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It Burns Me Up!

A Corpse With a Front-Row View

by Ray Bradbury ...

Narrated by Scott Miller ...

Series Audiobook 338 - Lost Sci-Fi
Unabridged

25 min

Ray Bradbury delivers a razor-sharp, darkly humorous masterpiece in “It Burns Me Up!,” the tale of a murdered man who remains conscious as his lifeless body becomes the center of a chaotic, gossip-hungry spectacle. While detectives posture, reporters posture harder, neighbors gawk, and his wife performs her own brand of calculated innocence, the victim narrates the entire circus with eerie calm ... Read more

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Ray Bradbury delivers a razor-sharp, darkly humorous masterpiece in “It Burns Me Up!,” the tale of a murdered man who remains conscious as his lifeless body becomes the center of a chaotic, gossip-hungry spectacle. While detectives posture, reporters posture harder, neighbors gawk, and his wife performs her own brand of calculated innocence, the victim narrates the entire circus with eerie calm
... Read more
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Outcast of the Stars

When The Future Belongs To Someone Else

by Ray Bradbury ...

Narrated by Scott Miller ...

Series Audiobook 288 - Lost Sci-Fi
Unabridged

26 min

Fiorello Bodoni is a poor junk dealer who lives beneath a sky filled with rockets he can never afford to ride. Each night, their distant thunder awakens something fierce inside him, a longing passed down like inheritance.When a single chance appears, Bodoni must choose between survival and wonder, between practical needs and impossible dreams. His decision sets off a quiet, deeply human journey ... Read more

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Fiorello Bodoni is a poor junk dealer who lives beneath a sky filled with rockets he can never afford to ride. Each night, their distant thunder awakens something fierce inside him, a longing passed down like inheritance.When a single chance appears, Bodoni must choose between survival and wonder, between practical needs and impossible dreams. His decision sets off a quiet, deeply human journey
... Read more
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One Who Waits, The

The Well That Remembers

by Ray Bradbury ...

Narrated by Scott Miller ...

Series Audiobook 350 - Lost Sci-Fi
Unabridged

18 min

Something ancient waits beneath the surface of Mars, not sleeping, not dead, and not entirely alive. When the first human explorers arrive, they believe they have found water, shelter, and the promise of a future colony. What they cannot see is the cost of contact, or how easily a body can become an opening.The story unfolds from the inside out, shifting perspective in unsettling ways as voices ... Read more

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Something ancient waits beneath the surface of Mars, not sleeping, not dead, and not entirely alive. When the first human explorers arrive, they believe they have found water, shelter, and the promise of a future colony. What they cannot see is the cost of contact, or how easily a body can become an opening.The story unfolds from the inside out, shifting perspective in unsettling ways as voices
... Read more
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Visitor, The

A Miracle Lands On Mars

by Ray Bradbury ...

Narrated by Scott Miller ...

Series Audiobook 195 - Lost Sci-Fi
Unabridged

38 min

Mars is a place for the unwanted—men sent away to die slowly, far from Earth, memory, and comfort. Their days are quiet, their nights long, and their strongest hunger is not for food or company, but for places they will never see again. When a new exile arrives, young and strangely gifted, the balance of that desolation shifts. Streets reappear. Rivers run. Cities breathe again. For a few precious ... Read more

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Mars is a place for the unwanted—men sent away to die slowly, far from Earth, memory, and comfort. Their days are quiet, their nights long, and their strongest hunger is not for food or company, but for places they will never see again. When a new exile arrives, young and strangely gifted, the balance of that desolation shifts. Streets reappear. Rivers run. Cities breathe again. For a few precious
... Read more
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Dwellers in Silence AKA The Long Years

The Last Man on Mars — and the Family That Never Aged

by Ray Bradbury ...

Narrated by Scott Miller ...

Series Audiobook 438 - Lost Sci-Fi
Unabridged

35 min

After the Great War leaves Mars empty and Earth uncertain, Dr. Walter Hathaway survives alone on a wind-scoured planet, keeping despair at bay through routine, invention, and remembrance. In a stone hut near the ruins of a failed colony, he speaks of the past, tends a warm fire, and waits—year after year—for proof that humanity still exists beyond the stars.When a rocket finally descends from the ... Read more

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After the Great War leaves Mars empty and Earth uncertain, Dr. Walter Hathaway survives alone on a wind-scoured planet, keeping despair at bay through routine, invention, and remembrance. In a stone hut near the ruins of a failed colony, he speaks of the past, tends a warm fire, and waits—year after year—for proof that humanity still exists beyond the stars.When a rocket finally descends from the
... Read more
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Little Journey, A

Faith At The End Of The Line

by Ray Bradbury ...

Narrated by Scott Miller ...

Series Audiobook 61 - Lost Sci-Fi
Unabridged

20 min

Some journeys are taken for profit, curiosity, or conquest. This one is taken because time has run out. In A Little Journey, Ray Bradbury places a group of elderly women on Mars, waiting for a promised ascent into space that may lead nowhere at all. As delays mount and the polish fades, belief is tested not by science, but by disappointment, humiliation, and the creeping fear of having been ... Read more

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Some journeys are taken for profit, curiosity, or conquest. This one is taken because time has run out. In A Little Journey, Ray Bradbury places a group of elderly women on Mars, waiting for a promised ascent into space that may lead nowhere at all. As delays mount and the polish fades, belief is tested not by science, but by disappointment, humiliation, and the creeping fear of having been
... Read more
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Creatures That Time Forgot, The

In the Shadow of Evolution, Only the Fierce Endure

by Ray Bradbury ...

Narrated by Scott Miller ...

Series Audiobook 131 - Lost Sci-Fi
Unabridged

1 hour 58 min

On a world too close to its sun, human life burns out in a single frantic week. Sim is born into terror, watching his parents age and die in hours while avalanches thunder outside their cliffside caves and dawn itself can kill. Racial memory and telepathy cram a lifetime of knowledge into his racing mind, but he has only eight days to do something no one has ever done before—defy a planet that ... Read more

$5.48 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

On a world too close to its sun, human life burns out in a single frantic week. Sim is born into terror, watching his parents age and die in hours while avalanches thunder outside their cliffside caves and dawn itself can kill. Racial memory and telepathy cram a lifetime of knowledge into his racing mind, but he has only eight days to do something no one has ever done before—defy a planet that
... Read more
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Veldt AKA The World the Children Made, The

In the House of Tomorrow, the Children Rule

by Ray Bradbury ...

Narrated by Scott Miller ...

Series Audiobook 209 - Lost Sci-Fi
Unabridged

32 min

The Hadley family lives in a fully automated Happylife Home, where machines cook, clean, and even soothe them to sleep. At the heart of the house is the nursery, a vast simulation chamber that turns a child’s thoughts into vivid landscapes—but lately, George and Lydia Hadley have noticed that their children’s minds keep returning to the same unsettling place: the African veldt, complete with lions ... Read more

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The Hadley family lives in a fully automated Happylife Home, where machines cook, clean, and even soothe them to sleep. At the heart of the house is the nursery, a vast simulation chamber that turns a child’s thoughts into vivid landscapes—but lately, George and Lydia Hadley have noticed that their children’s minds keep returning to the same unsettling place: the African veldt, complete with lions
... Read more
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Pendulum

The Last Witness of a Forgotten World

by Ray Bradbury ...

Narrated by Scott Miller ...

Series Audiobook 618 - Lost Sci-Fi
Unabridged

30 min

John Layeville expected history to remember him as the man who unlocked the secret of time travel. Instead, a disastrous experiment turned him into the most infamous prisoner on Earth, sealed inside an enormous swinging pendulum and displayed as a warning to anyone who dared challenge accepted science. What begins as a cruel sentence soon becomes something no one can explain. Years pass, then ... Read more

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John Layeville expected history to remember him as the man who unlocked the secret of time travel. Instead, a disastrous experiment turned him into the most infamous prisoner on Earth, sealed inside an enormous swinging pendulum and displayed as a warning to anyone who dared challenge accepted science. What begins as a cruel sentence soon becomes something no one can explain. Years pass, then
... Read more
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Rocket Summer

The Cost of Reaching the Stars

by Ray Bradbury ...

Narrated by Scott Miller ...

Series Audiobook 80 - Lost Sci-Fi
Unabridged

36 min

The world is ready to celebrate its greatest technological triumph. Crowds gather, vendors shout, and the future seems close enough to touch. But beneath the excitement lies a deeper unease—an uncomfortable question about whether humanity is prepared for the power it so eagerly embraces. Rocket Summer is not a story about machinery or spaceflight. It is a story about timing, responsibility, and ... Read more

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The world is ready to celebrate its greatest technological triumph. Crowds gather, vendors shout, and the future seems close enough to touch. But beneath the excitement lies a deeper unease—an uncomfortable question about whether humanity is prepared for the power it so eagerly embraces. Rocket Summer is not a story about machinery or spaceflight. It is a story about timing, responsibility, and
... Read more
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Final Victim

A Hunter Haunted by His Past

by Ray Bradbury, Henry Hasse ...

Narrated by Scott Miller ...

Series Audiobook 172 - Lost Sci-Fi
Unabridged

1 hour 5 min

A frightened young man flees across an asteroid’s razor-sharp cliffs, desperately trying to reach safety before a patrolman guns him down. But what begins as a manhunt becomes something far stranger when the killer patrolman, Jim Skeel, returns to base—carrying secrets darker than any vacuum outside the dome. Soon, a vengeful sister, a notorious pirate, and a nightmare swarm of nocturnal alien ... Read more

$4.11 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

A frightened young man flees across an asteroid’s razor-sharp cliffs, desperately trying to reach safety before a patrolman guns him down. But what begins as a manhunt becomes something far stranger when the killer patrolman, Jim Skeel, returns to base—carrying secrets darker than any vacuum outside the dome. Soon, a vengeful sister, a notorious pirate, and a nightmare swarm of nocturnal alien
... Read more
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Changeling

A Familiar Face, a Terrifying Secret

by Ray Bradbury ...

Narrated by Scott Miller ...

Series Audiobook 273 - Lost Sci-Fi
Unabridged

23 min

A woman prepares for an evening that feels carefully planned and dangerously fragile. Her guest arrives charming, familiar, and attentive, yet something in his presence feels subtly wrong. It is not cruelty or neglect that unsettles her, but a faint inconsistency that refuses to fade. Each gesture reassures her, even as it deepens the unease she cannot name. The night becomes a test of intimacy ... Read more

$2.73 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

A woman prepares for an evening that feels carefully planned and dangerously fragile. Her guest arrives charming, familiar, and attentive, yet something in his presence feels subtly wrong. It is not cruelty or neglect that unsettles her, but a faint inconsistency that refuses to fade. Each gesture reassures her, even as it deepens the unease she cannot name. The night becomes a test of intimacy
... Read more