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The Welcome back everyone to one thousand one classic short stories and tales.

This is your host, John Haggardorn, and I have a real treat for you today. And that is a Ray Bradbury story in the public domain. Today it's titled Frost and Fire, but its public domain version is called The Creatures that Time Forgot. It was first published in Planet Stories, fall of 1946. The story is about short-lived humans on a planet similar to Mercury.

The people were placed there by a past rocket ship that crashed. The people of the storied land

are within sight of another rocket ship on a distant mountain plateau. The plot follows Sim,

the protagonist of this story, and his apparently short life on a planet where people are cursed by radiation to live only eight days.

The people of this planet are also gifted with racial memory.

They remember their ancestors' memories.

However, they do not attempt to reach the sole remaining rocket ship due to the futility of attempting to reach it in one hour,

which is the longest length of time between day and night. It was made into an independent short

film called Quest, directed by Elaine and Saul Bass, and was released in 1983. Just this year,

it was announced that live action feature film

adaptation is in the works with a screenplay written by Doug Simon it's a great

great story it's in two parts and I think you'll enjoy it and now our story the

creatures that time forgot by Ray Bradbury.

Oh, and one special message.

I don't often include mispronunciations or bloopers,

but I've got a huge one at the end of part one here that I think you'll all appreciate,

so don't miss it.

Mad, Impossible World, sunblasted by day, cold racked by night, and life condensed

by radiation into eight days.

Sim eyed the ship, if he only dared reach it and escape, but it was more than half an hour

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