The Prisoner of Chillon
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22 minutes
Unabridged Longform Narrative Poem
1816
The story of Francois Bonivard, a 16th century monk imprisoned in the Chateau de Chillon.
Read by Alex Wilson.
Continue reading "The Prisoner of Chillon"
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54 minutes
Full Cast Western Radio Drama
1978
The National Radio Theater of Chicago presents a full cast adaptation of Bret Harte's classic western story. Dramatized for audio by award winning dramatists Carol Adorjan and Yuri Rasovsky (director of Murder at Woodside Village and Frankenstein).
Continue reading "The Outcasts of Poker Flat"
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46 minutes, 45 seconds
Unabridged Short SF Story
1999
"Think of the underworld as the back of your closet, behind all those racks of clothes that you don't wear anymore. Things are always getting pushed back there and forgotten about. The underworld is full of things that you've forgotten about."
First published in Event Horizon in 1999. Later reprinted in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Thirteenth Annual Collection and Link's short story collection Stranger Things Happen, a Salon Book of the Year and one of the Village Voice's 25 Favorite Books of 2001.
Read by Alex Wilson.
Continue reading "The Girl Detective"
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3 hours, 8 minutes
Unabridged Adventure Novel
1903
"Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing..." The classic adventure novel. Narrated by John Jennens.
Continue reading "The Call of the Wild"
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13 minutes, 19 seconds
Unabridged Short SF Story
2000
When the fuel went, Mara's town turned to windpower. They struggled on as the lights left, as the cities fell fallow, and plastic became a memory. Their only link to the outside world is the Zephyr, and now it too has not shown up. Originally published in Jackhammer. Narrated by Mary Robinette Kowal of the Willamette Radio Workshop.
Continue reading "Waiting for the Zephyr"
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29 minutes, 11 seconds
Unabridged SF/Fantasy Pulp Adventure Story
1903
H G Wells was such a science fiction pioneer that he took all the great, archetypal titles (Think about it: The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Magic Shop, etc.. You'd think he would have at least been generous enough to call it, say, "A Magic Shop," allowing that Asimov or Heinlein might decades later want to write about another one.) So it goes with "The Valley of the Spiders."
Three adventurers face danger, death, and giant spiders, all for the
Continue reading "The Valley of the Spiders"
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9 hours, 24 minutes
Unabridged Adventure/Humor Novel
1885
Ernest Hemingway wrote: "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn [...] But it's the best book we've had. All American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since."
Big-river adventure and biting, laugh-out-loud satire in this classic "Great American Novel." Narrated by John Jennens.
Continue reading "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
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34 minutes, 25 seconds
Unabridged Epic SF Poem
1798
The classic longform adventure poem in seven parts. MP3 Sample below includes the entire first part.
Continue reading "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
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2 hours, 1 minute
Unabridged Science Fiction Novella
2000
Retrieval Artists find people who have Disappeared. But people Disappear for a reason--they don't want to be found. When Anetka Sobol shows up at Miles Flint's office on the Moon, he immediately knows that this case is going to be complicated.
A hard-boiled science fiction mystery. A Hugo Award Nominee, Locus Poll Award Nominee, and AnLab Award Nominee first published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact. Read by Stefan Rudnicki.
Continue reading "The Retrieval Artist"
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3 hours, 36 minutes
Unabridged Fantasy/ Young Adult Novel
1900
The beloved novel about a quest to see a Wizard. Join Dorothy, Toto, the Scarecrow, The Tin Woodman and the Cowardly Lion in an adventure that some would call the "first American fairy tale" (and, later, the inspiration for one of the most successful films ever made). Read by James Spencer.
Continue reading "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz"
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1 hour, 19 minutes
Unabridged Lyrical Poetry Collection
1907
Thirty-four accessible, adventurous poems including the famous narrative oft-memorized poems "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" and "The Cremation of Sam McGee." This collection has also been published as "Songs of a Sourdough." Read by Craig R Currier. Complete audiobook collection includes:
Continue reading "The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses"
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1 hour, 1 minutee
Full Cast Science Fiction/Horror Radio Drama
1978
The National Radio Theater of Chicago presents a full cast adaptation of Mary Shelley's classic SF/Horror novel. Produced in 1977 at DB Studios in Chicago and first aired in 1978. Dramatized for radio, produced, and directed by Grammy Award Winner Yuri Rasovsky (director of the bestselling mystery/comedy Murder at Woodside Village).
Continue reading "Frankenstein"
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3 hours, 2 minutes
Unabridged Science Fiction Novel
1895
An amateur scientist discovers that just as he may travel around in the three physical dimensions, he may also travel through the fourth--time. These are his adventures and discoveries through time. Read by James Spencer.
"There's a slightly old-fashioned quality to his speech that compliments Wells' old-fashioned brand of science fiction ... rises above the source material, making these audio editions a great way to experience these two classics." - John Joseph Adams, Locus
As James Patrick Kelly writes in this month's (September 2004 issue) Asimov's Science Fiction, "What makes this the first science fiction time travel story is that the Time Traveler actually builds his machine." Previous fictitious time travelers (like Ebeneezer Scrooge or the Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court) didn't have a choice in the matter.
Continue reading "The Time Machine"
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36 minutes, 37 seconds
Unabridged Short Story
1902
"All a man had to do was to keep his head, and he was all right. Any man who was a man could travel alone. But it was surprising, the rapidity with which his cheeks and nose were freezing. And he had not thought his fingers could go lifeless in so short a time. Lifeless they were, for he could scarcely make them move together to grip a twig, and they seemed remote from his body and from him. When he touched a twig, he had to look and see whether or not he had hold of it."
The classic man vs. nature story. Read by Max Miller.
Continue reading "To Build A Fire"
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5 hours, 53 minutes
Unabridged Science Fiction Novel
1898
"There's a slightly old-fashioned quality to his speech that compliments Wells' old-fashioned brand of science fiction ... rises above the source material, making these audio editions a great way to experience these two classics." - John Joseph Adams, Locus
The classic alien invasion novel by "The Father of Science Fiction" H.G. Wells. Read by James Spencer and produced by Active Voicing.
"No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own..."
Continue reading "The War of the Worlds"
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22 minutes, 4 seconds
Unabridged Short Story
1907
"It looked like a good thing: but wait till I tell you. We were down South, in Alabama--Bill Driscoll and myself-when this kidnapping idea struck us. It was, as Bill afterward expressed it, during a moment of temporary mental apparition; but we didn't find that out till later."
The classic humorous tale about a kidnapping gone awry by the beloved O Henry. Read by Alex Wilson.
Continue reading "The Ransom of Red Chief"
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33 minutes, 59 seconds
Unabridged Speculative Poetry
1990
An 18-poem audio chapbook by the Grand Master of Science Fiction Poetry. Read by the author and set to music by Jack Poley. Features the 1985 Rhysling Award Winner "For Spacers Snarled in the Hair of Comets" and Rhysling Award Nominees "The FTL Addict Fixes" (1984), and "The Evolution of the Death Murals" (1986). The poems in this collection first appeared in Asimov's SF, Amazing Stories, Aboriginal SF, Berkely Poets Cooperative, Lost Roads, The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, StarLine, Velocities, and Weird Tales. Full list...
Continue reading "Other Voices, Other Worlds"
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11 minutes, 52 seconds
Unabridged Formal Poetry
1820
A lyrical nursery rhyme of a story in three parts. Includes "Robin Hood, A Child," "Robin Hood's Flight," and "Robin Hood, an Outlaw." Read by Alex Wilson.
Continue reading "Songs of Robin Hood"
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28 minutes, 22 seconds
Unabridged Science Fiction Story
1976
"A haunting post-apocalyptic tale..."
--John Joseph Adams,
Locus
"...has been languishing unreprinted until this exceptional audio edition was released. Production value is high, the sound is exceptionally clear and the reading is lightly, and appropriately accented with music. Alexander Wilson's reading is haunting and restrained, matching the mournful tone of this short story."
--Jesse Willis,
SFFAudio
In a post-catastrophe city, an old man seeks to recreate his past as a concert pianist. First published in the anthology "Beyond Tomorrow," edited by Lee Harding. As reviewed in Locus and SFFAudio. Read by Alex Wilson.
Continue reading "A Song Before Sunset"
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