# Testing by Sam Merwin Jr.

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Podcast: [The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast - Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-lost-sci-fi-podcast-vintage-sci-fi-short-stories-5315368)
Published: 2026-05-15T01:57:28+00:00
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A routine military assignment drops Hannibal Pryor onto a forgotten world where the people have built a life no crowded empire could understand. With a planet-killing weapon already on its way, Pryor must decide whether duty still matters when the price is an entire civilization. Testing by Sam Merwin Jr. That’s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast. Yesterday The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast became the #1 science fiction podcast in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The 36th country where we hit #1. Today we moved to the top of the charts in Brazil! That’s country #37! Thank you to our new and long time listeners in Brazil, and all of you around the world for everything you do to support us. We enjoy narrating stories by Sam Merwin Jr., so he’s back, with a story from March 1956. Published on page 110 in Fantastic Universe Magazine, Testing by Sam Merwin Jr.… Next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, The last great city on Earth lives for one purpose: building whatever forgotten machines can still be reconstructed from the ruins of a dead world. When a Research Builder uncovers a mysterious diagram unlike anything ever found before, one reckless decision threatens to repeat the catastrophe that destroyed civilization the first time. The Builders by Fox B. Holden. 👉 💎 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/ =========================== ❤️ ❤️ Thanks to Our Listeners Who Bought Us a Coffee $200 Someon…

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