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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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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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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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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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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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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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It Burns Me Up!

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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Undersea Guardians

Guardians Beneath the Convoys

by Ray Bradbury ...

Narrated by Scott Miller ...

Series Audiobook 307 - Lost Sci-Fi
Unabridged

42 min

Far below the Atlantic convoy lanes, something stirs that does not belong to the living world. Survivors of a sunken ship patrol the depths, guarding sailors who will never know their names, their bodies sustained by purpose alone. Each mission forces them closer to submarines, depth charges, and the constant pull of a life they are no longer allowed to reclaim.Alita swims among them, driven by a ... Read more

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Far below the Atlantic convoy lanes, something stirs that does not belong to the living world. Survivors of a sunken ship patrol the depths, guarding sailors who will never know their names, their bodies sustained by purpose alone. Each mission forces them closer to submarines, depth charges, and the constant pull of a life they are no longer allowed to reclaim.Alita swims among them, driven by a
... 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

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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
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Referent

Escape Is Never Neutral

by Ray Bradbury ...

Narrated by Scott Miller ...

Series Audiobook 244 - Lost Sci-Fi
Unabridged

24 min

On a controlled island built for gifted children, language is not just instruction—it is law. Every hour is scheduled, every impulse corrected, and every word carefully defined to keep emotion and imagination in check. For Roby Morrison, the pressure is constant. He is told what things are, what they mean, and what they are allowed to become. Yet something inside him refuses to stay neatly labeled ... Read more

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On a controlled island built for gifted children, language is not just instruction—it is law. Every hour is scheduled, every impulse corrected, and every word carefully defined to keep emotion and imagination in check. For Roby Morrison, the pressure is constant. He is told what things are, what they mean, and what they are allowed to become. Yet something inside him refuses to stay neatly labeled
... 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

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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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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