About this episode

A taxi driver becomes feared as passengers vanish from his cab, leading to a chaotic investigation.

A taxi driver becomes the most feared man in the city when passengers keep vanishing from his cab, leaving behind only watches, coins, and scattered pieces of metal. While police hunt a murderer and reporters invent a monster, the real danger sits quietly in a retired tinkerer’s workshop. The Middle Of The Week After Next by Murray Leinster. That’s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast. You might call today’s story offbeat, absurdist, chaotic, inventive and downright hysterical. First published in Thrilling Wonder Stories in August 1952 on page 71, The Middle Of The Week After Next by Murray Leinster… Next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, A dead man chooses what looks like the safest punishment in hell, convinced he understands the trap better than everyone before him. But as endless time passes in silence and fog, one terrible question begins to grow: what if the suffering only ends for those willing to keep going? What A Man Believes by Robert Sheckley. 👉 💎 Lost Sci-Fi Premium - https://lostscifi.supercast.com/ ☕ Buy Me a Coffee - https://lostscifi.com/coffee =========================== 🎧 Newsletter - https://lostscifi.com/free/ Facebook - https://lostscifi.com/facebook YouTube…

People in this episode

Host: Scott Miller

Topics covered

• absurdist fiction
• mystery
• sci-fi
• vanishing
• tinkering
• chaotic narrative

Keywords

• Murray Leinster
• vanishing passengers
• taxi driver
• sci-fi stories
• mystery
• absurdist

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Middle Of The Week After Next, Thrilling Wonder Stories, What A Man Believes

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