A Spaceship Named McGuire by Randall Garrett audiobook. Genre: scifi Can a spaceship go crazy? Well, yes it can if it has a brain. And the new MG (magnetogravitic drive) experimental robot space ship does indeed have a 'brain'. Completely bewildered as to why the first six models of their supposedly perfect new ship model, the MG-YR, nicknamed the McGuire, have gone totally bonkers after activation and before they could ever be used, the company has called in the services of Daniel Oak. They sus...
Mar 21, 2023•1 hr 47 min•Ep. 897
In Tune With The Infinite by Ralph Waldo Trine audiobook. Genre: self help In Tune With The Infinite is Ralph Waldo Trine's classic New Thought guide to living with greater peace, power, and purpose by aligning the inner life with a larger spiritual reality. Written in clear, uplifting language, it invites listeners to consider how thoughts, beliefs, and habitual attitudes shape health, work, relationships, and the quality of everyday experience. Trine argues that a calm, centered mind can becom...
Mar 20, 2023•4 hr 55 min•Ep. 896
The Man from Glengarry by Ralph Connor audiobook. Genre: adventure With international book sales in the millions, Ralph Connor was the best-known Canadian novelist of the first two decades of the Twentieth Century. The Man from Glengarry was his most popular and accomplished work. Immediately after its publication in 1901, the novel spent several months in the top ranks of the New York Times 'Books in Demand' list. We follow the story of Ranald Macdonald, who is shaped by family and community in...
Mar 20, 2023•12 hr 59 min•Ep. 895
Glengarry School Days by Ralph Connor audiobook. Genre: drama Set in the rugged Scottish-Canadian community of Glengarry, Ralph Connor's Glengarry School Days follows the arrival of a young, idealistic schoolmaster determined to bring order, learning, and a larger sense of purpose to a one-room country school. He soon discovers that the classroom is only the beginning: rivalries between farm boys, family feuds, prideful clan loyalties, and the rough demands of frontier life spill into every less...
Mar 16, 2023•6 hr 27 min•Ep. 894
Bacon by R. W. Church audiobook. Genre: biography In this concise, vivid volume from the English Men of Letters series, Victorian scholar and churchman R. W. Church traces the extraordinary contradictions of Francis Bacon (1561-1626): philosopher of a new science, master of English prose, and ambitious servant of power in the volatile world of Elizabethan and Jacobean politics. Church follows Bacon from a brilliant, restless youth and early legal promise into the rivalries of court, where patron...
Mar 16, 2023•7 hr 12 min•Ep. 893
Fast in the Ice by R. M. Ballantyne audiobook. Genre: adventure In Fast in the Ice, R. M. Ballantyne throws listeners aboard the brig Hope as she sails from England into the blank white spaces of the Arctic in pursuit of a bold idea: that beyond the pack lies an open polar sea waiting to be reached. Captain Harvey is a driven, capable commander, but he is also a man who knows what his ambition costs the people he leaves behind. At his side is his nephew, Tom Gregory, a young ship's surgeon eager...
Mar 16, 2023•3 hr•Ep. 892
Away in the Wilderness by R. M. Ballantyne audiobook. Genre: adventure In 19th-century Canada, famed backwoods hunter and trapper Jasper Derry sets out from the far reaches of Rupert's Land with one urgent goal: reach civilization in time to marry the woman he loves, Marie Laroche, and finally trade a life of wandering for a home. The journey should be straightforward for a man as capable as Jasper, but the wilderness has its own plans. Traveling with two unlikely companions, Arrowhead, a sharp-...
Mar 16, 2023•3 hr 10 min•Ep. 891
Witch of the Demon Seas by Poul William Anderson audiobook. Genre: fantasy Condemned pirate captain Corun of Conahur is hours from the headsman's axe when a strange bargain buys him a little more life. The price is a voyage no sane sailor attempts: guiding a black galley into the Demon Seas, toward the lost, dread citadel of the Xanthi - amphibious sea-devils whose raids and ancient ruins haunt every chart. Corun's new masters are as dangerous as any monster: Shorzon, a calculating sorcerer with...
Mar 16, 2023•2 hr 37 min•Ep. 890
The Sensitive Man by Poul William Anderson audiobook. Genre: scifi Poul Anderson delves into the realm of human potential in this exciting story and asks some penetrating questions for us to think about. What if psychology finally enabled people to even partially control all those automatic reactions of our minds and bodies? What if we were not slaves to anger, fear, emotions, hormones, blood pressure and the thousand other things that our bodies 'take care of' from instant to instant? What if t...
Mar 16, 2023•2 hr 44 min•Ep. 889
The Golden Slave by Poul William Anderson audiobook. Genre: scifi 100 B.C. The Cimbrian hordes galloped across the dawn of history and clashed in screaming battle against the mighty Roman legions. Led by their chief, Boierik, and his son, Eodan, the hungry and homeless pagan tribes hurled back the Romans time after time in their desperate search for land. But for all the burning towns, the new-caught women weeping, the wine drunk, the gold lifted, the Cimbri did not find a home. And now it was o...
Mar 15, 2023•7 hr 49 min•Ep. 888
Snowball by Poul William Anderson audiobook. Genre: scifi In a quiet Massachusetts college town, physicist Simon Arch and his equally brilliant wife, Elizabeth, are chasing a theoretical hunch about dielectrics when they accidentally create something that should not exist: a cheap, stable material with an astronomical dielectric constant. A block the size of a book can store staggering amounts of energy - and, worse (or better), the recipe is simple enough that anyone with basic chemicals and a ...
Mar 15, 2023•1 hr 43 min•Ep. 887
Sentiment, Inc. by Poul William Anderson audiobook. Genre: scifi When young engineer Colin Fraser falls hard for Judy Harkness, a rising actress with big-city ambition, their long-distance courtship feels like the start of a steady, ordinary future. Then, without warning, Judy announces a whirlwind engagement to Matthew Snyder, a wealthy older man she barely tolerated, and her personality seems subtly, frighteningly off. Colin cannot accept that love can flip so cleanly, so he follows the trail ...
Mar 15, 2023•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 886
Inside Earth by Poul William Anderson audiobook. Genre: scifi This story takes place in the not so distant future. Earth has been conquered and is a subjugated planet, the much too humanoid new rulers now extract heavy taxes, control industry and reproduction and interfere in every aspect of life. Rumors of their brutality and vicious massacres increase every day. Obviously, they must be thrown out and rebellion seethes among the patriots. But on the other hand, others are not so eager to get ri...
Mar 15, 2023•2 hr 9 min•Ep. 885
The Chapter Ends by Poul Anderson audiobook. Genre: scifi Set tens of thousands of years in the future, The Chapter Ends finds Earth reduced to a quiet backwater - a beautiful, half-forgotten cradle of humanity where a few million people live simple lives while the wider human civilization thrives among the stars. That fragile peace shatters when offworld authorities decide that Earth must be cleared, a decision driven less by sentiment than by distant, cold interstellar politics. Sent to overse...
Mar 15, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 884
A Fool There Was by Porter Emerson Browne audiobook. Genre: drama Two friends were asked by their respective fathers on their death beds to promise to marry a special girl, who lived across the street and who they had been very fond of since childhood. Once they reached young manhood, one of these fulfilled his father's wish. The story takes off from there, and, while all three continued to be very close to one another as they grew older, the married man was sent abroad on business, allowing his...
Mar 15, 2023•5 hr 49 min•Ep. 883
Apology by Plato audiobook. Genre: philosophy The Apology is Plato's version of the speech given by Socrates as he defended himself in 399 BC[2] against the charges of 'corrupting the young, and by not believing in the gods in whom the city believes, but in other daimonia that are novel' . 'Apology' here has its earlier meaning of speaking in defense of a cause or of one's beliefs or actions. The general term apology, in context to literature, defends a world from attack (opposite of satire-whic...
Mar 15, 2023•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 882
The Canadians of Old by Philippe Aubert de Gaspe audiobook. Genre: history In his mid-70s, Philippe Aubert de Gaspé took on the project of recording the culture and heritage of French Canada, especially that of the late 1700s, the world of his youth. The result, published in French in 1863, was the historical fiction 'Les Anciens Canadiens (literally, “The Canadians of Old”). In this book, inspired by the historical novels of Sir Walter Scott, Aubert de Gaspé collects the customs, traditions, fo...
Mar 15, 2023•9 hr 44 min•Ep. 881
The Variable Man by Philip K. Dick audiobook. Genre: scifi In the middle of a desperate interstellar war, Earth is gambling its survival on perfect prediction. Military planners and weapons magnates rely on vast statistical systems to forecast every battle, every treaty, every human choice, reducing the future to a set of manageable probabilities. Then a glitch rips open time itself and delivers an impossible outsider: Thomas Cole, a plainspoken, early-20th-century repairman with a talent for im...
Mar 14, 2023•3 hr 11 min•Ep. 880
The Eyes Have It & Tony and the Beetles by Philip K. Dick audiobook. Genre: scifi Aliens have invaded the earth! Horrible one celled creatures disguised as normal human beings ! Well, at least that is what it seems to the author. Yes, The Eyes Have It is a whimsical story, making gentle fun of certain writing styles, but only a topflight science-fictionist like Philip Dick , we thought, could have written this story, in just this way. Tony and the Beetles takes place far in the future when E...
Mar 14, 2023•46 min•Ep. 879
The Defenders by Philip K. Dick audiobook. Genre: scifi The terrible destruction of total nuclear war between the Western and Eastern Blocks has succeeded in sterilizing the surface of the earth. No living creature can now exist there and all humans on both sides, have fled to the hives built miles below the surface where they constantly work to produce the war materials necessary to carry on the battle. For 8 years now, the actual fighting between these super powers has been conducted by robots...
Mar 14, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 878
The Crystal Crypt & Beyond the Door by Philip K. Dick audiobook. Genre: scifi In The Crystal Crypt & Beyond the Door, Philip K. Dick delivers two early, razor-edged science fiction tales where ordinary choices become traps and reality refuses to stay put. In The Crystal Crypt, three uneasy travelers flee Mars for Earth in the wake of a bitter political struggle. The trip should be routine, but suspicion rides with them: each passenger has something to hide, and the legacy of a catastroph...
Mar 14, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 877
Second Variety by Philip K. Dick audiobook. Genre: scifi After a nuclear war has turned Earth into a gray wasteland, the remaining soldiers of the United Nations cling to a few ruined strongholds while an old enemy, the Soviet forces, fades into the ash. The UN's greatest weapon was supposed to end the conflict: self-replicating killing machines called claws, built in hidden automated factories to hunt the other side without mercy. But the claws have not stopped learning. When Major Joseph Hendr...
Mar 14, 2023•2 hr•Ep. 876
Beyond Lies the Wub & The Skull by Philip K. Dick audiobook. Genre: scifi In this two-story volume from Philip K. Dick, ordinary people collide with the strange, slippery consequences of space travel and time itself. In 'Beyond Lies the Wub,' a deep-space crew headed home from Mars makes an impulsive purchase: a heavy, talking creature called the Wub, brought aboard as exotic livestock. But as the ship's captain and crew debate appetite, intelligence, and the right to treat a sentient being ...
Mar 14, 2023•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 875
The Green Odyssey by Philip Jose Farmer audiobook. Genre: scifi When shy, ordinary Alan Green wakes from a shipboard accident, he expects to be rescued, patched up, and returned to the life he knows. Instead, he finds himself stranded on an alien world so lush and overpowering it feels alive - a place where thick jungles swallow horizons, strange creatures rule the food chain, and human beings are not the dominant species. Alone, injured, and far from any clear explanation of how he arrived, Ala...
Mar 14, 2023•6 hr 17 min•Ep. 874
Armageddon - 2419 A.D. by Philip Francis Nowlan audiobook. Genre: scifi Elsewhere I have set down, for whatever interest they have in this, the 25th Century, my personal recollections of the 20th Century. Now it occurs to me that my memoirs of the 25th Century may have an equal interest 500 years from now—particularly in view of that unique perspective from which I have seen the 25th Century, entering it as I did, in one leap across a gap of 492 years. This statement requires elucidation. There ...
Mar 13, 2023•3 hr 3 min•Ep. 873
History of New Brunswick by Peter Fisher audiobook. Genre: history Originally published in 1825 under the title: Sketches of New Brunswick : containing an account of the first settlement of the province, with a brief description of the country, climate, productions, inhabitants, government, rivers, towns, settlements, public institutions, trade, revenue, population, &c., by an inhabitant of the province. The value of this history is in the fact that it was written when the Province was still...
Mar 13, 2023•7 hr 39 min•Ep. 872
The Valley of the Giants by Peter B. Kyne audiobook. Genre: adventure The man was John Cardigan; in that lonely, hostile land he was the first pioneer. This is the tale of Cardigan and Cardigan's son, for in his chosen land the pioneer leader in the gigantic task of hewing a path for civilization was to know the bliss of woman's love and of parenthood, and the sorrow that comes of the loss of a perfect mate; he was to know the tremendous joy of accomplishment and worldly success after infinite l...
Mar 13, 2023•12 hr 20 min•Ep. 871
The Red Hell of Jupiter by Paul Ernst audiobook. Genre: scifi Jupiter's Great Red Spot has become a blank spot on humanity's maps for the worst possible reason: ships sent to investigate it do not return. When Commander Stone of the Planetary Exploration Forces recalls decorated Captain Brand Bowen from leave, he gives him a simple order with an impossible price tag: take a fast scout craft down into Jupiter's murderous atmosphere, skim the boundaries of the Red Spot, and come back with an expla...
Mar 13, 2023•2 hr 42 min•Ep. 870
Three Men and a Maid by P. G. Wodehouse audiobook. Genre: comedy This book with two titles, Three Men and a Maid in the USA and The Girl on the Boat in the UK is a typical PG Wodehouse romantic comedy, involving, at various times: a disastrous talent quest, a lawyer with a revolver, a bulldog with a mind of his own and a suit of armour! The maid, or marriageable young woman, of the American title is red-haired, dog-loving Wilhelmina 'Billie' Bennet. The three men are Bream Mortimer, a long-time ...
Mar 10, 2023•5 hr 53 min•Ep. 869
The Little Nugget by P. G. Wodehouse audiobook. Genre: comedy Mrs Nesta Ford, in her London hotel room, reveals to her new friend Lord Mountry that she hopes to take her son Ogden on a yachting trip proposed by Mountry, despite her ex-husband having won custody of the boy. As Mountry leaves, Cynthia Drassilis arrives with Ogden, whom she has led away from his father's country house. Mrs Ford rewards Cynthia, but soon Mr Ford's secretary, a Mr Minnick, arrives to recover the stolen child. Cynthia...
Mar 10, 2023•8 hr 17 min•Ep. 868
