Space Viking by H. Beam Piper ~ Full Audiobook [scifi]

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01/19/23

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465m

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Space Viking by H. Beam Piper audiobook.

Genre: scifi

The war is over, and the worlds of the Phoenix Cluster are paying the price. Lucas Trask returns home to the planet Tanith to find his people broken by occupation and his wife dead. Refusing to accept a future of quiet ruin, he rallies Tanith's survivors into a hard-edged brotherhood of raiders - the so-called Space Vikings - and launches a campaign across the shattered interstellar frontier. But Trask's crusade is more than vengeance. As he strikes at former enemies and opportunistic rivals, he hunts for the resources, allies, and lost technology that could give Tanith a chance to rebuild in a galaxy where law is fragile and power belongs to whoever can take and hold it.Part military adventure, part political chess match, Space Viking follows Trask as he negotiates uneasy alliances, confronts the ethics of survival by force, and navigates a crumbling civilization still living off the relics of a brighter age. With starship battles, planetfall intrigue, and the constant tension between justice and conquest, Piper delivers a sweeping tale of leadership and the cost of forging a new order from the ashes of the old.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:35:22) Chapter 2

(01:19:38) Chapter 3

(02:13:29) Chapter 4

(02:56:47) Chapter 5

(03:41:21) Chapter 6

(04:33:56) Chapter 7

(05:31:04) Chapter 8

(06:29:16) Chapter 9

(07:13:59) Chapter 27

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Oomphel in the Sky by H. Beam Piper ~ Full Audiobook [scifi]

January 19, 2023

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121m

Oomphel in the Sky by H. Beam Piper audiobook.

Genre: scifi

On the colonial world of Kwannon, Terran administrators and a fragile local government try to keep order with paperwork, committees, and tired slogans. Out beyond the capital, however, the native People measure power in spells, spirits, and the authority of the shoonoon. To them, Terran machines are not technology at all but oomphel, a mysterious force that teaches, makes, and performs wonders. When an old prophecy about the Last Hot Time spreads from village to village, fear turns into certainty, and certainty turns into a mass movement that no one in the bureaucracy can slow down. Miles Gilbert, a hard-nosed reporter for the Kwannon Planetwide News Service, arrives to cover what looks like another flare-up of superstition and politics. Instead he finds a powder keg of cultural misunderstanding, economic resentment, and dangerously persuasive storytelling. Caught between soldiers trying to prevent bloodshed, officials who cannot act fast enough, and natives who believe the sky itself is about to change, Miles must decide what kind of truth can actually stop a disaster - and what happens when facts are no match for faith.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:35:40) Chapter 02

(01:13:12) Chapter 03

(01:31:00) Chapter 04

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Temple Trouble by H. Beam Piper ~ Full Audiobook [scifi]

January 19, 2023

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84m

Temple Trouble by H. Beam Piper audiobook.

Genre: scifi

On a parallel Earth stuck in a Bronze-to-early-medieval age, the Transtemporal Mining Corporation is quietly extracting valuable ores from behind the safest disguise imaginable: religion. Their outpost is the Temple of Yat-Zar, complete with priests, rituals, and a fearsome six-armed idol - all designed to keep local eyes away from the true miracle hidden inside the sanctuary: a paratime conveyor that can jump between probability lines. Resident agent Stranor Sleth has learned to play theologian, diplomat, and company man at once, but his careful balance begins to crack when a local ruler flirts with a rival cult and the priests of a crocodile god, Muz-Azin, start turning popular anger into political power. When sacred animals begin dying and holy authority shifts overnight, the corporation's cover story risks collapsing - and if this timeline learns the truth about paratime travel, the consequences could ripple across countless worlds. Enter Verkan Vall of the Paratime Police, a hard-nosed troubleshooter tasked with protecting the Paratime Secret, even if it means engineering a few miracles of his own.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:14:38) Chapter 2

(00:29:49) Chapter 3

(00:44:54) Chapter 4

(00:58:43) Chapter 5

(01:11:09) Chapter 6

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