About this episode

The episode discusses Millard Grimes' story 'Mimsy’s Joke', exploring themes of discovery and the unsettling implications of rewriting history.

Humanity finally reaches Mars expecting discovery, only to stumble into a revelation that quietly rewrites Earth’s entire history. What begins as triumph turns into a cosmic joke with unsettling implications no one is prepared to accept. Mimsy’s Joke by Millard Grimes. That’s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast. Millard Grimes was born in Newnan Georgia in 1930, began his long career in newspapers as a proofreader and copy boy when he was still a high school student. He attended the University of Georgia where he wrote for the student newspaper, The Red & Black all four years that he was a student, and served as editor of the then-daily newspaper in 1950. Over the next 50 years Millard Grimes bought and sold, launched and expanded more newspapers than most people have ever read. At one time or another he owned more than three dozen newspapers in Georgia and Alabama. He published one novel, The Last Linotype, which was released when he was 90 and only two years before his death. He won a Pulitzer Prize for Journalism as a member of the Columbus Ledger team for the newspaper’s coverage of corruption in Phenix City, Alabama in 1955. The previous year his only science fiction story…

People in this episode

Host: Scott Miller

Topics covered

• science fiction
• Mars exploration
• historical revelation
• cosmic implications
• journalism
• newspaper history

Keywords

• Mimsy’s Joke
• Millard Grimes
• Mars
• science fiction
• historical revelation
• Pulitzer Prize
• newspapers

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Columbus Ledger

Books & works: Mimsy’s Joke, The Last Linotype

Places: Georgia, Alabama, Mars

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