This World is Taboo by Murray Leinster ~ Full Audiobook [scifi]

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09/26/22

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250m

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This World is Taboo by Murray Leinster audiobook.

Genre: scifi

Calhoun, a field man for the Interstellar Medical Service, expects routine inspections: land, check public health conditions, and leave a world safer than he found it. But when his small Med Ship reaches Weald Three, he finds a prosperous grain planet locked in fear. Nearby Dara, once ravaged by a plague, is under strict quarantine, and its people carry the visible legacy of that sickness - the hated 'blueskins.' On Weald, politicians and security forces treat any contact with Dara as contamination, and paranoia is turning into something far more dangerous. Calhoun, accompanied by his sharp-eyed tormal companion Murgatroyd, quickly realizes that the health problem is inseparable from prejudice, trade, and the threat of interplanetary violence. To do his job, he may have to break the very quarantine everyone insists will keep them safe, and step onto the world that has been declared untouchable. Part medical mystery, part political thriller, Leinster's classic space adventure digs into how fear spreads faster than disease, and how one stubborn professional can challenge a system built on scapegoats.

Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:32:48) Chapter 02

(01:01:22) Chapter 03

(01:29:28) Chapter 04

(01:59:48) Chapter 05

(02:34:49) Chapter 06

(03:06:45) Chapter 07

(03:37:29) Chapter 08

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Conquest Over Time by Michael Shaara ~ Full Audiobook [scifi]

September 26, 2022

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84m

Conquest Over Time by Michael Shaara audiobook.

Genre: scifi

Pat Travis has made a career out of being first. As a veteran Contact Man for a powerful Earth company, he races rival operators to newly opened worlds, gambling on speed, nerve, and a reputation for impossible luck. But when Travis reaches the planet the locals call Mert, his winning streak turns instantly sour: according to the planet's rigid astrological code, he has arrived on the worst possible day. Doors close, streets empty, officials turn hostile, and every attempt at diplomacy collides with a culture that believes the stars have already decided the outcome.Stranded in a city that looks like it was built for carriages and candlelight, Travis is pushed off the polite surface and into the dangerous underworld below, where outcasts survive in tunnels and sewers the respectable citizens pretend do not exist. There he meets two unlikely allies, including a startlingly brilliant young schemer who sees angles Travis has missed. Together they try to outthink superstition, corporate pressure, and a ticking calendar of unlucky hours, while Travis fights to prove that success is more than fate. Conquest Over Time blends tense negotiation, sly humor, and a sharp clash of belief systems into a fast, classic tale of science-fiction intrigue.

Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:20:01) Chapter 2

(00:38:36) Chapter 3

(01:03:49) Chapter 4

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The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne ~ Full Audiobook [drama]

September 26, 2022

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735m

The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne audiobook.

Genre: drama

'The wrongdoing of one generation lives into the successive ones and... becomes a pure and uncontrollable mischief.' Hawthorne's moral for 'The House of the Seven Gables,' taken from the Preface, accurately presages his story. The full weight of the gloomy mansion of the title seems to sit on the fortunes of the Pyncheon family. An ancestor took advantage of the Salem witch trials to wrest away the land whereon the house would be raised... but the land's owner, about to be executed as a wizard, cursed the Pyncheon family until such time as they should make restitution.

Now, almost two centuries later, the family is in real distress. Hepzibah, an old maid and resident of the house, is forced by advanced poverty to open a shop in a part of the house. Her brother Clifford has just been released from prison after serving a thirty-year sentence for murder, and his mind struggles to maintain any kind of hold on reality. Cousin Judge Jaffrey Pyncheon is making himself odious by threatening to have Clifford committed to an institution. And after all these years, the deed to a vast tract of land, that would settle great wealth on the family, is still missing.

One bright ray of sunshine enters the house when cousin Phoebe arrives for an extended stay to allow unhappy matters in her end of the family to sort themselves out. While she lightens the lives of Hepzibah and Clifford, she also attracts the attention of a mysterious lodger named Holgrave, who has placed himself near the Pyncheon family for reasons that only come clear at the end of the story.

The real crisis arrives when the Judge, who strongly resembles the Colonel Pyncheon who built the house so many years ago, steps up his demands on Hepzibah and Clifford and unwittingly triggers the curse.

Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:18:26) Chapter 01

(01:17:52) Chapter 02

(01:46:55) Chapter 03

(02:18:33) Chapter 04

(02:51:48) Chapter 05

(03:27:26) Chapter 06

(03:51:51) Chapter 07

(04:30:37) Chapter 08

(05:10:07) Chapter 09

(05:38:25) Chapter 10