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An expedition returns from the Third Planet to find a familiar world has become a battlefield.

An expedition returns from the Third Planet with its numbers broken and its confidence shaken. What was once a routine operation has turned into something far more dangerous, and the surviving officer must explain how a familiar world became a battlefield without warning. This Means War! by A. Bertram Chandler. That’s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast. If you are a Lost Sci-Fi Premium member we have two episodes for you today. Premium members get every episode with no commercials in addition to at least 4 bonus episodes every month all for less than 17 cents a day.  Ben Bova wrote our bonus episode available now on Lost Sci-Fi Premium and for a limited time you can get a 30 day free trial. There’s a link in the description. 👉 💎 Lost Sci-Fi Premium - https://lostscifi.supercast.com/ The world was at war when A. Bertram Chandler released his very first story in the May 1944 issue of Astounding Science Fiction on page 29, This Means War! by A. Bertram Chandler… Next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, A machine older than recorded history hums in the darkness of Titan, and the longer humanity studies it, the more it begins to feel watched. When the final pattern snaps into focus, the…

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Host: Scott Miller

Topics covered

• war
• expedition
• science fiction
• battlefield
• humanity
• Titan

Keywords

• A. Bertram Chandler
• This Means War!
• science fiction
• expedition
• Titan
• war

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Books & works: This Means War!, Astounding Science Fiction, Towers of Titan

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