The Ambulance Made Two Trips - audiobook Murray LEINSTER (1896 - 1975) Big Jake Connors is taking over his town through violence, inimidation and bribery but Detective Sergeant Fitzgerald can only grind his teeth in frustration. The gangsters seem to have everything going their way until the day that a little dry cleaning establishment declines their offer of 'protection' and strange things start to happen. Murray Leinster gives us another wonderful product of 'what if' from his limitless imagination Read more [...]
Greener Than You Think - audiobook Ward MOORE (1908 - 1973) Do remember reading a panic-mongering news story a while back about genetically engineered "Frankengrass" "escaping" from the golf course where it had been planted? That news story was foreshadowed decades previously in the form of prophetic fiction wherein a pushy salesman, a cash-strapped scientist, and a clump of crabgrass accidentally merge forces with apocalyptic consequences. A triple-genre combo of science fiction, horror, and satire, Read more [...]
The Defiant Agents - audiobook Andre NORTON (1912 - 2005) Operation Cochise: a carefully planned Western move to colonize a planet ahead of the Reds. Travis Fox had been an eager volunteer, but the morning he dragged himself half-conscious from the wrecked spaceship on the planet Topaz, he sensed the terror which would threaten the project. Travis never learned why the ship had crashed, nor why he and the other Apache agents had been shot into space without warning and under Redax control, a machine Read more [...]
The Moon Metal Garrett P. SERVISS (1851 - 1929) Garrett Putnam Serviss (1851-1929) was an astronomer, popularizer of astronomy, and early science fiction writer. Serviss showed a talent for explaining scientific details in a way that made them clear to the ordinary reader. Serviss's favorite topic was astronomy, as shown by the fact that of the fifteen books he wrote, eight are devoted to that science. He unquestionably was more widely read by the public on that topic than anyone prior to his time. Read more [...]
The Return - audiobook H. Beam PIPER (1904 - 1964) and John J. MCGUIRE (1917 - 1981) Two-hundred years after a global nuclear war, two explorers from a research outpost, that largely survived the cataclysm, discover a settlement of humans who have managed to maintain their civilisation despite ferocious cannibal neighbours, the Scowrers. However, the explorers must turn detective in order to understand the mystery of their hosts philosophy and religion. (Description by Reynard) Genre(s): Science Read more [...]
Wanted - 7 Fearless Engineers! - audiobook Warner Van A great civilization's fate lay in Dick Barrow's hands as he led his courageous fellow engineers into a strange and unknown land. None of them knew what lay ahead--what dangers awaited them--or what rewards. But they did not hesitate because the first question asked them had been: "Are you a brave man?" (Summary from jacket blurb/intro) Genre(s): Science Fiction Language: English (FULL Audiobook)   Read more [...]
Space Tug audiobook Murray LEINSTER (1896 - 1975) Joe Kenmore heard the airlock close with a sickening wheeze and then a clank. In desperation he turned toward Haney. "My God, we've been locked out!" Through the transparent domes of their space helmets, Joe could see a look of horror and disbelief pass across Haney's face. But it was true! Joe and his crew were locked out of the Space Platform. Four thousand miles below circled the Earth. Under Joe's feet rested the solid steel hull of his Read more [...]
The Scarlet Plague audiobook Jack LONDON (1876 - 1917) Known mainly for his tales of adventure, this work of science fiction by Jack London is set in a post-apocalyptic future. It's 2072, sixty years after the scarlet plague has depopulated the planet. James Howard Smith is one of the few survivors of the pre-plague era left alive in the San Francisco area, and as he realizes his time grows short, he tries to impart the value of knowledge and wisdom to his grandsons. Through his narrative, we learn Read more [...]
Key Out of Time audiobook Andre NORTON (1912 - 2005) This is Book 4 in the Time Traders Series, In this book Ross Murdock and Arthur Ashe continue their adventures in Time and Space on the World of Hawaika. Hawaiian and Polynesian settlers help Ross and Ashe discover the way the world has changed from the data tape to present time. Helped by a girl (Karara) and her two trained dolphins (Tino-rau and Taua) (Summary by R. J. Davis) Genre(s): Science Fiction Language: English (FULL Audiobook)   Read more [...]
  Operation Terror audioboook Murray LEINSTER (1896 - 1975) An unidentified space ship lands in a Colorado lake. Equipped with a paralyzing ray weapon, the creatures begin taking human prisoners. A loan land surveyor and a journalist are trapped inside the Army cordon, which is helpless against the mysterious enemy. Can they stop the aliens before it is too late? (Summary by Mark Nelson) Genre(s): General Fiction, Science Fiction Language: English (FULL Audiobook)   Read more [...]
Masters of Space audiobook E. E. SMITH (1890 - 1965) and Edward Everett EVANS (1893 - 1958) The Masters had ruled all space with an unconquerable iron fist. But the Masters were gone. And this new, young race who came now to take their place--could they hope to defeat the ancient Enemy of All? (Summary by Gutenberg) Genre(s): Science Fiction Language: English (FULL Audiobook)   Read more [...]
The Food of the Gods and How it Came to Earth audiobook H. G. WELLS (1866 - 1946) Two stuffy English scientists, always looking to further their scientific knowledge, create a substance called Herakleophorbia, which in its fourth incarnation -- known as Herakleophorbia IV -- has the special ability of making things increase greatly in size. As the scientists begin experimentation on some chicks, the substance is misused by some "country folk" who don't take it seriously and soon Herakleophorbia Read more [...]
Star Surgeon audiobook Alan Edward NOURSE (1928 - 1992) Dal Timgar had always wanted to be a doctor. As a Garvian and the first non-human to study medicine on Hospital Earth, he must face enormous adversity from classmates, professors, and some of the highest ranking physicians on all of Earth. Will his efforts be enough to earn him the Silver Star of a Star Surgeon? (Summary by Scott D. Farquhar) Genre(s): Science Fiction Language: English (FULL Audiobook)     Read more [...]
Brain Twister audiobook Laurence M. JANIFER (1933 - 2002) and Randall GARRETT (1927 - 1987) "Mark Phillips" is, or are, two writers: Randall Garrett and Laurence M. Janifer. Their joint pen-name, derived from their middle names (Philip and Mark), was coined soon after their original meeting, at a science-fiction convention. Both men were drunk at the time, which explains a good deal, and only one has ever sobered up. A matter for constant contention between the collaborators is which one. Originally Read more [...]
Space Viking audiobook H. Beam PIPER (1904 - 1964) A galactic war has left the Terran Federation in ruins. Formerly civilized planets have decivilized into barbarism. Space Vikings roam the wreckage, plundering and killing for gain. Lord Lucas Trask of Traskon was no admirer of the Space Vikings, but when murder takes his wife on his wedding day, Trask trades everything he has for his own Space Viking ship and sets out on a galaxy-wide quest for revenge. (Summary by Mark Nelson) Genre(s): General Read more [...]
Star Hunter audiobook Andre NORTON (1912 - 2005) "Somewheres on the jungle world of Jumala, there was a man in hiding—a man whose mind had been reconditioned with another's brain pattern and for whom there was a fabulous reward. Star Hunter is a thrill-packed account of that other-worldly game of hide-and-seek between a man who did not know all his own powers and an interstellar safari that sought something no man had a right to find...." (summary from gutenberg etext) Genre(s): Science Fiction Language: Read more [...]
The Sleeper Awakes audiobook H. G. WELLS (1866 - 1946) The Sleeper Awakes is a dystopian novel about a man who sleeps for two hundred years, waking up in a completely transformed London, where, because of compound interest, he has become the richest man in the world. He has been the famous Sleeper for centuries. A fanatic socialist, the main character awakes to see his nightmares realized, and the future revealed to him in all its horrors and malformities. The people adore him, and their masters Read more [...]
Star Born audiobook Andre NORTON (1912 - 2005) Andre Norton's "Star Born" pictures a human colony in another galaxy, driven away from Earth generations ago by a repressive government. Considered outlaws, the colonists are in permanent hiding. They have developed friendship and cooperation with a local race of "mermen" who are equally at home on land or sea. But that race only took to the sea to escape a malevolent power that hunted them and killed them violently for sport - Those Others. With Read more [...]
The First Men in the Moon audiobook H. G. WELLS (1866 - 1946) Britain won the Moon Race! Decades before Neal Armstrong took his "giant leap for mankind" two intrepid adventurers from Lympne, England, journeyed there using not a rocket, but an antigravity coating. Mr. Bedford, who narrates the tale, tells of how he fell in with eccentric inventor Mr. Cavor, grew to believe in his researches, helped him build a sphere for traveling in space, and then partnered with him in an expedition to the Read more [...]
Round the Moon audiobook Jules VERNE (1828 - 1905) Around the Moon, Jules Verne's sequel to From the Earth to the Moon, is a science fiction novel continuing the trip to the moon which left the reader in suspense after the previous novel. It was later combined with From the Earth to the Moon to create A Trip to the Moon and Around It. (Summary from wikipedia) Genre(s): Science Fiction Language: English (FULL Audiobook)   Around the Moon Author Jules Verne Original Read more [...]