Why is this space-faring craft addressed like a gentleman? Should we give the author of this episode's short story the same honorific? In 1953, Mr. Phil Dick wrote a pleasant little ditty about a very special spaceship — listen in and find out how this ship came to be "Mr." Spaceship. Tweet me @wetjosh to tell me your thoughts on the story.

With this episode, we jump ahead about 60 years from when our last story was written. Still well before what would be dubbed the Golden Age of Science Fiction, this story is a bit less sciencey, and a bit more fiction. Written by a woman, Leslie F. Stone, at a time when getting a story published as such was no small feat. She provides a unique perspective in this tale of future colonialism and forces the reader (or listener) to step outside status quo.

All good stories have an end. In this episode we check in on our friends above for the last time. We also randomly check in on an extinct species. Listen carefully to find out which one!

Welp...things didn't go quite as planned for Mr. Ingham and friends. Needless to say, construction came to an abrupt halt. Are there any survivors? Are we to ever know the fate of the premature world? Edward E. Hale answers these questions and more in the third installment of his story, The Brick Moon.

The plans are laid, the funds are secured (most of them anyway), and we've got some eager bricklayers just begging to get their hands dirty. In the second part of Edward E. Hale's, The Brick Moon, we will find out if the sucker gets built!

We begin with a story concerning the age old problem of the longitude. The solution proposed could prove to be "the blessing of all seamen...the second cynosure of all lovers upon the waves".