The Vortex Blaster by E. E. Smith ~ Full Audiobook [scifi]

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11/23/22

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59m

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The Vortex Blaster by E. E. Smith audiobook.

Genre: scifi

In E. E. 'Doc' Smith's classic space opera, brilliant nuclear engineer Neal 'Storm' Cloud lives in the shadow of failure: he flunked the Lensman exam, missing his chance to join Civilization's most celebrated defenders. But when lethal, self-sustaining atomic vortices begin to appear - churning knots of star-like energy that grow as they consume anything they touch - Cloud's rare gift for lightning-fast calculation becomes humanity's best hope. After a personal catastrophe turns research into obsession, he devises a way to strike a vortex at the exact instant and location needed to snuff it out rather than shatter it into even deadlier fragments. Suddenly Cloud is the one specialist the Galactic Patrol cannot replace, dispatched from world to world in a small ship, extinguishing cosmic firestorms while navigating smugglers, gangsters, and volatile planetary politics. As the Patrol pushes him to scale his work and uncover the true nature of the vortices, Cloud is drawn into an intense collaboration with computer expert Joan Janowick, where science, risk, and rebuilding a shattered life collide. Fast, inventive, and emotionally charged, The Vortex Blaster pits raw intellect and courage against disasters no weapon can simply shoot down.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:14:51) Chapter 2

(00:28:14) Chapter 3

(00:43:48) Chapter 4

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The Skylark of Space by E. E. Smith ~ Full Audiobook [scifi]

November 23, 2022

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553m

The Skylark of Space by E. E. Smith audiobook.

Genre: scifi

The novel begins with the accidental discovery, in a Government laboratory in Washington D. C., of a form of clean nuclear power. Our hero, Dr. Richard Seaton, uses this power to build first a flying belt and then an interstellar spaceship. He later discovers that the process operates by generation and manipulation of gravity fields.

When his government coworkers do not believe him, Seaton acquires rights to his discovery from the government and commercializes it with the aid of his friend, millionaire inventor Martin Crane. A former colleague, Dr. Marc DuQuesne, joins with the unscrupulous World Steel Corporation to try to steal Seaton's invention. The resulting conflict escalates, as Seaton and Duquesne develop greater and greater technical capabilities and enlist more and more powerful alien races as allies..

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:06:24) Chapter 02

(00:28:37) Chapter 03

(01:01:26) Chapter 04

(01:28:58) Chapter 05

(01:54:06) Chapter 06

(02:22:44) Chapter 07

(02:52:02) Chapter 08

(03:09:45) Chapter 09

(03:52:02) Chapter 10

(04:20:52) Chapter 11

(05:04:51) Chapter 12

(05:27:27) Chapter 13

(06:02:15) Chapter 14

(06:34:05) Chapter 15

(07:10:32) Chapter 16

(07:50:45) Chapter 17

(08:19:14) Chapter 18

(08:48:01) Chapter 19

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Triplanetary - First in the Lensman series by E. E. Smith ~ Full Audiobook [scifi]

November 23, 2022

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645m

Triplanetary - First in the Lensman series by E. E. Smith audiobook.

Genre: scifi

Triplanetary was first serialized in Amazing Stories in 1934. After the Lensman series became popular, Smith took his Triplanetary story and turned it into the first of the Lensman series, using it as a prequel to give the back story for the protaganists in the Lensmen series. He added 6 new chapters, doubling it in size and it's really a different book from the serialized novel, being published 14 years after the first. It was put into Gutenberg just last year.

The novel covers several episodes in an eons-long eugenics project of the super-intelligences of the Arisia. This alien race is breeding two genetic lines to become the ultimate weapon in Arisia's cosmic war with their arch enemy, the Eddore. The initial chapters cover the Kinnison genetic line during the fall of Atlantis and Nero's (Gharlane of Eddore) reign in Rome. These tales were inserted into the novel following the serialized release, along with chapters covering members of the Kinnison line in World Wars One, Two and Three. The final chapter of Triplanetary tells of the discovery of the inertialess drive that allows faster than light travel. Patrolman Conway Costigan and his friends engage in a space battle with Gray Roger the pirate gangster. This conflict is complicated by the arrival of the technologically superior, extra-Solar, amphibian-like Nevians, resulting in the first interstellar war involving humans. In this story Virgil Samms and Roderick Kinnison, two very important members of the eugenics project, are introduced. They will play the leading roles in the next story, First Lensman.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:22:09) Chapter 02

(01:12:02) Chapter 03

(01:48:55) Chapter 04

(02:17:27) Chapter 05

(03:04:39) Chapter 06

(03:32:09) Chapter 07

(04:13:26) Chapter 08

(04:51:38) Chapter 09

(05:18:01) Chapter 10