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Asleep in Armageddon

The Most Dangerous Place to Close Your Eyes

by Ray Bradbury ...

Narrated by Scott Miller ...

Series Audiobook 43 - Lost Sci-Fi
Unabridged

42 min

Leonard Sale survives his crash with food, air, and a working radio—everything needed to wait out rescue in comfort. Six days should pass easily. But when sleep brings something far worse than dreams, rest becomes a threat and exhaustion becomes a countdown.As the hours stretch and fatigue erodes his defenses, Sale realizes that the planet itself is not empty. Ancient minds linger here, locked in ... Read more

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Leonard Sale survives his crash with food, air, and a working radio—everything needed to wait out rescue in comfort. Six days should pass easily. But when sleep brings something far worse than dreams, rest becomes a threat and exhaustion becomes a countdown.As the hours stretch and fatigue erodes his defenses, Sale realizes that the planet itself is not empty. Ancient minds linger here, locked in
... Read more
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Creatures That Time Forgot, The

In the Shadow of Evolution, Only the Fierce Endure

by Ray Bradbury ...

Narrated by Scott Miller ...

Series Audiobook 131 - Lost Sci-Fi
Unabridged

1 hour 58 min

On a world too close to its sun, human life burns out in a single frantic week. Sim is born into terror, watching his parents age and die in hours while avalanches thunder outside their cliffside caves and dawn itself can kill. Racial memory and telepathy cram a lifetime of knowledge into his racing mind, but he has only eight days to do something no one has ever done before—defy a planet that ... Read more

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On a world too close to its sun, human life burns out in a single frantic week. Sim is born into terror, watching his parents age and die in hours while avalanches thunder outside their cliffside caves and dawn itself can kill. Racial memory and telepathy cram a lifetime of knowledge into his racing mind, but he has only eight days to do something no one has ever done before—defy a planet that
... Read more
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Veldt AKA The World the Children Made, The

In the House of Tomorrow, the Children Rule

by Ray Bradbury ...

Narrated by Scott Miller ...

Series Audiobook 209 - Lost Sci-Fi
Unabridged

32 min

The Hadley family lives in a fully automated Happylife Home, where machines cook, clean, and even soothe them to sleep. At the heart of the house is the nursery, a vast simulation chamber that turns a child’s thoughts into vivid landscapes—but lately, George and Lydia Hadley have noticed that their children’s minds keep returning to the same unsettling place: the African veldt, complete with lions ... Read more

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The Hadley family lives in a fully automated Happylife Home, where machines cook, clean, and even soothe them to sleep. At the heart of the house is the nursery, a vast simulation chamber that turns a child’s thoughts into vivid landscapes—but lately, George and Lydia Hadley have noticed that their children’s minds keep returning to the same unsettling place: the African veldt, complete with lions
... Read more
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Dwellers in Silence AKA The Long Years

The Last Man on Mars — and the Family That Never Aged

by Ray Bradbury ...

Narrated by Scott Miller ...

Series Audiobook 438 - Lost Sci-Fi
Unabridged

35 min

After the Great War leaves Mars empty and Earth uncertain, Dr. Walter Hathaway survives alone on a wind-scoured planet, keeping despair at bay through routine, invention, and remembrance. In a stone hut near the ruins of a failed colony, he speaks of the past, tends a warm fire, and waits—year after year—for proof that humanity still exists beyond the stars.When a rocket finally descends from the ... Read more

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After the Great War leaves Mars empty and Earth uncertain, Dr. Walter Hathaway survives alone on a wind-scoured planet, keeping despair at bay through routine, invention, and remembrance. In a stone hut near the ruins of a failed colony, he speaks of the past, tends a warm fire, and waits—year after year—for proof that humanity still exists beyond the stars.When a rocket finally descends from the
... Read more
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Pendulum

The Last Witness of a Forgotten World

by Ray Bradbury ...

Narrated by Scott Miller ...

Series Audiobook 618 - Lost Sci-Fi
Unabridged

30 min

John Layeville expected history to remember him as the man who unlocked the secret of time travel. Instead, a disastrous experiment turned him into the most infamous prisoner on Earth, sealed inside an enormous swinging pendulum and displayed as a warning to anyone who dared challenge accepted science. What begins as a cruel sentence soon becomes something no one can explain. Years pass, then ... Read more

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John Layeville expected history to remember him as the man who unlocked the secret of time travel. Instead, a disastrous experiment turned him into the most infamous prisoner on Earth, sealed inside an enormous swinging pendulum and displayed as a warning to anyone who dared challenge accepted science. What begins as a cruel sentence soon becomes something no one can explain. Years pass, then
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Visitor, The

A Miracle Lands On Mars

by Ray Bradbury ...

Narrated by Scott Miller ...

Series Audiobook 195 - Lost Sci-Fi
Unabridged

38 min

Mars is a place for the unwanted—men sent away to die slowly, far from Earth, memory, and comfort. Their days are quiet, their nights long, and their strongest hunger is not for food or company, but for places they will never see again. When a new exile arrives, young and strangely gifted, the balance of that desolation shifts. Streets reappear. Rivers run. Cities breathe again. For a few precious ... Read more

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Mars is a place for the unwanted—men sent away to die slowly, far from Earth, memory, and comfort. Their days are quiet, their nights long, and their strongest hunger is not for food or company, but for places they will never see again. When a new exile arrives, young and strangely gifted, the balance of that desolation shifts. Streets reappear. Rivers run. Cities breathe again. For a few precious
... Read more
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Rocket Summer

The Cost of Reaching the Stars

by Ray Bradbury ...

Narrated by Scott Miller ...

Series Audiobook 80 - Lost Sci-Fi
Unabridged

36 min

The world is ready to celebrate its greatest technological triumph. Crowds gather, vendors shout, and the future seems close enough to touch. But beneath the excitement lies a deeper unease—an uncomfortable question about whether humanity is prepared for the power it so eagerly embraces. Rocket Summer is not a story about machinery or spaceflight. It is a story about timing, responsibility, and ... Read more

$2.73 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

The world is ready to celebrate its greatest technological triumph. Crowds gather, vendors shout, and the future seems close enough to touch. But beneath the excitement lies a deeper unease—an uncomfortable question about whether humanity is prepared for the power it so eagerly embraces. Rocket Summer is not a story about machinery or spaceflight. It is a story about timing, responsibility, and
... Read more
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Little Journey, A

Faith At The End Of The Line

by Ray Bradbury ...

Narrated by Scott Miller ...

Series Audiobook 61 - Lost Sci-Fi
Unabridged

20 min

Some journeys are taken for profit, curiosity, or conquest. This one is taken because time has run out. In A Little Journey, Ray Bradbury places a group of elderly women on Mars, waiting for a promised ascent into space that may lead nowhere at all. As delays mount and the polish fades, belief is tested not by science, but by disappointment, humiliation, and the creeping fear of having been ... Read more

$2.73 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Some journeys are taken for profit, curiosity, or conquest. This one is taken because time has run out. In A Little Journey, Ray Bradbury places a group of elderly women on Mars, waiting for a promised ascent into space that may lead nowhere at all. As delays mount and the polish fades, belief is tested not by science, but by disappointment, humiliation, and the creeping fear of having been
... Read more
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Changeling

A Familiar Face, a Terrifying Secret

by Ray Bradbury ...

Narrated by Scott Miller ...

Series Audiobook 273 - Lost Sci-Fi
Unabridged

23 min

A woman prepares for an evening that feels carefully planned and dangerously fragile. Her guest arrives charming, familiar, and attentive, yet something in his presence feels subtly wrong. It is not cruelty or neglect that unsettles her, but a faint inconsistency that refuses to fade. Each gesture reassures her, even as it deepens the unease she cannot name. The night becomes a test of intimacy ... Read more

$2.73 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

A woman prepares for an evening that feels carefully planned and dangerously fragile. Her guest arrives charming, familiar, and attentive, yet something in his presence feels subtly wrong. It is not cruelty or neglect that unsettles her, but a faint inconsistency that refuses to fade. Each gesture reassures her, even as it deepens the unease she cannot name. The night becomes a test of intimacy
... Read more
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Morgue Ship

Only the Dead Belong Here

by Ray Bradbury ...

Narrated by Scott Miller ...

Series Audiobook 47 - Lost Sci-Fi
Unabridged

30 min

For a decade, Sam Burnett has worked aboard a morgue ship that trails behind interplanetary battles, gathering bodies long after the glory has vanished. His job is quiet, mechanical, and numbing: retrieve the dead, preserve them, return them home. The war is always over by the time he arrives. Until the day someone alive comes aboard.What follows is not a chase or a firefight, but a tightening ... Read more

$2.73 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

For a decade, Sam Burnett has worked aboard a morgue ship that trails behind interplanetary battles, gathering bodies long after the glory has vanished. His job is quiet, mechanical, and numbing: retrieve the dead, preserve them, return them home. The war is always over by the time he arrives. Until the day someone alive comes aboard.What follows is not a chase or a firefight, but a tightening
... Read more
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Referent

Escape Is Never Neutral

by Ray Bradbury ...

Narrated by Scott Miller ...

Series Audiobook 244 - Lost Sci-Fi
Unabridged

24 min

On a controlled island built for gifted children, language is not just instruction—it is law. Every hour is scheduled, every impulse corrected, and every word carefully defined to keep emotion and imagination in check. For Roby Morrison, the pressure is constant. He is told what things are, what they mean, and what they are allowed to become. Yet something inside him refuses to stay neatly labeled ... Read more

$2.73 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

On a controlled island built for gifted children, language is not just instruction—it is law. Every hour is scheduled, every impulse corrected, and every word carefully defined to keep emotion and imagination in check. For Roby Morrison, the pressure is constant. He is told what things are, what they mean, and what they are allowed to become. Yet something inside him refuses to stay neatly labeled
... Read more
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Undersea Guardians

Guardians Beneath the Convoys

by Ray Bradbury ...

Narrated by Scott Miller ...

Series Audiobook 307 - Lost Sci-Fi
Unabridged

42 min

Far below the Atlantic convoy lanes, something stirs that does not belong to the living world. Survivors of a sunken ship patrol the depths, guarding sailors who will never know their names, their bodies sustained by purpose alone. Each mission forces them closer to submarines, depth charges, and the constant pull of a life they are no longer allowed to reclaim.Alita swims among them, driven by a ... Read more

$2.73 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Far below the Atlantic convoy lanes, something stirs that does not belong to the living world. Survivors of a sunken ship patrol the depths, guarding sailors who will never know their names, their bodies sustained by purpose alone. Each mission forces them closer to submarines, depth charges, and the constant pull of a life they are no longer allowed to reclaim.Alita swims among them, driven by a
... Read more