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Six lectures on literature

Read by Phil Benson


Charles Harold Herford


C. H. Herford was Professor of English Literature at the Victoria University of Manchester in era when public lectures were published in pam…

Trivia, or The Art of Walking the Streets of London

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John Gay


John Gay's Trivia is a satirical guide to walking the streets of London, written in mock heroic style. Learn how to avoid pickpockets, wig t…

A Scandal in Bohemia

Read by Phil Chenevert


Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


This story, found in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, is one of the best in my opinion. Is it possible for the machine like brain of this…

Ribbon in the Sky

Read by Phil Chenevert


Murray Leinster


Med Service man Calhoun and his little sidekick Murgatroid run into another sizeable speed bump on their assigned visits to the planets of t…

The Last Evolution

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John Wood Campbell Jr. and John Wood Campbell, Jr.


John Campbell Jr. gives us a story about evolution. What will be man's ultimate evolution? What will he look like 100,000 years in the fut…

Med Service

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Murray Leinster


Excitement would seem far from the life of a Med Service man. Going from planet to planet in their tiny ships with just one little furry co…

Beckside Lights

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John Ackworth


John Ackworth was the pen name of the Rev. Frederick R. Smith, a Methodist minister who was born in Snaith, Yorkshire, but spent much of his…

Just David (Version 2)

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Eleanor H. Porter


Just David is the story of David, a little boy of 10 who is suddenly transplanted from a quiet, isolated, shut away world of music high in t…

Queen Zixi of Ix or The Story of the Magic Cloak

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L. Frank Baum


L.Frank Baum, or the Wizard of Oz fame, wrote this delightful book and considered it his best of all that he wrote. it tells the story of f…

Vampires of Space

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Sewell Peaslee Wright


Commander John Hanson recounts his harrowing adventure with the Electites of space. Beings of Ether who don't want your blood, they want yo…

The Itinerary of John Leland in or About the Years 1535-1543

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John Leland


John Leland's 'Itinerary' was the product of several journeys around England and Wales undertaken between 1538 and 1543. The manuscript is m…

Sonnets on Anglo-Saxon History

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Ann Hawkshaw


The history of Britain up to the Norman Conquest in the form of 100 prose commentaries, each followed by a sonnet. The commentaries set the …

Yellowstone Expedition of 1870

Read by Phil Schempf


Gustavus Cheyney Doane


Lt. Gustavus Doane was a member of the 1870 Yellowstone Expedition led by Henry Washburn. Washburn requested military support from General H…

Warrior of Two Worlds

Read by Phil Chenevert


Manly Wade Wellman


"He was the man of two planets, drawn through the blackness of space to save a nation from ruthless invaders. He was Yandro, the Strang…

The Master Girl: A Romance

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Henry Marriage Wallis


A stone age romance. Deh-Yun of the Little Moon comes across Pul-Yun of the Sun Disc, who has broken his leg while in search of a woman to k…

The Silver Princess in Oz (version 2)

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Ruth Plumly Thompson


Another Oz book! Yes! Lots of unlikely characters and tons of fun. In this story, young King Randy of Regalia is visited by his old frien…

The Flame Breathers

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Ray Cummings


Did the planet Vulcan exist? It supposedly orbited our sun on the opposite side from the Earth but it was only theoretical speculation. On…

The Jewel of Bas

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Leigh Douglass Brackett


There was a boy-God, sleeping through eternity. And there were his "Stone of Life" and the androids he had createdof matter and en…

Doxie Dent

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John Ackworth


Following the short story collections, Clog Shop Chronicles and Beckside Lights, John Ackworth completed the adventures of clogger Jabez Cle…

Hartmann the Anarchist, or the Doom of a Great City

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Edward Douglas Fawcett


A gem of nineteenth-century science fiction from mountaineer, philosopher and occasional novelist, Edward Douglas Fawcett. Stanley, a wealth…

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