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The Push Of A Finger by Alfred Bester ~ Full Audiobook [scifi]
Classic Audiobook Collection
10/25/22
•114m
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The Push Of A Finger by Alfred Bester audiobook.
Genre: scifi
Science fiction from the 50s by one of the masters, Alfred Bester. Society has committed itself to complete stability. Nothing is allowed to upset this stability, nothing that is not planned and approved and accounted for in advance. Yes, this is hard to imagine but this has produced decades, nay, centuries of predictable prosperity and peace. Even the newspapers have very little to write about. One reporter however is curious about the 'Prog' building, where pronouncements are issued every day just as Moses issued the commandments. Everyone is locked out of course but he wants to know more, he wants in by any means and the results of that obsession are more far reaching than anyone can imagine. What would happen if just a tiny push with a finger to a critical element is made at the very beginning of a process? A little nudge that sends it in a completely different direction? Hmmm?
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Chapters (Approximate)
(00:00:00) Chapter 01
(00:27:05) Chapter 02
(00:52:45) Chapter 03
(01:19:13) Chapter 04
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The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Alexander Jessup audiobook.
Genre: comedy
Edited and introduced by Alexander Jessup, The Best American Humorous Short Stories gathers a handpicked lineup of classic American tales that prove how many shapes laughter can take. Jessup's opening essay makes the mission clear: these are not merely jokes on the page, but fully crafted short stories where humor is inseparable from character, voice, and surprise. Across the collection, readers move from dry wit and social satire to tall tales and comic misadventure, meeting schemers, innocents, and eccentrics caught in the everyday absurdities of love, money, reputation, and pride. Familiar masters appear alongside lesser-known gems, with stories by writers such as Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, O. Henry, Bret Harte, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and others. From the slippery logic of 'The Angel of the Odd' to the deadpan exaggerations of 'The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,' the anthology showcases regional flavors and shifting American manners, while keeping the focus on storytelling momentum and sharp comedic timing. The result is a varied, lively listening experience: a tour through American humor at its most inventive, readable, and enduring.
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Chapters (Approximate)
(00:00:00) Chapter 01
(00:14:38) Chapter 02
(00:41:58) Chapter 03
(01:22:33) Chapter 04
(02:05:55) Chapter 05
(03:08:30) Chapter 06
(03:57:18) Chapter 07
(04:14:41) Chapter 08
(04:30:51) Chapter 09
(05:15:53) Chapter 10
(05:46:12) Chapter 11
(06:08:37) Chapter 12
(06:52:10) Chapter 13
(07:29:43) Chapter 14
(08:07:26) Chapter 15
(08:41:51) Chapter 16
(09:36:37) Chapter 17
(10:10:46) Chapter 18
(10:28:45) Chapter 19
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The Bright Messenger by Algernon Blackwood ~ Full Audiobook [fantasy]
October 25, 2022
•905m
The Bright Messenger by Algernon Blackwood audiobook.
Genre: fantasy
In this moody, metaphysical novel from master of the uncanny Algernon Blackwood, Dr. Edward Fillery, a psychologist with an unusual sensitivity to hidden currents in the human mind, is drawn into a case that defies ordinary diagnosis. At a discreet Spiritual Clinique he and his colleague Paul Devonham take in a young man with a baffling double life: at times he seems a simple, gentle country youth, and at others something vast and unaccountable shines through him - a presence Fillery names only by initials, as if language itself cannot hold it. As the doctors argue over what is illness and what might be evolution, fragments of the patient's past emerge: a remote upbringing, an eccentric mentor, and a devotion to natural forces that feels older than civilization. The closer Fillery comes to understanding the young man's divided consciousness, the more the surrounding world begins to tilt, as friends, patients, and skeptics alike are forced to confront the possibility that personality is not a closed room but a door. Part psychological inquiry, part occult romance, The Bright Messenger asks what humanity may become if the boundaries between the everyday self and the larger universe grow thin.
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Chapters (Approximate)
(00:00:00) Chapter 01
(00:16:15) Chapter 02
(00:31:03) Chapter 03
(00:40:20) Chapter 04
(01:03:53) Chapter 05
(01:38:13) Chapter 06
(02:29:56) Chapter 07
(02:58:49) Chapter 08
(03:04:27) Chapter 09
(03:58:46) Chapter 10
(04:32:07) Chapter 11
(04:58:35) Chapter 12
(06:03:17) Chapter 13
(06:31:52) Chapter 14
(07:08:02) Chapter 15
(07:30:42) Chapter 16
(07:51:49) Chapter 17
(08:25:22) Chapter 18
(08:47:25) Chapter 19
(09:15:52) Chapter 20
(09:55:41) Chapter 21
(10:41:30) Chapter 22
(11:14:06) Chapter 23
(12:10:09) Chapter 24
(12:49:19) Chapter 25
(13:30:48) Chapter 26
(14:22:13) Chapter 27
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