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The First Men in the Moon, published in 1901, is the gripping tale of man's first journey to the moon, undertaken by one Mr. Bedford, a bankrupt businessman; and the eccentric scientist Mr. Cavor. Here they discover a sophisticated civilization, dominated by an insectlike race they call the Selenites.
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"This novel may be one of the lesser works by the socially conscious Wells, but that doesn't take away from the impact of this audio production. Much of the credit for that goes to the full-bodied British voice of narrator Greg Wagland...This audiobook illustrates how even an old novel can be given new life on audio." (AudioFile)
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- Tad Davis
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Bedford the somewhat unscrupulous businessman (and would-be playwright) joins forces with his neighbor, an eccentric scientist named Cavor, who is developing a metal that can repel gravity. In a sphere they build, they end up on the moon.
Wells wrote many strange tales, and this is one of the stranger. What they find is that an ant-like race lives under the moon's surface, in a massive nest of tunnels that goes hundreds of miles down. They are captured, they try to communicate, they try to escape. In the process, Bedford proves that he's mainly interested in Number One; Cavor, with his endlessly inquiring mind, bridges the gap and begins exchanging information with the "Selenites" - or, less formally, the "Moonies" - until they learn that one of the major industries on earth is the manufacture of weapons of war: and that gold, one of the commoner metals on the moon, is prized on earth above life itself.
It's a short, fast, entertaining tale, with a surprising amount of humor. But the structure is a bit odd and the end surprisingly open-ended.
Greg Wagland is an excellent narrator of HG Wells (and maybe other authors as well!) - I'm definitely going to look for some of his other work here.
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A runaway planet hurtles toward Earth. As it draws near, massive tidal waves, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions wrack our planet, devastating continents, drowning cities, and wiping out millions. In central North America, a team of scientists race to build a spacecraft powerful enough to escape the doomed Earth. Their greatest threat, they soon discover, comes not from the skies but from other humans.
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This is one for the older generation.
- By Lawrence on 02-21-12
By: Edwin Balmer, and others
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The Horror in the Museum
- By: H.P. Lovecraft, Hazel Heald
- Narrated by: H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society
- Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
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Steven Jones, an entertainment producer from Chicago, journeys to London in search of new acts. There, he discovers the strange and disturbing wax museum of Rodgers and his inscrutable associate Orabona. Is the mad artist able to conjure up the world's most horrifying waxen effigies through his occult inspirations, or is there a darker secret lurking behind the wax and paint?
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Exemplar of Audio Theater
- By Bastion Drake on 07-21-22
By: H.P. Lovecraft, and others
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Solaris
- The Definitive Edition
- By: Stanislaw Lem, Bill Johnston - translator
- Narrated by: Alessandro Juliani
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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At last, one of the world’s greatest works of science fiction is available - just as author Stanislaw Lem intended it. To mark the 50th anniversary of the publication of Solaris, Audible, in cooperation with the Lem Estate, has commissioned a brand-new translation - complete for the first time, and the first ever directly from the original Polish to English. Beautifully narrated by Alessandro Juliani ( Battlestar Galactica), Lem’s provocative novel comes alive for a new generation.
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A comment on negative reviews
- By Burns on 09-20-11
By: Stanislaw Lem, and others
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Doug Bradley's Spinechillers Audio Books, Volume 1
- Classic Horror Stories
- By: Charles Dickens, H. P. Lovecraft, Saki, and others
- Narrated by: Doug Bradley
- Length: 2 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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This volume features William F Harvey's original undead hand story "The Beast with Five Fingers" that sparked many movies including Sam Raimi's "The Evil Dead". Poe's classic "The Tell Tale Heart" is joined by Lovecraft's creepy tale of alienation "The Outsider", and a chilling Dickens ghost story "The Signalman".
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Excellent stories and wonderful performance
- By Gavin Lees on 10-12-18
By: Charles Dickens, and others
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The Cave of the Ancients
- By: T. Lobsang Rampa
- Narrated by: Clay Lomakayu
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Here in these ancient repositories of wisdom, the lamas learn the meaning of life - and of death: the relationship between the mind and the brain; the secrets of hypnotism, telepathy, clairvoyance, and reincarnation.
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TLR's childhood as a monk in special training
- By Diana on 06-07-16
By: T. Lobsang Rampa
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The Machine Stops [Classic Tales Edition]
- By: E. M. Forster
- Narrated by: B. J. Harrison
- Length: 1 hr and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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The earth's surface is no longer habitable. All humanity is sequestered beneath the ground, couched in isolation and contentment. The Machine provides the needs of humanity. Mankind becomes subservient drones to the life-supporting Machine. But what happens when the Machine stops?
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Classic
- By H. Metz on 05-13-19
By: E. M. Forster
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The Night Land: A Story Retold
- By: James Stoddard, William Hope Hodgson
- Narrated by: Jason Mills
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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The story opens in the 19th century but quickly moves to the far future, where the sun has gone out, leaving the world in a darkness broken only by strange lights and mysterious fires. Over the ages, monsters and evil forces have descended to the Earth, compelling the surviving humans to take refuge in a great pyramid of imperishable metal built in a miles-deep chasm. The monsters surround the pyramid in a perpetual siege lasting for eons, waiting for the moment when its defenses will fail.
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An amazing journey
- By Manuel Pagan on 08-02-16
By: James Stoddard, and others
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The End of the Story
- Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith, Book 1
- By: Clark Ashton Smith
- Narrated by: Fleet Cooper, Allan Robertson, Joe Knezevich, and others
- Length: 14 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Published in chronological order, with extensive story and bibliographic notes, this series not only provides access to stories that have been out of print for years, but gives them a historical and social context. Series editors Scott Conners and Ronald S. Hilger excavated the still-existing manuscripts, letters and various published versions of the stories, creating a definitive "preferred text" for Smith's entire body of work.
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variety is the spice of life
- By Alaskapenny on 12-29-15
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Haggopian and Other Stories: A Cthulhu Mythos Collection
- By: Brian Lumley
- Narrated by: Joshua Saxon
- Length: 17 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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A collection of thrilling tales from H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos by one of horror's biggest legends, this volume contains the very best of Brian Lumley's Mythos short stories.
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Another brilliant Cthulhu mythos collection!
- By Kevin Potter on 12-13-19
By: Brian Lumley
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The Ball and the Cross
- By: G. K. Chesterton
- Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Evan MacIan is a tall, dark-haired, blue-eyed Scottish Highlander and a devout Roman Catholic. James Turnbull is a short, red-haired, gray-eyed Lowlander and a devout but naïve atheist. The two meet when MacIan smashes the window of the street office where Turnbull publishes an atheist journal. This act of rage occurs when MacIan sees posted on the shop's window a sheet that blasphemes the Virgin Mary, presumably implying she was an adulteress who gave birth to an illegitimate Jesus.
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Thoughtful and Thrilling
- By John on 09-14-17
By: G. K. Chesterton
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Victory
- By: Joseph Conrad
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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From one of the greatest modern writers in world literature comes a magnificent story of love, adventure, and rescue played out against the shimmering South Seas. Alone on a tropical island, a Swedish baron and a beautiful violinist discover the long-lost joys of love. But when two treasure hunters arrive on the beach, the lovers know that evil has invaded their romantic paradise—an evil they are powerless to stop.
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Beautiful, sad and powerful
- By Darwin8u on 01-20-13
By: Joseph Conrad
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City of Golden Shadow
- Otherland, Book 1
- By: Tad Williams
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 28 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Surrounded by secrecy, it is home to the wildest dreams and darkest nightmares. Incredible amounts of money have been lavished on it. The best minds of two generations have labored to build it. And somehow, bit by bit, it is claiming the Earth's most valuable resource - its children.
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Weird. Seriously weird.
- By Townsend on 05-15-15
By: Tad Williams