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Chapter V
Read by Thomas Garner
Harry Harrison
In Planet of the Damned (Version 3)
Two planets are about to engage in a nuclear war that will destroy one of them. Millions will perish. Brion Brandd, who lives on neither pla…
Part 11
Read by Phil Chenevert
Frederik Pohl
In Search the Sky
Ross was a junior trader on Halsey's Planet, and had great prospects but was not happy at all. Everything smelled of decay. The whole plan…
Chapter XII
Read by Phil Chenevert
E. E. “Doc” Smith
In The Skylark of Valeron
The Skylark of Valeron is the third volume in the classic Skylark trilogy by E.E. ‘Doc’ Smith. DuQuesne has survived to become Master of t…
04 - Duroy Learns Something
Read by Martin Geeson
Guy de Maupassant
In Bel Ami, or The History of a Scoundrel
“He had faith in his good fortune, in that power of attraction which he felt within him - a power so irresistible that all women yielded to …
25 - Appendix: The Principles of Newspeak
George Orwell
In Nineteen Eighty-Four
Depiction of a dystopian society in the future in which manipulative social control is exercised on a gullible population… (summary by Peter…
Chapter 16
Read by Phil Chenevert
E. E. “Doc” Smith
In Gray Lensman
Kimball Kinnison becomes a Gray Lensman. This name comes from the simple gray leathers these superior lensmen wear that has no insignia of…
In Old Ponkapoag
Read by Jessica Kinsora
Winthrop Packard
In Literary Pilgrimages of a Naturalist
Noted American Naturalist, Winthrop Packard, who gave us such titles as “Woodland Pastures,” “Wood Wanderings,” and “Wildwood Ways,” now tak…
19 - Duplicity
Read by Becca B
L. Frank Baum
In Aunt Jane's Nieces
Jane Merrick is a wealthy, elderly, difficult invalid woman who is preparing for her approaching death. In her youth, she inherited her mone…
The Heirloom - Complete
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T. Duthie-Lisle
It is not the pleasing office of the writer of fiction to unfold for the delectation of his readers the pages and pictures of the volume of …
Goethe and Frederika
Read by Sonia
Henry Dwight Sedgwick
In A Hundred Great Poems
This is a compilation by Richard Cross of 100 poems by various poets. - Summary by Mozartjr
Eteocles and Polynices
Read by John Van Stan
Alexandre Dumas
In Chicot the Jester
This sequel to Dumas' “Marguerite de Valois” begins four years after the sudden death of King Charles IX and succession of his brother Henry…
The Dulcibella
Read by Gesine
Erskine Childers
In The Riddle of the Sands
Containing many realistic details based on Childers' own sailing trips along the German North Sea coast, the book is the retelling of a yach…
Book 1, chapt 2
Read by KirksVoice
John Campbell, John Wood Campbell Jr. and John Wood Campbell, Jr.
In The Black Star Passes
A sky pirate armed with superior weapons of his own invention... First contact with an alien race dangerous enough to threaten the safety of…
Dulnesse
Read by Mark Stansbury
George Herbert
In The Temple
George Herbert was one of the so-called Metaphysical Poets, along with John Donne and Andrew Marvel, and The Temple: Sacred Poems and Privat…
The Devolutionist and the Emancipatrix
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Homer Eon Flint
In the Devolutionist, space travelers experiment with Venusian methods of telepathic space travel. They leave our solar system to discover a…
The Professional Approach
Read by Joelle Peebles
Charles Leonard Harness and Theodore Lockhard Thomas and Charles Leonard Harness
In Short Science Fiction Collection 014
Science fiction (abbreviated SF or sci-fi with varying punctuation and case) is a broad genre of fiction that often involves sociological an…
3 - "Q." A Psychic Pstory of the Psupernatural
Read by Phil Chenevert
Stephen Leacock
In Soaked In Seaweed and 7 other nonsense novels
8 great spoofs of 'types' of fiction by the premier Canadian humorist Leacock, taken from his book Nonsense Novels. The title of each parody…
Part 1
Read by Phil Chenevert
Gerald Vance
In Equation of Doom
A world weary space pilot on the lam from earth for crimes unspecified; the most beautiful (earthly) tri-D woman in the universe who is dete…
2 - Section 2
Read by Phil Chenevert
Richard Sabia
In I Was a Teen-Age Secret Weapon
Poor Dolliver Wims is a terribly misunderstood teen age boy from the backwoods. Is he mean or evil? Quite the opposite: He does nothing wron…
Astrolabius
Read by Foon
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
In Poems of Progress and New Thought Pastels
This book contains 2 poetry bundles by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, containing many better- or lesser-known poems. The poems are recorded by a singl…