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Search the Sky by Frederik Pohl ~ Full Audiobook [scifi]
Classic Audiobook Collection
01/11/23
•421m
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Search the Sky by Frederik Pohl audiobook.
Genre: scifi
Ross was a junior trader on Halsey's Planet, and had great prospects but was not happy at all. Everything smelled of decay. The whole planet seemed to be slowly disappearing, the population dwindling month by month and year by year and yet no one seemd to care or even notice. Something was very, very wrong. When the first interstellar transport in 30 years arrived on Halsey's Planet, it brought things to a head. The ship had touched on six other colony worlds - and all six had been devoid of human life. Where was everybody? It was almost as if humankind, when separated by cosmic distances from Mother Earth, could not survive. He didn't know the answer but he knew it all smelled highly of decay. Decay and Rot. This highly praised novel by C.M.Kornbluth and Frederick Pohl was first published in 1954 was seen as a wonderful satire on various trends in the society of the 1950's.
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Chapters (Approximate)
(00:00:00) Chapter 01
(00:39:25) Chapter 02
(01:07:27) Chapter 03
(01:24:51) Chapter 04
(01:49:47) Chapter 05
(02:16:03) Chapter 06
(02:43:56) Chapter 07
(03:20:36) Chapter 08
(03:53:40) Chapter 09
(04:22:27) Chapter 10
(04:57:32) Chapter 11
(05:33:26) Chapter 12
(06:08:00) Chapter 13
(06:35:28) Chapter 14
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Over Prairie Trails by Frederick Philip Grove ~ Full Audiobook [drama]
January 10, 2023
•361m
Over Prairie Trails by Frederick Philip Grove audiobook.
Genre: drama
When Frederick Philip Grove settled in a remote area of Manitoba in the early years of the 20th century, he found work teaching in a school over 30 miles from his home. He commuted by horse-and-wagon or horse-and-sleigh each weekend, and seven of those long and challenging journeys are recorded in “Over Prairie Trails,” published in 1922.
Grove has a sharp eye for details of nature that were of life-and-death importance to the lone prairie traveller — the shifting aspects of skies, wind, fog, and snow. On one level, the book is a treasury of documentary observation and nature writing.
However, while Grove claims to offer a naturalist’s “plain truth,” we come to realize that he is creating a “tale” as much as a nature diary. He selects and arranges his material. Sometimes this means transforming his accounts into archetypal heroic journeys, casting himself as the Odyssean adventurer who battles his way through seas of snow and fog to return to his wife and child. At other times, his reports launch meditations on the nature of observation, consciousness, and the construction of meaning.
“Over Prairie Trails” is a landmark in Canadian writing, influencing the way nature — especially the Canadian winter— would be written about for decades to come.
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Chapters (Approximate)
(00:00:00) Chapter 01
(00:04:27) Chapter 02
(00:48:52) Chapter 03
(01:48:28) Chapter 04
(02:26:57) Chapter 05
(03:02:42) Chapter 06
(03:44:45) Chapter 07
(04:40:43) Chapter 08
(05:10:18) Chapter 09
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The Knights of Arthur by Frederik Pohl ~ Full Audiobook [scifi]
January 11, 2023
•109m
The Knights of Arthur by Frederik Pohl audiobook.
Genre: scifi
After the Third World War, New York City is a hollowed-out ruin of scavengers, broken factions, and improvised rules. Into this wreckage come three unlikely partners: Sam Dunlap and Vern Engdahl, sailors trying to stay alive one day at a time, and Arthur - a compact machine intelligence with a brain built for command, logistics, and survival. Arthur is valuable in a way food and bullets cannot match: he can organize people, run systems, and make plans that might actually work. That makes him a prize. When a determined young woman appears with an offer to buy Arthur outright, Sam and Vern realize just how many desperate survivors want Arthur for their own purposes, and how few of them will respect his freedom - or their lives. Forced into flight through a city that has forgotten law, the trio must decide what they owe one another, what kind of community is worth rebuilding, and whether a mind inside a machine can choose its own destiny. Fast, sharp, and wry, Frederik Pohl blends post-apocalyptic tension with big questions about personhood, loyalty, and power.
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Chapters (Approximate)
(00:00:00) Chapter 01
(00:15:13) Chapter 02
(00:36:49) Chapter 03
(00:46:55) Chapter 04
(01:03:49) Chapter 05
(01:24:43) Chapter 06
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