Talents, Incorporated by Murray Leinster ~ Full Audiobook [scifi]

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03/07/23

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379m

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Talents, Incorporated by Murray Leinster audiobook.

Genre: scifi

Kandar is days away from conquest by Mekin, a ruthless interplanetary power that has already bent more than twenty worlds to its will. Young Captain Bors, a grim officer in Kandar's tiny space navy and an exile from a previously subjugated planet, spends the final hours before invasion doing what defeated governments do best: burning records, preparing evacuations, and waiting to die well in a battle he cannot win. Then an unexpected visitor arrives at the spaceport - Morgan, a salesman-like entrepreneur with a startling claim. His organization, Talents, Incorporated, recruits misfits with impossible gifts: a dowser who can locate hidden ships, a lightning calculator who can outcompute machines, and sensitives whose precognition and pattern-reading can anticipate an enemy's next move. Morgan's daughter Gwenlyn argues that these talents are not magic, just real human oddities society never learned to use - until now. As Mekin's traps tighten and Kandar's leaders waver between surrender and defiance, Bors must decide whether to stake his world's last chance on an unscientific, untested team, and whether the strangest weapons of all - intuition, rumor, and the human mind's quirks - can outthink a galactic dictatorship.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:40:41) Chapter 02

(01:06:10) Chapter 03

(01:27:31) Chapter 04

(02:09:47) Chapter 05

(02:38:24) Chapter 06

(03:11:56) Chapter 07

(03:39:09) Chapter 08

(04:06:15) Chapter 09

(04:38:07) Chapter 10

(05:04:47) Chapter 11

(05:25:24) Chapter 12

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Space Tug by Murray Leinster ~ Full Audiobook [scifi]

March 7, 2023

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388m

Space Tug by Murray Leinster audiobook.

Genre: scifi

In the early days of spaceflight, Joe Kenmore has already helped put the first Space Platform into orbit, a landmark satellite that could open the way to the stars and shift the balance of power on Earth. Now he is assigned to a new and more dangerous job: crewing a hard working space tug that must ferry supplies, equipment, and defensive systems up to the Platform while rival nations and hidden saboteurs look for any chance to bring the project down. Joe and his team, the steady Chief Bender, the capable Haney, and the fearless little Mike Scandia, have to master unfamiliar procedures, unforgiving physics, and the constant risk that one small malfunction can become a death sentence. When a critical operation goes wrong and they find themselves suddenly cut off from safety, the mission turns into a race against time to regain access, keep the Platform functioning, and stop an enemy plot from turning humanity's first foothold in space into a disaster. Space Tug blends brisk action with hands on engineering problem solving, teamwork under pressure, and the tense politics of a near future space race.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:49:58) Chapter 02

(01:25:47) Chapter 03

(02:12:26) Chapter 04

(02:50:11) Chapter 05

(03:06:38) Chapter 06

(03:46:09) Chapter 07

(04:04:59) Chapter 08

(04:46:26) Chapter 09

(05:25:13) Chapter 10

(05:54:35) Chapter 11

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Tanks by Murray Leinster ~ Full Audiobook [scifi]

March 7, 2023

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75m

Tanks by Murray Leinster audiobook.

Genre: scifi

Tanks and the future of war is what Murray Leinster speculates about in this story. Written in the 1920's he observed the terrible new inventions that were used in World War I to kill people, armored tanks and poisoned gas and then tells us how war will be fought in the future. In this case the war will occur in 1932 and be between the US and the 'Yellow enemy'. It was published in the very first issue of Astounding Stories of Super Science, January 1930. It is science fiction in the sense that it guesses what the future will hold for man based on developing the technology that was coming into being at the time, the 1920's. He leads off with a 'quote' from a future historian '

... The deciding battle of the War of 1932 was the first in which the use of infantry was practically discontinued ... —History of the U.S., 1920-1945

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:19:58) Chapter 2

(00:36:48) Chapter 3

(00:56:36) Chapter 4

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