Classic Audiobook Collection

The Chapter Ends by Poul Anderson audiobook. Genre: scifi Set tens of thousands of years in the future, The Chapter Ends finds Earth reduced to a quiet backwater - a beautiful, half-forgotten cradle of humanity where a few million people live simple lives while the wider human civilization thrives among the stars. That fragile peace shatters when offworld authorities decide that Earth must be cleared, a decision driven less by sentiment than by distant, cold interstellar politics. Sent to oversee the final evacuation is Jorun, a star-traveler and psychotechnician whose implants and training let him read the currents of belief, fear, and loyalty in the people he has been ordered to move. On the ground, he meets Julith, a young woman pulled between curiosity about the greater universe and love for the only world she has ever known. And he faces his hardest case in Kormt, an old local leader whose stubborn refusal to leave is not mere defiance, but a worldview rooted in soil, memory, and the meaning of home. As departure day approaches, Jorun must decide what can be persuaded, what must be honored, and what is lost when a civilization turns the page on its own birthplace. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:11:56) Chapter 2 (00:24:52) Chapter 3 (00:42:33) Chapter 4 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Fool There Was by Porter Emerson Browne audiobook. Genre: drama Two friends were asked by their respective fathers on their death beds to promise to marry a special girl, who lived across the street and who they had been very fond of since childhood. Once they reached young manhood, one of these fulfilled his father's wish. The story takes off from there, and, while all three continued to be very close to one another as they grew older, the married man was sent abroad on business, allowing his friend to take care of his wife and child while he was away. While overseas, the married man fell into temptation. Many twists and turns, as well as surprises were to follow, rendering the reader curious as to how it would all turn out For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:21:20) Chapter 02 (00:35:41) Chapter 03 (00:53:10) Chapter 04 (01:07:24) Chapter 05 (01:13:55) Chapter 06 (01:37:40) Chapter 07 (02:01:04) Chapter 08 (02:26:55) Chapter 09 (02:33:29) Chapter 10 (02:51:56) Chapter 11 (03:07:30) Chapter 12 (03:18:07) Chapter 13 (03:32:57) Chapter 14 (03:54:13) Chapter 15 (04:15:22) Chapter 16 (04:26:53) Chapter 17 (04:45:49) Chapter 18 (05:08:29) Chapter 19 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Apology by Plato audiobook. Genre: philosophy The Apology is Plato's version of the speech given by Socrates as he defended himself in 399 BC[2] against the charges of 'corrupting the young, and by not believing in the gods in whom the city believes, but in other daimonia that are novel' . 'Apology' here has its earlier meaning of speaking in defense of a cause or of one's beliefs or actions. The general term apology, in context to literature, defends a world from attack (opposite of satire-which attacks the world). The text is written in the first person from Socrates' point of view, as though it were Socrates' actual speech at the trial. During the course of the speech, Socrates twice mentions Plato as being present. There is, however, no real way of knowing how closely Socrates' words in the Apology match those of Socrates at the actual trial, even if it was Plato's intention to be accurate in this respect For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:36:59) Chapter 2 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Canadians of Old by Philippe Aubert de Gaspe audiobook. Genre: history In his mid-70s, Philippe Aubert de Gaspé took on the project of recording the culture and heritage of French Canada, especially that of the late 1700s, the world of his youth. The result, published in French in 1863, was the historical fiction 'Les Anciens Canadiens (literally, “The Canadians of Old”). In this book, inspired by the historical novels of Sir Walter Scott, Aubert de Gaspé collects the customs, traditions, folk tales, superstitions, and songs of the Quebec people, weaves in memories of life in his own ancestral home, and sets all this within the momentous historical events that transformed Canada in the 18th century. Much of the book is historically accurate, based sometimes on the author’s own experiences and sometimes on memories passed on to him by eyewitnesses. For example, the account of being sent to debtor’s prison came from the author’s own experience. The fantastic ghost story of “La Corriveau” was based on the true story of a murderess whose body was on public display in iron chains (a “cage”) for weeks after her execution. That initial incident had already blossomed into material for lurid legend; Aubert de Gaspé was the first to incorporate this legend into a work of literature. The book’s storyline hinges on the British Conquest of Quebec in 1759 and the ensuing trauma caused to French Canada. Fictional characters are intertwined with historical figures such as a famous shipwreck survivor and specific military officers. This book is an engaging window on cultural history and one of the first great works of French Canadian literature. The English translator of this edition, Charles G. D. Roberts, was himself a distinguished author. He has been called “the father of Canadian poetry.” - Summary by Bruce Pirie *Warning: Listeners may be offended by some of the racial labels and depictions. Words that were considered acceptable in the nineteenth century may be offensive today. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:18:29) Chapter 02 (00:41:39) Chapter 03 (01:09:37) Chapter 04 (01:31:59) Chapter 05 (02:14:21) Chapter 06 (03:01:11) Chapter 07 (03:33:45) Chapter 08 (03:49:25) Chapter 09 (04:16:16) Chapter 10 (04:52:23) Chapter 11 (05:18:31) Chapter 12 (05:46:19) Chapter 13 (06:23:16) Chapter 14 (06:56:04) Chapter 15 (07:27:01) Chapter 16 (08:21:02) Chapter 17 (08:50:47) Chapter 18 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Variable Man by Philip K. Dick audiobook. Genre: scifi In the middle of a desperate interstellar war, Earth is gambling its survival on perfect prediction. Military planners and weapons magnates rely on vast statistical systems to forecast every battle, every treaty, every human choice, reducing the future to a set of manageable probabilities. Then a glitch rips open time itself and delivers an impossible outsider: Thomas Cole, a plainspoken, early-20th-century repairman with a talent for improvisation and a stubborn belief that any machine can be fixed if you understand its parts. To the strategists, Cole is a dangerous anomaly - a 'variable man' who does not belong in their equations and therefore threatens the fragile certainty that keeps their war machine running. As rival factions scramble to capture, study, or eliminate him, Cole is forced to navigate a world of cold logic, corporate ambition, and escalating violence, where being unpredictable can be both a weapon and a death sentence. Philip K. Dick spins a tense, idea-driven chase through a future obsessed with control, asking what happens when one ordinary human being becomes the one factor no system can account for. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:31:16) Chapter 02 (01:11:56) Chapter 03 (01:54:26) Chapter 04 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Eyes Have It & Tony and the Beetles by Philip K. Dick audiobook. Genre: scifi 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 certain writing styles, but only a topflight science-fictionist like Philip Dick , we thought, could have written this story, in just this way. Tony and the Beetles takes place far in the future when Earth's enormous colonial empire is well established but the question is, how long can it last? 10 year old Tony grows up fast when history catches up with the human race. A sobering look at human history .. and our probable future. Two very different stories but both entertaining. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:08:40) Chapter 2 (00:26:09) Chapter 3 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Defenders by Philip K. Dick audiobook. Genre: scifi The terrible destruction of total nuclear war between the Western and Eastern Blocks has succeeded in sterilizing the surface of the earth. No living creature can now exist there and all humans on both sides, have fled to the hives built miles below the surface where they constantly work to produce the war materials necessary to carry on the battle. For 8 years now, the actual fighting between these super powers has been conducted by robots known as Ledeys since only they can sustain the terrible levels of radiation caused by the constant bombardment. They are the Defenders, standing between the combatants far below and ultimate victory or defeat. Life is hard in the tunnels, but liveable, while it is lethal on the surface. The ledeys keep the generals informed on everything through vids and pictures; but how can this continue? what will happen? Who will win? For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:13:49) Chapter 2 (00:27:59) Chapter 3 (00:48:10) Chapter 4 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:15:01) Chapter 2 (00:31:30) Chapter 3 (00:48:25) Chapter 4 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:31:51) Chapter 2 (01:01:54) Chapter 3 (01:30:07) Chapter 4 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:18:15) Chapter 2 (00:41:39) Chapter 3 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 For ad-free listening try our premium subscription 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription 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 (04:55:56) Chapter 11 (05:16:01) Chapter 12 (05:25:05) Chapter 13 (05:55:00) Chapter 14 (06:08:06) Chapter 15 (06:42:46) Chapter 16 (07:18:20) Chapter 17 (07:34:45) Chapter 18 (07:52:20) Chapter 19 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Intrusion of Jimmy by P. G. Wodehouse audiobook. Genre: comedy Jimmy Pitt has money, charm, and a dangerous surplus of curiosity. Fresh from New York nightlife and a new obsession with gentleman-thief stage heroes, he talks himself into a reckless wager: prove that any man can pull off a burglary. With the help of Spike Mullins, a down-at-heels small-time crook who takes Jimmy far too seriously as a master cracksman, Jimmy breaks into the wrong house and collides with police-captain-turned-social-climber McEachern and his guarded, captivating daughter, Molly, the girl Jimmy first noticed on a transatlantic voyage. When the whole party converges on England and the grand, gossiping world of Dreever Castle, Jimmy finds himself trapped between drawing rooms and locked doors, glittering jewels and sharper suspicions. Molly is being maneuvered toward an unwanted match with Lord Dreever, while Jimmy's own reputation is threatened by the very criminal masquerade he started as a joke. As impostors, amateur detectives, and schemers multiply, Jimmy must keep Spike out of trouble, keep himself out of jail, and find a way to prove that his heart is honest even when the evidence is not. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:40:22) Chapter 02 (01:14:44) Chapter 03 (01:57:41) Chapter 04 (02:50:35) Chapter 05 (03:39:49) Chapter 06 (04:35:25) Chapter 07 (05:17:46) Chapter 08 (06:16:05) Chapter 09 (07:06:30) Chapter 10 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse audiobook. Genre: comedy Bertram Wooster's manservant, Jeeves, is renown for his ability to apply his keen intellect to solve all problems domestic, and Bertie's friends and relatives flock to him for his counsel. But Wooster, jealous of Jeeves's fame, decides to step in and take over as the fixer of his pal's engagement, his aunt's gambling debts and old school-mate's desire to propose marriage. How far will Bertie sink them all in the soup? Will Jeeves come to the rescue? 'Right Ho, Jeeves' features of course Bertie and Jeeves as well as Gussie Fink-Nottle, Tuppie Glossop, Aunt Dahlia and Anatole the high-strung French chef in this P.G. Wodehouse farce of England's upper crust For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:24:59) Chapter 2 (00:41:06) Chapter 3 (00:48:29) Chapter 4 (01:00:50) Chapter 5 (01:12:01) Chapter 6 (01:31:00) Chapter 7 (01:48:33) Chapter 8 (02:04:26) Chapter 9 (02:41:17) Chapter 10 (03:00:10) Chapter 11 (03:29:20) Chapter 12 (03:44:14) Chapter 13 (04:02:20) Chapter 14 (04:16:19) Chapter 15 (04:38:50) Chapter 16 (05:07:22) Chapter 17 (05:47:31) Chapter 18 (06:02:29) Chapter 19 (06:16:13) Chapter 20 (06:39:27) Chapter 21 (07:01:51) Chapter 22 (07:34:42) Chapter 23 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Dog of Flanders by Ouida audiobook. Genre: tragedy In a quiet Flemish village near Antwerp, a poor orphan boy named Nello and his loyal dog Patrasche struggle to survive on the edges of society. Taken in by his kindly grandfather, Nello earns a few coins delivering milk and doing odd jobs, while Patrasche, once abused and overworked, becomes both companion and partner in their daily labor. Nello's one true refuge is art: he sketches whenever he can, dreaming of a future beyond hunger and hard winters. But dreams are costly in a world ruled by class, gossip, and small-town pride. As Nello grows close to Alois, the daughter of a local miller, he finds himself pressed between affection and circumstance, especially when the miller's favor turns uncertain. Meanwhile, a prestigious art competition offers Nello a slim chance at recognition, even as setbacks and misunderstandings tighten around him. A Dog of Flanders is a poignant story of loyalty, innocence, and the bruising gap between talent and opportunity, set against the stark beauty of the Flemish landscape and the enduring hope kindled by a single masterpiece. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:21:37) Chapter 2 (00:29:54) Chapter 3 (00:44:01) Chapter 4 (01:03:39) Chapter 5 (01:19:01) Chapter 6 (01:37:25) Chapter 7 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Fisherman and His Soul by Oscar Wilde audiobook. Genre: fantasy To get what we want is often the greatest curse of all. The fisherman here accidentally catches a mermaid in his net. He falls in love with the Mermaid and tells her that he wants to marry her. She tells him that he can only marry her if he sends away his soul. From a Witch, the Fisherman learns how to send his soul away. The Soul makes several attempts to persuade the Fisherman to take him back, eventually convincing him to do so with the tale of a beautiful dancer who lives nearby. Too late does the Fisherman discover that the soul which he sent out into the world without a heart has become evil. So be careful what you set your heart on. This story was first published in 1896 in the book A House of Pomegranates For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:32:11) Chapter 02 (01:04:23) Chapter 03 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lady Windermere’s Fan by Oscar Wilde audiobook. Genre: comedy In Victorian London, the impeccably proper Lady Windermere is preparing for her coming-of-age birthday ball when a troubling rumor reaches her ears: her husband, Lord Windermere, has been seen paying large sums of money to a mysterious older woman, Mrs. Erlynne. To Lady Windermere, whose pride rests on strict ideals of morality and reputation, the implication feels unmistakable - betrayal. As society buzzes with speculation, Lord Windermere refuses to offer a satisfying explanation, asking only for trust. The request collides with Lady Windermere's fear of scandal and her determination to judge right from wrong with absolute certainty. When Mrs. Erlynne appears at the ball, the evening becomes a high-stakes test of marriage, loyalty, and social survival. Tempted by the attention of the charming Lord Darlington and pushed by the rigid rules of her world, Lady Windermere faces a choice that could shatter her home and her standing forever. With sparkling wit and razor-sharp observation, Oscar Wilde turns drawing-room politeness into a battlefield where secrets, sacrifice, and hypocrisy threaten to overturn every carefully kept appearance. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:39:57) Chapter 02 (01:21:09) Chapter 03 (01:55:37) Chapter 04 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Midnight by Octavus Roy Cohen audiobook. Genre: mystery On a bitter December night, taxi driver Spike Walters is just trying to finish his shift in a city locked in sleet and cold. Then a veiled, well-dressed woman hails his cab at Union Station, gives a quiet address, and rides in silence. Minutes later, at the destination, Spike turns to collect his fare and finds the impossible: his passenger has vanished, a suitcase sits where she had been, and a dead man is slumped in the back seat. The victim, Roland Warren, is no nobody, and the suitcase seems to tie the missing woman to the murder in ways that make no sense at all. With the police closing in and Spike desperate to clear his name, the case lands in the hands of David Carroll, a detective whose patience, empathy, and sharp eye for human motives cut through the city's gossip and high-society veneers. As Carroll follows thin leads across boardinghouses, offices, and drawing rooms, every answer opens a new question, and the truth behind the midnight ride proves far more tangled than a simple robbery gone wrong. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:17:57) Chapter 02 (00:36:53) Chapter 03 (00:54:57) Chapter 04 (01:11:14) Chapter 05 (01:25:56) Chapter 06 (01:40:27) Chapter 07 (01:55:53) Chapter 08 (02:11:53) Chapter 09 (02:28:46) Chapter 10 (02:45:20) Chapter 11 (03:00:22) Chapter 12 (03:20:25) Chapter 13 (03:36:19) Chapter 14 (03:55:12) Chapter 15 (04:13:08) Chapter 16 (04:32:20) Chapter 17 (04:46:49) Chapter 18 (05:05:55) Chapter 19 (05:23:41) Chapter 20 (05:44:30) Chapter 21 (06:01:08) Chapter 22 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Network of Crime by Nicholas Carter audiobook. Genre: mystery When a frantic phone call reaches Nick Carter's Madison Avenue home, his junior assistant Patsy Garvan learns that Frank Mantell needs the famous detective at once: there is half a million dollars at stake, and time is running out. But Nick and his chief assistant, Chick Carter, are already on another urgent assignment - a brutal double murder in a quiet Manhattanville house that should have been empty. Inside, the evidence points to a savage struggle, a planned meeting gone wrong, and intruders who may have used a false rental to secure the perfect trap.As Patsy races to connect Mantell's desperate business with Nick's grisly crime scene, the case begins to widen beyond a single night of violence. A battered suitcase, a bloodstained slouch hat, and whispers of a man from Mexico hint at a far larger plot, where respectable fronts and waterfront dealings conceal a tangled web of thieves, gangsters, and high value loot. To untie the knot, Nick must trace each thread through New York's underworld, testing every alibi and every disguise - before the hidden network strikes again. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:11:22) Chapter 02 (00:30:08) Chapter 03 (00:44:41) Chapter 04 (01:01:03) Chapter 05 (01:18:18) Chapter 06 (01:30:55) Chapter 07 (01:38:51) Chapter 08 (01:52:04) Chapter 09 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Great Stone Face and Other Tales of the White Mountains by Nathaniel Hawthorne audiobook. Genre: folklore Set among the granite peaks, deep notches, and sudden storms of New Hampshire's White Mountains, Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Great Stone Face and Other Tales of the White Mountains gathers a haunting set of legends that blend New England landscape with moral wonder. The centerpiece tale follows Ernest, a humble village boy who grows to manhood beneath the shadow of the Great Stone Face, a vast natural profile carved into a mountain. A local prophecy claims that one day a person will appear whose life and character mirror that stern, noble visage, and Ernest watches the passing years as travelers, heroes, and celebrated figures come and go, each tested against the mountain's silent standard. Surrounding this story are additional mountain chronicles of peril, desire, and awe: guests drawn to lonely houses on tempest nights, seekers tempted by unearthly riches, and wanderers who discover that the wilderness can reflect the darkest corners of the heart. With vivid scenery and a quiet, fable-like voice, Hawthorne explores ambition, humility, community, and the uneasy line between nature's beauty and its power. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:28:49) Chapter 2 (00:56:53) Chapter 3 (01:20:31) Chapter 4 (02:03:15) Chapter 5 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Wailing Asteroid by Murray Leinster audiobook. Genre: scifi There was no life on the asteroid, but the miles of rock-hewn corridors through which the earth party wandered left no doubt about the purpose of the asteroid. It was a mighty fortress, stocked with weapons of destruction beyond man's power to understand. And yet there was no life here, nor had there been for untold centuries. What race had built this stronghold? What unimaginable power were they defending against? Why was it abandoned? There was no answer, all was dead. But—not quite all. For in a room above the tomb-like fortress a powerful transmitter beamed its birdlike, fluting sounds toward earth. Near it, on a huge star-map of the universe, with light-years measured by inches, ten tiny red sparks were moving, crawling inexorably toward the center. Moving, at many times the speed of light, with the acquired mass of suns ... moving, on a course that would pass through the solar system. The unknown aliens would not even see our sun explode from the force of their passing, would not even notice the tiny speck called Earth as it died.... For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:32:57) Chapter 02 (01:13:50) Chapter 03 (01:49:13) Chapter 04 (02:17:11) Chapter 05 (02:54:20) Chapter 06 (03:31:31) Chapter 07 (04:05:12) Chapter 08 (04:50:28) Chapter 09 (05:28:30) Chapter 10 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Red Dust by Murray Leinster audiobook. Genre: scifi You who have read 'The Mad Planet' by Murray Leinster, will welcome the sequel to that story. The world, in a far distant future, is peopled with huge insects and titanic fungus growths. Life has been greatly altered, and tiny Man is now in the process of becoming acclimated to the change. We again meet our hero Burl, but this time a far greater danger menaces the human race. The huge insects are still in evidence, but the terror they inspire is as nothing compared to the deadly Red Dust. You will follow this remarkable story with breathless interest. 'Burl raised his spear, and plunged down on the back of the moving thing, thrusting his spear with all the force he could command. He had fallen upon the shining back of one of the huge, meat-eating beetles, and his spear had slid across the horny armor and then stuck fast, having pierced only the leathery tissue between the insect's head and thorax.' For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:34:10) Chapter 2 (01:09:21) Chapter 3 (01:41:37) Chapter 4 (02:16:56) Chapter 5 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:42:45) Chapter 2 (01:15:41) Chapter 3 (02:05:43) Chapter 4 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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? For ad-free listening try our premium subscription 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:35:48) Chapter 02 (01:06:39) Chapter 03 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:17:25) Chapter 2 (00:33:46) Chapter 3 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:24:48) Chapter 02 (00:49:28) Chapter 03 (01:10:50) Chapter 04 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:19:58) Chapter 2 (00:36:48) Chapter 3 (00:56:36) Chapter 4 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription 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 (05:01:01) Chapter 11 (05:31:36) Chapter 12 (05:55:48) Chapter 13 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sand Doom by Murray Leinster audiobook. Genre: scifi Senior Colonial Survey officer Bordman expects a routine assignment: ride the freighter Warlock down to Xosa II, inspect a minerals colony that should be nearly complete, and file the report that will open the planet to regular traffic. Instead, the Warlock brakes into orbit under emergency rockets and dumps its only two passengers, Bordman and the sharp-witted Aletha Redfeather, into a cramped landing boat. On the ground, the explanation is as impossible as it is simple: a colossal sandstorm has buried the colony's landing grid - along with much of the steel and equipment needed to finish it - under a new-made sand plateau. With no grid to bring ships down safely, the Warlock cannot land its vital cargo. With the ship trapped close to an Earth-gravity world, it cannot use its drive to leave and fetch help. And without imported supplies and power, the colonists face heat, thirst, and starvation on a planet that is nothing but wind-carved desert. Forced to abandon paperwork for pragmatism, Bordman clashes and bonds with project engineer Ralph Redfeather, the booming Dr. Chuka, and a multicultural crew of settlers as they hunt for one workable break in a perfectly circular disaster - before time and sand finish the job. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:27:16) Chapter 02 (00:49:20) Chapter 03 (01:22:04) Chapter 04 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Planet of Dread by Murray Leinster audiobook. Genre: scifi Humans have expanded to myriads of worlds throughout the galaxies but they have found that the only way for colonies to be self sustaining, was to reproduce the total ecology of their home world; the original Earth. This meant bringing the entire ecosystem, the good, the bad and the ugly. Viruses as well as grass, goats as well as stink bugs and allowing the whole mixture to ultimately produce an inhabitable world for humans. But what happens when this system is not properly supervised? Moran and the others in the space yacht Nadine find a world where strange things have been brewing for over a hundred years and may or may not survive an environment gone mad. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:33:35) Chapter 2 (01:12:25) Chapter 3 (01:41:32) Chapter 4 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Pariah Planet by Murray Leinster audiobook. Genre: scifi When the blue plague appeared on the planet of Dara, fear struck nearby worlds. The fear led to a hate that threatened the lives of millions and endangered the Galactic peace. But the Med Service ship Aesculapius 20 with Calhoun and Murgatroyd the Tormal aboard are on the job and have stumbled into the horrible mess caused by unreasoning hatred, quarantine, mass starvation and worse. Calhoun must use all his medical knowledge and significant skills to even understand the situation here in neglected Sector 12. Can he and Murgatroyd untangle this Gordian's knot and live to tell the tale? Maybe and maybe not. Listen and find out. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:33:27) Chapter 2 (01:00:48) Chapter 3 (01:28:47) Chapter 4 (01:58:18) Chapter 5 (02:32:28) Chapter 6 (03:04:35) Chapter 7 (03:36:36) Chapter 8 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Operation - Outer Space by Murray Leinster audiobook. Genre: scifi In a crowded, restless future where every rooftop is a recreation deck and every job feels precarious, television producer Jed Cochrane has learned to sell spectacle for a living. So when he is abruptly pulled into a hush-hush government project, he expects another staged event to package for the masses. Instead, a strange therapeutic experiment led by psychiatrist Dr. William Holden and centered on a brilliant, troubled scientist named Dabney pushes technology toward an unthinkable breakthrough: the first voyage beyond the Solar System. The catch is that the mission is financed the only way big money can be justified - by turning it into a broadcast, complete with sponsors, publicity, and ratings pressure. As Cochrane scrambles to make deep space 'good television,' the crew must face the practical hazards of the unknown, the politics of who controls discovery, and the moral cost of treating exploration like content. By turns tense, witty, and sharply satirical, Operation: Outer Space asks what happens when humanity's greatest leap forward is planned like a show - and whether wonder can survive the commercials. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:53:44) Chapter 02 (01:30:27) Chapter 03 (02:08:47) Chapter 04 (02:47:25) Chapter 05 (03:18:05) Chapter 06 (04:03:04) Chapter 07 (04:34:31) Chapter 08 (05:15:52) Chapter 09 (05:57:43) Chapter 10 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Med Ship Man by Murray Leinster audiobook. Genre: scifi On the interstellar frontier, the Interstellar Medical Service sends its Med Ships where no one else will go: to backward worlds, tense border systems, and isolated colonies whose problems can spread faster than any plague. Calhoun, a young physician assigned to the Med Ship Aesclipus Twenty, is trained to treat both bodies and societies, but his most important tool is not a scalpel - its judgment. With his small ship, a mobile hospital, and the company of Murgatroyd, a sharp-eyed and strangely lovable companion creature, Calhoun follows cryptic calls for aid that rarely match the official reports. Each stop becomes a test of medicine under pressure: suspicious authorities hiding outbreaks, communities gripped by fear and rumor, and political rivalries that turn public health into a weapon. As Calhoun navigates quarantine protocols, ethical choices, and the limits of trust, he must prove that saving lives can mean confronting the story a planet tells about itself. Med Ship Man blends fast-moving missions with thoughtful questions about responsibility, compassion, and the fragile threads that hold civilizations together in the vastness of space. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:19:24) Chapter 02 (00:38:23) Chapter 03 (00:59:39) Chapter 04 (01:17:25) Chapter 05 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Creatures of the Abyss by Murray Leinster audiobook. Genre: scifi Orejas de ellos, 'the things that listen', whispered the superstitious fishermen when the strange occurrences began off the Philippine coast. How else explain the sudden disappearance of a vessel beneath a mysterious curtain of foam? The writhings of thousands of maddened fish trapped in a coffin-like area of ocean? What monsters gorged at the bottom of the Luzon Deep and what were their plans? Radar expert Terry Holt and the crew of the Esperance had to devise a weapon against the horrifying creatures which threatened mankind with extinction. Here are terror, excitement, and the clutch of cold death as combined by a master hand in the field of science fiction. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:37:33) Chapter 2 (01:14:47) Chapter 3 (01:49:57) Chapter 4 (02:24:22) Chapter 5 (02:59:44) Chapter 6 (03:35:06) Chapter 7 (04:10:41) Chapter 8 (04:45:20) Chapter 9 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Thousand Degrees Below Zero by Murray Leinster audiobook. Genre: scifi The War to End All Wars has ended and the world has taken a deep breath and is trying to recover normal life in 1919. But a super Villan intent on ruling the entire world has other ideas. In his super fast helicopter (the Black Flyer) he sorties out to block the major ports and rives of the world until all nations with icebergs made by his fiendishly clever devices until they admit his supremacy and kneel before his might. The might of nations are helpless before him but he does not count on our hero, a scientist specializing in low temperatures who was also a gunner in WWI. Teamed with a daring pilot flying the latest fastest bi plane in the army, they tangle with this brilliant but deranged person and might be able to bring him down. Do they? Listen and find out in this thrilling adventure where planes zoom at up to 200 mph!!!! For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:12:43) Chapter 02 (00:29:29) Chapter 03 (00:40:27) Chapter 04 (00:55:16) Chapter 05 (01:11:18) Chapter 06 (01:25:36) Chapter 07 (01:41:14) Chapter 08 (01:56:37) Chapter 09 (02:13:30) Chapter 10 (02:29:06) Chapter 11 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Matter of Importance by Murray Leinster audiobook. Genre: scifi The importance of a matter is almost entirely a matter of your attitude. And whether you call something 'a riot' or 'a war' ... well, there is a difference, but what is it? Someone steals a space ship? The local police know how to handle that. A broken down freighter in a far distant solar system? That's their normal job too. A bunch of idiots want to start a war? Just another days' work for the boys in blue. The twisted mind of Murray Leinster takes on an Earth empire of thousands of planets and that has moved beyond armies or navies. No need for 'em any more when you have an experienced police force, eh? They've seen it all and everything is routine to the guys and gals of the Empire Police. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:25:02) Chapter 02 (00:48:52) Chapter 03 (01:13:22) Chapter 04 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lady’s Life on a Farm in Manitoba by Mrs. Cecil Hall audiobook. Genre: biography In 1881, Mrs. Cecil Hall's brother went to Manitoba to farm. In 1882, she went out for a visit of some two months, and followed that visit with a long sojourn in Colorado, returning to England as the snows began to fall. While there, she had to give up her 'Lady's ways' and help on the farm in many ways she'd never stoop to at home. She makes hay, cooks, paints the barn roof, and cleans. Through it all, the newness helped her keep her temper, and these letters home show an insight into the settlement of Western Canada. These letters have a feel of 'Little House on the Prairie' from an English lady's point of view. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:02:42) Chapter 02 (00:05:55) Chapter 03 (00:12:05) Chapter 04 (00:15:35) Chapter 05 (00:22:10) Chapter 06 (00:28:17) Chapter 07 (00:33:30) Chapter 08 (00:37:07) Chapter 09 (00:43:21) Chapter 10 (00:45:40) Chapter 11 (00:58:48) Chapter 12 (01:01:53) Chapter 13 (01:08:18) Chapter 14 (01:16:09) Chapter 15 (01:25:00) Chapter 16 (01:27:36) Chapter 17 (01:31:33) Chapter 18 (01:44:48) Chapter 19 (01:48:19) Chapter 20 (01:52:47) Chapter 21 (02:16:50) Chapter 22 (02:21:29) Chapter 23 (02:26:10) Chapter 24 (02:28:30) Chapter 25 (02:34:25) Chapter 26 (02:39:44) Chapter 27 (02:40:45) Chapter 28 (02:48:30) Chapter 29 (02:49:47) Chapter 30 (02:53:55) Chapter 31 (02:56:36) Chapter 32 (02:59:32) Chapter 33 (03:03:54) Chapter 34 (03:06:51) Chapter 35 (03:09:58) Chapter 36 (03:13:37) Chapter 37 (03:17:16) Chapter 38 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The House by the Lock by Mrs. C. N. Williamson audiobook. Genre: mystery What secrets lay within the walls of the house by the lock? What secrets, if any, are held by the man who owns that mysterious house? A body is found in a backwater creek not far from the house by the lock, but what leads Noel Stanton on a quest to determine who the killer might be is more than merely the disappearance of his American friend Harvey Farnham. He has reason to believe that the wealthy and influential owner of the house, Carson Wildred, might somehow be implicated in the coincidental disappearance and murder. But as Stanton's search progresses, he learns that his friend is safe and sound back in the U.S. and he therefore must learn more about the house itself with its peculiar construction, it's hidden passageways, and the peculiar smoke occasionally seen rising from its inaccessible areas. But everything is accounted for by the police, the servants, and Mr. Wildred during his investigation, leaving a most strange mystery left for Stanton to unravel. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:14:20) Chapter 02 (00:26:02) Chapter 03 (00:35:26) Chapter 04 (00:45:27) Chapter 05 (01:04:50) Chapter 06 (01:21:56) Chapter 07 (01:29:37) Chapter 08 (01:40:01) Chapter 09 (01:50:16) Chapter 10 (01:59:09) Chapter 11 (02:19:35) Chapter 12 (02:25:31) Chapter 13 (02:39:33) Chapter 14 (02:43:08) Chapter 15 (02:51:39) Chapter 16 (03:02:06) Chapter 17 (03:18:48) Chapter 18 (03:30:00) Chapter 19 (03:43:52) Chapter 20 (04:06:51) Chapter 21 (04:21:31) Chapter 22 (04:26:19) Chapter 23 (04:36:14) Chapter 24 (04:44:52) Chapter 25 (04:53:32) Chapter 26 (05:21:48) Chapter 27 (05:30:08) Chapter 28 (05:39:31) Chapter 29 (05:55:38) Chapter 30 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The House of a Thousand Candles by Meredith Nicholson audiobook. Genre: mystery A top ten bestseller of 1906, The House of a Thousand Candles is part adventure/mystery and part romance. The book begins with young Jack Glenarm returning from various exploits in Europe and Africa for the reading of his grandfather’s will. In it, he stands to inherit his grandfather’s estate, but only if he can remain for one year in residence at the old man’s unfinished “House of a Thousand Candles” in Annandale, Indiana, with only his grandfather’s mysterious valet for company. If he violates the terms of the will, the house will go to a young woman, heretofore unknown to him, whom the will also forbids Jack to marry if he wants to retain his inheritance. This all sounds very mundane to Jack and he fully expects to be quite bored in very short order. Soon after Jack’s arrival at Glenarm House, however, various strange occurrences ensue, and he soon finds himself absorbed in the most lively adventure of his life! For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:25:51) Chapter 02 (00:44:13) Chapter 03 (00:57:06) Chapter 04 (01:15:56) Chapter 05 (01:36:12) Chapter 06 (01:46:44) Chapter 07 (02:02:30) Chapter 08 (02:14:36) Chapter 09 (02:33:53) Chapter 10 (02:49:54) Chapter 11 (03:02:21) Chapter 12 (03:17:14) Chapter 13 (03:30:36) Chapter 14 (03:46:54) Chapter 15 (03:57:57) Chapter 16 (04:12:31) Chapter 17 (04:26:08) Chapter 18 (04:42:28) Chapter 19 (05:00:46) Chapter 20 (05:15:02) Chapter 21 (05:26:42) Chapter 22 (05:38:19) Chapter 23 (05:57:27) Chapter 24 (06:11:44) Chapter 25 (06:26:26) Chapter 26 (06:51:33) Chapter 27 (07:05:58) Chapter 28 (07:14:19) Chapter 29 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Rangeland Avenger by Max Brand audiobook. Genre: adventure Hal Sinclair is the kind of man who can hum a tune with his throat cracked by thirst - until a reckless moment on a desperate desert crossing shatters his horse, cripples Hal, and exposes the ugliness in the three partners who have been riding at his side. Lowrie, Quade, and the long, haunted Sandersen choose self-preservation over loyalty, leaving Hal behind beneath a pitiless sun. News of the betrayal reaches Hal's brother, Riley Sinclair: a hard, solitary cowpuncher with a strict code and a grim patience for settling accounts. Riley follows the trail into the cattle-and-dust world of Sour Creek, where fear, greed, and reputation can be deadlier than any gun. There, Riley is pulled into a second kind of trial when he is asked to watch over John Gaspar - the soft-spoken schoolteacher the locals mockingly call Cold Feet - a man with a price on his head and few friends willing to stand up for him. Caught between a promise of revenge and the demands of justice, Riley must decide what it really means to be an avenger on the open range. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:20:07) Chapter 02 (00:29:45) Chapter 03 (00:47:42) Chapter 04 (01:00:08) Chapter 05 (01:16:13) Chapter 06 (01:30:03) Chapter 07 (01:41:16) Chapter 08 (01:56:09) Chapter 09 (02:14:07) Chapter 10 (02:27:58) Chapter 11 (02:44:42) Chapter 12 (03:00:51) Chapter 13 (03:11:13) Chapter 14 (03:34:12) Chapter 15 (03:43:08) Chapter 16 (03:59:10) Chapter 17 (04:23:05) Chapter 18 (04:39:02) Chapter 19 (04:51:49) Chapter 20 (05:02:59) Chapter 21 (05:17:26) Chapter 22 (05:29:35) Chapter 23 (05:43:43) Chapter 24 (06:03:28) Chapter 25 (06:20:56) Chapter 26 (06:34:25) Chapter 27 (06:49:01) Chapter 28 (06:59:15) Chapter 29 (07:09:29) Chapter 30 (07:26:13) Chapter 31 (07:45:56) Chapter 32 (08:08:07) Chapter 33 (08:20:23) Chapter 34 (08:33:56) Chapter 35 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Children’s Life of the Bee by Maurice Maeterlinck audiobook. Genre: science In The Childrens Life of the Bee, Nobel Prize-winning writer Maurice Maeterlinck turns the beehive into a living, breathing city that young listeners can understand and marvel at. Written as a simpler, more accessible companion to his famous The Life of the Bee, this classic 1901 work guides you from the first excitement of a swarm to the daily rhythm of a settled colony. Maeterlinck introduces the hive's central figures, the queen, the tireless workers, and the languid drones, and explains what each is for, how the community is organized, and why its rules can seem both strict and strangely beautiful. Along the way, he describes wax-building and comb-making, the gathering of nectar and pollen, the making of honey, and the constant push and pull between safety, hunger, weather, and instinct. Blending clear natural observation with a storyteller's lyricism, Maeterlinck invites children (and curious adults) to see how cooperation, sacrifice, and mystery shape life inside the hive, and to wonder what this tiny society might reflect about our own. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:11:26) Chapter 2 (01:02:57) Chapter 3 (01:46:39) Chapter 4 (02:07:02) Chapter 5 (02:17:10) Chapter 6 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices