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The Crystal Crypt & Beyond the Door by Philip K. Dick ~ Full Audiobook [scifi] Mar 14, 2023

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The Crystal Crypt & Beyond the Door by Philip K. Dick audiobook.

Genre: scifi

In The Crystal Crypt & Beyond the Door, Philip K. Dick delivers two early, razor-edged science fiction tales where ordinary choices become traps and reality refuses to stay put. In The Crystal Crypt, three uneasy travelers flee Mars for Earth in the wake of a bitter political struggle. The trip should be routine, but suspicion rides with them: each passenger has something to hide, and the legacy of a catastrophic act of sabotage threatens to surface at the worst possible moment. As tensions rise aboard the ship, the line between survivor, collaborator, and avenger blurs. In Beyond the Door, a seemingly harmless gift - a peculiar wooden cuckoo clock - becomes the catalyst for a young couple's unraveling. What begins as domestic discomfort turns into mounting dread as the clock's presence provokes jealousy, fear, and the sense that an unseen force is pressing in from the edges of their lives. Together, these stories showcase Dick's signature themes: paranoia as a survival instinct, the fragility of identity, and the terrifying possibility that the world can change shape without warning.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:15:01) Chapter 2

(00:31:30) Chapter 3

(00:48:25) Chapter 4

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Second Variety by Philip K. Dick ~ Full Audiobook [scifi] Mar 14, 2023

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Second Variety by Philip K. Dick audiobook.

Genre: scifi

After a nuclear war has turned Earth into a gray wasteland, the remaining soldiers of the United Nations cling to a few ruined strongholds while an old enemy, the Soviet forces, fades into the ash. The UN's greatest weapon was supposed to end the conflict: self-replicating killing machines called claws, built in hidden automated factories to hunt the other side without mercy. But the claws have not stopped learning. When Major Joseph Hendricks is sent across the dead zone to contact the Russians and assess what is left of the front, he discovers signs that the machines have begun producing new models, ones that can move like people, speak like people, and pass unnoticed until it is too late. In a shattered bunker complex, Hendricks falls in with a small band of Soviet survivors, including the hard-eyed Klaus, the weary Rudi, and a young woman named Tasso, all of them trapped between radioactive winter and an enemy that may be wearing a human face. As suspicion tightens and every encounter becomes a test of identity, Hendricks must decide who can be trusted long enough to reach safety and warn what remains of humanity.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:31:51) Chapter 2

(01:01:54) Chapter 3

(01:30:07) Chapter 4

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Beyond Lies the Wub & The Skull by Philip K. Dick ~ Full Audiobook [scifi] Mar 14, 2023

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Beyond Lies the Wub & The Skull by Philip K. Dick audiobook.

Genre: scifi

In this two-story volume from Philip K. Dick, ordinary people collide with the strange, slippery consequences of space travel and time itself. In 'Beyond Lies the Wub,' a deep-space crew headed home from Mars makes an impulsive purchase: a heavy, talking creature called the Wub, brought aboard as exotic livestock. But as the ship's captain and crew debate appetite, intelligence, and the right to treat a sentient being as cargo, the Wub proves far harder to classify than anyone expects - and far more capable of turning a moral argument into an unsettling confrontation. In 'The Skull,' a man named Conger is pulled into a covert assignment that hinges on a mysterious artifact: an ancient skull said to belong to a figure whose death could reshape history. Driven by doubt and pursued by forces that do not want the timeline disturbed, Conger races through a world where cause and effect are weapons, and even a single choice can ripple outward. Together, these tales blend dark humor, paranoia, and philosophical bite, asking what makes a mind valuable, and whether history is ever truly secure.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:18:15) Chapter 2

(00:41:39) Chapter 3

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The Green Odyssey by Philip Jose Farmer ~ Full Audiobook [scifi] Mar 14, 2023

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The Green Odyssey by Philip Jose Farmer audiobook.

Genre: scifi

When shy, ordinary Alan Green wakes from a shipboard accident, he expects to be rescued, patched up, and returned to the life he knows. Instead, he finds himself stranded on an alien world so lush and overpowering it feels alive - a place where thick jungles swallow horizons, strange creatures rule the food chain, and human beings are not the dominant species. Alone, injured, and far from any clear explanation of how he arrived, Alan must learn the planet's brutal rules quickly or die just as quickly. But survival is only the beginning. As he pushes deeper into the wilderness, he encounters cultures and intelligences that challenge everything he assumes about humanity, civilization, and his own capacity for courage. Each hard-won step forward pulls him into a wider mystery: what is this world, why are there humans here at all, and what unseen forces might be shaping the fate of everyone who lives under its green canopy? Taut, imaginative, and relentlessly propulsive, The Green Odyssey pairs pulp-era momentum with big ideas about adaptation, belonging, and what it means to become someone new in a world that refuses to bend.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:38:48) Chapter 2

(01:12:17) Chapter 3

(01:45:05) Chapter 4

(02:18:34) Chapter 5

(03:05:24) Chapter 6

(03:43:24) Chapter 7

(04:16:06) Chapter 8

(04:59:35) Chapter 9

(05:38:26) Chapter 10

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Armageddon - 2419 A.D. by Philip Francis Nowlan ~ Full Audiobook [scifi] Mar 13, 2023

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Armageddon - 2419 A.D. by Philip Francis Nowlan audiobook.

Genre: scifi

Elsewhere I have set down, for whatever interest they have in this, the 25th Century, my personal recollections of the 20th Century. Now it occurs to me that my memoirs of the 25th Century may have an equal interest 500 years from now—particularly in view of that unique perspective from which I have seen the 25th Century, entering it as I did, in one leap across a gap of 492 years.

This statement requires elucidation. There are still many in the world who are not familiar with my unique experience. Five centuries from now there may be many more, especially if civilization is fated to endure any worse convulsions than those which have occurred between 1975 A.D. and the present time.

I should state therefore, that I, Anthony Rogers, am, so far as I know, the only man alive whose normal span of eighty-one years of life has been spread over a period of 573 years. To be precise, I lived the first twenty-nine years of my life between 1898 and 1927; the other fifty-two since 2419. The gap between these two, a period of nearly five hundred years, I spent in a state of suspended animation, free from the ravages of katabolic processes, and without any apparent effect on my physical or mental faculties.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:34:38) Chapter 02

(01:10:55) Chapter 03

(01:41:30) Chapter 04

(02:07:06) Chapter 05

(02:25:03) Chapter 06

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History of New Brunswick by Peter Fisher ~ Full Audiobook [history] Mar 13, 2023

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History of New Brunswick by Peter Fisher audiobook.

Genre: history

Originally published in 1825 under the title: Sketches of New Brunswick : containing an account of the first settlement of the province, with a brief description of the country, climate, productions, inhabitants, government, rivers, towns, settlements, public institutions, trade, revenue, population, &c., by an inhabitant of the province. The value of this history is in the fact that it was written when the Province was still in its infancy. Although there had been a few small settlements established in New Brunswick prior to 1783, the main influx of settlers were Loyalists who chose to remove to the area from the United States following the American Revolution.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:06:17) Chapter 02

(00:22:19) Chapter 03

(00:53:17) Chapter 04

(01:14:02) Chapter 05

(01:52:37) Chapter 06

(02:09:40) Chapter 07

(02:32:05) Chapter 08

(02:54:37) Chapter 09

(03:16:55) Chapter 10

(03:42:35) Chapter 11

(04:01:36) Chapter 12

(04:15:16) Chapter 13

(05:03:31) Chapter 14

(05:30:52) Chapter 15

(05:33:00) Chapter 16

(06:12:48) Chapter 17

(06:27:14) Chapter 18

(06:41:41) Chapter 19

(06:50:10) Chapter 20

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The Valley of the Giants by Peter B. Kyne ~ Full Audiobook [adventure] Mar 13, 2023

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The Valley of the Giants by Peter B. Kyne audiobook.

Genre: adventure

The man was John Cardigan; in that lonely, hostile land he was the first pioneer. This is the tale of Cardigan and Cardigan's son, for in his chosen land the pioneer leader in the gigantic task of hewing a path for civilization was to know the bliss of woman's love and of parenthood, and the sorrow that comes of the loss of a perfect mate; he was to know the tremendous joy of accomplishment and worldly success after infinite labour; and in the sunset of life he was to know the dull despair of failure and ruin. Because of these things there is a tale to be told, the tale of Cardigan's son, who, when his sire fell in the fray, took up the fight to save his heritage--a tale of life with its love and hate, its battle, victory, defeat, labour, joy, and sorrow, a tale of that unconquerable spirit of youth which spurred Bryce Cardigan to lead a forlorn hope for the sake not of wealth but of an ideal.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:13:15) Chapter 02

(00:29:59) Chapter 03

(00:47:50) Chapter 04

(01:08:05) Chapter 05

(01:13:05) Chapter 06

(01:38:09) Chapter 07

(01:45:16) Chapter 08

(02:07:34) Chapter 09

(02:29:57) Chapter 10

(02:58:01) Chapter 11

(03:08:44) Chapter 12

(03:17:17) Chapter 13

(03:33:47) Chapter 14

(03:50:02) Chapter 15

(04:00:18) Chapter 16

(04:22:56) Chapter 17

(05:08:50) Chapter 18

(05:23:28) Chapter 19

(06:09:15) Chapter 20

(06:37:49) Chapter 21

(06:53:53) Chapter 22

(07:05:30) Chapter 23

(07:32:56) Chapter 24

(08:14:56) Chapter 25

(08:20:50) Chapter 26

(08:49:30) Chapter 27

(09:05:59) Chapter 28

(09:19:41) Chapter 29

(09:45:53) Chapter 30

(10:04:44) Chapter 31

(10:17:28) Chapter 32

(10:25:02) Chapter 33

(10:44:25) Chapter 34

(10:52:57) Chapter 35

(10:58:49) Chapter 36

(11:08:40) Chapter 37

(11:20:49) Chapter 38

(11:46:28) Chapter 39

(11:53:13) Chapter 40

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The Red Hell of Jupiter by Paul Ernst ~ Full Audiobook [scifi] Mar 13, 2023

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The Red Hell of Jupiter by Paul Ernst audiobook.

Genre: scifi

Jupiter's Great Red Spot has become a blank spot on humanity's maps for the worst possible reason: ships sent to investigate it do not return. When Commander Stone of the Planetary Exploration Forces recalls decorated Captain Brand Bowen from leave, he gives him a simple order with an impossible price tag: take a fast scout craft down into Jupiter's murderous atmosphere, skim the boundaries of the Red Spot, and come back with an explanation. Bowen departs with Lieutenant Dex Harlow, a capable partner whose sharp tongue and clashing temperament turn the cramped cockpit into its own pressure chamber. But Jupiter has a stronger pull than gravity. As their craft is inexorably drawn toward the red-stained maelstrom, the two men are swept into a nightmare landscape of strange forces, alien architecture, and a city that should not exist inside a gas giant at all. Surrounded by towering, pipe-limbed beings and the ominous mechanisms they serve, Bowen and Harlow must survive long enough to learn what happened to the missing expeditions and decide what risk a single crew can take to keep Earth safe. A taut pulp-era voyage into the unknown, this is classic science fiction built on menace, wonder, and the cost of curiosity.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:15:37) Chapter 02

(00:35:15) Chapter 03

(00:50:54) Chapter 04

(01:02:00) Chapter 05

(01:15:42) Chapter 06

(01:31:22) Chapter 07

(01:48:16) Chapter 08

(01:59:56) Chapter 09

(02:13:36) Chapter 10

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Three Men and a Maid by P. G. Wodehouse ~ Full Audiobook [comedy] Mar 10, 2023

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Three Men and a Maid by P. G. Wodehouse audiobook.

Genre: comedy

This book with two titles, Three Men and a Maid in the USA and The Girl on the Boat in the UK is a typical PG Wodehouse romantic comedy, involving, at various times: a disastrous talent quest, a lawyer with a revolver, a bulldog with a mind of his own and a suit of armour!

The maid, or marriageable young woman, of the American title is red-haired, dog-loving Wilhelmina 'Billie' Bennet. The three men are Bream Mortimer, a long-time friend and admirer of Billie, Eustace Hignett, a poet of sensitive disposition who is engaged to Billie at the opening of the tale, and Sam Marlowe, Eustace's would-be-dashing cousin, who falls for Billie at first sight. All four find themselves on an ocean liner headed for England together (hence the British title), along with an elephant-gun-wielding young woman called Jane Hubbard who is smitten with Eustace the poet. Typically Wodehousian romantic shenanigans ensue. Even Estace's redoubtable mother (a Theosophist author and public speaker) fails to quell the excitement

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:22:45) Chapter 02

(01:04:56) Chapter 03

(01:23:11) Chapter 04

(01:52:55) Chapter 05

(02:06:36) Chapter 06

(02:16:33) Chapter 07

(02:36:36) Chapter 08

(02:47:34) Chapter 09

(03:05:12) Chapter 10

(03:10:59) Chapter 11

(03:28:22) Chapter 12

(03:42:05) Chapter 13

(03:55:28) Chapter 14

(04:16:32) Chapter 15

(04:36:29) Chapter 16

(04:48:04) Chapter 17

(04:58:01) Chapter 18

(05:09:41) Chapter 19

(05:26:01) Chapter 20

(05:33:42) Chapter 21

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The Little Nugget by P. G. Wodehouse ~ Full Audiobook [comedy] Mar 10, 2023

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The Little Nugget by P. G. Wodehouse audiobook.

Genre: comedy

Mrs Nesta Ford, in her London hotel room, reveals to her new friend Lord Mountry that she hopes to take her son Ogden on a yachting trip proposed by Mountry, despite her ex-husband having won custody of the boy. As Mountry leaves, Cynthia Drassilis arrives with Ogden, whom she has led away from his father's country house. Mrs Ford rewards Cynthia, but soon Mr Ford's secretary, a Mr Minnick, arrives to recover the stolen child. Cynthia tries to bribe his colleague, Mrs Sheridan, but to no avail, as she believes Nesta's influence has spoiled the boy. After they have gone, Nesta reveals to Cynthia Ogden's past as the 'Little Nugget', and the repeated attempts to kidnap him made by US gangsters. Nesta wishes to call in professional help, but Cynthia persuades her she can still do it, with the help of her new fiancé, a wealthy man called Peter Burns, who she suggests can take up a post at Ogden's new school, posing as a trainee schoolmaster.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:51:13) Chapter 02

(01:43:10) Chapter 03

(02:09:33) Chapter 04

(02:25:02) Chapter 05

(02:46:04) Chapter 06

(03:00:22) Chapter 07

(03:17:01) Chapter 08

(03:29:43) Chapter 09

(04:23:56) Chapter 10