Classic Audiobook Collection

The Planet Savers by Marion Zimmer Bradley audiobook. Genre: scifiOn the isolated world of Darkover, a terrifying epidemic returns like clockwork: Trailmen's fever, a disease that flares every forty-eight years and can sweep through the human settlements with catastrophic speed. The Terran Trade City is desperate for a cure, and Dr. Randall Forth believes the key lies not only in medicine but in understanding the planet's elusive indigenous people, the tree-dwelling Trailmen of the Hellers. His best hope may be the brilliant but dangerously ill Dr. Jay Allison, a man whose mind has been split by hypnosis into two competing selves: the cold, scientific Jay and the daring, charismatic Jason, who has the survival skills and childhood ties needed to reach the Trailmen. Sent into the mountains with a mixed party of Terrans and Darkovans, including the politically powerful Regis Hastur and the formidable guide Kyla Raineach, Allison must navigate perilous terrain, armed hostility, and deep cultural mistrust. As the expedition pushes toward first contact and fragile negotiation, Allison's inner war becomes as urgent as the plague itself, raising the question of what it will cost to save an entire planet.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 1(00:43:40) Chapter 2(01:34:07) Chapter 3(02:22:50) Chapter 4 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Falcons of Narabedla by Marion Zimmer Bradley audiobook. Genre: scifiMike Kenscott is an ordinary twentieth-century American still haunted by a past catastrophe: a strange laboratory accident, a surge of unseen forces, and the sense that reality has a weak seam running through it. Then, on what should be a simple outing, that seam splits. Mike is flung across the Time Ellipse into Narabedla, a world under twin suns where Terran influence and Darkovan bloodlines have mingled into a brilliant, perilous, and decadent civilization of towers, pleasure-cities, and razor-edged etiquette. Worse, the man who arrives is not only Mike: in this future he is also known as Adric of the Scarlet Tower, a name that carries debts, enemies, and expectations he does not understand. Caught in courtly intrigues and psychic undercurrents, Mike must learn the rules of a society built on dream, domination, and dangerous mind-born powers. To reclaim his life and his name, he is driven toward a single, ominous goal: the Keep of the Dreamer, and the legendary Falcons of Narabedla that may be the key to everything. Falcons of Narabedla blends time displacement, identity crisis, and baroque planetary adventure into a tense, uncanny journey.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:17:43) Chapter 02(00:46:07) Chapter 03(01:02:32) Chapter 04(01:14:47) Chapter 05(01:24:20) Chapter 06(01:39:55) Chapter 07(01:58:40) Chapter 08(02:10:16) Chapter 09(02:22:03) Chapter 10(02:42:21) Chapter 11 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Mystery of the Hidden Room by Marion Harvey audiobook. Genre: mysteryA classic mystery/detective story in the Sherlock Holmes tradition, the hidden room suggested by the title of this book does not remain a mystery for very long as the book progresses. Written in the first person, the husband of his (Carlton Davies) former lover is found dead one night at the stroke of midnight, and Davies finds his ex-lover standing over the dead body immediately after the shot was fired, with a gun in her hand. It was no secret that she never truly loved her husband, who had blackmailed her into marrying him. The jury ships Ruth to prison, and the stage is set for Davies to locate the right detective for the case, and for a series of events with twists and turns and surprises that will keep the reader guessing who was responsible for this murder.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:15:17) Chapter 02(00:26:56) Chapter 03(00:45:10) Chapter 04(01:06:59) Chapter 05(01:21:24) Chapter 06(01:34:10) Chapter 07(01:44:22) Chapter 08(01:58:28) Chapter 09(02:14:56) Chapter 10(02:28:12) Chapter 11(02:40:23) Chapter 12(02:53:52) Chapter 13(03:09:48) Chapter 14(03:26:54) Chapter 15(03:40:35) Chapter 16(03:51:22) Chapter 17(04:16:06) Chapter 18(04:31:38) Chapter 19(04:41:10) Chapter 20(05:03:15) Chapter 21(05:23:58) Chapter 22(05:44:22) Chapter 23(06:14:04) Chapter 24(06:30:34) Chapter 25(06:46:47) Chapter 26(07:03:11) Chapter 27(07:14:52) Chapter 28(07:29:01) Chapter 29(07:43:51) Chapter 30(07:58:36) Chapter 31(08:13:50) Chapter 32(08:29:30) Chapter 33(08:45:24) Chapter 34(09:02:16) Chapter 35(09:21:21) Chapter 36(09:33:50) Chapter 37(09:50:06) Chapter 38(10:13:49) Chapter 39 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Ormond by Maria Edgeworth audiobook. Genre: dramaMaria Edgeworth was one of the most popular writers of her time, a sharp and witty observer of society manners, and a favorite author for Jane Austen.“Ormond,” published in 1817, is a “coming-of-age” novel, tracing a young man’s development as he approaches the age of majority. When we meet him, Harry Ormond has his “heart in the right place,” but is unsettled of character, naïve and impulsive. The central issue is: “What kind of man will he become?”In part, Harry is influenced by the books he reads: Fielding’s “Tom Jones,” Richardson’s “Sir Charles Grandison,” and works of the French Enlightenment. More important, however, are influences from the company he keeps, much as Prince Hal in Shakespeare’s “Henry IV” takes shape as a reflection of the people around him. As an orphan, Harry had been adopted by Sir Ulick O’Shane, a man of society, full of subtlety and strategies, who exploits his public trust for private advantage (a practice known at that time as “jobbing”). Harry also spends time with Sir Ulick’s cousin Cornelius, a Falstaffian figure of hearty good cheer and eccentric rural lifestyle. (He enthrones himself on a tiny island in an Irish lake, calls himself the “King of the Black Islands” and nicknames Ormond “Prince Harry.”) Later, Harry follows Cornelius’s daughter to Paris, where he witnesses the glamorous dissipation of French society in the years before the Revolution.This novel explores the challenges of bringing together apparent oppositions: reconciling promised loyalty with assertion of self, Anglo-Irish landlords with their Irish tenants, Catholics with Protestants, and the impulsive heart with the rational head.“Ormond” is named in the reference list “1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die.”For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:33:56) Chapter 02(00:59:30) Chapter 03(01:24:32) Chapter 04(01:44:39) Chapter 05(02:01:25) Chapter 06(02:28:51) Chapter 07(03:01:08) Chapter 08(03:24:26) Chapter 09(03:41:19) Chapter 10(04:01:30) Chapter 11(04:16:55) Chapter 12(04:39:05) Chapter 13(05:07:49) Chapter 14(05:42:11) Chapter 15(06:14:18) Chapter 16(06:37:27) Chapter 17(06:58:11) Chapter 18(07:33:29) Chapter 19(07:59:27) Chapter 20(08:22:25) Chapter 21(08:46:52) Chapter 22(09:16:41) Chapter 23(09:47:30) Chapter 24(10:16:10) Chapter 25(10:30:37) Chapter 26(10:59:14) Chapter 27(11:41:39) Chapter 28(11:58:48) Chapter 29(12:20:41) Chapter 30(12:53:50) Chapter 31(13:23:56) Chapter 32 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Absentee by Maria Edgeworth audiobook. Genre: dramaPublished in 1812, “The Absentee” by Maria Edgeworth examines social injustice in 19th-century Britain. At that time, the management of many Irish estates suffered from the absenteeism of their Anglo-Irish landlords.We meet Lord and Lady Clonbrony. Lord Clonbrony struggles with debt, while Lady Clonbrony tries to shed her Irish connections and earn status in London’s high society (known as “the ton.”) Meanwhile, their son, Lord Colambre, is wary of the entanglements of that society and escapes to the family estate in Ireland, where he discovers the abuses that have arisen in the family’s absence.Maria Edgeworth was a pioneer of realism in fiction, and one of the most successful and popular novelists of her time. She offered satirical portraits of society manners and sympathetic treatment of regional life. Her work won admiration from authors such as Jane Austen and Sir Walter Scott. “The Absentee” is named in the reference list “1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die.”For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:27:58) Chapter 02(01:06:44) Chapter 03(01:43:32) Chapter 04(02:19:34) Chapter 05(03:22:48) Chapter 06(04:11:50) Chapter 07(04:48:14) Chapter 08(05:13:11) Chapter 09(05:53:08) Chapter 10(06:23:52) Chapter 11(06:49:21) Chapter 12(07:22:45) Chapter 13(08:11:38) Chapter 14(09:11:42) Chapter 15(09:41:47) Chapter 16(10:35:05) Chapter 17 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Warrior of Two Worlds by Manly Wade Wellman audiobook. Genre: scifiSnatched from Earth and dropped naked into a roaring dust storm, a bewildered stranger staggers into the underground stronghold of a world called Dondromogon - a planet where only two thin twilight bands are habitable, forever battered by wind between a burning day side and a frozen night side. Captured at the gates, he can offer only one impossible story: he cannot remember his own name. But the defenders see something else in him. Their mystic Sporr insists the newcomer matches an ancient prophecy of Yandro, a Conquering Stranger destined to save their people from the Newcomers, ruthless invaders entrenched on the far side of the planet. Soon the stranger is dressed, honored, and pushed toward command - with Doriza, a bold officer of the guard, as both his escort and his sharpest test of trust. As political leaders like Gederr and the charismatic Elonie shape the legend around him, the stranger must navigate a society built on hard survival choices, a war fought through tunnels and polar chokepoints, and the nagging fear that his missing memories hide the real reason he was brought here. In a world that worships destiny, he must decide what kind of warrior he will become.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:21:23) Chapter 02(00:49:26) Chapter 03(01:07:58) Chapter 04(01:34:50) Chapter 05(01:54:36) Chapter 06 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Venus Enslaved by Manly Wade Wellman audiobook. Genre: scifiOn the sweltering, perilous world of Venus, an Earthman named Planter finds his sentence turned into something far worse than prison: survival among alien jungles, strange predators, and rival powers that treat human life as a resource to be spent. Thrown together with two fellow convicts, the hard-edged Disbro and the unexpectedly formidable Max, Planter expects only heat, hunger, and a quick death. Instead, a sudden encounter with a deadly tentacled creature ends with an even stranger rescue - by Mara, a warrior of a fierce Amazon sisterhood whose weapons are as archaic as they are lethal. The Amazons have their own war to fight, and they see in Planter both a risk and an opportunity. Looming over everything are the Frogmasters of the Veiled Planet, a domineering force whose reach and cruelty threaten to enslave everyone caught in their shadow. Caught between cultures and armed with little more than nerve, improvisation, and uneasy alliances, Planter must decide what kind of man he will be on a planet where freedom is never given - it is taken.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:28:14) Chapter 02(01:12:41) Chapter 03(01:38:11) Chapter 04 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mercenary by Mack Reynolds audiobook. Genre: scifiIn a future America that has traded civic duty for comfort, society is locked into a rigid nine-level caste system - and almost no one ever climbs. Joseph Mauser, born Mid-Lower and determined to become something more, has chosen one of the last remaining ladders: Category Military. But war is no longer a clash of nations. Under a universal disarmament pact that bans modern weaponry, the truly powerful settle their disputes in carefully regulated corporate 'fracas' - limited battlefields fought with old-tech guns, strict rules, and wall-to-wall television coverage. When a new fight brews between rival giants like Vacuum Tube Transport and Continental Hovercraft, Mauser signs on as a professional mercenary, weighing not just tactics and survival, but budgets, reputations, and the stock-share promises that can buy a higher place in the system. As he trains recruits from the lower castes, navigates eccentric aristocratic commanders, and confronts the strange mix of spectacle and real bloodshed, Mauser discovers that in a world of TV and tranquilizers, violence can be both entertainment and policy - and the price of ambition may be higher than any pay bonus.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 1(00:54:46) Chapter 2(01:43:20) Chapter 3 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adaptation by Mack Reynolds audiobook. Genre: scifiIn 1960 when this was published, the Cold War was at its height. Communism and Free Enterprise (Democracy) were locked in a ferocious struggle to prove that their political ideology was the best form of government for human kind. No holds were barred in this fight; propaganda was poured forth by both sides in a constant push to be seen as better, more progressive, more productive. Nuclear war was a constant threat. I know, I lived through that time. Thankfully the world came through that stressful time without a hot war but the question was not really settled: which is the better system? This story explores that question. 'Hardly had man solved his basic problems on the planet of his origin than he began to fumble into space. Barely a century had elapsed in the exploration of the Solar System than he began to grope for the stars. And suddenly, with an all but religious zeal, mankind conceived its fantasy dream of populating the galaxy.'For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:12:01) Chapter 02(00:27:50) Chapter 03(00:52:16) Chapter 04(01:14:35) Chapter 05(01:31:31) Chapter 06(01:46:20) Chapter 07(01:54:47) Chapter 08(02:10:54) Chapter 09(02:20:19) Chapter 10(02:30:10) Chapter 11(02:40:46) Chapter 12 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices