A Galaxy Trilogy, Vol. 3 Audiobook (Free)
- Tom Weiner
- 13 h 39 min
- Blackstone Audiobooks
- 2009-08-06
Summary:
Before Gene Roddenberry and George Lucas, the science fiction writers of the 1950s and 1960s were writing some of the hippest genre literature of the era. Here are three imaginative novellas from some of these pioneers of pulp science fiction.
Giants from Eternity by Manly Wade Wellman
Young scientists Oliver Norfleet and his college buddy, Spencer DuPogue, are called with the Table of Science to investigate a mysteriously expanding reddish colored blight that’s growing around the website of the meteor crash in in regards to a Galaxy Trilogy, Vol. 3 Kansas. It swallows all in its route and has recently caused many deaths as well as the disappearance of whole cities. Norfleet and DuPogue, by using the daughter of the famous scientist, quickly find that the blight isn’t only alive but nearly indestructible. When their very own abilities prove inadequate, the three are pressured to turn to the best scientific thoughts of background for help, including Isaac Newton, Louis Pasteur, and additional giants from eternity-in the flesh! Norfleet and DuPogue and the giants from eternity must make an effort to prevent the blight prior to the entire earth is usually consumed.
Lords of Atlantis by Wallace Western world
Once, when Atlantis was ruled from the Titans, they were replaced by the red-skinned, red-haired Martians, Zeus, Hera, Athena, Aphrodite, as well as others. Teraf, prince of Hellas, was especially struck with the changes Earth got wrought in Martians over their rule. The rays from the earthly sun had burned their sensitive pores and skin almost as black as those of Nubians, also to meet the tension of Terran gravitation, that they had developed enormous muscle tissue that sat badly on their slender frames and provided them the deceitful appearance of strong men in a circus. The Afhas, those of blended Martian and early parentage, evidently had absorbed the best characteristics of both. Like Teraf himself, all got blazing red hair and the slender sophistication of their Martian forebears, plus a better adaptation to their earthly circumstances. But the Titans chafed under the so-called benevolent progress of their rulers, and they plotted rebellion.
City within the Moon by Murray Leinster
Life around the moon, under anything less than optimal conditions, had been a nightmare, and as Joe Kenmore and his colleague Moreau drove back again to the City over the Moon, on your day the Earth shuttle was due to property, the nearby hill supporting critical elements of the shuttle’s landing mechanisms crumbled, causing an avalanche and chaos. Optimal conditions were nowhere around the corner that day as Kenmore and Moreau’s investigations result in their conclusion that explosions have been in charge of the avalanche. They realized that these were within a competition against the clock to revive the landing beam prior to the shuttle experienced reached the “point of no return” ahead of getting. Kenmore had more than purely humanitarian reasons for wanting to prevent a mishap aboard the shuttle that time because on this particular mission, Arlene Gray was aboard. Kenmore have been anxiously awaiting her introduction, and amidst everything, Kenmore’s love existence also might hang in the balance.
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