Four Day Planet by H. Beam Piper ~ Full Audiobook [scifi]

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01/18/23

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392m

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Four Day Planet by H. Beam Piper audiobook.

Genre: scifi

On Fenris, a world where a single 'day' lasts 2,000 hours and a whole year is only four such days, human life survives by hiding from blistering heat and murderous cold in a few hard-bitten settlements. The planet has one prize worth exporting: tallow-wax, a rare, high-value substance taken from enormous sea creatures by daring monster hunters who ride heavy flying-subs that are part aircraft, part submarine, and part whaling boat. Seventeen-year-old Walter 'Walt' Boyd, a cub reporter at the Port Sandor Times, expects his job to be mostly weather, arrivals, and small-town disputes. Instead, a ship's landing, an unexpected visitor, and a sudden shift in the politics of tallow-wax pricing pull him into a struggle that could break Fenris's only industry. As rumors spread and tempers flare, Walt and his father follow money trails, crooked deals, and backroom alliances, trying to expose who is profiting while ordinary hunters risk their lives for less and less. Four-Day Planet blends frontier survival, investigative legwork, and mounting political tension into a classic mid-century tale of integrity versus corruption on the edge of civilization.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:26:51) Chapter 02

(00:50:42) Chapter 03

(01:10:38) Chapter 04

(01:30:45) Chapter 05

(01:52:12) Chapter 06

(02:08:59) Chapter 07

(02:25:22) Chapter 08

(02:42:47) Chapter 09

(02:56:06) Chapter 10

(03:13:33) Chapter 11

(03:29:07) Chapter 12

(03:41:17) Chapter 13

(03:52:26) Chapter 14

(04:04:56) Chapter 15

(04:28:21) Chapter 16

(04:43:40) Chapter 17

(05:02:42) Chapter 18

(05:21:19) Chapter 19

(05:53:45) Chapter 20

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Fables for the Frivolous by Guy Wetmore Carryl ~ Full Audiobook [poetry]

January 18, 2023

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51m

Fables for the Frivolous by Guy Wetmore Carryl audiobook.

Genre: poetry

In Fables for the Frivolous, Guy Wetmore Carryl turns the familiar shape of the classic fable inside out, delivering a brisk collection of witty verse tales that end not with solemn instruction, but with sly punchlines and upside-down morals. Each short poem introduces a small cast of recognizable characters - vain social climbers, stubborn fools, self-satisfied experts, and a menagerie of animals who behave with all the charming pettiness of polite society. With a narrator who is equal parts storyteller and conspirator, Carryl sketches quick scenes of temptation, pride, miscommunication, and misplaced certainty, then snaps them shut with a concluding couplet that skewers the lesson you thought you were about to learn. The central conflict in these miniatures is almost always the same: a character's tidy worldview colliding with reality, and losing. Written with nimble rhyme and a satirist's eye for human habits, the book invites listeners to laugh at pretension, question easy wisdom, and enjoy language that lands like a well-timed wink. Light, sharp, and endlessly quotable, these fables are built for replay.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:02:57) Chapter 2

(00:05:38) Chapter 3

(00:08:20) Chapter 4

(00:10:23) Chapter 5

(00:12:45) Chapter 6

(00:15:05) Chapter 7

(00:17:03) Chapter 8

(00:19:12) Chapter 9

(00:21:58) Chapter 10

(00:23:51) Chapter 11

(00:26:04) Chapter 12

(00:28:30) Chapter 13

(00:30:35) Chapter 14

(00:33:06) Chapter 15

(00:35:38) Chapter 16

(00:37:57) Chapter 17

(00:40:16) Chapter 18

(00:42:31) Chapter 19

(00:44:29) Chapter 20

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Last Enemy by H. Beam Piper ~ Full Audiobook [scifi]

January 18, 2023

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165m

Last Enemy by H. Beam Piper audiobook.

Genre: scifi

In Last Enemy, H. Beam Piper drops the listener into a polished, tradition-bound society where reincarnation is more than faith - it is the foundation of law, status, and power. Dallona of Hadron, a gifted psychic researcher, is on the verge of a breakthrough that could turn that foundation into something measurable, provable, and therefore dangerously disruptive. Her test is set to unfold at an elegant dinner party hosted by Garnon of Roxor, a gathering that is not a celebration at all but a carefully staged discarnation feast: a voluntary death meant to serve science. When the moment arrives, a trained sensitive in hypnotic trance becomes a living conduit, and the after-death testimony that follows threatens to make death itself a solved problem. But in a world where belief systems are political weapons, proof can be as lethal as any lie. As factions maneuver to control, suppress, or exploit what Dallona has uncovered, she finds herself forced to weigh truth against the human cost of revealing it - and to consider what happens to a civilization when its oldest fear loses its teeth.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:34:55) Chapter 2

(01:09:37) Chapter 3

(01:40:08) Chapter 4

(02:14:34) Chapter 5

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