The Planet Savers by Marion Zimmer Bradley ~ Full Audiobook [scifi]

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02/27/23

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195m

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The Planet Savers by Marion Zimmer Bradley audiobook.

Genre: scifi

On the isolated world of Darkover, a terrifying epidemic returns like clockwork: Trailmen's fever, a disease that flares every forty-eight years and can sweep through the human settlements with catastrophic speed. The Terran Trade City is desperate for a cure, and Dr. Randall Forth believes the key lies not only in medicine but in understanding the planet's elusive indigenous people, the tree-dwelling Trailmen of the Hellers. His best hope may be the brilliant but dangerously ill Dr. Jay Allison, a man whose mind has been split by hypnosis into two competing selves: the cold, scientific Jay and the daring, charismatic Jason, who has the survival skills and childhood ties needed to reach the Trailmen. Sent into the mountains with a mixed party of Terrans and Darkovans, including the politically powerful Regis Hastur and the formidable guide Kyla Raineach, Allison must navigate perilous terrain, armed hostility, and deep cultural mistrust. As the expedition pushes toward first contact and fragile negotiation, Allison's inner war becomes as urgent as the plague itself, raising the question of what it will cost to save an entire planet.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:43:40) Chapter 2

(01:34:07) Chapter 3

(02:22:50) Chapter 4

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Falcons of Narabedla by Marion Zimmer Bradley ~ Full Audiobook [scifi]

February 27, 2023

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191m

Falcons of Narabedla by Marion Zimmer Bradley audiobook.

Genre: scifi

Mike Kenscott is an ordinary twentieth-century American still haunted by a past catastrophe: a strange laboratory accident, a surge of unseen forces, and the sense that reality has a weak seam running through it. Then, on what should be a simple outing, that seam splits. Mike is flung across the Time Ellipse into Narabedla, a world under twin suns where Terran influence and Darkovan bloodlines have mingled into a brilliant, perilous, and decadent civilization of towers, pleasure-cities, and razor-edged etiquette. Worse, the man who arrives is not only Mike: in this future he is also known as Adric of the Scarlet Tower, a name that carries debts, enemies, and expectations he does not understand. Caught in courtly intrigues and psychic undercurrents, Mike must learn the rules of a society built on dream, domination, and dangerous mind-born powers. To reclaim his life and his name, he is driven toward a single, ominous goal: the Keep of the Dreamer, and the legendary Falcons of Narabedla that may be the key to everything. Falcons of Narabedla blends time displacement, identity crisis, and baroque planetary adventure into a tense, uncanny journey.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:17:43) Chapter 02

(00:46:07) Chapter 03

(01:02:32) Chapter 04

(01:14:47) Chapter 05

(01:24:20) Chapter 06

(01:39:55) Chapter 07

(01:58:40) Chapter 08

(02:10:16) Chapter 09

(02:22:03) Chapter 10

(02:42:21) Chapter 11

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The Courage of the Commonplace by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews ~ Full Audiobook [drama]

March 1, 2023

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84m

The Courage of the Commonplace by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews audiobook.

Genre: drama

Set against the pageantry and pressure-cooker rituals of early-20th-century Yale, The Courage of the Commonplace follows Johnny McLean, a likable, athletic junior who discovers that the verdict of his classmates can feel like a verdict on his whole life. As Tap Day approaches - the moment when a select few are chosen for the elite senior societies - Johnny measures himself against rivals who seem effortlessly destined for honor, and against a family legacy that leaves little room for ordinary outcomes. When the campus celebration turns into a private reckoning, Johnny must decide whether to keep chasing approval or to rebuild his sense of worth from the inside out. Pushing himself into demanding work and tougher standards than he has ever lived by, he carries those hard-won habits beyond New Haven and into the industrial world, where status means nothing and responsibility can be immediate and unforgiving. In a community shaped by engines, ore, and risk, Johnny is tested by leadership, loyalty, and fear - and learns what kind of bravery lasts when the cheering stops. A poignant coming-of-age story, it asks what success really is, and whether quiet, daily discipline can be its own form of heroism.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:24:40) Chapter 02

(00:42:58) Chapter 03

(01:02:59) Chapter 04

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