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Fritz Leiber - Nice Girl With 5 Husbands

Four quirky short stories by the talented Fritz Leiber: Nice Girl with 5 Husbands, A Pail of Air, The Last Letter and A Bad Day for Sales. — Summary by phil chenevert

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Randall Garrett - His Master's Voice

This is a follow up story to Randal Garrett's original story, A Spaceship Named McGyer. The intrepid protagonist, now that he has become the completely unintended and unwilling master of the robot spaceship McGyer, is...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 57 minutes

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Life of Blessed John B. Marie Vianney, Curé of Ars

Biography & Autobiography

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Anonymous - Life of Blessed John B. Marie Vianney, Curé of Ars

Jean-Baptiste-Marie Vianney, T.O.S.F., (8 May 1786 – 4 August 1859), commonly known in English as St John Vianney, was a French parish priest who is venerated in the Catholic Church as a saint and as the patron saint...

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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...

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G. L. Vandenburg - Four Science Fiction Stories by G.L.Vandenburg

G.L.Vandenburg wrote quirky and funny Science Fiction stories for Amazing Science Fiction Stories, and similar magazines in the 1950's. These four are a selection that give a good taste of his offbeat approach,...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 55 minutes

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G.K. Chesterton's Newspaper Columns: The New Witness - November 1919 to April 1920

Essays & Short Works

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G. K. Chesterton - G.K. Chesterton's Newspaper Columns: The New Witness - November 1919 to April 1920

A collection of the newspaper columns/essays written by G.K. Chesterton for «The New Witness», under the heading «At the Sign of the World's End». This project compiles the articles included in the issues between...

J F Parks and 7 more 1 hour 55 minutes

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Science Fiction

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Philip K. Dick - Second Variety (Version 2)

First published in Space Science Fiction May 1953. «The claws were bad enough in the first place—nasty, crawling little death-robots. But when they began to imitate their creators, it was time for the human race to...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 55 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Johnny Gruelle - Raggedy Ann Stories (version 3)

As I write this, I have before me on my desk, propped up against the telephone, an old rag doll. Dear old Raggedy Ann! The same Raggedy Ann with which my mother played when a child. There she sits, a trifle...

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Randall Garrett - Damned If You Don't

We've all heard of the wonderful invention that the Big Corporation or the Utilities suppressed? The one that would revolutionize society with it's simplicity? Well usually, that Wonderful Invention won't work,...

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H. Beam Piper - Omnilingual (version 2)

This short story was first written and published in the year 1957, as part of a collection of short science fiction stories in the collection Astounding Science Fiction. Piper's story is unusual in focusing on the...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 53 minutes

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Fritz Leiber - No Great Magic

They were a traveling group of Shakespearean players; perfectly harmless, right? wrong. For one thing, why did they have spacemen costumes in their wardrobes,next to caveman ones? Why was the girl in charge of...

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Happy Prince and Other Tales (version 3)

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Oscar Wilde - Happy Prince and Other Tales (version 3)

A collection of five stories by Oscar Wilde, all incorporating his inimitable style and wit. Sometimes sweet and uplifting, sometimes caustic and pointed, they all are well worth listening to. The Happy Prince is a...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 51 minutes

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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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