{"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":"Idol's Eye, by Carol Emshwiller","slug":"idol-s-eye-by-carol-emshwiller","published_at":"2026-08-23T22:00:07+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/golden-age-fiction-7113362/idol-s-eye-by-carol-emshwiller","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/golden-age-fiction-7113362","url":"https://redcircle.com/shows/43f90e90-8c8e-40b4-9c4c-7d3d9ce904e3/episodes/d423119f-7512-41bf-8556-3aa88e3a7ef1","audio_url":"https://audio3.redcircle.com/episodes/d423119f-7512-41bf-8556-3aa88e3a7ef1/stream.mp3","summary":"Who’d have dreamed the destiny awaiting Philippa? This short story appeared in the February 1958 issue of Future Science Fiction. ----- Carol Emshwiller (born Agnes Carolyn Fries in Ann Arbor, Michigan, April 12, 1921 – February 2, 2019) was an American writer of avant-garde short stories and science fiction who won prizes for her work including the Nebula Award to the Philip K. Dick Award. Ursula K. Le Guin has called her \"a major fabulist, a marvelous magical realist, one of the strongest, most complex, most consistently feminist voices in fiction.\" Among her novels are Carmen Dog and The Mount. Her last novel, The Secret City, was published in April 2007. ----- 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":"Who’d have dreamed the destiny awaiting Philippa? This short story appeared in the February 1958 issue of Future Science Fiction. ----- Carol Emshwiller (…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":966,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/golden-age-fiction-7113362/episodes/idol-s-eye-by-carol-emshwiller/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/idol-s-eye-by-carol-emshwiller.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}