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Don't count out the underdog... Two classic short novels by Robert A. Heinlein, science fiction’s Grand Master.
Waldo
North Power Air is in trouble. Their aircraft are crashing at an alarming rate and no one can figure out the cause. Desperate for an answer, they turn to Waldo, a crippled misanthropic genius who lives in a home in orbit around Earth, where the absence of gravity means that his feeble muscle strength does not confine him helplessly in a wheelchair. But Waldo has little reason to want to help the rest of humanity - until he learns that the solution to Earth’s problems also holds the key to his own.
Magic, Inc.
In a world where almost everything is done by magic spells, Magic, Inc., under the guise of an agency for magicians, is systematically squeezing the small independent magicians out of business. Then one businessman stood firm. And with the help of an Oxford-educated African shaman and a little old lady adept at black magic, he was willing to take on all the demons of Hell to resolve the problem - once and for all.
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Today the moon - tomorrow the stars. The Man Who Sold the Moon: A landmark volume in Heinlein’s magnificent Future History series. D. D. Harriman is a billionaire with a dream: the dream of Space for All Mankind. The method? Anything that works. Maybe, in fact, Harriman goes too far. But he will give us the stars....
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Max Jones, a practical, hard-working young man, found his escape in his beloved astronomy books. When reality comes crashing in and his troubled home life forces him out on the road, Max finds himself adrift in a downtrodden land - until an unexpected, ultimate adventure carries him away as a stowaway aboard an intergalactic spaceship.
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- De: Jack McDevitt
- Narrado por: Kevin T. Collins
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From a remote corner of the galaxy, a message is being sent. The continuous beats of a pulsar have become odd, irregular, and artificial. It can only be a code. Frantically, a research team struggles to decipher the alien communication. And what the scientists discover is destined to shake the foundations of empires around this world - from Wall Street to the Vatican.
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Lots to recommend here!
- De Matthew en 10-19-18
De: Jack McDevitt
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Gateways
- Original New Stories Inspired by Frederik Pohl
- De: Greg Bear, Gregory Benford, Ben Bova, y otros
- Narrado por: Oliver Wyman
- Duración: 17 h y 48 m
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It isn’t easy to get a group of bestselling SF authors to write new stories for an anthology, but that’s what Elizabeth Anne Hull has done in this powerhouse book. With original, captivating tales by Greg Bear, Gregory Benford, Ben Bova, David Brin, Cory Doctorow, Neil Gaiman, Joe Haldeman, Harry Harrison, Larry Niven, Vernor Vinge, Gene Wolfe, and others, Gateways is a SF event that will be a must-buy for SF readers of all tastes, from the traditional to the cutting edge; from the darkly serious to the laugh-out-loud funny.
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Spectacular.
- De Steve Reid en 08-21-15
De: Greg Bear, y otros
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The Colour of Magic
- Discworld, Book 1
- De: Terry Pratchett
- Narrado por: Colin Morgan, Peter Serafinowicz, Bill Nighy
- Duración: 7 h y 58 m
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Somewhere on the frontier between thought and reality exists the Discworld, a parallel time and place that might sound and smell very much like our own, but which looks completely different. Particularly as it’s carried though space on the back of a giant turtle (sex unknown). It plays by different rules. But then, some things are the same everywhere. The Disc’s very existence is about to be threatened by a strange new blight: the world’s first tourist, upon whose survival rests the peace and prosperity of the land.
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TERRIBLE Narration!
- De Kayla I en 07-08-22
De: Terry Pratchett
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Doughnut
- De: Tom Holt
- Narrado por: Ray Sawyer
- Duración: 13 h y 42 m
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Things have been going pretty badly for Theo Bernstein. An unfortunate accident at work has lost him his job (and his work involved a Very Very Large Hadron Collider, so he's unlikely to get it back). His wife has left him. And he doesn't have any money. Before Theo has time to fully appreciate the pointlessness of his own miserable existence, news arrives that his good friend, a renowned physicist and Nobel laureate, has died. By leaving the apparently worthless contents of his safety deposit box to Theo, however, the professor has set him on a quest of epic proportions.
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A fun world for scifantasy fans
- De illgnosis en 06-19-13
De: Tom Holt
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Dr. Bloodmoney
- De: Philip K. Dick
- Narrado por: Phil Gigante
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What happens after the bombs drop? This is the troubling question Philip K. Dick addresses with Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb. It is the story of a world reeling from the effects of nuclear annihilation and fallout, a world where mutated humans and animals are the norm, and the scattered survivors take comfort from a disc jockey endlessly circling the globe in a broken-down satellite.
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Post nuclear apocalyptic surburban middle class
- De Michael G Kurilla en 01-04-18
De: Philip K. Dick
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The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination
- Original Short Fiction for the Modern Evil Genius
- De: John Joseph Adams - editor
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki, Mary Robinette Kowal, Justine Eyre
- Duración: 15 h y 38 m
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Mad scientists have never had it so tough. In super-hero comics, graphic novels, films, TV series, video games, and even works of what may be fiction, they are besieged by those who stand against them, devoid of sympathy for their irrational, megalomaniacal impulses to rule, destroy, or otherwise dominate the world as we know it. It’s just not fair. So those of us who are so twisted and sick that we love mad scientists have created this guide.
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HAND DANCING
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 05-30-15
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Red Plenty
- De: Francis Spufford
- Narrado por: Roger Clark
- Duración: 13 h y 18 m
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Strange as it may seem, the gray, oppressive USSR was founded on a fairy tale. It was built on the 20th-century magic called "the planned economy," which was going to gush forth an abundance of good things that the lands of capitalism could never match. And just for a little while, in the heady years of the late 1950s, the magic seemed to be working. Red Plenty is about that moment in history, and how it came, and how it went away. Red Plenty is history, it's fiction, it's as ambitious as Sputnik, and as uncompromising as an Aeroflot flight attendant.
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Simple review
- De Jay J Peters en 06-24-18
De: Francis Spufford
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The Magic Christian
- De: Terry Southern
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 2 h y 36 m
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Guy Grand, an eccentric billionaire prankster, is rich enough to do whatever he likes. And what he likes is to carefully execute projects where he can cauterize by ridicule what the rest of the world ignores: Complacency, greed, corruption, and idiocy. Determined to "make it hot for people," Grand spends his billions staging a series of hilarious, sometimes bewildering stunts, lampooning along the way the American holy cows of money, status, power, beauty, media, and stardom.
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Easily the my worst audible experience
- De Kindle Customer en 03-11-15
De: Terry Southern
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I Will Fear No Evil
- De: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrado por: Anthony Heald
- Duración: 18 h y 49 m
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As startling and provocative as his famous Stranger in a Strange Land, here is Heinlein’s grand masterpiece about a man supremely talented, immensely old, and obscenely wealthy who discovers that money can buy everything.
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Disappointing Heinlein
- De Randall en 03-02-12
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Beyond This Horizon
- De: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrado por: Peter Ganim
- Duración: 7 h y 39 m
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Hamilton Felix, the result of generations of genetic selection, finds his life as the ultimate man boring - until a gang of revolutionaries tries to enlist him in their cause.
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Women will forgive anything
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 10-01-12
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Time for the Stars
- De: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrado por: Barrett Whitener
- Duración: 6 h y 36 m
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Travel to other planets is now a reality, and with overpopulation stretching the resources of Earth, the necessity of finding habitable worlds is growing ever more urgent. There’s a problem though—because the spaceships are slower than light, any communication between the exploring ships and Earth would take years.
Tom and Pat are identical twin teenagers. As twins they’ve always been close, so close that it seemed like they could read each other’s minds.
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My First Heinlein
- De DJM en 01-27-11
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The Green Hills of Earth
- De: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrado por: Tom Weiner
- Duración: 6 h y 31 m
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The Green Hills of Earth is a collection of short stories from one of the masters of science fiction who has held readers spellbound for over 30 years. This collection includes "Delilah and the Space-Rigger," "Space-Jockey," "The Long Watch," "Gentlemen Be Seated," "The Black Pits of Luna," "It's Great to Be Back," "' - We Also Walk Dogs,'" "Ordeal in Space," "The Green Hills of Earth," and "Logic of Empire."
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HOT JETS
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 05-24-18
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Citizen of the Galaxy
- De: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 8 h y 59 m
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In a distant galaxy of colonized planets, the atrocity of slavery is alive and well. Young Thorby was just another bedraggled orphan boy sold at auction, but his new owner, Baslim, is not the disabled beggar he appears to be. Adopting Thorby as his son, Baslim fights relentlessly as an abolitionist spy. When the authorities close in on Baslim, Thorby must find his own way in a hostile galaxy. Joining with the Free Traders, a league of merchant princes, Thorby must find the courage to live by his wits and fight his way up from society's lowest rung.
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Good nostalgia; pretty good YA sci-fi
- De Mark en 06-18-18
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Glory Road
- De: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrado por: Bronson Pinchot
- Duración: 9 h y 34 m
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. C. “Scar” Gordon was on the French Riviera recovering from a tour of combat in Southeast Asia, but he hadn’t given up his habit of scanning the personals in the newspaper. One ad in particular leapt out at him: "Are you a coward? This is not for you. We badly need a brave man. He must be 23 to 25 years old, in perfect health, at least six feet tall, weigh about 190 pounds, fluent English with some French, proficient with all weapons, some knowledge of engineering and mathematics essential...."
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Heinlein's great story, a glorious spin by Pinchot
- De BRKyle en 09-19-12
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I Will Fear No Evil
- De: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrado por: Anthony Heald
- Duración: 18 h y 49 m
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As startling and provocative as his famous Stranger in a Strange Land, here is Heinlein’s grand masterpiece about a man supremely talented, immensely old, and obscenely wealthy who discovers that money can buy everything.
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Disappointing Heinlein
- De Randall en 03-02-12
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Beyond This Horizon
- De: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrado por: Peter Ganim
- Duración: 7 h y 39 m
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Hamilton Felix, the result of generations of genetic selection, finds his life as the ultimate man boring - until a gang of revolutionaries tries to enlist him in their cause.
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Women will forgive anything
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 10-01-12
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Time for the Stars
- De: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrado por: Barrett Whitener
- Duración: 6 h y 36 m
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Travel to other planets is now a reality, and with overpopulation stretching the resources of Earth, the necessity of finding habitable worlds is growing ever more urgent. There’s a problem though—because the spaceships are slower than light, any communication between the exploring ships and Earth would take years.
Tom and Pat are identical twin teenagers. As twins they’ve always been close, so close that it seemed like they could read each other’s minds.
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My First Heinlein
- De DJM en 01-27-11
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The Green Hills of Earth
- De: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrado por: Tom Weiner
- Duración: 6 h y 31 m
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The Green Hills of Earth is a collection of short stories from one of the masters of science fiction who has held readers spellbound for over 30 years. This collection includes "Delilah and the Space-Rigger," "Space-Jockey," "The Long Watch," "Gentlemen Be Seated," "The Black Pits of Luna," "It's Great to Be Back," "' - We Also Walk Dogs,'" "Ordeal in Space," "The Green Hills of Earth," and "Logic of Empire."
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HOT JETS
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 05-24-18
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Citizen of the Galaxy
- De: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 8 h y 59 m
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In a distant galaxy of colonized planets, the atrocity of slavery is alive and well. Young Thorby was just another bedraggled orphan boy sold at auction, but his new owner, Baslim, is not the disabled beggar he appears to be. Adopting Thorby as his son, Baslim fights relentlessly as an abolitionist spy. When the authorities close in on Baslim, Thorby must find his own way in a hostile galaxy. Joining with the Free Traders, a league of merchant princes, Thorby must find the courage to live by his wits and fight his way up from society's lowest rung.
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Good nostalgia; pretty good YA sci-fi
- De Mark en 06-18-18
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Glory Road
- De: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrado por: Bronson Pinchot
- Duración: 9 h y 34 m
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. C. “Scar” Gordon was on the French Riviera recovering from a tour of combat in Southeast Asia, but he hadn’t given up his habit of scanning the personals in the newspaper. One ad in particular leapt out at him: "Are you a coward? This is not for you. We badly need a brave man. He must be 23 to 25 years old, in perfect health, at least six feet tall, weigh about 190 pounds, fluent English with some French, proficient with all weapons, some knowledge of engineering and mathematics essential...."
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Heinlein's great story, a glorious spin by Pinchot
- De BRKyle en 09-19-12
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Methuselah's Children
- De: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrado por: MacLeod Andrews
- Duración: 7 h y 19 m
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After the fall of the American Ayatollahs as foretold in Stranger in a Strange Land and chronicled in Revolt in 2100, the United States of America at last fulfills the promise inherent in its first Revolution: for the first time in human history there is a nation with Liberty and Justice for All. No one may seize or harm the person or property of another, or invade his privacy, or force him to do his bidding. Americans are fiercely proud of their re-won liberties and the blood it cost them; nothing could make them forswear those truths they hold self-evident. Nothing except the promise of immortality…
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A delight to revisit a science fiction classic
- De Anne en 02-16-13
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Have Space Suit - Will Travel
- De: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrado por: Mark Turetsky
- Duración: 8 h y 53 m
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First prize in the Skyway Soap slogan contest was an all-expenses-paid trip to the moon. The consolation prize was an authenticspace suit, and when scientifically minded high school senior Kip Russell wonit, he knew for certain he would use it one day to make a sojourn of his own tothe stars. But "one day" comes sooner than he thinks when he tries the suit on in his backyard - and finds himself worlds away, a prisoner aboard a space pirate's ship.
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Wry humor obliterated by inept reading
- De Scott en 07-10-14
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Rocket Ship Galileo
- De: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrado por: Spider Robinson
- Duración: 5 h y 27 m
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Ross Jenkins, Art Mueller, and Morris Abrams are not your average high-school students. While other kids are cruising around in their cars or playing ball, this trio, known as the Galileo Club, is experimenting with rocket fuels. Art's uncle, the nuclear physicist Dr. Donald Cargraves, offers them the opportunity of a lifetime: to construct and crew a rocket that will take them to the moon. But there are those who don't share their dream and who will stop at nothing to keep their rocket grounded.
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Give us another or two Spider
- De Michael en 03-28-07
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The Number of the Beast
- De: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrado por: Bernadette Dunne, Emily Durante, Malcolm Hillgartner, y otros
- Duración: 21 h y 29 m
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The wickedest, most wonderful science fiction story ever created in our - or any - time. Anything can begin at a party in California - and everything does in this bold masterwork by a grand master of science fiction. When four supremely sensual and unspeakably cerebral humans - two male, two female - find themselves under attack from aliens who want their awesome quantum breakthrough, they take to the skies - and zoom into the cosmos on a rocket roller-coaster ride of adventure, danger, ecstasy, and peril.
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One Aching Pain Short of Heaven
- De ... en 08-12-12
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Friday
- De: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrado por: Hillary Huber
- Duración: 13 h y 46 m
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Friday, a secret courier, is thrown into an assignment under the command of her employer, a man she knows only as "Boss." She operates from and over a near-future Earth in North America, a vulgar and chaotic land comprised of dozens of independent states. In America's disunion, Friday keeps her balance nimbly with quick, expeditious solutions as she conquers one calamity and scrape after another.
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Almost A Perfect, This Time.
- De Dave Worley en 12-02-08
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The Puppet Masters
- De: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrado por: Bronson Pinchot
- Duración: 10 h y 6 m
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First came the news that a flying saucer had landed in Iowa. Then came the announcement that the whole thing was a hoax. End of story. Case closed. Except that two agents of the most secret intelligence agency in the US government were on the scene and disappeared without reporting in. And four more agents who were sent in also disappeared. So the head of the agency and his two top agents went in and managed to get out with their discovery
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Great book, distracting narration
- De Jon en 04-25-22
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The Rolling Stones
- De: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrado por: Tom Weiner
- Duración: 7 h y 2 m
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One of Heinlein's best-loved works, The Rolling Stones follows the rollicking adventures of the Stone family as they tour the solar system. It doesn't seem likely for twins to have the same middle name. Even so, it's clear that Castor and Pollux Stone both have "Trouble" written in that spot on their birth certificates. Of course, anyone who's met their grandmother Hazel would know they came by it honestly.
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Good story well told
- De Frank en 07-14-15
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Farnham's Freehold
- De: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrado por: Tom Weiner
- Duración: 10 h y 24 m
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Hugh Farnham is a practical, self-made man, and when he sees the clouds of nuclear war gathering, he builds a bomb shelter under his house, hoping for peace and preparing for war. But when the apocalypse comes, something happens that he did not expect. A thermonuclear blast tears apart the fabric of time and hurls his shelter into a world with no sign of other human beings.
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Heinlein of his time...
- De Lisa en 07-03-11
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The Door into Summer
- De: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
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Dan Davis, an electronics engineer, had finally made the invention of a lifetime: a household robot that could do almost anything. Wild success was within reach, but then Dan's life was ruined. In a plot to steal his business, his greedy partner and greedier fiancée tricked him into taking the "long sleep": suspended animation for 30 years.
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- De Greg en 04-05-09
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The Man Who Sold the Moon
- De: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrado por: Buck Schirner
- Duración: 10 h y 18 m
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Today the moon - tomorrow the stars. The Man Who Sold the Moon: A landmark volume in Heinlein’s magnificent Future History series. D. D. Harriman is a billionaire with a dream: the dream of Space for All Mankind. The method? Anything that works. Maybe, in fact, Harriman goes too far. But he will give us the stars....
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Great story but...
- De Chris en 03-30-17
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To Sail Beyond the Sunset
- The Life and Loves of Maureen Johnson (Being the Memoirs of a Somewhat Irregular Lady)
- De: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrado por: Bernadette Dunne
- Duración: 17 h y 17 m
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Maureen Johnson, the somewhat irregular mother of Lazarus Long, wakes up in bed with a man and a cat. The cat is Pixel, well-known to fans of the New York Times best seller The Cat Who Walks through Walls. The man is a stranger to her, and besides that, he is dead.
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Don't Dilly Dally, Dolly
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 04-17-14
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For Us, the Living
- A Comedy of Customs
- De: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 7 h y 35 m
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July 12, 1939: Perry Nelson is driving along the palisades when another vehicle swerves into his lane, a tire blows out, and his car careens off the road and over a bluff. The last thing he sees before his head connects with the boulders below is a girl in a green bathing suit, prancing along the shore.
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The only Heinlein I didn't enjoy
- De Randall en 07-07-11
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Waldo & Magic, Inc.
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- Michael J. Russo
- 09-03-16
Audible will not allow it to play
What disappointed you about Waldo & Magic, Inc.?
Audible not letting it play
What was one of the most memorable moments of Waldo & Magic, Inc.?
When I bought it.
What didn’t you like about MacLeod Andrews’s performance?
Do not know have yet to hear him.
If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Waldo & Magic, Inc.?
The part when audible sends an email to me.
Any additional comments?
I searched Audible's site and found that they limit burning the book to just once. I haven't even been able to listen to the two books that were down loaded.
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- TCHall
- 11-21-22
Three by Heinlein was my first SciFi book
Waldo and Magic Inc gave me new worlds to explore at 11 years old. My Gateway Drug into what became my favorite genre.
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- Angus
- 12-01-18
Fun Stories
What can you say, it’s classic Heinlein at his best. Both are a lot of fun.
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- Jane Taylor
- 08-04-14
It was better when I was younger *sigh*
I LOVED this in the 1970s when I was a kid but it was a struggle to get through as an adult. I thought I would rediscover Heinlein afresh after 40 years but what I discover is that the same strong and (to me) mildly offensive attitudes (political, social, sexual) that infused his later work so strongly and made me uncomfortable as a young adult woman are here too in the older stuff, just more subtly. They say you can't go home- too bad...
A young teen might really like these though- Heinlein is endless inventive.
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- Lenina Huxley
- 12-05-21
Imaginative and Pioneering
I was somewhat hesitant to get this book due to the subjects, but I'm a Heinlein fan and Waldo came with high recommendations from friends who'd read it.
It's amazing that these stories were written in the early 1940s. They seem modern, and with just a very few exceptions, stories that might appear in a movie or TV show today.
I found the analysis at the end very interesting and insightful. If you are a Heinlein fan, give these stories a try. You'll see just how far ahead he was of his time.
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- Frankr24
- 08-04-22
Maybe some spoilers ahead.
My 1st impression of the book "Waldo and Magic, Inc." is though it was written in 1942, it does not appear to be dated in a way that jumps out at me. I'd say it's great science fiction.
"Waldo" is delightful! This is one of Heinlein's earliest books. In future Novels, where Heinlein mentions the moon, he refers to the moon as "Luna" almost every time. His writing also refers to other planets with the mythological name. One example is when he was writing of Jupiter, he refered to it as being "Jovian". I always found that to be delightful. This book refers to "Lunopolis". Nice to see his writing when it evolves.
Heinlein got some of the details of weightlessness or micro gravity correct, but he also got some details very, very wrong. In particular, I find it quite unbelievable that Waldo could go from being an invalid to living in a space station for 17 years and then to come back to Earth and be able to lift himself on one elbow. We know that when astronauts spend only a few months in space, they can barely walk when they first return to Earth.
Oh well, I'm being a perfectionist about a book written 20 years before the first man flew in space. It's still plenty thought provoking, like Heinlein always does!
"Magic, Inc." was even better! Enjoy 😉
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- larry
- 08-08-16
very different
For an RAH story but just as enjoyable as all of his others. It made me smile and think more than once
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- Jerry "JSFMIDIG"
- 06-19-14
The complex world's of science,
Using superstition and magic to create an even reading field for 2 short stories.
I always believe a wise man should glance over his sholder before changing lanes. Glance back in history before making the same mistakes or repeating them.
Heinlien removes science of the 1950s, to tell a good story of science fiction, but needed to remove science fact (still too new in a time line and in scope) and uses magic to replace science fact in electrigal grids, electronics of heated plates in picture tubes, voice coils, amplification, circuit boards, etc… Way, way too new in history to make the magic believable back then. But, he took a gamble with his story (1st of it's kind) and got published - won!
Write a story like that today, it would suck big time! He took a gamble, won!
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- KS Dad
- 04-13-21
great presentation of a classic
Imagine if Tesla had finished his power distribution ideas, or ancient magic practice were real and lose in today's world. wonderful material and every bit as fantastic today as when he wrote it.
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- Michael Middleton
- 06-16-23
Heinlein...
Then you're suddenly back onboard DORA (I don't which one) . All bills paid, lifting off.....Hope Senior, I mean Woodrow, has enough time around.
It's a Heinlein book so enjoy.
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