Tanks by Murray Leinster ~ Full Audiobook [scifi]

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03/07/23

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

March 7, 2023

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379m

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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The Aliens by Murray Leinster ~ Full Audiobook [scifi]

March 7, 2023

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101m

The Aliens by Murray Leinster audiobook.

Genre: scifi

The human race was expanding through the galaxy ... and so, they knew, were the Aliens. Who were these beings? Traces of them could be found scattered on planets everywhere, some very recent, but the aliens themselves were never encountered. They were obviously just as advanced technologically as humans and obviously looking for planets to expand to, just like humans. But what would happen when the two races, human and alien met? From history it was obvious that a war should be planned for, two expanding empires cannot tolerate rivals and they would clash and it could happen at any time. Would it be a war to the death? Sadly, that was the most probable outcome. Hundreds of human ships were designed specifically to frantically comb the known universe to gather information about them to prepare for war. Which was inevitable of course.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:24:48) Chapter 02

(00:49:28) Chapter 03

(01:10:50) Chapter 04

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