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50 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 9 years ago - ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsBringing to listeners science fiction and fantasy stories, recorded in a style that's part radio broadcast and part audiobook. Featuring original music by Edwin Wendler (used with permission).
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Episodes
Night Train to Paris (Part 3)
February 05, 2015 19:00 - 15 minutes - 14.4 MBThe suspensful conclusion to David Gerrold's tale of a mysterious journey through darkness. Winner of the 2013 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Short Fiction.
Night Train to Paris (Part 2)
January 30, 2015 22:31 - 17 minutes - 16.8 MBPart two of David Gerrold's tale of a mysterious journey through darkness. Winner of the 2013 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Short Fiction.
Night Train to Paris (Part 1)
January 23, 2015 17:37 - 14 minutes - 13.8 MBWriter David Gerrold takes us on an unsettling journey through darkness. Winner of the 2013 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Short Fiction.
A Princess of Mars (Chapter 28)
January 31, 2012 06:39 - 5 minutes - 5.5 MBAbove me shone the red eye of Mars holding her awful secret, forty-eight million miles away.
A Princess of Mars (Chapter 27)
January 31, 2012 00:35 - 13 minutes - 13.1 MBI traveled with awful velocity for my errand was a race against time with death.
A Princess of Mars (Chapter 26)
January 30, 2012 11:22 - 16 minutes - 15.4 MBA wild cry of exultation arose from the Heliumite squadron, and with redoubled ferocity they fell upon the Zodangan fleet.
A Princess of Mars (Chapter 25)
January 30, 2012 09:31 - 13 minutes - 12.3 MB"Zodanga has fallen," I cried. "Look!"
A Princess of Mars (Chapter 24)
January 30, 2012 04:43 - 19 minutes - 18.1 MBI fell beside a huge monster who was engaged with three antagonists, and as I glanced at his fierce face, filled with the light of battle, I recognized him ...
A Princess of Mars (Chapter 23)
January 30, 2012 01:03 - 14 minutes - 14 MBAs I sped through the air the screeching of the bullets around me convinced me that only by a miracle could I escape ...
A Princess of Mars (Chapter 22)
January 28, 2012 10:25 - 25 minutes - 23.9 MB"Too late, too late," she grieved. "O my chieftain that was, and whom I thought dead, had you but returned one little hour before--but now it is too late, too late."
A Princess of Mars (Chapter 21)
January 23, 2012 07:29 - 25 minutes - 23.7 MBDriving my fleet air craft at high speed directly behind the warriors, I soon overtook them ...
A Princess of Mars (Chapter 20)
January 18, 2012 10:32 - 24 minutes - 22.6 MB"And so good-night, my friend," he continued, "may you have a long and restful sleep--yes, a long sleep."
A Princess of Mars (Chapter 19)
January 17, 2012 07:06 - 12 minutes - 12.2 MBAs the brutes, growling and foaming, rushed upon the almost defenseless women I turned my head that I might not see the horrid sight.
A Princess of Mars (Chapter 18)
January 17, 2012 01:12 - 11 minutes - 10.6 MBLaughing and chattering like the idiot I was fast becoming I fell upon his prostrate form my fingers feeling for his dead throat.
A Princess of Mars (Chapter 17)
January 16, 2012 09:27 - 20 minutes - 19.6 MBHe had all the cold, hard, cruel, terrible features of the green warriors, but accentuated and debased by the animal passions to which he had given himself over for many years.
A Princess of Mars (Chapter 16)
January 15, 2012 23:56 - 25 minutes - 23.5 MB"Have none of me if it is your will, but that you must aid me in effecting your escape, if such a thing be possible, is not my request, but my command."
A Princess of Mars (Chapter 15)
January 10, 2012 22:09 - 23 minutes - 21.7 MB"I know that I can trust you, and because the knowledge may someday help you or him or Dejah Thoris or myself, I am going to tell you the name of my father ..."
A Princess of Mars (Chapter 14)
January 05, 2012 07:32 - 21 minutes - 20.4 MBHe was soon streaming blood from a half dozen minor wounds, but I could not obtain an opening to deliver an effective thrust.
A Princess of Mars (Chapter 13)
January 04, 2012 22:51 - 15 minutes - 14.6 MBAs my arm rested for an instant upon her I felt a thrill pass through every fiber of my being such as contact with no other mortal had even produced ...
A Princess of Mars (Chapter 12)
December 30, 2011 00:43 - 14 minutes - 13.5 MB"You are a prisoner and yet you give commands which must be obeyed; you are an alien and yet you are a Tharkian chieftain."
A Princess of Mars (Chapter 11)
October 22, 2011 11:23 - 17 minutes - 16.6 MB"I am of another world," I answered, "the great planet Earth, which revolves about our common sun and next within the orbit of your Barsoom, which we know as Mars."
A Princess of Mars (Chapter 10)
September 15, 2011 08:37 - 27 minutes - 25.7 MB...I saw the blow aimed at her beautiful, upturned, pleading face, and ere the hand descended I was halfway across the hall.
A Princess of Mars (Chapter 9)
September 05, 2011 03:43 - 11 minutes - 10.8 MB"Say what you please to Tars Tarkas, he can mete out no worse fate to me than a continuation of the horrible existence we are forced to lead in this life."
A Princess of Mars (Chapter 8)
August 17, 2011 10:11 - 15 minutes - 14.9 MBThe great warship ... soared majestically into the air, her decks and upper works a mass of roaring flames.
A Princess of Mars (Chapter 7)
August 15, 2011 02:37 - 15 minutes - 14.2 MBSola's duties were now doubled, as she was compelled to care for the young Martian, as well as for me.
A Princess of Mars (Chapter 6)
August 01, 2011 18:33 - 12 minutes - 11.7 MBScarcely had the blow descended when I was confronted with a new danger.
A Princess of Mars (Chapter 5)
July 29, 2011 08:39 - 11 minutes - 11.1 MBHe wheeled instantly and charged me with the most appalling speed I had ever beheld.
A Princess of Mars (Chapter 4)
July 28, 2011 07:52 - 16 minutes - 15.6 MBI swung my fist squarely to his jaw and he went down like a felled ox.
A Princess of Mars (Chapter 3)
July 22, 2011 18:39 - 19 minutes - 17.8 MBI opened my eyes upon a strange and weird landscape.
A Princess of Mars (Chapter 2)
July 20, 2011 20:47 - 12 minutes - 12 MBI closed my eyes, stretched out my arms to the god of my vocation ...
A Princess of Mars (Chapter 1)
July 19, 2011 11:11 - 17 minutes - 16.7 MBI am a very old man; how old I do not know.
A Princess of Mars (Foreword)
July 18, 2011 10:20 - 8 minutes - 8.36 MBIn submitting Captain Carter's strange manuscript to you in book form, I believe that a few words ... would be of interest.
Two-Handed Engine (Part 6)
July 14, 2011 12:50 - 17 minutes - 16.1 MB"Quis custodiet," Hartz thought. The old problem. And the answer was: Nobody.
Two-Handed Engine (Part 5)
July 12, 2011 18:10 - 16 minutes - 15.5 MBIn a way it was worse, having hope.
Two-Handed Engine (Part 4)
July 11, 2011 10:20 - 14 minutes - 13.3 MB"But that two-handed engine at the door / Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more."
Two-Handed Engine (Part 3)
July 10, 2011 01:15 - 12 minutes - 11.4 MB"Not for me. I'm safe. I'm protected. It hasn't come for me."
Two-Handed Engine (Part 2)
July 08, 2011 08:00 - 14 minutes - 13.5 MB"It's true. I'll show you. I can pull a Fury off any victim I choose."
Two-Handed Engine (Part 1)
July 07, 2011 09:39 - 8 minutes - 8.46 MBEver since the days of Orestes there have been men with Furies following them.
A Gnome There Was (Part 6)
June 28, 2011 10:10 - 15 minutes - 14.9 MB"By Kronos, Nid, Ymir and Loki, you'll have cause to regret this!"
A Gnome There Was (Part 5)
June 26, 2011 09:30 - 8 minutes - 8.13 MB"We'll strike, and the Emperor can't do a damn thing about it!"
A Gnome There Was (Part 4)
June 24, 2011 08:02 - 14 minutes - 13.5 MB"Ever heard of a union?" Crockett asked, his gaze intent.
A Gnome There Was (Part 3)
June 20, 2011 10:43 - 9 minutes - 9.35 MB"After you've been here a century, you're allowed one mud bath a day."
A Gnome There Was (Part 2)
June 17, 2011 10:44 - 12 minutes - 11.9 MB"Well, you're a gnome now. It's the Nid Law."
A Gnome There Was (Part 1)
June 15, 2011 10:35 - 9 minutes - 8.86 MBTim Crockett should never have sneaked into the mine on Dornsef Mountain.
The Twonky (Part 6)
February 05, 2011 02:00 - 11 minutes - 11 MBKerry's face had a blank, dazed look. His pupils were dilated, and he seemed to recognize Fitzgerald only slowly.
The Twonky (Part 5)
February 04, 2011 02:00 - 13 minutes - 12.3 MBThe robot, then, was not merely a servant. It was a censor.
The Twonky (Part 4)
February 02, 2011 23:00 - 7 minutes - 7.47 MBKerry began to feel a general unwillingness to go home. A hobgoblin was waiting for him.
The Twonky (Part 3)
February 02, 2011 02:30 - 9 minutes - 8.79 MB'I bought it as a radio. And-and-the damn thing seems almost alive to me.'
The Twonky (Part 2)
January 31, 2011 22:00 - 13 minutes - 12.2 MB'My new radio,' Kerry told Fitzgerald carefully. 'It's washing the dishes.'
The Twonky (Part 1)
January 31, 2011 00:00 - 6 minutes - 6.28 MBJoe went back into the shop and found a vacant bench. He began to build a Twonky.