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X Minus One

The Category Inventor (Dramatized)

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About this listen

 When machines are doing all the work, how do you find a job? You invent one! This episode of X Minus One originally aired on June 27, 1957.

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, Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, Clifford Simak, Robert Bloch, and many more.

Future past: hear more classic science-fiction dramatizations.©2006 Radio Spirits Inc. (P)2006 Radio Spirits Inc. Fantasy Science Fiction

Critic reviews

"[X Minus One] brought current SF to radio, providing adaptations of many excellent new stories and thus allowing the public to appreciate the best science fiction available at the time." (Michael Ashley, The Time Machines: The Story of the Science-Fiction Pulp Magazines)
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Classic sci-fi in the vein of The Twilight Zone and a good story. Great fun. Enjoy it

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Absolutely Awful performance and story. I was only chatting to Alexa when somehow I purchased this awful book.

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