Five Sci-Fi Short Stories by H. Beam Piper audiobook
H. Beam PIPER (1904 – 1964)
Five short stories by classic science fiction writer H. Beam Piper audiobook
Genre(s): Science Fiction, Short Stories
Language: English (FULL Audiobook)
Category: Science Fiction
The Aliens audiobook
Murray LEINSTER (1896 – 1975)
The human race was expanding through the galaxy … and so, they knew, were the Aliens. When two expanding empires meet … war is inevitable. Or is it …? (Summary from Gutenberg text)
Genre(s): Science Fiction
Language: English (FULL Audiobook)
The Island of Dr. Moreau audiobook
H. G. WELLS (1866 - 1946)
The Island of Doctor Moreau is an 1896 science fiction novel written by H. G. Wells, addressing ideas of society and community, human nature and identity, religion, Darwinism, and eugenics.
When the novel was written in the late 19th century, England's scientific community was engulfed by debates on animal vivisection. Interest groups were even formed to tackle the issue: the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection was formed Read more [...]
The Time Machine audiobook
H. G. WELLS (1866 - 1946)
H.G. Wells' classic science fiction-fantasy story, in which a scientist known only as "The Time Traveller" tells the tale of his journey to the year 802,701 A.D. and beyond, where he witnesses the end of human civilization as we know it, as well as the beginning of the end of the world. This original time-travel story has been copied many times, but never improved upon. (Summary by Mark Nelson)
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Hunters Out of Space audiobook
by Joseph E. Kelleam (1913-1975)
Originally published in the May, 1960 issue of Amazing Science Fiction Stories. Jack Odin has returned to the world of Opal, the world inside our own world, only to find it in ruins. Many of his friends are gone, the world is flooded, and the woman he swore to protect has been taken by Grim Hagen to the stars. Jack must save her, but the difficulties are great and his allies are few. (Summary by Elliott Miller)
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After London, or Wild England audioboo
by Richard Jefferies (1848 - 1887)
Jefferies' novel can be seen as an early example of "post-apocalyptic fiction." After some sudden and unspecified catastrophe has depopulated England, the countryside reverts to nature, and the few survivors to a quasi-medieval way of life.
The first part of the book, "The Relapse into Barbarism", is the account by some later historian of the fall of civilisation and its consequences, with a loving description of nature Read more [...]
Short Science Fiction Collections audiobook
A Crystal Age audiobook
by William Henry Hudson (1841-1922)
A Crystal Age is a utopian novel written by W. H. Hudson, first published in 1887. The book has been called a "significant S-F milestone" and has been noted for its anticipation of the "modern ecological mysticism" that would evolve a century later. (Summary by Wikipedia)
A Crystal Age
1906 Edition
Author
W. H. Hudson
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Genre
Utopian fiction
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Planet of the Damned audiobook
by Harry Harrison (b. 1925)
Once in a generation, a man is born with a heightened sense of empathy. Brion Brandd used this gift to win the Twenties, an annual physical and mental competition among the best and smartest people on Anvhar. But scarcely able to enjoy his victory, Brandd is swept off to the hellish planet Dis where he must use his heightened sense of empathy to help avert a global nuclear holocaust by negotiating with the blockading fleet, traversing Read more [...]
The Ethical Engineer audiobook
by Harry Harrison (1925-2012)
The Ethical Engineer also known as Deathworld II finds our hero Jason dinAlt captured to face justice for his crimes, but the ever-wily gambler crashes his transport on a primitive planet populated by clans that hoard knowledge. It's a difficult situation for a guy who just wants to get back to Pyrrus. -- The Ethical Engineer was first published in the July and August 1963 issues of Analog Science Fact & Fiction.
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Deathworld audiobook
by Harry Harrison (1925- )
Harry Harrison (1925 -- ) is best known for his Stainless Steel Rat stories and the novel Make Room! Make Room! which was adapted for film as Soylent Green. Deathworld is the first in a series of novels begun in 1960 and originally serialized in Astounding Science Fiction Magazine. It's the story of Jason dinAlt a professional gambler with psionic skills who finds himself on Pyrrus the deadliest planet to be colonized by humanity. Violent weather, Read more [...]
The City at World’s End audiobook
by Edmond Hamilton (1904 – 1977)
A surprise nuclear war may cause the End of the World, but not the way anyone could have imagined. A classic science fiction tale from Galaxy Magazine. (Summary by Mark Nelson)
Space Prison audiobook
by Tom Godwin (1915-1980)
AFTER TWO CENTURIES....The sound came swiftly nearer, rising in pitch and swelling in volume. Then it broke through the clouds, tall and black and beautifully deadly — the Gern battle cruiser, come to seek them out and destroy them. Humbolt dropped inside the stockade, exulting. For two hundred years his people had been waiting for the chance to fight the mighty Gern Empire ... with bows and arrows against blasters and bombs! (Summary from the Read more [...]
Herland audiobook
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)
Herland is a utopian novel from 1915, written by feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The book describes an isolated society comprised entirely of Aryan women who reproduce via parthenogenesis (asexual reproduction). The result is an ideal social order, free of war, conflict and domination. It first appeared as a serial in Perkin's monthly magazine Forerunner. (Summary from Wikipedia)
Herland
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That Sweet Little Old Lady audiobook
by Randall Garrett (1927-1987)
Randall Garrett had this story first published in Astounding Science Fiction September and October of 1959. His twisted sense of humor and gift for the bizarre situation with believable characters shines here. In the not too distant future, Ken Malone, young but promising FBI agent , is given the most important and difficult assignment of his career: find a spy who is stealing information from the Ultra Top Absolute Secret project Read more [...]
Anything You Can Do... audiobook
by Randall Garrett (1927-1987)
An alien crash lands on Earth, and for ten years terrorizes the planet, hiding, periodically killing and eating people and stealing materials for some unknown purpose. The only hope is Bart Stanton, a medically-engineered superman, designed for the sole purpose of confronting the "Nipe". (Summary by Mark Nelson)
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The Planet Strappers audiobook
by Raymond Z. Gallun (1911-1994)
The Planet Strappers started out as The Bunch, a group of student-astronauts in the back room of a store in Jarviston, Minnesota. They wanted off Earth, and they begged, borrowed and built what they needed to make it. They got what they wanted--a start on the road to the stars--but no one brought up on Earth could have imagined what was waiting for them Out There!
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D-99 audiobook
by H.B. Fyfe (1918-1997)
Five citizens of Terra were being held on other worlds — and the ultra-secret Department 99 existed only to set them, and others like them, free.
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Rebels of the Red Planet audiobook
by Charles L. Fontenay
Dark Kensington had been dead for twenty-five years. It was a fact; everyone knew it. Then suddenly he reappeared, youthful, brilliant, ready to take over the Phoenix, the rebel group that worked to overthrow the tyranny that gripped the settlers on Mars.
The Phoenix had been destroyed not once, not twice, but three times! But this time the resurrected Dark had new plans, plans which involved dangerous experiments in mutation and psionics.
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Omega: The Last Days of the World audiobook
by Camille Flammarion (1842-1925)
Omega: The Last Days of the World is a science fiction novel by astronomer Camille Flammarion. On 25th century Earth, a comet is on a path to collide with the Earth ending it all. Astronomers predict different scenarios as to how they will all die depending on the chemical composition of the comet. Omega probes the philosophical and political consequences that arise as the human race faces the end of the world.
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