$1.98
Details
The Beachcomber
Author: Damon Knight
Series: Lost Sci-Fi #40
Narrator: Scott Miller
Unabridged: 0 hr 26 min
Format: Digital Audiobook
Publisher: Findaway Voices
Published: 03/01/2022
Synopsis
The Beachcomber by Damon Knight - Alice saw the Beachcomber as a glorious hunk of man; Maxwell saw him as a super being from the future. Tragically, he was both!...
Maxwell and the girl started their weekend on Thursday, in Venice. Friday they went to Paris, Saturday to Nice, and on Sunday they were bored. Alice pouted at him across the breakfast table. "Vernon, let's go someplace else," she said.
"Sure," said Maxwell, not too graciously. "Don't you want your bug eggs?"
Alice pushed them away. "If I ever did, I don't now. Why do you have to be so unpleasant in the morning?"
The eggs were insect eggs, all right, but they were on the menu as oeufs Procyon Thibault, and three of the half-inch brown spheres cost about one thousand times their value in calories. Maxwell was well paid as a script-writer for the North American Unit Ministry of Information—he bossed a gang of six gagmen on the Cosmic Cocktail show—but he was beginning to hate to think about what these five days were costing him.
"Where do you want to go?" asked Maxwell. Their coffee came out of the conveyer, steaming and fragrant, and he sipped his moodily. "Want to run over to Algiers? Or up to Stockholm?"
"No," said Alice. She leaned forward across the table and put up one long white hand to keep her honey-colored hair out of her eyes. "You don't know what I mean. I mean, let's go to some other planet."
Maxwell choked slightly and spilled coffee on the tabletop. "Europe is all right," Alice was saying with disdain, "but it's all getting to be just like Chicago. Let's go someplace different for once."
"And be back by tomorrow noon?" Maxwell demanded. "It's ten hours even to Proxima; we'd have just time to turn around and get back on the liner."
by Ernie Lindsey
In 1587, over one hundred colonists, desperate for a better life in the new world, disappear without a trace from a settlement on tiny Roanoke Island, just off the coast of North Carolina.And now, in the present day, deafening, unearthly wails are b...
Published: 04/01/2015
by James Quinlan Meservy
Hoan woke one day to find himself strapped to a hostipal bed. The last thing he remembered was falling asleep at home in his bed, bedside his wife. He was completely disoriented. His best friend entered the room, but he looked twenty ...
Published: 06/04/2019
by H. G. Wells
Originally published in 1895, H. G. Wells' unequivocally visionary tale popularized the concept of time travel. Set in Victorian England, it tells the story of a scientist and gentleman inventor who builds a machine capable of transporting a person ...
Published: 02/20/2014
by Doug Bost; Jeff Ward
December 17 When one day doesn't follow the next, Mike realizes he's not traveling through time anymore-time is traveling through him. Script: Jeff Ward Production: Union Signal Music and engineering: Mark Ballora Artwork: Jimmy Dean Horn Cast: Doug...
Published: 10/06/2015
by Alastair Reynolds
Fix the past. Save the present. Stop the future. Master of science fiction Alastair Reynolds unfolds a time-traveling climate fiction adventure in Permafrost.2080: at a remote site on the edge of the Arctic Circle, a group of scientists, engineers a...
Published: 06/18/2019
by S.D. Unwin
The greatest scientific challenge of our age wasn't to enable time travel, it was to prevent it. The laws of physics had turned out to be idiotic, erecting no barriers to hopping time. In fact, they make it hard to avoid. I'm in the business of pres...
Published: 03/22/2022
by S.W. Clemens
At its core Time Management is the story of two families living in the same house 140 years apart. Jeffrey Porter never wanted to follow in his father’s footsteps; he had other plans. Now his father is missing, and forces are conspiring to dra...
Published: 04/11/2017
by Ernie Lindsey
For expert oncologist Dutton Quinn and his wife, Jess, the chill of a wintry morning matches the gray mood draped over their hearts. After a devastating loss, it seems as if nothing can save their marriage...except, maybe, for the promise of hope, a...
Published: 01/10/2020
by Jack Finney
The long-awaited sequel to Time And AgainSi Morley is back and the world may never be the same.When Time and Again was published in 1970, it immediately developed a loyal following that has grown with each passing year. Now, twenty-five years later,...
Published: 03/01/1995