Author: Philip K. Dick, Clifford D. Simak, Harry Harrison, Poul Anderson, Robert Sheckley
Series: Lost Sci-Fi 5 Book Box Sets
Narrator: Scott Miller
Unabridged: 3 hr 42 min
Format: Digital Audiobook
Publisher: Findaway Voices
Published: 08/19/2023
Genre: Fiction - Science Fiction
Lost Sci-Fi Books 141 thru 145 - Five Lost Sci-Fi Short Stories from the 1930s, 40s, 50s and 60s
Souvenir by Philip K. Dick - A hideous nightmare seemed the culture of Williamson's World–to men who knew nothing of beauty.Message From Mars by Clifford D. Simak - Fifty-five pioneers had died on the "bridge of bones" that spanned the Void to the rusty plains of Mars. Now the fifty-sixth stood on the red planet, his only ship a total wreck—and knew that Earth was doomed unless he could send a warning within hours.Duel on Syrtis by Poul Anderson - Bold and ruthless, he was famed throughout the System as a big-game hunter. From the firedrakes of Mercury to the ice-crawlers of Pluto, he'd slain them all. But his trophy-room lacked one item; and now Riordan swore he'd bag the forbidden game that roamed the red deserts ... a Martian!The Stainless Steel Rat by Harry Harrison - James diGriz lives a life of crime, and he's good at it. Perhaps not as good as he thinks he is!Beside Still Waters by Robert Sheckley - When people talk about getting away from it all, they are usually thinking about our great open spaces out west. But to science fiction writers, that would be practically in the heart of Times Square. When a man of the future wants solitude he picks a slab of rock floating in space four light years west of Andromeda. Here is a gentle little story about a man who sought the solitude of such a location. And who did he take along for company? None other than Charles the robot.The classic alien invasion story that has thrilled and terrified readers for generations.Imagine a world where the impossible becomes reality. Where martians armed with devastating weapons descend from the sky and begin their relentless exterminatio...
Eight hundred years ago, the Zhen Empire discovered a broken human colony ship drifting in the fringes of their space. The Zhen gave the humans a place to live and folded them into their Empire as a client state. But it hasn't been easy. Not all Zhe...
300 years after his death, William Lantry awakes from his coffin. One thing is very clear to him – this sterile world without superstition, fear, or imagination must be destroyed. ¶Ray Bradbury was one of the best-known writers of our tim...
The New York Times bestselling security droid with a heart (though it wouldn't admit it!) Is back in Fugitive Telemetry ! Having captured the hearts of readers across the globe (Annalee Newitz says it's "one of the most humane portraits of a nonhum...
The future is here...in an adventure of cosmic dimension.In December, 1999, a multinational team journeys out to the stars, to the most awesome encounter in human history. Who -- or what -- is out there? In Cosmos, Carl Sagan explained the universe....
Novice spy Jake is ready to be a hero. His boss wants a delivery driver.Jake tries hard, but spying is a tough job. When a botched pickup and a drunken indiscretion drop him in jail, he's sent to serve his sentence in the Milita. His new commander w...
"A murderous android discovers itself in All Systems Red, a tense science fiction adventure by Martha Wells that interrogates the roots of consciousness through Artificial Intelligence.""As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure.""In ...
Experience the original earth-shattering novel! Wells’ classic was written serially from 1895-1897, when steam locomotives and similar gargantuan machinery constituted the pinnacle of technological development. Now, relive the horrific wonder...
??????????Mind Blowing! - A fast paced, edge of your seat, gut wrenching story!??????????Now performed in audio, by David A. ConasterVolcanoes erupt around the globe. Cities are leveled. No one is left untouched.Ronald Ash and his small Texas town e...