Classic Audiobook Collection

Spacehounds of IPC by E. E. Smith audiobook. Genre: scifiWhen the Inter-Planetary Corporation's (IPC) crack liner “IPV Arcturus” took off on a routine flight to Mars, it turned out to be the beginning of a unexpected and long voyage. There had been too many reports of errors in ship's flight positions from the Check Stations and brilliant physicist Dr. Percival (“Steve”) Stevens is aboard the Arcturus on a fact-finding mission to find out what's really happening, and hopefully save the honor of the brave pilots of the space-liner Arcturus from the desk-jockeys' in the Check Stations implications of imprecision - the nastiest insult you could cast at a ships pilot. He and the pilots are right, it was the Check Stations that were out of position, not the ships. But that's cold consolation because before the Arcturus reaches Mars it's attacked by a small, mysterious, globe shaped spaceship.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:35:29) Chapter 02(01:28:11) Chapter 03(02:12:08) Chapter 04(03:01:48) Chapter 05(03:46:57) Chapter 06(04:38:54) Chapter 07(05:17:53) Chapter 08(06:12:31) Chapter 09(06:54:35) Chapter 10(07:45:05) Chapter 11(08:32:04) Chapter 12(09:24:32) Chapter 13 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Masters of Space by E. E. Smith audiobook. Genre: scifiIn Masters of Space, a bold deep-space experiment becomes humanity's first brush with a vanished empire. Young project leader Jarvis Hilton commands Project Theta Orionis: an elite team of scientists, a hard-edged naval crew, and the warship Perseus, all tasked with pushing beyond known space and answering questions no one on Earth can even frame yet. Tensions simmer from the start as Hilton must prove he can lead seasoned officers, keep a volatile mission on schedule, and hold his team together when the unknown stops being theoretical. Then the Perseus is forced out of faster-than-light travel by an eerie, skeletal object drifting in the void, and the expedition stumbles onto signs of an impossible conflict fought on a scale that dwarfs human imagination. Their next discovery is even stranger: a world rich in dangerous radioactive fuel ore, inhabited by humanoid robots who greet the newcomers not as trespassers, but as returning masters. As clues accumulate about the long-lost Masters and an ancient Enemy of All, Hilton faces a choice between caution and revelation, knowing either path could reshape humanity's place in the galaxy.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:12:07) Chapter 02(00:39:24) Chapter 03(01:31:32) Chapter 04(01:50:09) Chapter 05(02:19:56) Chapter 06(02:40:38) Chapter 07(03:09:03) Chapter 08(03:35:43) Chapter 09(04:01:22) Chapter 10(04:25:18) Chapter 11(04:55:29) Chapter 12(05:22:42) Chapter 13(05:41:32) Chapter 14 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lord Tedric by E. E. Smith audiobook. Genre: scifiWhen a mysterious force plucks Sir Tedric, a hard-bitten knight of medieval Britain, out of his own age, he awakens in a future where humanity is only one player in a crowded, dangerous cosmos. Taken in by advanced allies who see both his courage and his stubborn code of honor, Tedric is remade for a new kind of battlefield: one of starships, alien empires, and weapons that can shatter worlds. Yet the transformation does not erase the man. He remains a warrior who believes in loyalty, oaths, and the protection of the helpless - values that collide with the cold calculations of interstellar power.As rival forces close in and hidden agendas surface, Tedric must learn to navigate politics and strategy far beyond anything a sword and shield ever prepared him for. The question is not only whether he can survive this ruthless new era, but whether his old-fashioned sense of honor can matter in a war where entire civilizations are at stake. Big, fast, and unapologetically pulpy, Lord Tedric blends time-displaced chivalry with sweeping space opera spectacle.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:18:12) Chapter 02(00:41:15) Chapter 03(00:58:47) Chapter 04 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

First Lensman by E. E. Smith audiobook. Genre: scifiIn a galaxy clawing its way out of chaos, Earth and its neighboring worlds struggle to police the new lanes of interstellar travel. Veteran officer Virgil Samms has seen too much to believe the rising wave of piracy is just opportunism. Ship after ship vanishes, outposts go silent, and every investigation points to a smarter, darker hand at work - a hidden power using criminals, corporations, and politics as disposable pieces. As Samms helps forge the Galactic Patrol into a force that can stand against the void, he is drawn into a conflict that is far larger than any border dispute: a shadow war whose true enemy prefers to remain unseen. Then an encounter with an ancient, enigmatic intelligence changes the stakes. Samms is offered a strange tool and a greater responsibility - a Lens - and with it the first step toward creating a new kind of guardian. First Lensman launches E. E. Smith's classic space opera with blistering action, grand-scale strategy, and a theme of disciplined service set against an almost mythic struggle for the future of sentient life.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:26:55) Chapter 02(00:54:36) Chapter 03(01:36:49) Chapter 04(02:11:47) Chapter 05(02:42:10) Chapter 06(03:17:47) Chapter 07(03:59:36) Chapter 08(04:34:52) Chapter 09(05:13:58) Chapter 10(05:43:00) Chapter 11(06:10:26) Chapter 12(06:40:23) Chapter 13(07:23:26) Chapter 14(07:58:24) Chapter 15(08:32:13) Chapter 16(09:04:11) Chapter 17(09:32:38) Chapter 18(10:06:12) Chapter 19(10:40:27) Chapter 20(11:04:02) Chapter 21 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Anything Once by Douglas Grant audiobook. Genre: adventureWhen Lou Lacey, a tough, undersized teenage girl with a bundle of stolen provisions and nowhere she is willing to call home, slips through a wheat field to the road, she finds a young man unconscious in the dust with blood on his temple. He introduces himself as James (Jim) Botts, a New Yorker in battered travel clothes and on a strict deadline to reach the city on foot, with pride and principle leaving him little room to ask for help. Lou patches him up and, before either of them can decide whether to trust the other, circumstance forces them into an uneasy partnership. Together they push eastward from small villages toward Buffalo and then New York City, measuring each mile in hunger, fatigue, and hard choices. Along the way they meet strangers who offer bargains, scams, kindness, and temptation in equal measure, and the pair must learn how to navigate trains, roads, and the unwritten rules of survival without money to spare. As Jim's private purpose collides with Lou's secret fear of being claimed and controlled, their journey becomes a test of identity, loyalty, and what it really means to be free, even for just one more day.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 1(00:19:21) Chapter 2(00:49:07) Chapter 3(01:06:20) Chapter 4(01:24:09) Chapter 5(01:42:03) Chapter 6(02:01:36) Chapter 7(02:25:10) Chapter 8(02:49:59) Chapter 9 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Raiders of the Universes by Donald Wandrei audiobook. Genre: scifiIt was the 34th century and all five of the Federation of Planets around Sol were buzzing with their usual activity when the Raiders appeared. They were indeed Raiders of Universes because they had ravaged many systems before reaching Earth and showed no signs of slowing down in the least. Their weapons were invincible, their greed merciless and their natures completely alien. Indeed 'they' were from another dimension entirely. Eating up entire solar systems and planets, they slowed down just a bit when intelligent life was found on Earth. Not much since they were in a hurry, but just long enough to tell the Earthlings to mine all the Radium ore on Earth and put it conveniently on the surface ...... in six days....or else. - For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:30:07) Chapter 02 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Flying Saucers are Real by Donald Keyhoe audiobook. Genre: scienceThe Flying Saucers are Real is a book that investigates numerous encounters between USAF fighters, personnel, and other aircraft, and UFOs between 1947 and 1950. Keyhoe contended that the Air Force was actively investigating these cases of close encounter, with a policy of concealing their existence from the public until 1949. He stated that this policy was then replaced by one of cautious, progressive revelation. Keyhoe further stated that Earth had been visited by extraterrestrials for two centuries, with the frequency of these visits increasing sharply after the first atomic weapon test in 1945. Citing anecdotal evidence, he intimated the Air Force may have attained and adapted some aspect of the alien technology: its method of propulsion and perhaps its source of power. He believed the Air Force or the US Government would eventually reveal these technologies to the public when the Soviet Union was no longer a threat.Donald E. Keyhoe, who relates here his investigation of the flying saucers, writes with twenty-five years of experience in observing aeronautical developments. He is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis. He flew in active service with the Marine Corps, managed the tour of the historic plane in which Bennett and Byrd made their North Pole flight, was aide to Charles Lindbergh after the famous Paris flight, and was chief of information for the Aeronautics Branch, Department of Commerce.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:25:35) Chapter 02(00:45:53) Chapter 03(01:02:56) Chapter 04(01:20:34) Chapter 05(01:51:46) Chapter 06(02:05:42) Chapter 07(02:39:36) Chapter 08(03:02:12) Chapter 09(03:32:44) Chapter 10(04:01:54) Chapter 11(04:24:43) Chapter 12(04:47:27) Chapter 13(05:08:21) Chapter 14(05:38:23) Chapter 15(05:46:29) Chapter 16(06:12:41) Chapter 17(06:26:32) Chapter 18(07:01:20) Chapter 19(07:17:36) Chapter 20 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay audiobook. Genre: scifiMasquerading as a Victorian scientific romance and then detonating into something far stranger, A Voyage to Arcturus follows the brooding, restless Maskull as he is drawn into an otherworldly expedition beyond Earth. Lured by a mysterious summons and guided by the enigmatic Krag, Maskull joins a journey to the distant planet Tormance, orbiting the binary stars Arcturus. There, the very laws of nature seem shaped by thought, desire, and moral force, and Maskull's body begins to change in unsettling ways as new senses awaken. Each region of Tormance becomes a living argument: landscapes and inhabitants embody competing philosophies of love, power, beauty, suffering, and truth. As Maskull encounters a procession of charismatic teachers, seductive ideals, and perilous adversaries, he is pushed to test every assumption he has carried from Earth. What begins as exploration becomes a relentless spiritual trial, forcing him to decide what kind of reality he can accept and what price he is willing to pay for meaning. Hallucinatory, provocative, and fiercely imaginative, Lindsay's cult classic is a quest not for conquest, but for the nature of the self.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:30:24) Chapter 02(00:42:55) Chapter 03(00:53:28) Chapter 04(01:05:55) Chapter 05(01:21:12) Chapter 06(01:59:37) Chapter 07(02:34:45) Chapter 08(02:56:13) Chapter 09(03:44:21) Chapter 10(04:35:01) Chapter 11(04:56:22) Chapter 12(05:33:55) Chapter 13(05:47:51) Chapter 14(06:23:33) Chapter 15(07:08:14) Chapter 16(07:58:41) Chapter 17(08:46:21) Chapter 18(09:33:07) Chapter 19(10:12:47) Chapter 20(10:52:46) Chapter 21 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Twas the Night Before Christmas by Clement C. Moore audiobook. Genre: poetryOn a quiet Christmas Eve in a cozy home, a narrator settles in for the night when an unexpected sound outside pulls him to the window. What he sees transforms an ordinary winter evening into a moment of pure wonder: a miniature sleigh, a team of swift reindeer, and a jolly visitor arriving with practiced ease. As the narrator watches in amazement, the stranger-quick, cheerful, and mysterious-moves through the house with a warmth that feels both magical and reassuring. Each detail, from the snowy rooftop to the visitor's twinkling eyes and bundled gifts, paints a vivid picture of holiday enchantment and family comfort. Told in lively rhyme and crisp, memorable images, this classic poem captures the childlike thrill of anticipation, the comfort of tradition, and the belief that generosity can be as real as the falling snow. Perfect for listening by the fire or sharing aloud with loved ones, this timeless Christmas staple invites every generation to pause, listen, and feel the season come alive.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 10 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum audiobook. Genre: fantasyLong before Santa becomes a legend, a baby is found in the Forest of Burzee and raised under the watchful care of the wood nymph Necile and the powerful immortal Ak. As the boy, Claus, grows, he learns the ways of nature, the quiet wisdom of the forest folk, and the hard truths of the mortal world just beyond the trees. Drawn by compassion, he chooses to live among humans, where he meets poverty, loneliness, and the hardships of childhood. Determined to bring joy where there is little, Claus begins crafting simple toys and delivering them in secret, slowly shaping a new kind of generosity that spreads from house to house and village to village. But his growing mission does not go unnoticed. Ancient beings debate whether a mortal should wield such influence, and darker forces threaten the happiness he works to create. As Claus faces doubt, danger, and the limits of an ordinary human life, he must decide what he is willing to sacrifice to protect the wonder he has sparked. L. Frank Baum blends fairy-tale mythmaking with warmth and adventure, offering an imaginative origin story about kindness, courage, and the power of giving.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:11:56) Chapter 02(00:26:38) Chapter 03(00:40:52) Chapter 04(00:51:46) Chapter 05(01:13:06) Chapter 06(01:34:43) Chapter 07(02:00:19) Chapter 08(02:16:28) Chapter 09(02:34:09) Chapter 10(02:52:58) Chapter 11(03:09:23) Chapter 12 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices