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Masters of the Vortex

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“Masters of the Vortex” is a 1960 novel by E.E. “Doc” Smith which incorporates and expands upon three short stories, “The Vortex Blaster”, “Storm Cloud on Deka”, and “The Vortex Blaster Makes War”. Somewhat confusingly, it was originally published under the title “The Vortex Blaster”, the same name as the first short story, before being republished as “Masters of the Vortex”. It is the final novel, or a spinoff, of The Lensmen stories. It follows the adventures of Neal “Storm” Cloud, a brilliant mathematician who makes it his personal mission to snuff out wiild nuclear vortexes all over the galaxy, at great risk to his own safety. He visits multiple alien worlds and their intelligent species, and gains a crew and a protege. Can he successfully destroy the nuclear vortexes? And are all of them random occurrences, or are they being used for nefarious means? (Summary by Harley James) [chương_files]

Cave Girl (Version 2)

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Waldo Smith-Jones shipwrecked from Boston, desperately tries to survive on a lost island of primitive men and beasts. Given the name of Thandar, he strives for the hand of Princess Nadara amid misunderstandings. If a rescue ship arrives, what will they do? – Summary by Gerald A Moe [chương_files]

Master Mind of Mars

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Action & Adventure Fiction, Fantasy Fiction, Science Fiction
Chapter: 15 | Listen: 6

Across the the vast reaches of space went he: another man of Earth (Ulysses Paxton) finds himself transported to Mars (“Barsoom”), following in the footsteps of the legendary John Carter. Originally imprisoned by a mad scientist on Mars who unlocked the secret of eternal life by transferring one’s brain into a new body…thereby living forever: Ulysses embarks on an adventure to return an enslaved woman’s mind back to her own body – a body taken by a tyrannical Empress of one of the greater cities of Barsoom! Gathering together the most unlikely group of allies: a native Great White Ape of Barsoom who has half of a brain of a man, then a soldier whose own body was sold for replacement for longevity to a prince of the Empress, and a lastly a notable assassin: the desperate cadre fight madly to restore everyone’s lives to what they once were. To where will this adventure take them on this savage, and far-away planet? Join Edgar Rice Burroughs as he takes us once more to Mars for an adventure unlike any you have experienced before! (Summary by Joe DeNoia) [chương_files]

Early explorations in New South Wales: A collection

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Exploration, History
Chapter: 3 | Listen: 4

In the early days of the penal colony at Sydney, rumour was rife among the convicts of another colony beyond the Blue Mountains and perhaps a route to China. In the hope of quelling the rumours, Governor John Hunter put together a bizarre exploration party, charged to travel as far into the interior as it could. The party consisted of four convicts, two guides and four soldiers to protect the guides from the convicts. The leader of the party was John Wilson, an ex-convict who had elected to live in the bush among the Aborigines, who had named him Bunboee. He was accompanied by John Price, Hunter’s adventurous young servant and, as the only literate member of the party, its diarist. The party set out in January 1798, but three of the convicts soon tired and returned with the four soldiers, leaving Wilson, Price and Roe, the fourth convict, to press on to the south-west. After six days travel they reached high ground over the junction of the Wollondilly and Wingecarribee rivers, from where they saw the open country beyond the mountains. A month later, Wilson and Price, this time accompanied by Henry Hacking and a man called Collins, set out again and this time reached the summit of Mount Towrang, where they looked over the Great Divide. John Price’s diaries of the two expeditions were handed over to Hunter, who gave them to Sir Joseph Banks in England. The diaries languished among Banks’s papers for many years until they […]

Devil-Ray

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Action & Adventure Fiction, Crime & Mystery Fiction, Science Fiction
Chapter: 8 | Listen: 3

George Ferris is a master thief with amnesia. He and his two partners in crime concoct a plan to break into the famed Castle Blennerhof in a search for priceless jewels. While on the job, they hear the roar of a plane and a mysterious beam of light emanates from the sky onto one of his partners, killing him instantly. And this is just the beginning of their strange and troubled caper. – Summary by Ben Tucker [chương_files]

Polaris of the Snows

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Action & Adventure Fiction, Science Fiction
Chapter: 23 | Listen: 5

“In the antarctic wilds … Polaris Janess … was born, of a mother he never knew, and grew to manhood’s years knowing one human face only, that of his father. When that father died, the young man set his face to the north, to find the world of men … Journeying through the silent wastes with his dog team [he] found Rose Emer, an American heiress, who had strayed from an exploring party, and who waited death in the icy wilderness … Polaris and the girl came upon the kingdom of Sardanes – a valley girded by volcanic hills which warmed it, and peopled by a lost fragment, some two thousand strong, of the ancient Greeks … The adventures of the man of the snows and the American maid in Sardanes; how they escaped thence; how their love bloomed amid the eternal snows; and how they won at last to America … all these things have been related.” – Summary by Charles B. Stilson [chương_files]

Adventure of the Broad Arrow: An Australian Romance

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Action & Adventure Fiction, Fantasy Fiction, Literary Fiction, Published 1800 - 1900, Romance
Chapter: 19 | Listen: 2

When a few men decide to go for looking for gold in the outback of Australia, days of extreme heat with no water and no rain in sight, make them turn back and give up the trip; all but two of them that is, Smith and Mandeville, aka the “Baker. Smith and Baker decide to tough it out and go after their dreams, chancing their lives to find “their luck”. Little do they realize, they will put their lives in grave danger, and this quest for gold will turn into a nightmare. Life threatening food and water deprivation is a constant issue, and they had no idea they would stumble upon an unknown tribe of prehistoric white men that are head hunters and cannibals. Will they survive the harsh bush conditions, the fierce inferno of the desert, and a deadly tribe? And what about the gold? Is there gold to be found, and if so, will it ever be their reality? An incredible adventure with lots of twists and turns awaits… (Summary by Laur ) [chương_files]

Island of Appledore

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Action & Adventure Fiction, Nautical & Marine Fiction, Published 1900 onward
Chapter: 12 | Listen: 6

Any one who knows the coast of New England will know also the Island of Appledore and just where it lies. Such a person can tell you that it is not exactly the place described in this book, that it is small and bare and rocky with no woods, no meadows, no church, or mill, or mill-creek road. Perhaps all that the story tells of it that is true is that there the rocks give forth their strange deep song, “the calling of Appledore,” as warning of a storm, that there the poppies bloom as nowhere else in the world, that there the surf comes rolling in, day in and day out, the whole year through, and that there one’s memory turns back with longing, no matter how many years of absence have gone by. There, also, you can sit for hours to watch the huge, green breakers come foaming and tumbling in endless procession up the stony beach; you can watch the nimble sandpipers and the tireless, wheeling gulls; and if you choose you can spin for yourself just such a story as this one of Billy Wentworth and Captain Saulsby and Sally Shute, a tale of mysteries and perils and midnight adventures on the shores of Appledore. – Summary by the author’s foreward [chương_files]

Celebrated Travels and Travellers, vol. 3

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Exploration
Chapter: 42 | Listen: 1

This volume, entitled “The great explorers of the 19th century”, forms the third of three volumes under the general title of “Celebrated travels and travellers”. Volume three comprehends: “The dawn of a century of discovery” (part I, chap. I), “The exploration and colonization of Africa” (part I, chap. II), “The oriental scientific movement and American discoveries” (part I, chap. III), “Voyages round the world, and Polar expeditions” (part II, chap. I), “French circumnavigators” (part II, chap. II), “Polar expeditions” (part II, chap. III, part I) and “The North Pole” (part II, chap. III, part II). – Summary by Kajo [chương_files]

Sunshine and Snow

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Action & Adventure Fiction, Family Life, Published 1800 - 1900
Chapter: 6 | Listen: 4

A harrowing and dramatic story of four siblings from Scotland who are poor and orphaned. The eldest brother, Arthur, is guardian to his two brothers and one sister. After the bank in Scotland fails, Arthur decides as family head, they will go to Canada to answer an ad to claim free farm land. Arthur is a former soldier, smart, honest, and a tremendously hard worker; his younger brothers are still in school, and Charley, the middle brother, has a lot to learn about team work. Leaving their sister behind temporarily, they board a steamer for Canada, but they have no idea of the hardships and life threatening battles that await in the untamed land. Can these young siblings survive all the adversity, and will they be able to find happiness carving out a new life? All they have is a hope. (Summary by Laurie Banza) [chương_files]