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In the manner of a vintage-style comic book cover titled "Mars Invades Earth: The Death March!" from the 1955 series "Tales of the Fantastic." It depicts a young boy looking anxiously toward three menacing, insect-like alien creatures standing in a rocky canyon. The aliens have tall, armored bodies with multiple limbs and glowing eyes, carrying weapons. The scene is dramatic, with warm colors like orange and brown emphasizing the rugged terrain and tense atmosphere.

X Minus One – martian death march ep17, 550908

Posted by By tom August 25, 2026Posted inScience Fiction, X Minus OneNo Comments
A human boy confronts his father's prejudices as he joins spider-like Martians on their final trek from forced reservations toward freedom and their ancestral home.
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Booster rockets at the bottom of an Apollo, Saturn style rocket.

X Minus One – Shanghaied. ep16, 550901

Posted by By Keith July 26, 2025Posted inScience Fiction, X Minus One1 Comment
A bunch of the guys are enjoying a night out. As the party breaks up, Charlie is left to pay the bill, but when he has just one last drink…
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A cover illustration for the March 1955 issue of "Galaxy Science Fiction." It features an astronaut floating in space among various objects, including a ham, a plant, a bottle, and spacecraft. The background is a starry sky. The title "Death of the Sun" by Willy Ley is mentioned. The design combines elements of science fiction and surrealism, conveying a sense of adventure and mystery in outer space.

X Minus One – Courtesy. ep14, 550818

Posted by By Keith June 21, 2025Posted inScience Fiction, X Minus One
The story of the second expedition to a faraway planet. Only 2 are left of the original 180 men, and only minutes are left to live. In flashback, the story…
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Booster rockets at the bottom of an Apollo, Saturn style rocket.

X Minus One – Almost Human. ep13, 550811

Posted by By Keith June 7, 2025Posted inScience Fiction, X Minus One
Cybernetics, the study of robots and artificial intelligence, someday something like this may happen. A professor and his female assistant are visited by a rude man from her past. He…
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Booster rockets at the bottom of an Apollo, Saturn style rocket.

X Minus One – Junkyard. ep39, 560222

Posted by By Keith May 12, 2025Posted inScience Fiction, X Minus One
The planet seemed to be an underdeveloped backwater with no life on it. Then a junkyard was spotted. The exploratory spaceship took a chance, landed, but now is plagued with…
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Booster rockets at the bottom of an Apollo, Saturn style rocket.

X Minus One – Cave Of Night. ep36, 560201

Posted by By Keith April 14, 2025Posted inScience Fiction, X Minus One
Recounts a fictitious telling of the beginnings of Mars exploration. An astronaut is stranded in space. The nation gets behind the rescue project and contributes mass amounts of cash to…
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Booster rockets at the bottom of an Apollo, Saturn style rocket.

X Minus One – The Roads Must Roll. ep32, 560104

Posted by By Keith March 3, 2025Posted inScience Fiction, X Minus One
In the future, traffic has become so bogged down that engineers develop a rolling road. A cross-country conveyor belt that efficiently transports cargo without the trouble of collisions. The engineers…
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Booster rockets at the bottom of an Apollo, Saturn style rocket.

X -1 – A Logic Named Joe. ep31, 551228

Posted by By Keith February 15, 2025Posted inScience Fiction, X Minus One
Joe is a 1974 model logic, and this is the story of how Frank Caldwell saved civilization as we know it. Frank is a salesman who deals in logics. It's…
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Booster rockets at the bottom of an Apollo, Saturn style rocket.

X Minus One – Marionettes,Inc. ep30, 551221

Posted by By Keith May 21, 2024Posted inScience Fiction, X Minus One
In that far flung, futuristic year of 1990, a couple of businessmen meet in a bar after work to discuss their married life. How does Walter manage to maintain his…
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Booster rockets at the bottom of an Apollo, Saturn style rocket.

X Minus One – Nightfall. ep28, 551207

Posted by By Keith April 5, 2024Posted inScience Fiction, X Minus One
By Isaac Asimov. A planet on the far reaches of the universe has six suns, with At least two shining at any given time over the entire globe. A reporter…
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