Episode 36: "The Vanishing Venusians" (1945) by Leigh Brackett

Harker slept. Presently he began to moan and twitch, and then cry out. People around him woke up. They watched with interest. Harker was a lone wolf awake, ill-tempered and violent. When, at long intervals, he would have one of his spells, no one was anxious to help him out of it. They liked peeping inside of Harker when he wasn't looking.

Harker didn't care. He was playing in the snow again. He was seven years old, and he was listening to a podcast.

Before you vanish, perhaps you will take it upon yourself to listen to this episode of Reply by Ansible, in which we discuss the 1945 short story "The Vanishing Venusians" by sci-fi superstar Leigh Brackett, originally published in Planet Stories. Cover art from the illustrations accompanying the story, credited to the mononymous CRANK.

Read the scanned version of the original issue on archive.org here: https://archive.org/details/Planet_Stories_v02n10_1945-Sp_sas/page/n25/mode/2up?view=theater , or read the clean-text version as it appeared on Project Gutenberg here: https://archive.org/details/Planet_Stories_v02n10_1945-Sp_sas/page/n25/mode/2up?view=theater