X Minus One: Surface Tension (August 28, 1956) Audiobook By James Blish, George Lefferts - adaptation cover art

X Minus One: Surface Tension (August 28, 1956)

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X Minus One: Surface Tension (August 28, 1956)

By: James Blish, George Lefferts - adaptation
Narrated by: Fred Collins
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X Minus One premiered in April 1955 on NBC and ran until January 1958. Like its predecessor series, Dimension X, X Minus One featured stories by the greatest names in modern science fiction: Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein, Clifford Simak, Robert Bloch, and many more.

Public Domain (P)2012 BN Publishing Science Fiction Fiction

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I have fond memories of the original short story by James Blish... so I was very disappointed that this shares very little with the original story beyond the basic concept and a few character names. The big mystery of the short story isn't a mystery at all in this, and the location is completely changed, in a way that doesn't really make any sense, culminating in an example of that oddity of '50s sci-fi, the "science inspires faith" story.

Disappointingly changed from the original story

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