Farewell to Fuzzies by Henry Hasse
6/7/202628 min
Stranded alone on a forgotten asteroid, Craig Wilson survives only because a colony of strange furry creatures refuses to abandon him. When rescue finally arrives, he discovers the real danger isn’t starvation but deciding how far he will go to protect the only friends he has left. Farewell to Fuzzies by Henry Hasse. That’s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast.
Henry Hasse return to the podcast with his first solo story. The only other story on the podcast so far by Henry Hasse was cowritten with Ray Bradbury, Final Victim, which was episode #172.
Discover today’s story in Astonishing Stories published in September 1941 on page 29, Farewell to Fuzzies by Henry Hasse…
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[gentle music] Stranded alone on a forgotten asteroid, Craig Wilson survives only because a colony of strange furry creatures refuses to abandon him. When rescue finally arrives, he discovers the real danger isn't starvation, but deciding how far he will go to protect the only friends he has left. Farewell to Fuzzies by Henry Hass, that's next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast. Henry Hass returns to the podcast with his first solo story. The only other story on the podcast so far by Hass was co-written with Ray Bradbury, Final Victim, a personal favorite of mine, which was episode number one hundred seventy-two. Discover today's story in Astonishing Stories, published in September nineteen forty-one on page twenty-nine. Farewell to Fuzzies by Henry Hass. Craig Wilson stood at the entrance of his portable iron shack and looked down the length of the narrow valley floor. On each side, perhaps fifty yards apart, the black serrated cliffs reached sheerly upward. Wilson's gaze swung up beyond the lip of the cliff and searched the blackness of space beyond,