About this episode

The episode discusses Robert Sheckley's story 'The Sweeper of Loray', which explores the implications of a medical discovery on personal belief and identity.

A discovery that could rewrite medicine instead threatens to erase the man who reaches for it first. Now one decision must be made—protect the truth, or bury it forever to preserve a lifetime of belief. The Sweeper of Loray by Robert Sheckley. That’s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast. Robert Sheckley returns to the podcast with an unusual story from Galaxy magazine in April 1959 on page 120, The Sweeper of Loray by Robert Sheckley… Next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, She got exactly what she wanted—years without a single line, a face untouched by time, a voice that never faltered. But as everything around her changed, she faced a choice no mirror could answer: remain flawless or become whole again. The Mordant by Merab Eberle. 👉 💎 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 - https://lostscifi.com/youtube X - http://Lostscifi.com/x Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/lostscifiguy Bluesky - https://bsky.app/profile/lostscifipodcast.bsky.social 👕 Merchandise - https://lostscifi.creator-spring.com/…

People in this episode

Host: Scott Miller

Topics covered

• medicine
• decision making
• truth
• belief
• aging
• identity

Keywords

• Robert Sheckley
• The Sweeper of Loray
• medicine
• truth
• belief
• aging
• identity

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Galaxy magazine

Books & works: The Sweeper of Loray, The Mordant

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