Mercenary by Mack Reynolds ~ Full Audiobook [scifi]

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02/23/23

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156m

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Mercenary by Mack Reynolds audiobook.

Genre: scifi

In a future America that has traded civic duty for comfort, society is locked into a rigid nine-level caste system - and almost no one ever climbs. Joseph Mauser, born Mid-Lower and determined to become something more, has chosen one of the last remaining ladders: Category Military. But war is no longer a clash of nations. Under a universal disarmament pact that bans modern weaponry, the truly powerful settle their disputes in carefully regulated corporate 'fracas' - limited battlefields fought with old-tech guns, strict rules, and wall-to-wall television coverage. When a new fight brews between rival giants like Vacuum Tube Transport and Continental Hovercraft, Mauser signs on as a professional mercenary, weighing not just tactics and survival, but budgets, reputations, and the stock-share promises that can buy a higher place in the system. As he trains recruits from the lower castes, navigates eccentric aristocratic commanders, and confronts the strange mix of spectacle and real bloodshed, Mauser discovers that in a world of TV and tranquilizers, violence can be both entertainment and policy - and the price of ambition may be higher than any pay bonus.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:54:46) Chapter 2

(01:43:20) Chapter 3

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Adaptation by Mack Reynolds ~ Full Audiobook [scifi]

February 23, 2023

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182m

Adaptation by Mack Reynolds audiobook.

Genre: scifi

In 1960 when this was published, the Cold War was at its height. Communism and Free Enterprise (Democracy) were locked in a ferocious struggle to prove that their political ideology was the best form of government for human kind. No holds were barred in this fight; propaganda was poured forth by both sides in a constant push to be seen as better, more progressive, more productive. Nuclear war was a constant threat. I know, I lived through that time. Thankfully the world came through that stressful time without a hot war but the question was not really settled: which is the better system? This story explores that question. 'Hardly had man solved his basic problems on the planet of his origin than he began to fumble into space. Barely a century had elapsed in the exploration of the Solar System than he began to grope for the stars. And suddenly, with an all but religious zeal, mankind conceived its fantasy dream of populating the galaxy.'

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:12:01) Chapter 02

(00:27:50) Chapter 03

(00:52:16) Chapter 04

(01:14:35) Chapter 05

(01:31:31) Chapter 06

(01:46:20) Chapter 07

(01:54:47) Chapter 08

(02:10:54) Chapter 09

(02:20:19) Chapter 10

(02:30:10) Chapter 11

(02:40:46) Chapter 12

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Venus Enslaved by Manly Wade Wellman ~ Full Audiobook [scifi]

February 27, 2023

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132m

Venus Enslaved by Manly Wade Wellman audiobook.

Genre: scifi

On the sweltering, perilous world of Venus, an Earthman named Planter finds his sentence turned into something far worse than prison: survival among alien jungles, strange predators, and rival powers that treat human life as a resource to be spent. Thrown together with two fellow convicts, the hard-edged Disbro and the unexpectedly formidable Max, Planter expects only heat, hunger, and a quick death. Instead, a sudden encounter with a deadly tentacled creature ends with an even stranger rescue - by Mara, a warrior of a fierce Amazon sisterhood whose weapons are as archaic as they are lethal. The Amazons have their own war to fight, and they see in Planter both a risk and an opportunity. Looming over everything are the Frogmasters of the Veiled Planet, a domineering force whose reach and cruelty threaten to enslave everyone caught in their shadow. Caught between cultures and armed with little more than nerve, improvisation, and uneasy alliances, Planter must decide what kind of man he will be on a planet where freedom is never given - it is taken.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:28:14) Chapter 02

(01:12:41) Chapter 03

(01:38:11) Chapter 04

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