Victory by Lester del Rey ~ Full Audiobook [scifi]

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02/23/23

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101m

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Victory by Lester del Rey audiobook.

Genre: scifi

The earth is undefended. A ripe, juicy, rich plum just innocently waiting for one of the many new and warlike civilizations in the nearby universe to reach down and pluck to plunder and rape. Well... undefended can mean many things. In this case, humans have colonized many worlds and found many surprisingly human like races among the stars. But when these human colonies are threatened and even viciously attacked by really alien civilizations, earth does nothing to help them. Earth, fat, rich earth sits back and lets her own colonies be practically wiped out, claiming a neutrality that seems a thin veil for cowardice and deceit. How this happens and the story behind the story is what this exciting story is all about.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:48:52) Chapter 02

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Let em Breathe Space by Lester del Rey ~ Full Audiobook [scifi]

February 23, 2023

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Let em Breathe Space by Lester del Rey audiobook.

Genre: scifi

On the way to Saturn, the space freighter Wahoo is packed far beyond anything it was built to carry. Dr. Pietro's expedition has crammed nineteen people into a ship designed for a handful, and five months of recycled air, bad food, and constant proximity have turned ordinary irritations into open hostility. Narrated by Paul Tremaine, the journey quickly becomes more than a test of engineering and endurance when small mishaps start to look like sabotage. A poisoned atmosphere and failing hydroponics threaten the crew's most basic lifelines, and a sudden death makes it clear that the danger is not only mechanical. Trapped in a sealed world where every breath is accounted for, Tremaine must cut through rivalries, paranoia, and the crew's fraying nerves to figure out who is turning the mission into a nightmare. Let 'Em Breathe Space! blends classic space adventure with a tightly wound, closed-room mystery, asking how quickly civility collapses when survival depends on the people you can no longer trust.

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(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:23:16) Chapter 02

(00:48:48) Chapter 03

(01:16:02) Chapter 04

(01:41:25) Chapter 05

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Alice’s Adventures Underground by Lewis Carroll ~ Full Audiobook [fantasy]

February 23, 2023

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84m

Alice’s Adventures Underground by Lewis Carroll audiobook.

Genre: fantasy

This is the handwritten book that Carroll wrote for private use before being urged to develop it later into Alice in Wonderland. It was generously illustrated by Carrol and meant to entertain his family and friends. When a sick child in a hospital enjoyed it so much, the mother wrote him saying it had distracted her for a bit from her pain and led eventually to Carroll expanding the story. The Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson and the Reverend Robinson Duckworth rowed in a boat, on 4 July 1862, up the Isis with the three young daughters of Henry Liddell, (the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University and Dean of Christ Church) : Lorina Charlotte Liddell (aged 13, born 1849); Alice Pleasance Liddell (aged 10, born 1852); Edith Mary Liddell (aged 8, born 1853). The journey began at Folly Bridge near Oxford and ended five miles away in the village of Godstow. During the trip the Reverend Dodgson told the girls a story that featured a bored little girl named Alice who goes looking for an adventure. The girls loved it, and Alice Liddell asked Dodgson to write it down for her. He began writing the manuscript of the story the next day, although that earliest version no longer exists. The girls and Dodgson took another boat trip a month later when he elaborated the plot to the story of Alice, and in November he began working on the manuscript in earnest. To add the finishing touches he researched natural history for the animals presented in the book, and then had the book examined by other children—particularly the MacDonald children. He added his own illustrations but approached John Tenniel to illustrate the book for publication, telling him that the story had been well liked by children. On 26 November 1864 he gave Alice the handwritten manuscript of Alice's Adventures Under Ground, with illustrations by Dodgson himself, dedicating it as 'A Christmas Gift to a Dear Child in Memory of a Summer's Day'. Some, including Martin Gardner, speculate there was an earlier version that was destroyed later by Dodgson when he printed a more elaborate copy by hand.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:24:22) Chapter 2

(00:43:55) Chapter 3

(00:59:38) Chapter 4

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