Space: 1969

By: Bill Oakley

Narrated by: Natasha Lyonne, full cast

What if JFK survived Dallas, won the Space Race—and then never stopped?

Welcome to Space: 1969, a gloriously off-the-rails full-cast comedy from Emmy-winning Simpsons writer Bill Oakley, starring Natasha Lyonne.

It’s 1969, and President Kennedy is serving his third term, and is maybe not quite himself—he has pushed America clean off the edge of the Space Age. Nancy Kranick (Emmy nominee Natasha Lyonne) is a night nurse on an orbiting space station who hates her job, is sick of space, and wants nothing more than a safe place to smoke a cigarette that won’t blow everyone up.

Then she stumbles into an outer-space conspiracy tangled around President Kennedy, a miserable and long-forgotten estate lawyer named Richard Nixon, and an intergalactic object that could rewrite the course of history. Suddenly Nancy has all the adventure she never wanted and the fate of the Moon Colony, herself, and the entire United States riding on it.

Packed with impressions, absurdist alternate history, and a huge comedic cast, Space: 1969 is retro sci-fi satire that has to be heard to be believed.

Nancy Kranick’s cosmic misadventures continue in Space: 1972 the standalone sequel. Perfect for fans of absurdist comedy sci-fi and full-cast satire like Heads Will Roll.

Available in Dolby Atmos.

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Simply the Best Full-Cast Audio Book Ever!

If you like good writing, creative plots, outstanding acting, and superb audio engineering, this is the title for you! I loved everything about Space: 1969. It's clever, funny, and, if you are familiar with the era, warmly nostalgic. The acting is top-notch, Natasha Lyonne, playing the nurse, is just an amazing performance. The Nixon and Kennedy characters are delightfully funny and well-acted. In fact, every character is well fleshed-out and beautifully voiced. The direction and editing is tight as a drum.

What really pulled it all together is the incredible sound engineering, the sound effects, music, stereo separation, and editing are absolutely the best I've ever heard in a full-cast audio production. I've listened to thousands of hours of audiobooks, podcasts, and radio plays, but this one stands head and shoulders above them all. I really hope this writing group and production team put out more stories like this one, I will buy them all. Hats off to Audible Originals for making this outstanding performance available.

WOW ! Hilarious, Retro, Clever

5/5 - cannot recommend this enough. I have never listened to anything with such high production value. Was cleverly written, went by so fast. MUST LISTEN, Cannot wait for Bill Oakley's next audible original.

Fun and well paced

I enjoyed every episode. It’s a well paced story with a lot of fun surprises.

Loved it!

I am from that era, so all person and historical references were perfectly clear to me. Don’t know if the enjoyment of this will be affected for those born later. (30-something reactors on YouTube don’t understand half the jokes in the movie “Airplane“, and references in that are from 30 years after those depicted in this audiobook.) If you’re over 60 though, you’ll laugh your ass off.

Humorous Alt History

Audio performance alternate history taking place in space and on earth. Normally the audio performances by Audible are cringe worthy, but this one was outstanding. All of the voice actors were amazing. I really enjoyed listening to this and highly recommend it. Probably should not listen to it with kids in the room due to just a little bit of profanity.