\\u2013and when not to! By J. F. Bone

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