Colony by Philip K. Dick - X Minus One (A Tale of Alien Mimicry)

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  • Опубліковано 21 лис 2024

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  • @derekaduncan
    @derekaduncan 5 років тому +25

    Without SyFy, I would be living in another boring dimension. This channel has to be the best channel delivers the old school science fiction stories for the Baby Boomers Generation. I remembered some of these great old SyFy stories I read as a kid. Great job, New Thinkable for the postings.

    • @Eidolon1andOnly
      @Eidolon1andOnly 3 роки тому +3

      SyFy is the name of a cable TV station, not an abbreviation for science fiction, which would be _sci-fi._

    • @darrelneidiffer6777
      @darrelneidiffer6777 4 місяці тому

      ​@@Eidolon1andOnlyunoitall ZZZ😮

  • @faithcastillo9597
    @faithcastillo9597 4 роки тому +8

    What a chilling ending. Had to listen to it twice.

  • @colemarie9262
    @colemarie9262 4 роки тому +5

    Only thing better than these uploads are the old school magazine covers....
    It's only thanks to a handful of small channels on youtube that I've found the awesome cover art on publications like Amazing Stories and Wierd Tales. I really love the old school sci fi/horror pulp illustrations.

  • @ufosrus
    @ufosrus 5 років тому +7

    Love these sci fi radio dramatizations. Thank you for downloading them.

  • @daziza76
    @daziza76 6 років тому +25

    Brilliant! Thank you very much for sharing, I have been looking for a channel like this. Who the HELL❗ gave this a thumbs down?

  • @RedcoatsReturn
    @RedcoatsReturn 7 років тому +21

    The bio-check with drones and testing against gene banks are just a few details which make this a very ahead of its time story, written all those years.

  • @scottuehlinger7887
    @scottuehlinger7887 4 роки тому +8

    Surprised to hear that the Captain of the ship is a Woman! Cutting edge in 1957

  • @davidrowcliffe58
    @davidrowcliffe58 4 роки тому +7

    A story by a guy called Dick, the communications officer is called Wood and at the first sign of trouble they all get naked

  • @babalon7778
    @babalon7778 4 роки тому +8

    I wonder if this is where the idea for Odo on Deep Space 9 came from, he can imitate the bucket he sleeps in.

    • @elizdonovan5650
      @elizdonovan5650 4 роки тому

      I did not know he slept in a bucket! Are you sure? Stay safe. 🖖
      🌲🌝☘️

    • @Nickelodeon81
      @Nickelodeon81 3 роки тому

      @@elizdonovan5650 Quark tried to sell him a replacement made from Latinum 😅

  • @glennsimmons1589
    @glennsimmons1589 4 роки тому +4

    I don’t know why a cover of Planet Stories is featured here. This story was published in Galaxy. I know because I own it.

  • @Ryan_H22
    @Ryan_H22 3 роки тому

    Just heard this on Radio Classics on SirusXM today and had to find it again to hear it all. I missed part when the signal dropped. Thanks for uploading this!

  • @TheShaunksread
    @TheShaunksread 7 років тому +10

    wow, we had such hopes for the science of the near future only to find the reality has turned out to be a long, long, long time to even get to where we are now in 2017 with the shuttles over and maybe the ISS is the biggest thing in space today, Planet Blue is going to take longer than they imagined in the late 1950's.

  • @Melvinshermen
    @Melvinshermen 5 років тому +3

    Some need to make this into a movie

    • @craigmartyn1279
      @craigmartyn1279 5 років тому +2

      Check out 'Screamers', this same idea was expanded by PK Dick in to screamers, later made into a movie.

    • @glennsimmons1589
      @glennsimmons1589 4 роки тому +1

      Second Variety is the story.

    • @Melvinshermen
      @Melvinshermen Рік тому

      @@craigmartyn1279yeah but that is second variety

  • @adrianwickop1793
    @adrianwickop1793 7 років тому +11

    last night was liqour ration lol

  • @anamariab2956
    @anamariab2956 Рік тому +1

    Well, the humans did plan to exterminate this life form native to the planet... so they got killed instead. Divine justice. Philip K. Dick never disappoints.

  • @dbsommers1
    @dbsommers1 3 роки тому +2

    Dick was a great storyteller.

  • @philiphobbs198
    @philiphobbs198 11 місяців тому +1

    8❤

  • @0therun1t21
    @0therun1t21 3 роки тому

    I love all the haughty women in these and on the magazine covers.
    I really hate the ending of this one but I guess it was the only option that was suitable. There's an episode of Space Dandy like this, I'll have to re-watxh that!

  • @robbiereilly
    @robbiereilly 5 років тому +5

    Glad to see you didn't cut the opening off this one. Why does New Thinkables cut some of these? On Universe by Robert Heinlein, you chopped off the whole X Minus One opening.

    • @shanefinn1388
      @shanefinn1388 5 років тому +3

      Robbie R. Esq. I enjoy the advertisements before an sometimes after the story

    • @travershuff5764
      @travershuff5764 4 роки тому

      They don't care. They're just a bunch of capitalists.

  • @greenspringvalley
    @greenspringvalley 2 роки тому

    The voice that introduced the book should have read the rest of it. The rest was read by a deep bass voice that you never encounter in real life. These deep bass voices all sound like Bane.

  • @chernobylFarms
    @chernobylFarms 3 роки тому

    If the driving premise of offworld colonization is to relieve crowding on Sol III...no problemo. Carry on.

  • @NedSonntag
    @NedSonntag 2 роки тому +1

    Whoa PKD made it onto X Minus One back in the Beatnik Era~ edgy narrative indeed...

  • @sebastianmelmoth9100
    @sebastianmelmoth9100 3 роки тому

    I minored in spaciomathematics at Mars State University.

  • @unknownorigin7433
    @unknownorigin7433 3 роки тому +1

    "no pornography either!"

  • @stevesyncox9893
    @stevesyncox9893 3 роки тому +1

    Feb 12

  • @lukedewoody801
    @lukedewoody801 4 роки тому +1

    What are the stories called that are like this would have multiple voice actors can someone Fill Me In.?

    • @jeffreys2086
      @jeffreys2086 4 роки тому +1

      radio stories

    • @spacecadet3225
      @spacecadet3225 4 роки тому +3

      They have a few different names, but they're mainly referred to as either "radio dramas" (more specifically, stories made to air on the radio like this one, tend to be older) or "audio dramas" (not specific to radio, can be more long form, tend to be newer).
      If you're interested in this format, Audible has a great audio drama of Brom Stoker's Dracula that features Tim Curry and Alan Cumming as two of the voice actors. I listened to it last month and absolutely loved it. If you like the radio stuff more BBC has an amazing library to check out as well, they've been doing this sort of thing for decades. (I actually just listened to a BBC radio adaption of Shadow Over Innsmouth by H.G. Lovecraft here on youtube).
      Hope this helps!

    • @anandsharma7430
      @anandsharma7430 3 роки тому +1

      @@jeffreys2086 So these are free from copyright issues, they were broadcasted after all, correct?

    • @jeffreys2086
      @jeffreys2086 3 роки тому

      @@anandsharma7430 yes as a public broadcast it is covered under the fair use act

    • @anandsharma7430
      @anandsharma7430 3 роки тому

      @@jeffreys2086 thanks

  • @TheBlackDogChronicles
    @TheBlackDogChronicles 4 роки тому

    Does story actually end at the story's conclusion? It seems to just come to a halt.

    • @Mr22thou
      @Mr22thou 4 роки тому +7

      That's the ending. Did you miss the twist?

    • @crazierthan-u7571
      @crazierthan-u7571 4 роки тому

      I'm not sure I understand the ending. How did the organism make it back with the research team without being seen?

    • @spacecadet3225
      @spacecadet3225 4 роки тому +9

      @@crazierthan-u7571 the original ship that they all got into naked was actually the organism, not the real ship (this is implied towards the end when one of the characters remarks that not only did the ship come early, but made no noticable sound when landing either). Since the second, real ship didn't find anyone on the planet when they landed, it can be inferred that the fake organism ship killed everyone once they got inside it.

    • @crazierthan-u7571
      @crazierthan-u7571 4 роки тому +2

      @@spacecadet3225
      Okay, thanks. That's what I sort of inferred. I must have nodded off because I missed some stuff.

  • @13thBear
    @13thBear 2 роки тому

    Very silly story, unworthy of a great talent. A protoplasm that animates inanimate objects, mimics objects it has never observed such as the ending implies and kills without motive.

  • @feralbluee
    @feralbluee 3 місяці тому

    Dear Philip - i love your scifi stories and books, i really do, but this one is too funny, although enjoyable :) 🌷🌱
    this will totally bore everyone into scifi. biology, as a science of course, covers multiple complex studies. you can’t possibly have one scientist looking into a Jupiter-sized inquiry. there’s zoology and botany. each one of those covers, of course, an incredible amount of information. you’d need at least a microbiologist, a botanist, a medical disease specialist, a number of zoologists for ocean life, reptiles, mammals, birds, insects. . . you’d need geologists, meteorologists, and i can’t think what else.
    a science person can’t help but find one biologist on this kind of expedition hilarious, much less being on a schedule?? it’d take a year to make sure earth life was sustainable. so this story is sort of like a fairy tale - a good one, but totally unbelievable. 😋🤣 🦠🍄‍🟫⛈️🌪️☀️🌵🌲🌱🌸🌾🐁🦆🐒🦇🦉🐝🪲🕷️🐌🪲🦎🐙🪼🐠🐬🦭🐊🐘🐅🦏🐪🦘🐄🐖🐕🐈🐓🦤🦝🫏🦘🦧🌋🌅🌷🌱

    • @johnbartolomei73kk29
      @johnbartolomei73kk29 9 днів тому

      You must have not listened well they are using the Robo-Site technique which as yet to be invented but functions much like starlink with a lidar radar component.