A Bad Day For Vermin by Keith Laumer
Gelesen von Phil Chenevert
Keith Laumer
(4,433 Sterne; 75 Bewertungen)
For your listening pleasure, here are three stories by the ingenious Keith Laumer from the glorious days of Science Fiction in the early 1960s: A Bad Day for Vermin, The King of the City and Doorstep. They were all published in various Science Fiction magazines then flourishing in the United States at that time. I won't spoil your fun of listening to them by giving detailed story outlines, but be assured that there are aliens of various disgusting and/or beautiful shapes involved in several and a sad view of our future life when the US government collapses. (phil chenevert ) (1 hr 36 min)
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Bewertungen
(5 Sterne)
At the risk of reviewing the reviews, I feel compelled to state that the use of the words "nigger", "jew" and "imbecile" are perfectly acceptable in the context of the story. These are words that a trigger-happy redneck would use in such a situation, so their use in the story is as acceptable as their use in a review is. On a general note, I believe reviews should be limited to a brief summary of the item being g reviewed, rather than a vehicle for the reviewers opinion and "cleverness". Why try to put someone off something that's free for them to try anyway? This is a short story that you could say explores human attitudes towards non-human life and, as such, could have been intended as a commentary on the human fascination with killing other creatures for reasons other than personal survival. Listen and decide - don't pay any attention to reviews...
interesting stories.
darthlaurel
(5 Sterne)
Thanks to both writer and reader. That last one did surprise me. :-)
Very Bad Day
Keith Horvath
(5 Sterne)
Laumer is such prolific writer. His stories captured my interest from first read. And the imagination swooned in my head. The reader Phil, also a superb match
Classic sci-fi
Seven Archers
(5 Sterne)
Great classic sci-fi with Phil Chenevert one best readers at LibriVox.
Early Laumer - OK
Mark Joseph
(3 Sterne)
These early stories by Keith Laumer are very slight, and do not hold up well. “Doorstep” is a fun, but heavy-handed, unfortunately probably realistic military overreaction to alien first contact, but the other two stories suffer from a lack of realistic responses to dramatic situations. OK if you’ve got nothing else to listen to.