Phil Chenevert

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Achmed Abdullah - Ten-foot Chain

True love can survive anything. Or can it? Four popular authors were lunching with an editor and the question came up: «What mental and emotional reaction would a man and a woman undergo, linked together by a ten-foot...

Phil Chenevert and 4 more 2 hours 33 minutes

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2 B R 0 2 B (version 2) & The Big Trip Up Yonder (version 5)

Science Fiction

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Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. - 2 B R 0 2 B (version 2) & The Big Trip Up Yonder (version 5)

These two stories by Kurt Vonnegut were written over a decade apart but they are definitely connected. The Big Trip Up Yonder, published in Galaxy Science Fiction January 1954 is a comical yet scary description of...

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General

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Edward Lear - Nonsense Verses

This is a collection of some of the delightful nonsense verses and stories by Edward Lear. A lot of them are also my favorites. The Jumblies, The Owl and the Pussy-cat; the Broom, the Shovel, The Poker and the Tongs;...

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Science Fiction

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H. Beam Piper - Naudsonce

Naudsonce? What does THAT mean? Well, to find out you will need to listen to this story where Piper's unique mind explores what we mean by 'communication' and how it happens. The joint Space Navy-Colonial Office...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 55 minutes

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Animals & Nature

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Hugh Lofting - Story of Doctor Dolittle (version 2)

This is the original book about the amazing Dr. Dolittle who «Besides the gold-fish in the pond at the bottom of his garden, he had rabbits in the pantry, white mice in his piano, a squirrel in the linen closet and a...

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Science Fiction

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Robert Sheckley - Watchbird

3 Robert Sheckley short stories that demonstrate the breathof his fantastic imagination. In Watchbird, the question «can machines solve human problems?» is answered with a resounding YES! But there may be a few...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 30 minutes

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Black Experience in America, 18th-20th Century, Vol. 1

History

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Black Experience in America, 18th-20th Century, Vol. 1

This is not the copyrighted work by Norman Coombs currently on Project Gutenberg but a collection of non-fiction, fiction, poetry, drama, and speeches found on Project Gutenberg that are by or about African...

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Science Fiction

Keith Laumer - Gambler's World & The Yillian Way

Here are two stores starring the always unconventional Terrestrial Diplomat, Retief. As a diplomat, Retief does not always follow procedure. Well the truth is that he almost never follows procedure but somehow his wit...

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Science Fiction

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Murray Leinster - Ambulance Made Two Trips

Big Jake Connors is taking over his town through violence, inimidation and bribery but Detective Sergeant Fitzgerald can only grind his teeth in frustration. The gangsters seem to have everything going their way until...

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Science Fiction

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Poul William Anderson - Chapter Ends

Far, far in the future the Earth is still spinning around the Sun, on the edge of the galaxy, dozing in obscurity, forgotten by it's trillions of progeny and completely irrelevant. But this doesn't matter to the few...

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Science Fiction

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Philip K. Dick - Eyes Have It & Tony and the Beetles

Aliens have invaded the earth! Horrible one celled creatures disguised as normal human beings! Well, at least that is what it seems to the author. Yes, The Eyes Have It is a whimsical story, making gentle fun of...

Phil Chenevert 43 minutes

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Science Fiction

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Randall Garrett - Nor Iron Bars A Cage ...

Iron bars do not confine a Man—only his body. There are more subtle, and more confining bindings, however....Police methods of the future will naturally use complex new technology but police will still need to deal...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 42 minutes

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New

Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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