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Titel: Spur zwischen den Sternen (Perry Rhodan Silber Edition 43)

Autor:: H. G. Ewers, William Voltz, Clark Darlton, Hans Kneifel

Erzähler: Josef Tratnik

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 16 hrs

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 02-17-15

Herausgeber: Eins A Medien GmbH

Kategorien: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi: Classic

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Zu Beginn des Jahres 2437 ist die Lage für das Solare Imperium dramatisch angespannt. Zwar sind Perry Rhodan und die Besatzung der CREST IV aus der fernen Galaxis M 87 zurückgekehrt, dennoch hat sich die Bedrohung durch die gnadenlos zuschlagende Zeitpolizei nicht verringert. Die Terraner müssen ständig mit einer neuen Großoffensive der Zweitkonditionierten rechnen, den mit lebendigen Raumschiffen ausgerüsteten Kämpfern der Zeitpolizei.

Auf der Spur der sogenannten Ersten Schwingungsmacht, die hinter den Zweitkonditionierten steht, dringt währenddessen Roi Danton mit der FRANCIS DRAKE in die Kleine Magellansche Wolke ein. Dort verschwanden in den letzten Monaten immer wieder terranische Raumschiffe, und dort erwartet man sich weitere Hinweise. Doch Danton und seine Begleiter geraten in die Falle einer unheimlichen Macht. Auf sie wartet ein grausiges Schicksal in Gefangenschaft: Das Los bestimmt, wer von ihnen leben darf und wer nicht. Und auf jene, die vermeintlich Glück hatten, wartet der Tod in anderer, noch schrecklicherer Form. Die unbekannten Herrscher über Magellan wollen Roi Danton und seine Begleiter zu ihren geistigen Sklaven zu machen...

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Title: Waterline [Russian Edition]

Author: Alexander Gromov

Narrator: Larisa Luganskaya

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-30-15

Publisher: IDDK

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi: Classic

Publisher's Summary:

"Vaterlinija" fantasticheskij roman Aleksandra Gromova, rossijskogo pisatelja-fantasta, laureata premij Zvjozdnyj most (2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006), Ajelita (2006), Strannik (2001). Vy mozhete predstavit' sebe planetu, celikom sostojashhuju iz vody? Ee nazvali Kaplej. Raspolozhennaja na peresechenii vazhnyh kosmicheskih trass, Kaplja stala mestom, gde shlestnulis' interesy Zemnoj Federacii, Unii i Ligi Svobodnyh Mirov. Chelovechestvo, rasselivsheesja po vsej Galaktike, tak i ne stalo edinym. Voennoe protivostojanie, jekonomicheskie neurjadicy, problema kontakta s inoplanetnoj zhizn'ju - vse jeti protivorechija, razdeljajushhie mir, ne dajut pokoja i pilotu flajdarta Aleksandru Shabanu, popadajushhemu snachala na nevpolne blagopoluchnuju planetu Prokna, zatem - na Kaplju. A tut eshhe vyjasnjaetsja, chto sushhestvuet nekij zagadochnyj Oreol.

Please note: This audiobook is in Russian.

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Title: The Time Machine (Adaptation)

Author: H G Wells, Eric Brown

Narrator: Rob Penman

Format: Abridged

Length: 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-23-15

Publisher: Real Reads

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi: Classic

Publisher's Summary:

"On this machine, I intend to explore time..." The time traveller has invented a time machine. Its capabilities are beyond even his fertile imagination.

Hundreds of thousand of years in the future, the beautiful Eloi people live in a Garden of Eden. But why are they so fearful of the dark? What horrors lurk beneath the surface of their world? What will the time traveller learn about the future? Will he survive the evil he encounters? Even if he can find his stolen machine, will it return him safely home? What does his future hold? What is the future of the human race?

A Real Reads retelling of a great classic. Shortened, but told in the style of the author, and true to original plot, characters and themes.

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Title: The Night of the Long Knives

Author: Fritz Leiber

Narrator: Phil Chenevert

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 19 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-02-14

Publisher: Spoken Realms

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi: Classic

Publisher's Summary:

"I was 100 miles from Nowhere - and I mean that literally - when I spotted this girl out of the corner of my eye. I'd been keeping an extra lookout because I still expected the other undead bugger left over from the murder party at Nowhere to be stalking me." In a Post-apocalyptic world, the few people left must be strong. And must not hesitate to kill. Of course, killing another Deathlander was one of the chief pleasures and urges of all the solitary wanders in this vast wasteland. Kill and kill again. But this other was a girl and that brought up the second great urge: sex. Which was it to be today? Perhaps both? And who would walk away afterward?

Members Reviews:

A classic sci-fi/fantasy tale by one of the masters from the Golden Era!

After an atomic holocaust, a man meets a woman in what he calls, The Deadlands, a post atomic area that has still a few survivors â but they survive because the are killers.

But they make love, they learn to trust one another as best they can, they meet an old guy with a lot of wisdom who appears after an odd

plane from another area lands and they kill the pilot.

Then follows adventure after adventure as the old man, who is now amember of âMurderers Anonymousâ â tries to convince the couple that killing solves nothing.

This is a classic sci-fi/fantasy tale from one of the masters of the genre from the Golden Era of sci-fi/fantasy â a fun read!

Give This Fritz Leiber Sci-Fi Novella a Try.

The Night of the Long Knives by Fritz Leiber simply stands the test of time as far as post-apocalypse SF stories go. Written over fifty years ago, the concept of survival in a radioactive wasteland that was once America is still fresh. This is a very promising short novel by Fritz Leiber. It makes me want to read more titles by this author, some available on Kindle.

No Finlay art, just a good story

Despite listing "art by Finlay" there is no Virgil Finlay art in this kindle book; however there is in other e-versions, and you can always poke around the internet and turn up an illustration or two. But the book is free, so you can't really complain too much.

The story is a novella - 93 kindle pages, with a distinct beginning, middle and end. That might sound trite, but in structure its closer to novel than merely being a glorified short story. This is a post-apocalyptic tale of survival in a world of radiation poisoning, madness, and social and religious upheaval. It's a bit fast and loose with the timeframes on occasion, as well as how much of the "old world" people remember, but a large part of that can be put down to having a narrator that is not just unreliable, but pretty much insane.

Said Narrator is "Ray", and the book starts out with him in the Deathlands, meeting "Alice", doing murder, and running into a strange old man called "Pop", who is a card-carrying member of Murderers Anonymus (MA for short).

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Title: The Judas Valley

Author: Robert Silverberg

Narrator: Phil Chenevert

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 17 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-25-14

Publisher: Spoken Realms

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi: Classic

Publisher's Summary:

Why did everybody step off the ship in this strange valley and promptly drop dead? How could a well-equipped corps of tough spacemen become a field of rotting skeletons in this quiet world of peace and contentment? It was a mystery Peter and Sherri had to solve. If they could live long enough! [from The Judas Valley]

Originally published in Amazing Stories in October 1956.

Members Reviews:

Decent, fun to read, but nothing very original

This is a science fiction short story intended for teenagers. Essentially all science fiction, and even most fiction in general, is really adolescent, which is perhaps why people enjoy reading. So that does not mean this story is not enjoyable. The author presents a mysterious problem, namely all the members of a previous expedition to this planet all died, except one. So this new expedition has to determine what went wrong. It is important that they do this because the planet has a rich vein of âdouble-nucleus beryllium,â which is scientific gobbledygook. It is short and entertaining, if not terribly original. Although the book was advertised as being the work of Robert Silverberg and Randall Garrett, the opening page says that it is by Gerald Vance. Perhaps this was a penname of Silverberg & Garrett. I see that none of the other reviewers point this out, so maybe they know something I don't.

Five Stars

I really like it.

Kindle

Not what I expected

WHAT IS THE RISK OF EXPLORING THE UNKNOWN IN SPACE?

The Judas Valley, written by Robert Silverberg, deserves an episode in Star Trek or Starship Troopers.

Scout ship Mervis with a crew of nine discovers a planet rich with precious beryllium but all of them die except one who returns to Earth to tell the story. Eager to mine the beryllium the Lord Nelson with a crew of sixty-five is dispatched to find out what happened.

This intelligent short story presents a mystery that illustrates what could happen when arrogant man finds itself at the wrong end of the food chain.

robert silverberg, science fiction short story, alien encounter

it was a good read, a mystery set on another plant, a hostile alien, and i could easily picture it as a tv shoe. the style of the writing is a bit "dated" but can be enjoyed nevertheless as a fine example of SF from that era. Furthermore, it's free so the price is always right.

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Title: Naudsonce

Author: H. Beam Piper

Narrator: Harry Shaw

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 42 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-24-14

Publisher: Spoken Realms

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi: Classic

Publisher's Summary:

Bishop Berkeley's famous question about the sound of a falling tree may have no standing in Science. But there is a highly interesting question about "sound" that Science needs to consider... A classic science fiction novelette by H. Beam Piper, first published in Analog Science Fact-Science Fiction in 1962.

Members Reviews:

Telepathy or . . . ?

What kind of title is "Nausonce"? The answer is, "appropriate," once you have read the story. The title looks like a non-sense word, but in actuallity it is a good example of one of the methods that new words are coigned and enter a language. The story also examines some of the basic theories of lingustics and semantics which have been developing for the past century in the context of a meeting between humans and another race of beings who hear and speak in so different a manner as to appear incomprehensible.

The theme of communication with others through cultural, verbal, or temporal barriers is a thread that runs though a good number of Mr. Piper's stories as examples: his "Fuzzy" series, "Omnilingual" and "Murder in the Gun Room"--Wherein the main character, Colonel Rand, purposely manipulates others through his use of semantics; and quite effectively at that.

We could all take the lesson from Mr. Piper's works that what we see and hear is subject to our own preconceptions and that we often confuse "truths" with "facts."

Unwinding alien emotions

This is a short story similar to others by Piper as it delves into a specific scientific "what-if." Taking a known biological process in our world, he morphs it into something else in another world. Unwinding the science, he takes us through not only human emotions but alien ones as well. I love this kind of sci-fi.

Five Stars

A real insight into the psychology of sentient beings.

Five Stars

Fine

Interesting problem

How to resolve a problem concerning the natives without making it look like the visitors are taking over the world? That's the premise. It works.

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Title: Bread Overhead

Author: Fritz Leiber

Narrator: Phil Chenevert

Format: Unabridged

Length: 40 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-22-14

Publisher: Spoken Realms

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi: Classic

Publisher's Summary:

This Leiber story, loaded with his usual tongue-in-cheek extraploaton takes recent trends in bread making and pushes them to their logical limits. Just how far from wheat can bread get? Listen to this story and see. Of course there are robots involved who uh. complicate things a bit.

Members Reviews:

Ah well. Old Sci-Fi. Get what you pay for.

Pretty dated

Some of Fritz Leiber's "lightest" short fiction

Fritz Leiber was one of the greatest science fiction and fantasy writers of the mid-twentieth century. His themes often touched on the ridiculous aspects of our society's mores and fashions. One of his particular foils was modern advertising, which is the gist of this satirical piece, an advertising gimmick gone horribly wrong. This is a very short story, so I can't give too much away. Just to say it starts as much ado about (almost) nothing, because of a comedy of errors, but alls well that ends well. While the story is a little dated (remember it was written in 1958), it is a nice "light" introduction to Leiber and a very quick read (you certainly can't beat the Kindle price). Enjoy.

Pure silliness

A silly little tale about the perils of fad foods. Or something like that. It's surpassingly silly, so don't expect to find a big philosophical point in this. Just enjoy it.

Man. Now I REALLY want some bread.

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A Science Fiction Story

Light staple perfection.

4 out of 5

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Title: Spider #15, December 1934

Subtitle: The Spider

Author: Grant Stockbridge, RadioArchives.com

Narrator: Nick Santa Maria

Format: Original Recording

Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-24-14

Publisher: RadioArchives.com

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi: Classic

Publisher's Summary:

During the difficult decade encompassed by the years 1933-43, a commanding figure blazed his way through a legion of Depression-era supercriminals, Nazi spies and saboteurs. He was wealthy criminologist Richard Wentworth. He was also secretly The Spider!

Never before or since has there been a hero like him. Driven, hunted, and violently committed to exterminating criminals of all calibers. A self-appointed savior of humanity, driven manic-depressive, and possibly undiagnosed paranoid schizophrenic, The Spider was known as the Master of Men.

For this latest release in our Will Murray Pulp Classics series of audiobooks, we asked our customers to pick their favorite Spider novel for recording. Many stories were nominated, but none outpolled any other. We did discover that most of you wanted to hear brought to life one of Norvell Page's epic tales pitting the Master of Men against a villain in the vein of Fu Manchu, Dr. Yen Sin or Marvel Comics' the Mandarin.

So we selected The Red Death Rain, the first of these white-hot face offs, wherein a malevolent mastermind has poisoned all of the liquor, cigarettes and coffee available to Manhattan. His name: The Red Mandarin. It's well known that Marvel Comics' writer Stan Lee was a faithful follower of The Spider magazine during his Depression youth. Could Lee have been thinking of this story when he created the Iron Man villain known as the Mandarin? You decide.

First printed in the December, 1934 issue of The Spider, The Red Death Rain is a thrill ride from start to finish, and boasts the most electrifying final scene in any of Page's thrilling works. Many consider it the most unforgettable novel of the entire series.

Once more, Nick Santa Maria brings the action to vibrant life, narrating with a fever-pitch intensity worthy of the bloody pulps.

Members Reviews:

The Spider storyline could have been better.

No red death rain but evil orientals and other villains cause people who smoke cigarettes to die horrible deaths, and The Spider is blamed. Nita is kidnapped by the villains and promised a horrible death unless The Spider joins the villains who plan to kill millions across America. Kirkpatrick is turned into Wentworth's/The Spider's deadliest enemy. With few clues, The Spider struggles to make sense of what is happening while one step ahead of death. Don't forget to read the Doc Turner backup story where the old chemist is chased by the police, accused of burning people to death.

Luridly wonderful

This is when the Spider books start to go ape-poop crazy (literally, as you'll see if you read it). I read the Carroll & Graf reprint of this in the 90s, and still vividly remember the last line of the novel, which has to be one of the all time great, bizarro ends of a pulp novel ever. What I had forgotten from the last read was the surreal Christmas tableaus thrown in, and the Lynchian seduction scenes. There must have been something in the water in 1934, and Norvell Page (aka G. Stockbridge) was drinking it. Reading this is a tall glass of that water. Enjoy.

THE SPIDER strikes again

I have not yet read this story but all the others were great , no time to catch breath all action I look forward to reading this!

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Title: The Drought

Author: J. G. Ballard

Narrator: Jonathan Coote

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs

Language: English

Release date: 08-08-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi: Classic

Publisher's Summary:

By the best-selling author of Cocaine Nights and Super-Cannes - the world is threatened by dramatic climate change in this highly acclaimed and influential novel. Water. Mans most precious commodity is a luxury of the past. Radioactive waste from years of industrial dumping has caused the sea to form a protective skin strong enough to devastate the Earth it once sustained. And while the remorseless sun beats down on the dying land, civilisation itself begins to crack. Violence erupts and insanity reigns as the remnants of mankind struggle for survival in a worldwide desert of despair.

J.G. Ballard was born in 1930 in Shanghai, where his father was a businessman. After internment in a civilian prison camp, he and his family returned to England in 1946. He published his first novel, The Drowned World, in 1961. His 1984 bestseller Empire of the Sun won the Guardian Fiction Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. It was later filmed by Steven Spielberg. His memoir Miracles of Life was published in 2008. J.G. Ballard died in 2009.

Members Reviews:

For completists only

Would you try another book from J. G. Ballard and/or Jonathan Coote?

I am definitely a fan of JG Ballard, but this, the second of the dystopian 'World' series (the first being 'The Drowned World' and the third being 'The Crystal World'), is not a favourite of mine. I would only recommend it to someone familiar with his work. There is an uncharacteristic awkwardness to his writing in 'The Drought'.

Jonathan Coote was a new narrator to me. I really enjoyed his narration: there are some extreme characters in 'The Drought' and he brought them to life with subtlety. I would definitely try another audiobook narrated by Jonathan Coote.

What was the most interesting aspect of this story? The least interesting?

The most interesting aspect of this story for me is the 'missing' part of the text: the decade that passes between the start and end of the book. I can't help feeling that this would have been the more interesting phase to explore.

The least interesting aspect of this story for me is the Lomax/Miranda storyline.

Which character as performed by Jonathan Coote was your favorite?

I can't really say that I have a 'favourite' - most of the characters in this book are (deliberately) repugnant, or (deliberate) ciphers, their motives unimpenetrable.

If this book were a movie would you go see it?

No - it is (deliberately) not engaging, and I cannot imagine it working as a film.

Any additional comments?

The Oedipal and Freudian overtones are pretty heavy-handed in this text.

Disappointing

Would you ever listen to anything by J. G. Ballard again?

I have read almost everything by J G Ballard.

How did the narrator detract from the book?

Wooden performance.

Any additional comments?

The book itself was the most disappointing feature. A storyline that never really got going, one dimensional characters and so much that shouted for development but, sadly, never was.

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Title: Spider #73, October 1939

Subtitle: The Spider

Author: Grant Stockbridge, Radio Archives

Narrator: Nick Santa Maria

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 59 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-24-14

Publisher: RadioArchives.com

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi: Classic

Publisher's Summary:

By 1939, Richard Wentworth had been operating as The Spider for nearly six harrowing years. He's been through everything a good, resourceful pulp hero could expect to face. Malevolent master villains. Sinister Asian world conquerors. Mad scientists more diabolical than anything conceived before that point. And of course since The Spider was a wanted criminal, endless police officials, uniformed cops, homicide detectives, and other officers of the law had been pursuing him with single-minded fervor.

The problem for his poor writer, Norvell W. Page, was that there are only so many plot variations for a hero who fought crime in his dual identities. So as the year 1939 dawned, Page's editors put their heads together and asked themselves: What can we do that we've never done before?

Evidently, they decided to subject Dick Wentworth; his fiancée, Nita van Sloan; and the other stalwart Spider crew to a monthly series of challenges designed to make audiences clutch at their hearts and rend their garments in sympathetic anguish.

The stirring sequence began with Rule of the Monster Men, and ran for half a years - no doubt the worst of Richard Wentworth's harried and hectic career.

The Spider and the Eyeless Legion is the final part of this multi-story sequence of Spider novels in which first Nita van Sloan was reduced to a helpless cripple, and then Wentworth himself was forced to become a wanted fugitive. It is in that unaccustomed and dangerous role that this electrifying novel takes place.

This time, Wentworth must battle a new underworld power who is determined to conquer New York City, using the power of the Eyeless Terror as his sinister scepter. Forced to don new disguises and alternate identities. Then things take a terrible turn as the Spider is struck blind and enslaved by the malevolently fat Amoy.