Alice Coombs is a particle physicist, and she and her colleagues have created a void, a hole in the universe, that they have taken to calling Lack. But Lack is a nullity with taste—tastes; it absorbs a pomegranate, light bulbs, an argyle sock; it d
L Ron Habbard's saga of the year 3000 (made into a notorious film starring John Travolta), read here by Roddy McDowall.
I have placed this post in this group because Anson Roberts put the companion production The Zebra Striped Hearse in this group. Both are far closer to full cast productions (and BBC would be well served if it adopted the technique used far more oft
Read more…Considered one of the great dystopian novels-alongside Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange and Aldous Huxley’s A Brave New World-Ira Levin’s frightening glimpse into the future continues to fascinate readers even forty years after publication.
Read more…Crime-scene photographer Michael Kapinsky is a man whose first life is in a mess. But his second life is about to get a whole lot messier. Staggering under the financial burden left by his recently deceased wife, Michael struggles to come to te
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Scott Crane abandoned his career as a professional poker player twenty years ago and hasn’t returned to Las Vegas, or held a hand of cards, in ten years. But troubling nightmares about a strange poker game he once attended on a houseboat on La
Read more… Jaybee Corbell awoke after more than 200 years as a corpsicle -- in someone else's body, and under sentence of instant annihilation if he made a wrong move while they were training him for a one-way mission to the stars.
But Corbell picked his time
One May evening in London, Adam Kindred, a young climatologist in town for a job interview, is feeling good about the future as he sits down for a meal at a little Italian bistro. He strikes up a conversation with a solitary diner at the next
Part classic noir thriller, part mind-bending fantasy, The Resurrectionist is a wild ride into a territory where nothing is as it appears. It is the story of Sweeney, a druggist by trade, and his son, Danny, the victim of an accident that has
Read more…@ the link below you will find 2 different readings of DUNE as well as a reading of Dune Messiah and Children of Dune.
http://www.mediafire.com/?ilysaiydxosnk
The author, Frank Herbert, was a USN officer and I suppose he got sick of seeing water e
Read more…As Sci-Fi audio books belong here I am also posting this collection of Foundation Novels links here
At the following links you will find the following Isaac Assimov Foundation files (not to be confused with Al Qu'eda materials - Al Qu;eda translated
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When a 15-year-old girl shows up to plead with Elvis to find her errant father, his first impulse is to hand the case over to Social Services. But he sees how hard the kid is working to keep her two siblings together and afloat. The father sounds li
Read more…Here is something to help beat the heat - 3 different readings of Smila's Sense Of Snow. SSOS is a modern classic, a compelling mystery (I have not read any more compelling, more page turning -- a terrifying thriller -- a novel with original unique
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Martin Booth's biography of Arthur Conan Doyle was published in 1997. An abridged version in five parts, read by Michael Williams, was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 from 11 to 15 January 1999.
Thanks to Jake for reminding me about this excellent readin
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Christie, Agatha - Poirot Investigates
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Christie, Agatha - The Listerdale Mystery and Other Stories (Unabridged)
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Somewhere in North Dakota, there is a town called Owl that isn't there. Disco is over, but punk never happened. They don't have cable. They don't really have pop culture, unless you count grain prices and alcoholism. People work hard and then they
Read more…RK Narayan Stories
Five stories by the acclaimed Indian writer.
Produced by Duncan Minshull
First broadcast in 1991 (Morning Story series)
Rebroadcast 12 to 16 March 2012 on Radio 4 Extra
160/44; 80 MB total; sound quality excellent
A Willing Slave
(21 Jan
Tom Winter thought the secluded cottage in the Pacific Northwest would be the perfect refuge—a place to nurse the wounds of lost love and happiness. But Tom soon discovers that his safe haven is the portal of a tunnel through time. At one end is t
Read more…Four people have come to the ugly, abandoned old mansion: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of the psychic phenomenon called haunting; Theodara, his lovely and lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, the lonely, homeless girl well a
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