The Green World by Hal Clement audiobook. Genre: scifi The planet was an enigma. Among the thousands of inhabitable planets that had been discovered and visited, Veridis alone seemed to defy the laws of planetary development and evolution. It was extremely young, barely 10 million years had passed since it was completely molten and yet now it was covered with life of all kinds; kinds that should have not had a chance to even begin to develop, much less reach their current stage. To investigate t...
Jan 20, 2023•2 hr 49 min•Ep. 717
Attitude by Hal Clement audiobook. Genre: scifi They had been captured, but by whom? And why where they allowed to build anything they wanted to escape? The space cruiser was powerful and built to fight anything in the galaxy, but somehow, in the empty rift between galaxies, they had been rendered helpless and brought to this prison. Even stranger was that their captors had not harmed any of them at all, used no weapons and allowed them to use all equipment brought from their ship inside the pri...
Jan 20, 2023•2 hr 42 min•Ep. 716
The Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft audiobook. Genre: horror In Providence and beyond, a young man named Francis Wayland Thurston inherits a box of unsettling papers from his late uncle, a professor of languages who had been investigating a strange cult. What begins as a curious family mystery becomes a widening inquiry into scattered accounts: a gruesome police raid in the Louisiana bayous, the ravings of artists haunted by the same impossible dream, and the testimony of sailors who encounte...
Jan 20, 2023•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 715
Herbert West - Re-Animator by H. P. Lovecraft audiobook. Genre: horror In Herbert West - Re-Animator, H. P. Lovecraft delivers a brisk, grisly tale of scientific ambition unmoored from morality. The story is told by an unnamed medical student who becomes the reluctant confidant and assistant of Herbert West, a brilliant, coldly driven researcher convinced that death is not a final boundary but a technical problem waiting for the right solution. From their early days in medical school at Miskaton...
Jan 20, 2023•1 hr 34 min•Ep. 714
Jacqueline of Golden River by H. M. Egbert audiobook. Genre: folklore Jacqueline seems to have contracted a touch of amnesia, as she is found in an apartment with a dead man, and with a weapon in her hand. But she remembers nothing of any incident, remembers not her name nor where she comes from, not even why she is where she was found. She only remembers her father, and that he is in danger. Action and adventure soon follow, as Paul Hewlett and Jacqueline attempt to get answers to her questions...
Jan 20, 2023•7 hr 30 min•Ep. 713
Half-Past Bedtime by H. H. Bashford audiobook. Genre: comedy Ah, the wonderful adventures of Marian after she meets the strange Mr. Jugg. 'And who are you, Mr Jugg?' she inquired. 'I'm the King of the Bumpies,' he replied. When Marian was puzzled there came a little straight line, exactly in the middle, between her two eyebrows. 'What are bumpies?' she said. 'My hat!' he gasped. 'Haven't you ever heard of bumpies?' Marian shook her head. 'Oh dear, oh dear!' he sighed. 'Have you ever heard of ang...
Jan 20, 2023•4 hr 34 min•Ep. 712
The Passionate Friends by H. G. Wells audiobook. Genre: romance H. G. Wells is best known for his science fiction, but some of his greatest works were in other genres. The Passionate Friends is a love story. It also is a story about dreams, despair, jealousy, sex, the struggle against social convention, the future of civilization, and much much more. It is written by a father to his son, 'not indeed to the child you are now, but to the man you are going to be.' He writes it so that one day, perh...
Jan 20, 2023•13 hr 3 min•Ep. 711
The Discovery Of The Future by H. G. Wells audiobook. Genre: philosophy The Discovery of the Future is a 1902 philosophical lecture by H. G. Wells that argues for the knowability of the future. It was originally delivered to the Royal Institution on January 24, 1902. Wells begins by distinguishing between 'two divergent types of mind,' one that judges and attaches importance principally to what has happened in the past and one that judges and attaches importance principally to what will happen i...
Jan 20, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 710
Ann Veronica by H. G. Wells audiobook. Genre: drama Set in Edwardian England, Ann Veronica follows a bright, restless young woman who has been raised to be obedient, sheltered, and grateful, yet feels a mounting hunger for education, independence, and a life shaped by her own convictions. Chafing under the strict authority of her father and the narrow expectations placed on women, Ann pushes beyond the safe boundaries of her comfortable home and into the charged world of London, where new ideas ...
Jan 20, 2023•10 hr 39 min•Ep. 709
The Man Who Lost Himself by H. De Vere Stacpoole audiobook. Genre: comedy When Victor Jones, a hard-luck businessman from Philadelphia, arrives in London chasing a contract that could save his future, he instead finds himself broke, cornered by creditors, and wondering who he has become. One desperate drink at a hotel bar brings an unbelievable encounter: a charismatic English aristocrat, Rochester, who looks exactly like Victor. A night of reckless camaraderie turns into a waking nightmare when...
Jan 19, 2023•8 hr 30 min•Ep. 708
Time Crime by H. Beam Piper audiobook. Genre: scifi On a quiet plantation in the Esaron Sector, guard-captain Kiro Soran notices something that should be impossible: a shipment of slaves whose language, customs, and origins do not match the world where they are being sold. His discovery pulls back the curtain on the Paratime Secret, and the Paratime Police move in fast, led by hard-edged professionals who can travel between probability lines but must keep their existence hidden from every timeli...
Jan 19, 2023•4 hr 20 min•Ep. 707
Temple Trouble by H. Beam Piper audiobook. Genre: scifi On a parallel Earth stuck in a Bronze-to-early-medieval age, the Transtemporal Mining Corporation is quietly extracting valuable ores from behind the safest disguise imaginable: religion. Their outpost is the Temple of Yat-Zar, complete with priests, rituals, and a fearsome six-armed idol - all designed to keep local eyes away from the true miracle hidden inside the sanctuary: a paratime conveyor that can jump between probability lines. Res...
Jan 19, 2023•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 706
Space Viking by H. Beam Piper audiobook. Genre: scifi The war is over, and the worlds of the Phoenix Cluster are paying the price. Lucas Trask returns home to the planet Tanith to find his people broken by occupation and his wife dead. Refusing to accept a future of quiet ruin, he rallies Tanith's survivors into a hard-edged brotherhood of raiders - the so-called Space Vikings - and launches a campaign across the shattered interstellar frontier. But Trask's crusade is more than vengeance. As he ...
Jan 19, 2023•7 hr 46 min•Ep. 705
Oomphel in the Sky by H. Beam Piper audiobook. Genre: scifi On the colonial world of Kwannon, Terran administrators and a fragile local government try to keep order with paperwork, committees, and tired slogans. Out beyond the capital, however, the native People measure power in spells, spirits, and the authority of the shoonoon. To them, Terran machines are not technology at all but oomphel, a mysterious force that teaches, makes, and performs wonders. When an old prophecy about the Last Hot Ti...
Jan 19, 2023•2 hr 1 min•Ep. 704
Naudsonce by H. Beam Piper audiobook. Genre: scifi Naudsonce? What does THAT mean? Well, to find out you will need to listen to this story where Piper's unique mind explores what we mean by 'communication' and how it happens. The joint Space Navy-Colonial Office expedition was looking for new planets suitable for colonization; they had been out, now, for four years, which was close to maximum for an exploring expedition. They had entered eleven systems, and made landings on eight planets. Three ...
Jan 19, 2023•2 hr 1 min•Ep. 703
Ministry of Disturbance by H. Beam Piper audiobook. Genre: scifi Science Fiction at it humorous best written in the golden age of all the greats and published in Astounding Science Fiction December 1958. Piper can't be matched for sardonic comment on human nature. The Empire is stagnant; thousands of planets spread around Earth but nothing new is allowed to happen and disturb the static situation. Our emperor Paul knows this but is powerless to make a dent in the centuries old hide bound bureauc...
Jan 18, 2023•2 hr•Ep. 702
Lone Star Planet by H. Beam Piper audiobook. Genre: scifi Ambassador Stephen Silk expects routine interstellar diplomacy until he is assigned to New Texas, a rough-and-ready colony world settled largely by Texans who are fiercely allergic to outside authority. The Solar League wants New Texas in line, but Silk arrives to find his predecessor, Ambassador Silas Cumshaw, has been murdered - and the locals seem to consider that sort of political housecleaning not only normal, but healthy. While Silk...
Jan 18, 2023•3 hr 24 min•Ep. 701
Last Enemy by H. Beam Piper audiobook. Genre: scifi In Last Enemy, H. Beam Piper drops the listener into a polished, tradition-bound society where reincarnation is more than faith - it is the foundation of law, status, and power. Dallona of Hadron, a gifted psychic researcher, is on the verge of a breakthrough that could turn that foundation into something measurable, provable, and therefore dangerously disruptive. Her test is set to unfold at an elegant dinner party hosted by Garnon of Roxor, a...
Jan 18, 2023•2 hr 45 min•Ep. 700
Four Day Planet by H. Beam Piper audiobook. Genre: scifi On Fenris, a world where a single 'day' lasts 2,000 hours and a whole year is only four such days, human life survives by hiding from blistering heat and murderous cold in a few hard-bitten settlements. The planet has one prize worth exporting: tallow-wax, a rare, high-value substance taken from enormous sea creatures by daring monster hunters who ride heavy flying-subs that are part aircraft, part submarine, and part whaling boat. Sevente...
Jan 18, 2023•6 hr 32 min•Ep. 699
Fables for the Frivolous by Guy Wetmore Carryl audiobook. Genre: poetry In Fables for the Frivolous, Guy Wetmore Carryl turns the familiar shape of the classic fable inside out, delivering a brisk collection of witty verse tales that end not with solemn instruction, but with sly punchlines and upside-down morals. Each short poem introduces a small cast of recognizable characters - vain social climbers, stubborn fools, self-satisfied experts, and a menagerie of animals who behave with all the cha...
Jan 18, 2023•52 min•Ep. 698
The British Barbarians by Grant Allen audiobook. Genre: comedy After Civil Servant Philip Christy crosses paths with the mysterious Bertram Ingledew in the respectable suburb of Brackenhurst, Philip and his sister Frida, married to the wealthy Scot Robert Monteith, become friends with the stranger. Bertram has some unconventional concepts about society, and as the story unfolds, his beliefs and actions cause much disruption in the family and the neighbourhood. Who is Bertram? Where does he come ...
Jan 18, 2023•5 hr 13 min•Ep. 697
The Story of the Pony Express by Glenn D. Bradley audiobook. Genre: history The Story of the Pony Express offers an in depth account behind the need for a mail route to connect the eastern U.S. with the rapidly populating west coast following the gold rush of California, the springing up of lumber camps, and all incidental needs arising from the settling of the western frontier. Here we learn of the inception of the Pony Express, its formation, successes, failures, facts, statistics, combined wi...
Jan 18, 2023•3 hr 12 min•Ep. 696
Orthodoxy by Gilbert K. Chesterton audiobook. Genre: religion In Orthodoxy, G. K. Chesterton sets out to explain how he arrived at Christian belief, not through inherited convention, but through a hard-won sense that the world is both stranger and more meaningful than modern cynicism allows. Framed as a personal intellectual adventure, the book follows Chesterton as he tests the fashionable ideas of his age - skepticism, materialism, and self-made philosophies - and finds them unable to account ...
Jan 18, 2023•7 hr 11 min•Ep. 695
Equation of Doom by Gerald Vance audiobook. Genre: thriller 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 determined to be the most powerful too; a planet of crafty and unscrupulous giant frogs intent on kicking out all aliens; and finally beings who live outside of time. Mix them all together and some very interesting things happen. Very interesting. And disastrous. But there's more! Why did 3000 worlds ac...
Jan 17, 2023•1 hr 50 min•Ep. 694
Stoicism by George Stock audiobook. Genre: philosophy This short book is part of the Philosophies Ancient and Modern series, which attempts to make Western philosophy more accessible to the general public. In this volume, George Stock provides a concise primer on Stoicism, the ancient philosophy that maintained that the universe is governed entirely by fate, and that humans can achieve happiness only by cultivating a calm acceptance of the vicissitudes of life. Among the Stoics of the Greek and ...
Jan 17, 2023•2 hr 20 min•Ep. 693
QRM-Interplanetary by George O. Smith audiobook. Genre: scifi Far from Earth, where the Sun can turn a simple transmission into silence, the Venus Equilateral Relay Station keeps three worlds talking. Built from an asteroid and parked sixty degrees ahead of Venus in its orbit, the spinning cylinder is a self-contained city of nearly three thousand people - engineers, technicians, and families whose daily work makes interplanetary civilization possible. Don Channing, one of the station's best ele...
Jan 17, 2023•1 hr 29 min•Ep. 692
The Lifted Veil by George Eliot audiobook. Genre: horror In Victorian England, sensitive and solitary Latimer drifts through life with a mind he does not fully control. After a strange illness in his youth, he becomes cursed - or gifted - with sudden flashes of the future and an unnerving ability to hear the secret thoughts of those around him. What first seems like a way to understand people more deeply quickly turns into a relentless assault of petty motives, hidden cruelties, and banal desire...
Jan 17, 2023•2 hr 4 min•Ep. 691
Silas Marner by George Eliot audiobook. Genre: drama Silas Marner (originally published in 1861): Betrayed by a beloved friend and accused of a crime he didn’t commit, awkward Silas Marner is expelled from his beloved religious community — the only community he has ever known. He exiles himself in the remote village of Raveloe. Friendless and without family, set apart from the villagers by their superstition and fear of him, he plies his weaving trade day after day, storing up gold which becomes...
Jan 17, 2023•6 hr 58 min•Ep. 690
Middlemarch by George Eliot audiobook. Genre: drama Set in the English Midlands in the years just before the Reform Act of 1832, Middlemarch follows the intertwined lives of the residents of a provincial town where ambition, idealism, and gossip travel quickly through drawing rooms, churches, and counting houses. At its center is Dorothea Brooke, a young woman determined to live for something larger than comfort, whose choices pull her into a marriage and a social world she only partly understan...
Jan 17, 2023•35 hr 15 min•Ep. 689
A Man of Honor by George Eggleston audiobook. Genre: drama In the uneasy calm after the Civil War, Robert Pagebrook, a young New Yorker with a proud streak and a wounded heart, finds himself unmoored. A professional setback and a romantic disappointment have left him restless and self-critical, so when an invitation arrives from Virginia kin he barely knows, he takes it as a chance to begin again. At Shirley, an old family place shaped by memory, custom, and Reconstruction-era change, Pagebrook ...
Jan 17, 2023•6 hr 7 min•Ep. 688
