Great Sci-Fi Stories, Volume 2

De: Ray Bradbury, Stephen Marlowe, Edmund Hamilton, Pauline Ashwell, Philip K. Dick, James McKimmey, Randall Garrett

Narrado por: Jim Roberts, William Arthur Anderson, Albert Enfield, Cindy Killavey, Sophia Pendergast, Bill Murphy, Beatrice Hartley

This second collection of great sci-fi stories includes the following:

• "A Sense of Wonder" by Stephen Marlowe
• "Seller of the Sky" by Dave Dryfus
• "The Shining Cow" by Alex James
• "The Legion of Lazarus" by Edmund Hamilton
• "An Empty Bottle" by Mari Wolf
• "The Lost Kafoozalum" by Pauline Ashwell
• "Wall of Crystal, "Eye of Night" by Algis Budrys
• "Exhibit Piece" by Philip K. Dick
• "Dream World" by R. Lafferty
• "Rich Living" by Michael Cathal
• "Contagion" by Katherine MacLean
• "Thy Rocks and Rills" by Robert E. Gilbert
• "Mid Pleasures and Palaces" by James McKimmey
• "Beekman's Planet" by Ivor Jorgensen
• "Wedding Day" by Winston Marks
• "Morgue Ship" by Ray Bradbury
• "Prisoner of War" by Randall Garrett
• "Zero Hour" by Ray Bradbury

Public Domain (P)2021 Jimcin Recordings

Great stories, but...

The sci-fi is exemplary. The stories are compelling. Sadly, the narration is abysmal. It is such a shame that these great works are tarnished by such poor reading.

I suspect that some, if not all, of the readers are computer generated. Inflections are wrong, pronunciations are grossly misinterpreted, and much of the timing is just off. The speech reminds me of Google Maps trying to pronounce a story full of difficult streat names.

Computer narration unlistenable

I was only able to finish the stories that were read by humans and they were all pretty enjoyable.
I had to skip to the end of all the computer narrated ones though. It was like being read a bedtime story by a creepy zombie!

Sounds like a machine reading.

If I didn't know better, and I don't, I'd think they recorded professional narrators doing other projects then asked a computer to read these in their voices.

Great, imaginative stories, but at less then halfway through, I'm putting it away because I can't stand the narration.

Go buy the book, I think I will.

Computer voices?

Good stories, and some of them are certainly read by actual performers. I can swear that some of these stories are read by computer generated voices though - or else some of these readers have terrible rhythm. Still, all of them are absolutely possible to listen to.

Hello Dave

The stories are great but I can only listen in small amounts because of the flat, no emotion reading of the narrators. Even the inflections are all wrong. A few times I would swear the voices are computer generated. Alexa sounds better when singing sea shanties.

I love sci-fi short story anthologies but I think I'll take a pass on the other volumes.