{"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":178,"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":"2026-06-15T04:19:16.531003+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/golden-age-fiction-7113362"},"episode":{"title":"The Laugh, by Robert Abernathy","slug":"the-laugh-by-robert-abernathy","published_at":"2026-04-05T22:00:04+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/golden-age-fiction-7113362/the-laugh-by-robert-abernathy","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/golden-age-fiction-7113362","url":"https://redcircle.com/shows/43f90e90-8c8e-40b4-9c4c-7d3d9ce904e3/episodes/837fde39-5ca0-4826-8806-6e834e3bfefd","audio_url":"https://audio3.redcircle.com/episodes/837fde39-5ca0-4826-8806-6e834e3bfefd/stream.mp3","summary":"To Dicky, grownups were absurdly like ants. They worked hard for no good purpose. But some day a big, big change would be coming! The Laugh, by Robert Abernathy appeared in the June 1956 issue of \"Fantastic Universe\" on pages 73 to 79. ----- Robert Abernathy (June 6, 1924 – April 6, 1990) was an American science fiction author during the 1940s and 1950s. He was known primarily for his short stories which were published in many of the pulp magazines that flourished during the Golden Age of Science Fiction. ----- If there's a story you'd like me to narrate, or a genre you'd like me to include more of, 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":"To Dicky, grownups were absurdly like ants. They worked hard for no good purpose. But some day a big, big change would be coming! The Laugh, by Robert Abe…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1268,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/golden-age-fiction-7113362/episodes/the-laugh-by-robert-abernathy/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/the-laugh-by-robert-abernathy.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}