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ID: 737585

Title: Morgue Ship

Author: Ray Bradbury

Narrator: Peter Coates

Format: Unabridged

Length: 0:26:08

Language: English

Release date: 12-19-23

Publisher: Bookwire USD

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Space Opera

Summary:

'Morgue Ship' by Ray Bradbury is a science fiction short story, which appeared in the summer 1944 issue of Planet Stories and is therefore eligible for the 1945 Retro Hugos.

'Morgue Ship' is short, only six pages long, but Bradbury perfectly manages to capture the atmosphere aboard the morgue ship with its clinical interior, its shelves full of dead soldiers, the churning blood pumps and whirring machinery, in such a short space. Bradbury also manages to pack the horrors of war in space, the exploding ships and spinning dead bodies among the wreckage, into just a few paragraphs. Finally, Bradbury captures overwhelming weariness of Sam Burnett, weariness with his grisly task, weariness with the war and the feeling that because Burnett is not a combatant, he is not contributing to the war effort.

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