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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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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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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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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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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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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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Jonah of the Jove-Run

One Man Against the Machines

by Ray Bradbury ...

Narrated by Scott Miller ...

Series Audiobook 66 - Lost Sci-Fi
Unabridged

43 min

Jonah of the Jove-Run is a high-tension space adventure from Ray Bradbury, written at the dawn of the Golden Age of science fiction. The colony on Jupiter is starving, and the only ship capable of saving the settlers must make a dangerous run through the asteroid belt. But its radar computers are damaged, its replacement equipment has been destroyed, and the last person anyone wants to trust is an ... Read more

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Jonah of the Jove-Run is a high-tension space adventure from Ray Bradbury, written at the dawn of the Golden Age of science fiction. The colony on Jupiter is starving, and the only ship capable of saving the settlers must make a dangerous run through the asteroid belt. But its radar computers are damaged, its replacement equipment has been destroyed, and the last person anyone wants to trust is an
... 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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Morgue Ship

Only the Dead Belong Here

by Ray Bradbury ...

Narrated by Scott Miller ...

Series Audiobook 47 - Lost Sci-Fi
Unabridged

30 min

For a decade, Sam Burnett has worked aboard a morgue ship that trails behind interplanetary battles, gathering bodies long after the glory has vanished. His job is quiet, mechanical, and numbing: retrieve the dead, preserve them, return them home. The war is always over by the time he arrives. Until the day someone alive comes aboard.What follows is not a chase or a firefight, but a tightening ... Read more

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For a decade, Sam Burnett has worked aboard a morgue ship that trails behind interplanetary battles, gathering bodies long after the glory has vanished. His job is quiet, mechanical, and numbing: retrieve the dead, preserve them, return them home. The war is always over by the time he arrives. Until the day someone alive comes aboard.What follows is not a chase or a firefight, but a tightening
... 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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Asleep in Armageddon

The Most Dangerous Place to Close Your Eyes

by Ray Bradbury ...

Narrated by Scott Miller ...

Series Audiobook 43 - Lost Sci-Fi
Unabridged

42 min

Leonard Sale survives his crash with food, air, and a working radio—everything needed to wait out rescue in comfort. Six days should pass easily. But when sleep brings something far worse than dreams, rest becomes a threat and exhaustion becomes a countdown.As the hours stretch and fatigue erodes his defenses, Sale realizes that the planet itself is not empty. Ancient minds linger here, locked in ... Read more

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Leonard Sale survives his crash with food, air, and a working radio—everything needed to wait out rescue in comfort. Six days should pass easily. But when sleep brings something far worse than dreams, rest becomes a threat and exhaustion becomes a countdown.As the hours stretch and fatigue erodes his defenses, Sale realizes that the planet itself is not empty. Ancient minds linger here, locked in
... Read more