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Sales Pitch by Philip K. Dick - Author Philip K Dick Short Stories

Sales Pitch by Philip K. Dick - Author Philip K Dick Short Stories

FromThe Lost Sci-Fi Podcast - Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories


Sales Pitch by Philip K. Dick - Author Philip K Dick Short Stories

FromThe Lost Sci-Fi Podcast - Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories

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Length:
44 minutes
Released:
May 10, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

We’ve got new listeners around the globe in New Zealand, Portugal, Hungary, Poland the US, Canada and many other places around the world. Thank you for listening and for sharing The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast.You will find our short science fiction stories for sale on many websites but you will always find the lowest price on our website, lostscifi.com. Please visit Lostscifi.com and get your favorite vintage sci-fi for less.Today we once again hear the words from one of the greats in science fiction. A man whose work wasn’t appreciated enough when he was alive but is celebrated today, Philip K. Dick.Dick struggled with anxiety and drug addiction throughout much of his life. In 1982 he called his therapist and said he was going blind. He was told to go to the emergency room but instead he stayed home. He was found unconscious and suffered a stroke on the way to the hospital. When his family was told there was no brain activity, he was removed from life support. Philip K. Dick died March 2nd, 1982.This is the 3rd Philip K. Dick short sci-fi story we’ve featured on our podcast. In Episode 11 you’ll hear The Eyes Have It and Episode 1 contains The Hanging Stranger. Rest assured there will be more.Ed Morris didn’t know what sales technique was until the fasrad invaded his life…There are pushy salesmen and then there are PUSHY salesmen who refuse to give up… until they make the sale!Turn with me to page 71 in Future Science Fiction magazine in June 1954 for Sales Pitch by Philip K. Dick.Next week on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, From out beyond the second sun he came; a fugitive froma dead and sterile world ... seeking solace, friends, ahome, on Earth—a planet of even greater terrors…That’s next week on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast.Support the show
Released:
May 10, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Join us every week for a trip back in time to the early days of science fiction. Travel the solar system with aliens, robots and space pirates aboard space ships capable of travel beyond light-years to discover planets and people, conflicts and conundrums. Short science fiction stories from some of the greatest vintage sci-fi authors of all time, Philip K. Dick, Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, H. G. Wells, Harlan Ellison, Fritz Leiber, Alan E. Nourse,  Frederik Pohl, Kurt Vonnegut and many more.We’ll go back in time sixty to a hundred years, or more, when these amazing sci-fi short stories were written and very often find ourselves in the future. Narrator Scott Miller is your host for this journey through space and time.