The Skylark of Space by E. E. Smith audiobook. Genre: scifi The novel begins with the accidental discovery, in a Government laboratory in Washington D. C., of a form of clean nuclear power. Our hero, Dr. Richard Seaton, uses this power to build first a flying belt and then an interstellar spaceship. He later discovers that the process operates by generation and manipulation of gravity fields. When his government coworkers do not believe him, Seaton acquires rights to his discovery from the gover...
Nov 23, 2022•9 hr 14 min•Ep. 537
The Galaxy Primes by E. E. Smith audiobook. Genre: scifi Earth's first instant-travel starship, the Pleiades, is a triumph of engineering and a terrifying gamble: it can wink out to anywhere in the universe, but no one can predict where it will reappear or how to retrace the jump. Aboard are four extraordinary humans - two men and two women - each a Psionic Prime with mind-powers beyond anything Earth has ever seen. When the Pleiades is hurled billions of parsecs from home, their brilliance beco...
Nov 23, 2022•7 hr 52 min•Ep. 536
Tedric by E. E. Smith audiobook. Genre: scifi This is a wonderful combination of far future science fiction with Conan like sword and sorcery; lots of blood, gore, honor and evil. The immensely powerful hero, Tedric, is a man's man who refuses to accept the cruel human sacrifices demanded by the 'god' Sarpedion and is set on destroying him. To do this he needs some secrets of metallurgy that future social scientists are willing to give him. He manages to overcome all obstacles until of course he...
Nov 23, 2022•56 min•Ep. 535
Spacehounds of IPC by E. E. Smith audiobook. Genre: scifi When the Inter-Planetary Corporation's (IPC) crack liner “IPV Arcturus” took off on a routine flight to Mars, it turned out to be the beginning of a unexpected and long voyage. There had been too many reports of errors in ship's flight positions from the Check Stations and brilliant physicist Dr. Percival (“Steve”) Stevens is aboard the Arcturus on a fact-finding mission to find out what's really happening, and hopefully save the honor of...
Nov 23, 2022•9 hr 56 min•Ep. 534
Masters of Space by E. E. Smith audiobook. Genre: scifi In Masters of Space, a bold deep-space experiment becomes humanity's first brush with a vanished empire. Young project leader Jarvis Hilton commands Project Theta Orionis: an elite team of scientists, a hard-edged naval crew, and the warship Perseus, all tasked with pushing beyond known space and answering questions no one on Earth can even frame yet. Tensions simmer from the start as Hilton must prove he can lead seasoned officers, keep a ...
Nov 23, 2022•5 hr 56 min•Ep. 533
Lord Tedric by E. E. Smith audiobook. Genre: scifi When a mysterious force plucks Sir Tedric, a hard-bitten knight of medieval Britain, out of his own age, he awakens in a future where humanity is only one player in a crowded, dangerous cosmos. Taken in by advanced allies who see both his courage and his stubborn code of honor, Tedric is remade for a new kind of battlefield: one of starships, alien empires, and weapons that can shatter worlds. Yet the transformation does not erase the man. He re...
Nov 23, 2022•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 532
First Lensman by E. E. Smith audiobook. Genre: scifi In a galaxy clawing its way out of chaos, Earth and its neighboring worlds struggle to police the new lanes of interstellar travel. Veteran officer Virgil Samms has seen too much to believe the rising wave of piracy is just opportunism. Ship after ship vanishes, outposts go silent, and every investigation points to a smarter, darker hand at work - a hidden power using criminals, corporations, and politics as disposable pieces. As Samms helps f...
Nov 18, 2022•11 hr 26 min•Ep. 531
Anything Once by Douglas Grant audiobook. Genre: adventure When Lou Lacey, a tough, undersized teenage girl with a bundle of stolen provisions and nowhere she is willing to call home, slips through a wheat field to the road, she finds a young man unconscious in the dust with blood on his temple. He introduces himself as James (Jim) Botts, a New Yorker in battered travel clothes and on a strict deadline to reach the city on foot, with pride and principle leaving him little room to ask for help. L...
Nov 18, 2022•3 hr 10 min•Ep. 530
Raiders of the Universes by Donald Wandrei audiobook. Genre: scifi It was the 34th century and all five of the Federation of Planets around Sol were buzzing with their usual activity when the Raiders appeared. They were indeed Raiders of Universes because they had ravaged many systems before reaching Earth and showed no signs of slowing down in the least. Their weapons were invincible, their greed merciless and their natures completely alien. Indeed 'they' were from another dimension entirely. E...
Nov 18, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 529
The Flying Saucers are Real by Donald Keyhoe audiobook. Genre: science The Flying Saucers are Real is a book that investigates numerous encounters between USAF fighters, personnel, and other aircraft, and UFOs between 1947 and 1950. Keyhoe contended that the Air Force was actively investigating these cases of close encounter, with a policy of concealing their existence from the public until 1949. He stated that this policy was then replaced by one of cautious, progressive revelation. Keyhoe furt...
Nov 18, 2022•7 hr 38 min•Ep. 528
A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay audiobook. Genre: scifi Masquerading as a Victorian scientific romance and then detonating into something far stranger, A Voyage to Arcturus follows the brooding, restless Maskull as he is drawn into an otherworldly expedition beyond Earth. Lured by a mysterious summons and guided by the enigmatic Krag, Maskull joins a journey to the distant planet Tormance, orbiting the binary stars Arcturus. There, the very laws of nature seem shaped by thought, desire, an...
Nov 18, 2022•11 hr 29 min•Ep. 527
Twas the Night Before Christmas by Clement C. Moore audiobook. Genre: poetry On a quiet Christmas Eve in a cozy home, a narrator settles in for the night when an unexpected sound outside pulls him to the window. What he sees transforms an ordinary winter evening into a moment of pure wonder: a miniature sleigh, a team of swift reindeer, and a jolly visitor arriving with practiced ease. As the narrator watches in amazement, the stranger-quick, cheerful, and mysterious-moves through the house with...
Nov 14, 2022•6 min•Ep. 526
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum audiobook. Genre: fantasy Long before Santa becomes a legend, a baby is found in the Forest of Burzee and raised under the watchful care of the wood nymph Necile and the powerful immortal Ak. As the boy, Claus, grows, he learns the ways of nature, the quiet wisdom of the forest folk, and the hard truths of the mortal world just beyond the trees. Drawn by compassion, he chooses to live among humans, where he meets poverty, loneliness, and th...
Nov 14, 2022•3 hr 35 min•Ep. 525
The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle audiobook. Genre: mystery In Victorian London, a small, glittering object becomes the center of a baffling holiday mystery. After a street scuffle leaves behind a battered hat and a Christmas goose, the curious items make their way to consulting detective Sherlock Holmes and his loyal companion, Dr. John Watson. What begins as a modest puzzle quickly sharpens into a high-stakes case when Holmes learns that a famous and valuable blue c...
Nov 14, 2022•53 min•Ep. 524
Gift of the Magi by O. Henry audiobook. Genre: romance The Gift of the Magi is an O. Henry short story in which a young couple are very much in love with each other but can barely afford their one-room apartment. For Christmas, they each make a sacrifice to purchase a gift for the other, with ironic results. The moral of the story is that physical possessions, however valuable they may be, are of little value in the grand scheme of things. The true unselfish love that the characters, Jim and Del...
Nov 14, 2022•16 min•Ep. 523
Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence audiobook. Genre: drama Women in Love is a novel by British author D. H. Lawrence published in 1920. It is a sequel to his earlier novel The Rainbow (1915), and follows the continuing loves and lives of the Brangwen sisters, Gudrun and Ursula. Gudrun Brangwen, an artist, pursues a destructive relationship with Gerald Crich, an industrialist. Lawrence contrasts this pair with the love that develops between Ursula and Rupert Birkin, an alienated intellectual who art...
Nov 14, 2022•25 hr 33 min•Ep. 522
The Behavior of the Honey Bee in Pollen Collecting by D. B. Casteel audiobook. Genre: science In The Behavior of the Honey Bee in Pollen Collecting, D. B. Casteel offers a clear, observation-driven study of how worker honey bees locate, gather, and manage pollen - the protein-rich resource that fuels brood rearing and colony growth. Moving from the hive outward into the field, Casteel follows the forager's work step by step: how bees choose among blooming plants, how they loosen and pack pollen ...
Nov 14, 2022•1 hr 30 min•Ep. 521
The Island of Appledore by Cornelia Meigs audiobook. Genre: adventure Any one who knows the coast of New England will know also the Island of Appledore and just where it lies. Such a person can tell you that it is not exactly the place described in this book, that it is small and bare and rocky with no woods, no meadows, no church, or mill, or mill-creek road. Perhaps all that the story tells of it that is true is that there the rocks give forth their strange deep song, “the calling of Appledore...
Nov 14, 2022•4 hr 57 min•Ep. 520
Project Mastodon by Clifford D. Simak audiobook. Genre: scifi When three longtime friends stumble onto a working time-jump device, they do not rush to change history - they go looking for opportunity. Wesley Adams, a visionary deal-maker, John Cooper, his blunt and loyal right hand, and Chuck Hudson, a well-connected former diplomat, leap back tens of thousands of years to a North America that is familiar in outline but ruled by Pleistocene reality: shifting glaciers, altered landscapes, and the...
Nov 11, 2022•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 519
Hellhounds of the Cosmos by Clifford D. Simak audiobook. Genre: scifi For six months the world has been coming apart. Towns vanish overnight, expeditions return broken and babbling, and the newspapers can only give the terror a name: the Black Horror. It does not march like an army or land like a spaceship - it simply appears, leaving ruin behind, and every weapon humanity owns seems useless against it. As panic spreads and civilization strains to hold together, one man offers a theory as fright...
Nov 11, 2022•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 518
The World That Couldn’t Be by Clifford D. Simak audiobook. Genre: scifi Layard was a curiosity to sociologists. The planet supported thriving tribes of natives but they were genderless. How could tribes form without families? But Gavin Duncan didn’t care. He had come to Layard to farm vua plants. Their berries cured mental illnesses and were one of the most expensive commodities in the galaxy. He was going to make his fortune if he could just keep the Cytha at bay, a big, dumb animal that could ...
Nov 11, 2022•1 hr 47 min•Ep. 517
The Orphan by Clarence Edward Mulford audiobook. Genre: adventure Many men swore that The Orphan was bad, and many swore profanely and with wonderful command of epithets because he was bad, but for obvious reasons that was as far as the majority went to show their displeasure. Those of the minority who had gone farther and who had shown their hatred by rash actions only proved their foolishness; for they had indeed gone far and would return no more. But Sheriff Jim Shields is tracking The Orphan...
Nov 11, 2022•8 hr 34 min•Ep. 516
Loss of the Sultana by Chester D. Berry audiobook. Genre: history In April 1865, as the Civil War collapses into uneasy peace and the nation reels from Abraham Lincoln's assassination, thousands of Union prisoners are finally released from Confederate camps like Andersonville and Cahaba. For many of these gaunt, half-starved soldiers, the steamboat Sultana seems like a last hard step on the road home. Instead, it becomes a floating pressure cooker of exhaustion, bureaucracy, and greed: a vessel ...
Nov 11, 2022•12 hr 41 min•Ep. 515
The Ghost of Guir House by Charles Willing Beale audiobook. Genre: horror When New Yorker Paul Henley receives a curious letter clearly meant for someone else, he does not toss it aside. On impulse - and with a growing fascination he cannot quite explain - he answers the invitation and travels south to the isolated Guir House in rural Virginia. There he meets Miss Dorothy Guir, an intelligent and disarming hostess whose warmth only deepens the unease that clings to her family's ancient, black-st...
Nov 10, 2022•4 hr 48 min•Ep. 514
Rebels of the Red Planet by Charles Louis Fontenay audiobook. Genre: scifi 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 muta...
Nov 10, 2022•5 hr 19 min•Ep. 513
The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for my Children by Charles Kingsley audiobook. Genre: folklore In The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for my Children, Charles Kingsley invites young listeners into the bright, perilous world of ancient Greece through a warm, fireside style that treats mythology as a treasury of moral adventure. Framed as stories told for children, the book retells classic legends with clear, vigorous prose and a storyteller's sense of wonder. You will meet Perseus, a determined you...
Nov 04, 2022•5 hr 34 min•Ep. 512
Kentucky’s Famous Feuds and Tragedies by Charles G. Mutzenberg audiobook. Genre: history In Kentucky's Famous Feuds and Tragedies, Charles G. Mutzenberg assembles a hard-edged tour through the violent vendettas and public calamities that helped shape Kentucky's reputation in the late 1800s. Beginning with the infamous Hatfield-McCoy conflict, Mutzenberg traces how ordinary disputes over property, politics, and personal honor could harden into years of retaliation, ambushes, and courtroom drama. ...
Nov 04, 2022•9 hr 12 min•Ep. 511
The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens audiobook. Genre: drama The Old Curiosity Shop tells the story of Little Nell, a beautiful and virtuous young girl who lives with her grandfather in his shop of curiosities. Her grandfather loves her dearly, and Nell does not complain, but she lives a lonely existence without friends of her own age. Her only friend is Kit, an honest young lad who works at the shop, and whom she is teaching to write. Unbeknownst to Nell, her grandfather is obsessed with t...
Nov 04, 2022•24 hr 23 min•Ep. 510
Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens audiobook. Genre: drama Born in the Marshalsea Prison for Debtors, Amy—Little Dorrit—the daughter of the ruined, but self-respectful William Dorrit, has put her entire heart in caring for her dear father, until one day her humble path is crossed by Arthur Clennam. Their meeting proves providential not only for Amy's life, but for the whole Dorrit family, whose new rise will, in many ways, be also their fall. As in all his novels, in Little Dorrit Dickens ushers u...
Nov 04, 2022•36 hr 45 min•Ep. 509
Pocket Island by Charles Clark Munn audiobook. Genre: fantasy Along the coast of Maine are littered thousands of small islands. One such, named 'Pocket Island' by the locals was so called because of a pocket formed twice daily by the waning of the tides. The coast of Maine holds many secrets and legends, and Pocket Island was no exception. Subtitled 'A Story of Country Life in New England', this story holds such varied and fascinating glimpses into the lives of a few individuals, and is not limi...
Nov 04, 2022•5 hr 32 min•Ep. 508
