{"podcast":{"title":"Golden Age Fiction","slug":"golden-age-fiction-7113362","podcast_index_feed_id":7113362,"rss_url":"https://feeds.redcircle.com/43f90e90-8c8e-40b4-9c4c-7d3d9ce904e3","website_url":"https://redcircle.com/shows/golden-age-fiction8846","image_url":"https://media.redcircle.com/images/2026/1/9/1/2032e917-8cdc-405f-be16-f8a9bea7af62_Podcast_Square_Artwork_v2.png","author":"Paul Lawley-Jones","episode_count":194,"summary":"Stories from the \"Golden Age of Pulp Fiction.\" The \"Golden Age of Pulp Fiction\" is generally considered to be from the last decade of the 1800s to the mid-1900s, when magazines published on cheap pulp paper filled (mostly American) news-stands. Notable examples of these pulp fiction magazines include Argosy, Blue Book Magazine, Adventure, Detective Story Magazine, Weird Tales, and Astounding Stories. If you have a story that you'd like me to perform, please let me know at goldenagefiction@proton.me. Please note that performance of a story is not a condoning, endorsement, or promotion of attitudes, prejudices, biases or opinions therein—particularly of gender and gender roles, ethnicity, disability, and sexuality—that an inhabitant of modern times would find distasteful.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-14T06:22:13.879331+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/golden-age-fiction-7113362"},"episode":{"title":"Farewell to the Master, by Harry Bates","slug":"farewell-to-the-master-by-harry-bates","published_at":"2026-08-16T22:00:27+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/golden-age-fiction-7113362/farewell-to-the-master-by-harry-bates","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/golden-age-fiction-7113362","url":"https://redcircle.com/shows/43f90e90-8c8e-40b4-9c4c-7d3d9ce904e3/episodes/a8a25daa-5fce-46e0-8c5e-947497b57a95","audio_url":"https://audio3.redcircle.com/episodes/a8a25daa-5fce-46e0-8c5e-947497b57a95/stream.mp3","summary":"The robot was harmless, in fact couldn't be moved in any way whatever—till a newsman stuck his nose in where it didn't belong! This novelette appeared in the October 1940 issue of \"Astounding Science Fiction\". ----- Hiram Gilmore \"Harry\" Bates III (October 9, 1900 – September 1981) was an American science fiction editor and writer. His short story \"Farewell to the Master\" (1940) was the basis of the science fiction movie “The Day the Earth Stood Still” (1951). In 1983, “The Day the Earth Stood Still” was inducted into the Science Fiction Film Hall of Fame as part of the Balrog Awards, which were given from 1979 to 1985. ----- If there's a story you'd like me to narrate, please let me know at goldenagefiction@proton.me . ----- Music : \"Mesmerizing Galaxy\" Kevin MacLeod ( incompetech.com ). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ .","meta_description":"The robot was harmless, in fact couldn't be moved in any way whatever—till a newsman stuck his nose in where it didn't belong! This novelette appeared in…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":6942,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/golden-age-fiction-7113362/episodes/farewell-to-the-master-by-harry-bates/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/golden-age-fiction-7113362/farewell-to-the-master-by-harry-bates.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}