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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
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Death-Wish

by Ray Bradbury ...

Narrated by Scott Miller ...

Series Audiobook 217 - Lost Sci-Fi
Unabridged

32 min

Death-Wish by Ray Bradbury - They wandered the dead and fragile cities, looking for the legendary Blue Bottle–not knowing what it was, nor caring, not really wanting to find it… ever…The sundials were tumbled into white pebbles. The birds of the air now flew in ancient skies of rock and sand, buried, their songs stopped. The rivers were currented with dust which flooded across the land when the ... Read more

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Death-Wish by Ray Bradbury - They wandered the dead and fragile cities, looking for the legendary Blue Bottle–not knowing what it was, nor caring, not really wanting to find it… ever…The sundials were tumbled into white pebbles. The birds of the air now flew in ancient skies of rock and sand, buried, their songs stopped. The rivers were currented with dust which flooded across the land when the
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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
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Pendulum

The Last Witness of a Forgotten World

by Ray Bradbury ...

Narrated by Scott Miller ...

Series series 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
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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
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Shape of Things, The

A New Form of Life: Embracing the Unconventional

by Ray Bradbury ...

Narrated by Scott Miller ...

Series Audiobook 153 - Lost Sci-Fi
Unabridged

45 min

A miracle of modern medicine turns into something no parent expects when a newborn arrives alive, healthy—and shaped in a way no one can accept. Doctors offer explanations, machines hum with reassurance, but none of that prepares a family for the private terror of raising a child who cannot safely be seen. Inside a quiet home, love becomes an act of isolation, and every day tests how much ... Read more

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A miracle of modern medicine turns into something no parent expects when a newborn arrives alive, healthy—and shaped in a way no one can accept. Doctors offer explanations, machines hum with reassurance, but none of that prepares a family for the private terror of raising a child who cannot safely be seen. Inside a quiet home, love becomes an act of isolation, and every day tests how much
... Read more
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One Who Waits, The

by Ray Bradbury ...

Narrated by Scott Miller ...

Series Audiobook 350 - Lost Sci-Fi
Unabridged

18 min

The One Who Waits by Ray BradburyRay Bradbury (1920-2012) was a renowned American author and screenwriter, celebrated for his profound impact on the genres of science fiction and fantasy. Born in Waukegan, Illinois, he began writing at a young age, publishing his first short story at 18 and dedicating his life to storytelling. Best known for his novel "Fahrenheit 451," a dystopian tale ... Read more

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The One Who Waits by Ray BradburyRay Bradbury (1920-2012) was a renowned American author and screenwriter, celebrated for his profound impact on the genres of science fiction and fantasy. Born in Waukegan, Illinois, he began writing at a young age, publishing his first short story at 18 and dedicating his life to storytelling. Best known for his novel "Fahrenheit 451," a dystopian tale
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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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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
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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

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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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Lazarus Come Forth

The Man Who Wouldn’t Stay Dead

by Ray Bradbury ...

Narrated by Scott Miller ...

Series Audiobook 52 - Lost Sci-Fi
Unabridged

32 min

In the silent corridors of a Morgue Ship drifting between Earth and Mars, Brandon has a single purpose—recover the frozen bodies of fallen soldiers and search for the one that matters most: his own son. But when the retrieval claw hauls in a perfectly preserved man from the year 2100—one of the legendary 51 Scientists who vanished before completing a rumored super-weapon—Brandon realizes he may be ... Read more

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In the silent corridors of a Morgue Ship drifting between Earth and Mars, Brandon has a single purpose—recover the frozen bodies of fallen soldiers and search for the one that matters most: his own son. But when the retrieval claw hauls in a perfectly preserved man from the year 2100—one of the legendary 51 Scientists who vanished before completing a rumored super-weapon—Brandon realizes he may be
... 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