Classic Audiobook Collection

The Aliens by Murray Leinster audiobook. Genre: scifiThe 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: scifiTanks 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., 1920-1945For 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: scifiKandar 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: scifiIn 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: scifiIn 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: scifiSenior 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: scifiHumans 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: scifiWhen 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: scifiIn 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: scifiOn 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