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The Mad Planet by Murray Leinster ~ Full Audiobook [scifi] Mar 08, 2023

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The Mad Planet by Murray Leinster audiobook.

Genre: scifi

It is 30,000 years following dramatically changed climate conditions on earth which had let massive amounts of carbon dioxide belch from the interior of the planet into the atmosphere. Over the millenia this would have quite devastating effects on life as it had once been known. Much of the human and animal population would not survive the climate change, and indeed those few humans who did survive knew nothing of all which their predecessors had learned and built. Indeed, they knew not even of their existence. On the other hand insects and fungi would flourish over time.

And so those few remaining humans were unknowingly at the very beginning of the building of a tribal society, which at the time of the story of Burl simply meant food and survival. And so it was Burl who chose to travel beyond his small tribal community in an effort to hunt for something new and different to hopefully impress Saya, the young female of his tribe to whom he felt a peculiar attraction. The Mad Planet is Burl's adventure.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:42:45) Chapter 2

(01:15:41) Chapter 3

(02:05:43) Chapter 4

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The Machine that Saved the World by Murray Leinster ~ Full Audiobook [scifi] Mar 08, 2023

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The Machine that Saved the World by Murray Leinster audiobook.

Genre: scifi

They were broadcasts from nowhere--sinister emanations flooding in from space--smashing any receiver that picked them up. What defense could Earth devise against science such as this? In the far future of 1972, on a secret military installation, Staff Sergeant Bellews is an expert on the latest scientific discovery: a way for ordinary machines like vacuums and lawnmowers to gather experience in their jobs, becoming error free over time. Then the strange broadcasts began to blow up transmitters everywhere. Were they from space? Enemies? the future? He didn't care until they started messin' with his machines. Then he took it personally.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:17:53) Chapter 2

(00:35:49) Chapter 3

(00:55:44) Chapter 4

(01:15:07) Chapter 5

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The Forgotten Planet by Murray Leinster ~ Full Audiobook [scifi] Mar 07, 2023

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The Forgotten Planet by Murray Leinster audiobook.

Genre: scifi

Long ago, human seed-ships arrived at a barren world to begin a slow, deliberate experiment: first microbes, then plants and insects, and later, a final shipment of animals to complete a living ecosystem. But the last mission never came, and in the silence of millennia the planet's unchecked life runs wild, with fungi spreading like forests and insects swelling into monstrous proportions. When a space liner is wrecked on this half-made world, its survivors fight to endure amid wolf-sized ants, towering webs, and stinging things that rule the air. Generations later, the descendants of those castaways have fallen into a harsh, primitive existence where every day is a contest against hunger, predators, and the poisonous mysteries of the land itself. Burl, a young hunter with an unusual spark of curiosity, begins to notice patterns others ignore and dares to imagine that survival might mean more than hiding and running. As he struggles to lead his small tribe through shifting dangers and ancient leftovers from a lost past, the planet's original purpose and humanity's forgotten connection to it start to surface, raising one urgent question: can people reclaim their future on a world that seems designed to kill them?

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:17:56) Chapter 01

(00:52:39) Chapter 02

(01:41:43) Chapter 03

(02:21:31) Chapter 04

(02:46:31) Chapter 05

(03:28:46) Chapter 06

(04:05:12) Chapter 07

(04:30:09) Chapter 08

(04:52:16) Chapter 09

(05:14:59) Chapter 10

(05:42:02) Chapter 11

(06:07:54) Chapter 12

(06:30:57) Chapter 13

(06:54:23) Chapter 14

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The Deadly Dust by Murray Leinster ~ Full Audiobook [scifi] Mar 07, 2023

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The Deadly Dust by Murray Leinster audiobook.

Genre: scifi

Geiger counters across the United States begin to spike, and a fine, drifting fall of dust turns out to be something far worse than dirt on the wind: invisible, spreading radioactivity. Dr. David Murfree, a quiet government scientist who recognizes the pattern too quickly for anyone's comfort, tries to sound the alarm - only to find that procedure, permissions, and office politics move slower than a contaminated weather front. Desperate, Murfree sets out to find the one person rumored to think faster than the system: Bug Gregory, a backwoods, self-taught genius with an uncanny knack for practical atomic know-how. As the lethal dust advances, the two follow clues that lead from official laboratories and skeptical superiors to unsettling reports from the open ocean, where a seemingly ordinary fishing boat tows a lead-sheathed mystery and leaves a trail of dead fish behind it. With time running out and proof hard to pin down, Murfree and Gregory must unravel what is creating the deadly fallout - and figure out how to stop it before a continent pays the price.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:35:48) Chapter 02

(01:06:39) Chapter 03

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The Ambulance Made Two Trips by Murray Leinster ~ Full Audiobook [scifi] Mar 07, 2023

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The Ambulance Made Two Trips by Murray Leinster audiobook.

Genre: scifi

In a town where racketeer Big Jake Connors seems untouchable, Detective Sergeant Fitzgerald has learned to live with frustration. Witnesses clam up, judges get leaned on, and every honest cop knows the score: Connors takes over businesses by intimidation and bribery, and the law arrives just in time to pick up the pieces. Then something changes. After a small dry-cleaning shop refuses Connors' so-called protection, the usual pattern of threats and violence starts to misfire. Guns go off at the wrong moment, cars crash in unlikely ways, and would-be enforcers end up injured by accidents that feel less like chance and more like sabotage by the universe itself. Fitzgerald follows the trail to Brink, the calm new man behind the cleaners, who hints at a secret advantage: a strange psi device that can tilt probability and turn deliberate harm into humiliating mishaps. As Fitzgerald weighs duty against disbelief, he must decide whether to fight corruption with ordinary procedure or with an edge that no court would ever understand.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:17:25) Chapter 2

(00:33:46) Chapter 3

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The Aliens by Murray Leinster ~ Full Audiobook [scifi] Mar 07, 2023

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The Aliens by Murray Leinster audiobook.

Genre: scifi

The human race was expanding through the galaxy ... and so, they knew, were the Aliens. Who were these beings? Traces of them could be found scattered on planets everywhere, some very recent, but the aliens themselves were never encountered. They were obviously just as advanced technologically as humans and obviously looking for planets to expand to, just like humans. But what would happen when the two races, human and alien met? From history it was obvious that a war should be planned for, two expanding empires cannot tolerate rivals and they would clash and it could happen at any time. Would it be a war to the death? Sadly, that was the most probable outcome. Hundreds of human ships were designed specifically to frantically comb the known universe to gather information about them to prepare for war. Which was inevitable of course.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:24:48) Chapter 02

(00:49:28) Chapter 03

(01:10:50) Chapter 04

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Tanks by Murray Leinster ~ Full Audiobook [scifi] Mar 07, 2023

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Tanks by Murray Leinster audiobook.

Genre: scifi

Tanks and the future of war is what Murray Leinster speculates about in this story. Written in the 1920's he observed the terrible new inventions that were used in World War I to kill people, armored tanks and poisoned gas and then tells us how war will be fought in the future. In this case the war will occur in 1932 and be between the US and the 'Yellow enemy'. It was published in the very first issue of Astounding Stories of Super Science, January 1930. It is science fiction in the sense that it guesses what the future will hold for man based on developing the technology that was coming into being at the time, the 1920's. He leads off with a 'quote' from a future historian '

... The deciding battle of the War of 1932 was the first in which the use of infantry was practically discontinued ... —History of the U.S., 1920-1945

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:19:58) Chapter 2

(00:36:48) Chapter 3

(00:56:36) Chapter 4

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Talents, Incorporated by Murray Leinster ~ Full Audiobook [scifi] Mar 07, 2023

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Talents, Incorporated by Murray Leinster audiobook.

Genre: scifi

Kandar is days away from conquest by Mekin, a ruthless interplanetary power that has already bent more than twenty worlds to its will. Young Captain Bors, a grim officer in Kandar's tiny space navy and an exile from a previously subjugated planet, spends the final hours before invasion doing what defeated governments do best: burning records, preparing evacuations, and waiting to die well in a battle he cannot win. Then an unexpected visitor arrives at the spaceport - Morgan, a salesman-like entrepreneur with a startling claim. His organization, Talents, Incorporated, recruits misfits with impossible gifts: a dowser who can locate hidden ships, a lightning calculator who can outcompute machines, and sensitives whose precognition and pattern-reading can anticipate an enemy's next move. Morgan's daughter Gwenlyn argues that these talents are not magic, just real human oddities society never learned to use - until now. As Mekin's traps tighten and Kandar's leaders waver between surrender and defiance, Bors must decide whether to stake his world's last chance on an unscientific, untested team, and whether the strangest weapons of all - intuition, rumor, and the human mind's quirks - can outthink a galactic dictatorship.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:40:41) Chapter 02

(01:06:10) Chapter 03

(01:27:31) Chapter 04

(02:09:47) Chapter 05

(02:38:24) Chapter 06

(03:11:56) Chapter 07

(03:39:09) Chapter 08

(04:06:15) Chapter 09

(04:38:07) Chapter 10

(05:04:47) Chapter 11

(05:25:24) Chapter 12

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Space Tug by Murray Leinster ~ Full Audiobook [scifi] Mar 07, 2023

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Space Tug by Murray Leinster audiobook.

Genre: scifi

In the early days of spaceflight, Joe Kenmore has already helped put the first Space Platform into orbit, a landmark satellite that could open the way to the stars and shift the balance of power on Earth. Now he is assigned to a new and more dangerous job: crewing a hard working space tug that must ferry supplies, equipment, and defensive systems up to the Platform while rival nations and hidden saboteurs look for any chance to bring the project down. Joe and his team, the steady Chief Bender, the capable Haney, and the fearless little Mike Scandia, have to master unfamiliar procedures, unforgiving physics, and the constant risk that one small malfunction can become a death sentence. When a critical operation goes wrong and they find themselves suddenly cut off from safety, the mission turns into a race against time to regain access, keep the Platform functioning, and stop an enemy plot from turning humanity's first foothold in space into a disaster. Space Tug blends brisk action with hands on engineering problem solving, teamwork under pressure, and the tense politics of a near future space race.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:49:58) Chapter 02

(01:25:47) Chapter 03

(02:12:26) Chapter 04

(02:50:11) Chapter 05

(03:06:38) Chapter 06

(03:46:09) Chapter 07

(04:04:59) Chapter 08

(04:46:26) Chapter 09

(05:25:13) Chapter 10

(05:54:35) Chapter 11

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Space Platform by Murray Leinster ~ Full Audiobook [scifi] Mar 06, 2023

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Space Platform by Murray Leinster audiobook.

Genre: scifi

In a near-future America where the next war could be atomic, a single engineering project has become more urgent than any weapon: an orbital Space Platform, a waystation for deeper exploration and a watchtower meant to keep global tensions from tipping into catastrophe. Young Joe Kenmore is no headline hero, just a capable, stubbornly responsible technician with a critical job: deliver and install the pilot gyros that will let the Platform fly true. But getting the equipment to the remote launch site at Bootstrap is only the beginning. From the moment Joe is en route, it is clear someone wants the project to fail, and they are willing to use sabotage, staged accidents, and even murder to stop humanity's first step into space. At Bootstrap, Joe is swept into a high-pressure world of improvised solutions, dangerous tests, and a tight-knit crew that includes hard-bitten workers and brilliant oddballs, all racing the clock. As Joe begins to fall for the commanding officer's sharp-minded daughter, he must also figure out who is undermining the Platform before one well-placed failure turns a dream of the stars into a national disaster.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:30:42) Chapter 02

(00:57:29) Chapter 03

(01:31:05) Chapter 04

(01:50:13) Chapter 05

(02:21:42) Chapter 06

(02:53:06) Chapter 07

(03:23:28) Chapter 08

(03:52:30) Chapter 09

(04:29:39) Chapter 10