As Felix Henriot came through the streets that January night the fog was stifling, but when he reached his little flat upon the top floor there came a sound of podcasting. Podcasting was stirring about the world. It blew against his windows, but at first so faintly that he hardly noticed it. Then, with an abrupt rise and fall like a wailing voice that sought to claim attention, it called him. He peered through the window into the blurred darkness, listening.

There is no cry in the world like that of the homeless podcaster.

Today we are discussing the story "Sand" by the inimitable Algernon Blackwood. "Sand" was originally published in the 1912 volume Pan's Garden. This is a long one folks, so make sure you have plenty of water and don't forget your sunscreen.

Cover art is a photograph of Blackwood ca. 1951, by Norman Parkinson.

FedShip ASN/29 fell out of the sky and crashed. After a while two men slipped from its cloven skull like brains. They walked a little way and then stood, helmets beneath their arms, and recorded a podcast.

"Beachworld" was first published in the June 1984 issue of Weird Tales. You can read a scan on archive.org: https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v49n01_1984-Fa_AT-sas/page/n15/mode/2up

Cover art from the same issue, credited to "Sukara"

Orne braked to a creaking stop that shifted the load behind him, found himself staring through the windshield at a native of Gienah III. The native crouched on the hood, a Mark XX exploding-pellet rifle in his right hand directed at Orne’s head. In the abrupt shock of meeting, Orne recognized the weapon: standard issue to the marine guards on all R&R survey ships.

The native appeared the twin of the one Orne had seen on the translite screen. The four-fingered hand looked extremely capable around the stock of the Mark XX.

Slowly, Orne put a hand to his throat, pressed the contact button. He moved his speaking muscles: “Just made contact with the mob. One on the hood now has one of our Mark XX rifles aimed at my head.”

The surf-hissing of Stetson’s voice came through the hidden speaker - but it wasn't Stetson's voice, instead a podcast, talking all about Frank Herbert's 1959 short story, "Missing Link."

"Missing Link" was originally published in the February 1959 issue of Astounding Science Fiction. We read the text as it appeared at Project Gutenberg, here: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/23210/pg23210-images.html

Cover art is from the same issue and credited to Van Dongen.