Operation - Outer Space by Murray Leinster ~ Full Audiobook [scifi]

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03/06/23

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Operation - Outer Space by Murray Leinster audiobook.

Genre: scifi

In a crowded, restless future where every rooftop is a recreation deck and every job feels precarious, television producer Jed Cochrane has learned to sell spectacle for a living. So when he is abruptly pulled into a hush-hush government project, he expects another staged event to package for the masses. Instead, a strange therapeutic experiment led by psychiatrist Dr. William Holden and centered on a brilliant, troubled scientist named Dabney pushes technology toward an unthinkable breakthrough: the first voyage beyond the Solar System. The catch is that the mission is financed the only way big money can be justified - by turning it into a broadcast, complete with sponsors, publicity, and ratings pressure. As Cochrane scrambles to make deep space 'good television,' the crew must face the practical hazards of the unknown, the politics of who controls discovery, and the moral cost of treating exploration like content. By turns tense, witty, and sharply satirical, Operation: Outer Space asks what happens when humanity's greatest leap forward is planned like a show - and whether wonder can survive the commercials.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:53:44) Chapter 02

(01:30:27) Chapter 03

(02:08:47) Chapter 04

(02:47:25) Chapter 05

(03:18:05) Chapter 06

(04:03:04) Chapter 07

(04:34:31) Chapter 08

(05:15:52) Chapter 09

(05:57:43) Chapter 10

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March 6, 2023

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Med Ship Man by Murray Leinster audiobook.

Genre: scifi

On the interstellar frontier, the Interstellar Medical Service sends its Med Ships where no one else will go: to backward worlds, tense border systems, and isolated colonies whose problems can spread faster than any plague. Calhoun, a young physician assigned to the Med Ship Aesclipus Twenty, is trained to treat both bodies and societies, but his most important tool is not a scalpel - its judgment. With his small ship, a mobile hospital, and the company of Murgatroyd, a sharp-eyed and strangely lovable companion creature, Calhoun follows cryptic calls for aid that rarely match the official reports. Each stop becomes a test of medicine under pressure: suspicious authorities hiding outbreaks, communities gripped by fear and rumor, and political rivalries that turn public health into a weapon. As Calhoun navigates quarantine protocols, ethical choices, and the limits of trust, he must prove that saving lives can mean confronting the story a planet tells about itself. Med Ship Man blends fast-moving missions with thoughtful questions about responsibility, compassion, and the fragile threads that hold civilizations together in the vastness of space.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:19:24) Chapter 02

(00:38:23) Chapter 03

(00:59:39) Chapter 04

(01:17:25) Chapter 05

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Pariah Planet by Murray Leinster ~ Full Audiobook [scifi]

March 6, 2023

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249m

Pariah Planet by Murray Leinster audiobook.

Genre: scifi

When the blue plague appeared on the planet of Dara, fear struck nearby worlds. The fear led to a hate that threatened the lives of millions and endangered the Galactic peace. But the Med Service ship Aesculapius 20 with Calhoun and Murgatroyd the Tormal aboard are on the job and have stumbled into the horrible mess caused by unreasoning hatred, quarantine, mass starvation and worse. Calhoun must use all his medical knowledge and significant skills to even understand the situation here in neglected Sector 12. Can he and Murgatroyd untangle this Gordian's knot and live to tell the tale? Maybe and maybe not. Listen and find out.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:33:27) Chapter 2

(01:00:48) Chapter 3

(01:28:47) Chapter 4

(01:58:18) Chapter 5

(02:32:28) Chapter 6

(03:04:35) Chapter 7

(03:36:36) Chapter 8

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