21/05/2024
Voyage in the ‘Sunbeam’, Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months
Mrs. Brassey, (in future, Lady Brassey) describes the events and sights of her family’s voyage around in the world in 1876-1877 ( Dovie Cross) [chương_files]
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20/05/2024
Man Who Was Thursday, A Nightmare (Version 3, Dramatic Reading)
This is undoubtedly the best of Chesterton’s novels, a thriller which follows Gabriel Syme as he tries to find a way to bring the Supreme Anarchist Council to justice. Cast List: Narrator: Lynette Caulkins Lucian Gregory: Larry Wilson Gabriel Syme: Matthew Soanes The Secretary: Adrian Stephens Gogol: Cavaet The Marquis: Wayne Cooke Professor De Worms: Algy Pug Dr. Bull: Mozartjr Sunday and Gentleman 1: Dale Grothmann Rosamund Gregory: Devorah Allen Waiter and Zoo-Keeper: Marie Christian Mr. Buttons: TJ Burns Old Anarchist and Valet: Greg Giordano Mr. Witherspoon and Policeman: D.L. Brown American Anarchist and Man 2: David Purdy Anarchist 1 and Man 1:Scott Clarence Anarchist 2, Waiter, and Colonel Ducroix: ToddHW Labourer and Official: Bill Mosley Gentleman 2 and Stranger: Kerry Adams Dr. Renard: Scott Caulkins Populace: Yuqing, llamaart, Chuck Williamson, KHand – Summary by Mozartjr [chương_files]
20/05/2024
Celebrated Travels and Travellers, vol. 2
This volume, entitled “The Great Navigators of the 18th century”, forms the second of three volumes under the general title of “Celebrated Travels and Travellers”. The first volume of the series, “Exploration of the World”, covers a period in the world’s history extending from B.C. 505, to the close of the 17th century, and the third volume gives an account of “The Great Explorers and Travellers of the 19th Century”. – Summary from the Publishers’ Note Book coordinated by Kajo and Piotr Nater; Proof-listened by Kajo and Piotr Nater [chương_files]
20/05/2024
Town is Drowning
TORN FROM TODAY’S HEADLINES This novel takes you right into the heart of the new flood country, the Northeast United States which had generally been free of hurricanes and attendant floods. Now disaster has struck, more than once–terrible and grim. Although this novel will give you an accurate and brilliantly vivid picture of what it’s like to live through a flood, even more importantly it will show you what the people are like who fought the catastrophe and how those who survived are still fighting. In the persons of Starkman the burgess, Groff the dynamic young executive, Sharon the shrewd opportunist, Mrs. Goudeket, the resort owner, and others, you will meet and understand the varying human elements that the flood unleashed and intensified. Through it all you will sense a growing feeling of pride–that despite the selfishness of some, the people of the town met the terrible onslaught with courage and a sense of mutual help. Already well known for their superb science fiction, Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth demonstrate here their equal power in the realistic contemporary novel. – Summary by book jacket Notes from the narrator To me, A Town is Drowning was an interesting reading and recording assignment as it provided a look back at the dialogue and narrative structure for the dramatic works of the 1950’s, my earliest memories. Echoes of World War II, the Atomic Bomb, and the Cold War were ever present in this 1955 world; as was the idea of American Idealism […]
20/05/2024
Masters of the Vortex
“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]
20/05/2024
Cave Girl (Version 2)
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]
20/05/2024
Master Mind of Mars
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]
20/05/2024
Early explorations in New South Wales: A collection
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 […]
20/05/2024
Devil-Ray
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]
20/05/2024
Polaris of the Snows
“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]