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Nine Billion Names of God, The

A Monastery’s Cosmic Mission

by Arthur C. Clarke ...

Narrated by Scott Miller ...

Series Audiobook 518 - Lost Sci-Fi
Unabridged

20 min

Arthur C. Clarke’s “The Nine Billion Names of God” is one of the most iconic short stories in vintage science fiction. It follows two weary engineers who journey to a remote Tibetan monastery to install a computer designed to complete a sacred project three centuries in the making. For generations, the monks have been manually compiling all possible names of the divine—believing that once the list ... Read more

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Arthur C. Clarke’s “The Nine Billion Names of God” is one of the most iconic short stories in vintage science fiction. It follows two weary engineers who journey to a remote Tibetan monastery to install a computer designed to complete a sacred project three centuries in the making. For generations, the monks have been manually compiling all possible names of the divine—believing that once the list
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Hide and Seek

Trapped on a Moon with Nowhere to Run

by Arthur C. Clarke ...

Narrated by Scott Miller ...

Series Audiobook 462 - Lost Sci-Fi
Unabridged

31 min

On the barren, irregular surface of Phobos, a lone intelligence operative known as K.15 faces a seemingly impossible situation. A powerful cruiser is bearing down on him with guided missiles, heavy weapons, and a crew ready to end his mission—and his life—before help can arrive. Armed with nothing but a spacesuit, a small packet of critical intelligence, and the unpredictable landscape of Mars’ ... Read more

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On the barren, irregular surface of Phobos, a lone intelligence operative known as K.15 faces a seemingly impossible situation. A powerful cruiser is bearing down on him with guided missiles, heavy weapons, and a crew ready to end his mission—and his life—before help can arrive. Armed with nothing but a spacesuit, a small packet of critical intelligence, and the unpredictable landscape of Mars’
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Before Eden

Life Found Where None Should Exist

by Arthur C. Clarke ...

Narrated by Scott Miller ...

Series Audiobook 199 - Lost Sci-Fi
Unabridged

31 min

Humanity reaches a world long believed lifeless and finds something profoundly unsettling—not intelligence, not civilization, but the earliest spark of life itself. In Before Eden, Arthur C. Clarke delivers a quiet, chilling story where discovery feels less like triumph and more like a moral crossroads. The tension doesn’t come from monsters or battles, but from the slow realization that knowledge ... Read more

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Humanity reaches a world long believed lifeless and finds something profoundly unsettling—not intelligence, not civilization, but the earliest spark of life itself. In Before Eden, Arthur C. Clarke delivers a quiet, chilling story where discovery feels less like triumph and more like a moral crossroads. The tension doesn’t come from monsters or battles, but from the slow realization that knowledge
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Superiority

When Progress Becomes the Enemy

by Arthur C. Clarke ...

Narrated by Scott Miller ...

Series Audiobook 328 - Lost Sci-Fi
Unabridged

31 min

In Superiority, Arthur C. Clarke delivers a sharply focused military science fiction classic told as an official postwar testimony. A defeated supreme commander sets out to correct public misunderstanding, explaining how his seemingly unbeatable civilization lost a war despite superior fleets, talent, and confidence. What unfolds is a gripping account of escalation, innovation, and overconfidence ... Read more

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In Superiority, Arthur C. Clarke delivers a sharply focused military science fiction classic told as an official postwar testimony. A defeated supreme commander sets out to correct public misunderstanding, explaining how his seemingly unbeatable civilization lost a war despite superior fleets, talent, and confidence. What unfolds is a gripping account of escalation, innovation, and overconfidence
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Parasite, The

When Your Thoughts Are Not Alone

by Arthur C. Clarke ...

Narrated by Scott Miller ...

Series Audiobook 313 - Lost Sci-Fi
Unabridged

31 min

Some fears come from the outside. Others grow quietly inside the mind, watching, waiting, and learning every weakness. The Parasite is a chilling psychological science-fiction tale in which a man becomes convinced that another intelligence is sharing his thoughts—an unseen presence that feeds on emotion and desire while remaining perfectly beyond reach.As the pressure mounts, reason and ... Read more

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Some fears come from the outside. Others grow quietly inside the mind, watching, waiting, and learning every weakness. The Parasite is a chilling psychological science-fiction tale in which a man becomes convinced that another intelligence is sharing his thoughts—an unseen presence that feeds on emotion and desire while remaining perfectly beyond reach.As the pressure mounts, reason and
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Wall Of Darkness, The

The Secret Beyond the Shadow Land

by Arthur C. Clarke ...

Narrated by Scott Miller ...

Series Audiobook 128 - Lost Sci-Fi
Unabridged

50 min

In a world lit by a single sun, where no one has ever known true darkness, legend tells of a colossal black wall stretching endlessly across the southern horizon. Shervane, heir to a noble house, grows obsessed with uncovering what lies beyond it. His journey—from youthful wonder to the edge of the unknown—culminates in an expedition that defies both reason and the laws of the cosmos. The Wall of ... Read more

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In a world lit by a single sun, where no one has ever known true darkness, legend tells of a colossal black wall stretching endlessly across the southern horizon. Shervane, heir to a noble house, grows obsessed with uncovering what lies beyond it. His journey—from youthful wonder to the edge of the unknown—culminates in an expedition that defies both reason and the laws of the cosmos. The Wall of
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Travel by Wire

The Day Travel Changed Forever

by Arthur C. Clarke ...

Narrated by Scott Miller ...

Series Audiobook 320 - Lost Sci-Fi
Unabridged

13 min

A breakthrough in transportation promises to erase distance, delay, and inconvenience with the push of a button. People step into a transmitter in one city and emerge moments later in another, intact, conscious, and amazed. Governments celebrate it. Businesses depend on it. Millions embrace it without hesitation. Travel by wire becomes so normal that no one pauses to ask what might go wrong.The ... Read more

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A breakthrough in transportation promises to erase distance, delay, and inconvenience with the push of a button. People step into a transmitter in one city and emerge moments later in another, intact, conscious, and amazed. Governments celebrate it. Businesses depend on it. Millions embrace it without hesitation. Travel by wire becomes so normal that no one pauses to ask what might go wrong.The
... Read more
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Inside the Comet

Trapped In The Tail Of Randall’s Comet

by Arthur C. Clarke ...

Narrated by Scott Miller ...

Series Audiobook 287 - Lost Sci-Fi
Unabridged

28 min

Randall’s Comet is the greatest sky show in human history—a colossal banner of ice and glowing gas stretching across the dawn, brighter and more spectacular than anything seen since the age of mammoths. Riding its tail is the research ship Challenger, packed with scientists, instruments, and one very lucky reporter, George Takeo Pickett. His assignment is simple: document the mission, interview ... Read more

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Randall’s Comet is the greatest sky show in human history—a colossal banner of ice and glowing gas stretching across the dawn, brighter and more spectacular than anything seen since the age of mammoths. Riding its tail is the research ship Challenger, packed with scientists, instruments, and one very lucky reporter, George Takeo Pickett. His assignment is simple: document the mission, interview
... Read more
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Castaway

A Tragedy Measured In Miles

by Arthur C. Clarke ...

Narrated by Scott Miller ...

Series Audiobook 208 - Lost Sci-Fi
Unabridged

18 min

Something ancient, fragile, and alive is set adrift in a universe that does not notice its passing. Castaway is a quietly devastating meditation on isolation, scale, and the tragic mismatch between human perception and cosmic reality. Arthur C. Clarke strips science fiction down to its essentials, letting awe and melancholy carry the weight where action never could. The story unfolds with a calm ... Read more

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Something ancient, fragile, and alive is set adrift in a universe that does not notice its passing. Castaway is a quietly devastating meditation on isolation, scale, and the tragic mismatch between human perception and cosmic reality. Arthur C. Clarke strips science fiction down to its essentials, letting awe and melancholy carry the weight where action never could. The story unfolds with a calm
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Transience

The Last Day By The Sea

by Arthur C. Clarke ...

Narrated by Scott Miller ...

Series Audiobook 380 - Lost Sci-Fi
Unabridged

16 min

There are moments that feel ordinary while they are happening, yet echo for ages after they are gone. Transience unfolds across a single shoreline, revisited again and again as generations pass, tools evolve, and the future quietly closes in. Children play, tides rise, and the world reshapes itself while no one is watching closely enough to stop it.Arthur C. Clarke does not tell this story through ... Read more

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There are moments that feel ordinary while they are happening, yet echo for ages after they are gone. Transience unfolds across a single shoreline, revisited again and again as generations pass, tools evolve, and the future quietly closes in. Children play, tides rise, and the world reshapes itself while no one is watching closely enough to stop it.Arthur C. Clarke does not tell this story through
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At the End of the Orbit

Not Every Rescue Mission is What It Seems

by Arthur C. Clarke ...

Narrated by Scott Miller ...

Series Audiobook 266 - Lost Sci-Fi
Unabridged

42 min

At The End Of The Orbit delivers Arthur C. Clarke at his most gripping and emotionally layered, blending adventure on the Great Barrier Reef with a moral reckoning that creeps in slowly and lands with devastating force. When a meteor blazes across the dawn sky, the crew of a pearling lugger discovers a fallen Soviet space capsule—its silent occupant waiting in the darkness below the waves. For ... Read more

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At The End Of The Orbit delivers Arthur C. Clarke at his most gripping and emotionally layered, blending adventure on the Great Barrier Reef with a moral reckoning that creeps in slowly and lands with devastating force. When a meteor blazes across the dawn sky, the crew of a pearling lugger discovers a fallen Soviet space capsule—its silent occupant waiting in the darkness below the waves. For
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Summertime on Icarus AKA The Hottest Piece Of Real Estate In The Solar System

Trapped Where the Sun Never Blinks

by Arthur C. Clarke ...

Narrated by Scott Miller ...

Series Audiobook 453 - Lost Sci-Fi
Unabridged

34 min

Summertime on Icarus is a slow-burn tale of survival from Arthur C. Clarke, plunging listeners into the heart of a solar system where the sun itself becomes the enemy. When astronaut Colin Sherrard crashes on the two-mile-wide asteroid Icarus, he wakes to an impossible race against time: sunrise. As the asteroid spins toward a star thirty times larger than it appears from Earth, Sherrard must ... Read more

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Summertime on Icarus is a slow-burn tale of survival from Arthur C. Clarke, plunging listeners into the heart of a solar system where the sun itself becomes the enemy. When astronaut Colin Sherrard crashes on the two-mile-wide asteroid Icarus, he wakes to an impossible race against time: sunrise. As the asteroid spins toward a star thirty times larger than it appears from Earth, Sherrard must
... Read more