Science Fiction
Facing the Flag
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Jules Verne
Like The Begum's Millions, which Verne published in 1879, it has the theme of France and the entire world threatened by a super-weapon (what…
Astounding Stories 17, May 1931
Read by Bill Boerst
Ray Cummings
This issue of the science-fiction magazine includes a novella by Charles W. Diffin titled "Dark Moon" and several short stories, i…
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
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Cory Doctorow
Jules is a young man, barely a century old. He's lived long enough to see the cure for death and the end of scarcity, to learn ten languages…
Greener Than You Think
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Ward Moore
Do remember reading a panic-mongering news story a while back about genetically engineered “Frankengrass” “escaping” from the golf course wh…
First on the Moon
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Jeff Sutton
The four men had been scrutinized, watched, investigated, and intensively trained for more than a year. They were the best men to be found f…
Borrowed Time
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Keith Hughes
Ness Relevant is living on borrowed time. Molecular implosion, cellular degeneration, and dangerous men are but a few of the perils faced by…
At the Mountains of Madness
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H. P. Lovecraft
In the most cold and remote region of the planet lies mountains towering higher than the Himalayas and containing abominable secrets the min…
Fractured Horizon
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H.E. Roulo
Katherine Downs sets off to find her mysterious father—and awakens hundreds of years later into a world guided by visionary Royals. But Kay…
Astounding Stories 12, December 1930
Read by Bill Boerst
Captain S. P. Meek
This issue includes "Slaves of the Dust" by Sophie Wenzel Ellis, Part B of "The Pirate Planet" by Charles W. Diffin, &qu…
Shaman Tales 1: South Coast
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Nathan Lowell
Otto is Richard Krugg's only son and heir to the Shaman's gift. The only problem is Otto doesn't want it. He wants to be a fisherman. When c…
Brigands of the Moon
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Ray Cummings
Gregg Haljan was aware that there was a certain danger in having the giant spaceship Planetara stop off at the moon to pick up Grantline's s…
The Highest Treason
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Randall Garrett
Set in a future in which humanity’s dream of total equality is fully realized and poverty in terms of material wealth has been eliminated, h…
Anon Time
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Craig Robertson
What if you weren't who you thought you were, what others saw you to be? What if the structure of time depended on you to keep it steady. …
A Different Point of View
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TD-0013
Recently re-mastered with all around better quality sound and production!! Originally aired as a segment for Michael and Evo's Wingin' It! p…
Astounding Stories 06, June 1930
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Ray Cummings
Issue six of this seminal science-fiction magazine concludes the Ray Cummings story "Brigands of the Moon", and continues Murray L…
The Lord of Death and the Queen of Life
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Homer Eon Flint
A doctor, an architect, an engineer, and a geologist step into a space car. In their new invention, they set off on an expedition to Mercury…
Short Science Fiction Collection 065
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Various
Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is p…
A Trace of Memory
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Keith Laumer
Legion was homeless and hungry and looking for a way to get to Miami when he crossed paths with Foster. Foster enlists Legion's aid in deal…
Damned If You Don't
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Randall Garrett
We've all heard of the wonderful invention that the Big Corporation or the Utilities suppressed? The one that would revolutionize society …
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Read by Edwin Abbott Abbott
Edwin Abbott Abbott
Math. Geometry. Physics. Violence? Is this the same book I read in school? Yep.
One of the joys of rediscovering old books is that they…