Action & Adventure Audiobooks

Robinson Crusoe

Robinson Crusoe begibt sich entgegen dem Rat seines Vaters auf eine abenteuerliche Seereise. Doch sein Schiff wird von Piraten überfallen, sodass Robinson Schiffbruch erleidet und auf einer einsamen Insel strandet. Fortan ist er auf sich gestellt: Er muss sich allein versorgen und erlebt eine Zeit voller Abenteuer. Eines Tages trifft er wieder auf Menschen - doch es sind Kannibalen! Erzählt nach dem Klassiker von Daniel Defoe.-

Dirk Walbrecker (Author), Peter Heusch (Narrator)

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Kyle the Coyote: Lost in the Desert

OH NO! Kyle the Coyote ventured out of his family's den and got lost in the desert. Kyle's friend, Oliver the Owl, pops in along the way to hoot some facts about the desert and its inhabitants. Hopefully this sneaky coyote pup will make it home in time for dinner. Kyle the Coyote's moral basis itself around what happens if a child gets lost or separated from his or her parents. An easy to read, rhyming tale, with beautifully hand drawn desert landscape artwork. A fun picture book for parents and teachers to read to children or a child's first book to read back to Mom or Dad. Ready by Author, Mark Terry, with music, sound and effects, the audio book is a perfect stand alone piece as a bed time story.

Mark Terry (Author), Mark Terry (Narrator)

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The Philip K. Dick and Ray Bradbury Collection

The Philip K. Dick and Ray Bradbury Collection - Fourteen short science fiction stories from legendary sci-fi authors Philip K. Dick and Ray Bradbury. The Hanging Stranger by Philip K. Dick Morgue Ship by Ray Bradbury Beyond The Door by Philip K. Dick Beyond Lies The Wub by Philip K. Dick The Eyes Have It by Philip K. Dick The Monster Maker by Ray Bradbury Small Town by Philip K. Dick Defense Mech by Ray Bradbury Sales Pitch by Philip K. Dick Lazarus Come Forth by Ray Bradbury Prominent Author by Philip K. Dick The Gun by Philip K. Dick Asleep in Armageddon by Ray Bradbury Foster You’re Dead by Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick, Ray Bradbury (Author), Scott Miller (Narrator)

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Piper In The Woods

PIPER IN THE WOODS by Philip K. Dick - Earth maintained an important garrison on Asteroid Y-3. Now suddenly it was imperiled with a biological impossibility—men becoming plants! As he spoke, Harris glanced down again at the card on his desk. It was from the Base Commander himself, made out in Cox's heavy scrawl: Doc, this is the lad I told you about. Talk to him and try to find out how he got this delusion. He's from the new Garrison, the new check-station on Asteroid Y-3, and we don't want anything to go wrong there. Especially a silly damn thing like this! Harris pushed the card aside and stared back up at the youth across the desk from him. The young man seemed ill at ease and appeared to be avoiding answering the question Harris had put to him. Harris frowned. Westerburg was a good-looking chap, actually handsome in his Patrol uniform, a shock of blond hair over one eye. He was tall, almost six feet, a fine healthy lad, just two years out of Training, according to the card. Born in Detroit. Had measles when he was nine. Interested in jet engines, tennis, and girls. Twenty-six years old. 'Well, Corporal Westerburg,' Doctor Harris said again. 'Why do you think you're a plant?' The Corporal looked up shyly. He cleared his throat. 'Sir, I am a plant, I don't just think so. I've been a plant for several days, now.' 'I see.' The Doctor nodded. 'You mean that you weren't always a plant?' 'No, sir. I just became a plant recently.'

Philip K. Dick (Author), Scott Miller (Narrator)

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Madmen of Mars

MADMEN OF MARS by ERIK FENNEL - Why do the Martians drink red wine, swagger about, spout vile poetry and fight endless duels with each other? How did Terence Michael Burke change their minds about invading the Earth? All this time we've kept quiet as a whole cageful of mice. And with good reason. During the Big Scare, while everyone was afraid that the Exclusion Ultimatum meant the Martians wanted an interplanetary war, the Earth Governments would have been only too ready to hang, shoot, stab, gas, electrocute, freeze, burn, poison, impale and/or defenestrate the dastardly culprits responsible. If they could have discovered who did what to whom. They didn't savvy Marties then—and still don't. But we are lucky. The Marties never explained why they called home their Cultural Emissaries, abandoned space travel, cut off Luminophone contact and excluded Earthmen and Earth ships from Mars. They couldn't, because they themselves weren't sure what had happened. And amid the confusion on Earth the last Mars transit of the spaceship Banshee escaped official attention, which was largely due to Polly's good sense in making Mike see he'd better keep his big mouth shut. Our story would only have caused us trouble, even after the Scare died down. All that was five years ago, but we still thought it best to keep still when this rather surprising diplomatic angling for resumption of Martio-Terran relations began just recently. The five of us were closer to what caused the Malignant Inertia Complex than all the big-name psychologists who have written books of wrong guesses since it disappeared, and we could see no danger of it starting up again. Mike was sure the Martian Thing had lost its grip. So we were willing to let the new treaty come up for a popular vote, as all interplanetary treaties must under the Earth Governments charter, without sticking our oars in or our necks out.

Erik Fennel (Author), Scott Miller (Narrator)

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The Planet of Illusion

The Planet of Illusion by Millard V. Gordon - 'A phantom land and a phantom folk Come sailing out of the deep unknown With a soundless roar and a lightless flash To conquer a void for them alone.' 'Planet sighted!' sang out Kendall, eye glued to the electro-telescope. 'Where away?' rang Fred Broster from his place at the controls. 'Five point on ten left from star. Point three seven above the elliptic,' came Kendall's voice again from the forward observation window. 'You're daft and dreaming. Snap into it and look again,' Broster yelled, staring hard at the automatically-recording space-chart. 'There's nothing here but a particularly empty species of nothingness.' The captain's keen gray eyes stared carefully at the glowing panel before him. On it shone out tiny points of light which revealed each of the different bodies through whose vicinity the Astralite was passing. A remarkable device actuated by delicate gravital detectors which marked out every body they approached. And according to this chart, there was no such planet recorded in the depths of the device as that which Kendall had sighted. 'I'm not dreaming. Your chart is wrong if you can't find it there,' Kendall remarked after a pause, still staring through the lens of the instrument. Broster examined the chart again. No; there positively was no planet circling the star as his observer claimed. 'Come away from there!' he called, straightening up. 'Dr. Seaward, will you please take the observer's place and check.' Seaward dropped the calculations in hand, walked across the control room of the great interstellar explorer, up to the very tip. Kendall stood aside while the doctor applied his eye to the lens. 'It's there all right, Broster. A little red disk exactly where he called it off; the chart's wrong.'

Millard V. Gordon (Author), Scott Miller (Narrator)

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The Flight of the Eagle

The Flight of the Eagle by Alfred Coppel- It was a new and mysterious plant. It could make its own weather; it was sentient, and it prospered on Venus. But Earth needed it desperately. And Bat Kendo, the radar-mutant, was told to bring it in. Humans are a strange breed. Forgetful. They grow accustomed to the wonders they live among so easily that they never really figure up the cost. A little time passes and the bright memories tarnish and are covered over with newer ones. And the men who picked up the check and maybe paid with their lives? Forgotten. For example, when you're sitting comfortably in the New York to San Francisco stratojet, and you take the trouble to look down at the lush verdure of the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada, do you ever remember that a few short years back that lovely fertile parkland was a rocky, barren waste? Or when you taste the delicious tropical fruits that are brought to your table from the Mojave Basin, do you think of Bat Kendo, the man who made all that possible? Like fun you do! I'll give you ten to one you never heard of Bat Kendo. Maybe you don't even know that the reason those once sterile wastelands are now the larders of the North American continent is ... weather-plant. And I'll give eight to five you don't even know where that weather-plant came from, or how it got here, or what it cost. Not in money ... in lives. Well, I know, and for once I'd like to have someone stand still long enough so I could tell the story. The minute anyone sees an old spaceman like me coming, they jet the hell out of there fast. 'Old Captain Morley's got another shaggy dog to comb out!' they say, and beat it. My stories, it seems, are too old fashioned for this modern age.

Alfred Coppel (Author), Scott Miller (Narrator)

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Fee of The Frontier

Fee of the Frontier by H. B. Fyfe - They didn't think of themselves as pioneers. They simply had a job to do. And if they had to give up money, or power, or love—or life itself—that was the FEE OF THE FRONTIER From inside the dome, the night sky is a beautiful thing, even though Deimos and Phobos are nothing to brag about. If you walk outside, maybe as far as the rocket field, you notice a difference. Past the narrow developed strip around the dome, the desert land lies as chilled and brittle as it did for eons before Earthmen reached Mars. The sky is suddenly raw and cruel. You pull your furs around your nose and check your oxygen mask, and wish you were inside something, even a thin wall of clear plastic. I like to stand here, though, and look out at it, just thinking about how far those ships grope out into the dark nowadays, and about the men who have gone out there on a few jets and a lot of guts. I knew a bunch of them ... some still out there, I guess. There was a time when nearly everything had to be rocketed out from Earth, before they organized all those chemical tricks that change the Martian crops to real food. Domes weren't fancy then. Adequate, of course; no sense in taking chances with lives that cost so much fuel to bring here. Still, the colonies kept growing. Where people go, others follow to live off them, one way or another. It began to look like time for the next step outward. Oh, the Asteroids ... sure. Not them. I did a bit of hopping there in my own time. In fact—on account of conditions beyond my choice and control—I spent too much time on the wrong side of the hull shields. One fine day, the medics told me I'd have to be a Martian for the rest of my life. Even the one-way hop back to Earth was 'not recommended.' So I used to watch the ships go out. I still remember one that almost missed leaving.

H. B. Fyfe (Author), Scott Miller (Narrator)

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Monster

Monster by William Morrison - Colonizing Mars was hell, because of one thing—large, hungry critters. They flew, crawled, snarled, howled, burrowed up under the floors, chewed at doors and windows. And then, to make things worse, came the Monster... There was a faint scratching at the door, so faint that Alice Kidd, who had been listening fearfully for precisely that sound, was at first not certain that she heard it. But, as she came close to the doorway, it was no longer possible to doubt, and a chill went through her at the thought of the creature panting eagerly on the other side. Now she could hear it whine, and, despite her knowledge that the gesture was an idle one, she could not help once more feeling the bolt behind the door. Then she made sure that the shutters too were securely barred, although these were usually in less danger; most of the animals could not apply pressure very far above the ground. Small was staring at her, not particularly frightened, but very much interested. Her face, she thought, must be pale through the radiation tan. Ordinarily, there was nothing timid or fragile about her, or she would never have accompanied her husband to Mars; but all the same, she felt weak and helpless before the danger that threatened. And she shuddered as her five-year-old son asked, 'Can it get in, Mommy?' 'I hope not, darling. Come, let's go into the other room and bolt the connecting door. And then I'll call up Daddy.' 'Does it want to eat us, Mommy?' Alice shuddered again. 'Don't talk about it,' she said, and carried him quickly into the next room. When the door was bolted, she pressed the contact button, asked for Mr. Kidd, and almost at once was speaking to Anthony.

William Morrison (Author), Scott Miller (Narrator)

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Tony and The Beetles

Tony and the Beetles by Philip K. Dick - A ten-year-old boy grows up fast when history catches up with the human race. Reddish-yellow sunlight filtered through the thick quartz windows into the sleep-compartment. Tony Rossi yawned, stirred a little, then opened his black eyes and sat up quickly. With one motion he tossed the covers back and slid to the warm metal floor. He clicked off his alarm clock and hurried to the closet. It looked like a nice day. The landscape outside was motionless, undisturbed by winds or dust-shift. The boy's heart pounded excitedly. He pulled his trousers on, zipped up the reinforced mesh, struggled into his heavy canvas shirt, and then sat down on the edge of the cot to tug on his boots. He closed the seams around their tops and then did the same with his gloves. Next he adjusted the pressure on his pump unit and strapped it between his shoulder blades. He grabbed his helmet from the dresser, and he was ready for the day. In the dining-compartment his mother and father had finished breakfast. Their voices drifted to him as he clattered down the ramp. A disturbed murmur; he paused to listen. What were they talking about? Had he done something wrong, again? And then he caught it. Behind their voices was another voice. Static and crackling pops. The all-system audio signal from Rigel IV. They had it turned up full blast; the dull thunder of the monitor's voice boomed loudly. The war. Always the war. He sighed, and stepped out into the dining-compartment. 'Morning,' his father muttered. 'Good morning, dear,' his mother said absently. She sat with her head turned to one side, wrinkles of concentration webbing her forehead. Her thin lips were drawn together in a tight line of concern. His father had pushed his dirty dishes back and was smoking, elbows on the table, dark hairy arms bare and muscular. He was scowling, intent on the jumbled roar from the speaker above the sink.

Philip K. Dick (Author), Scott Miller (Narrator)

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Lost Sci-Fi Books 56 thru 60

Lost Sci-Fi Books 56 thru 60 - Five Lost Sci-Fi Short Stories from the 1940s, 50s and 60s Prominent Author by Philip K. Dick - It was the dawn of a golden age of transportation. Terran Development was ready to market a fourth dimension 'vehicle' which afforded almost instantaneous travel. For instance, Henry Ellis commuted 160 miles to work in five steps and a few seconds. Then, one morning, he met some people on the way... The Monster Maker by Ray Bradbury - 'Get Gunther,' the official orders read. It was to laugh! For Click and Irish were marooned on the pirate's asteroid—their only weapons a single gun and a news-reel camera. Fee of the Frontier by H. B. Fyfe - They didn't think of themselves as pioneers. They simply had a job to do. And if they had to give up money, or power, or love—or life itself—that was the FEE OF THE FRONTIER Monster by William Morrison - Colonizing Mars was hell, because of one thing—large, hungry critters. They flew, crawled, snarled, howled, burrowed up under the floors, chewed at doors and windows. And then, to make things worse, came the Monster... The Planet of Illusion by Millard V. Gordon - 'A phantom land and a phantom folk Come sailing out of the deep unknown With a soundless roar and a lightless flash To conquer a void for them alone.'

H. B. Fyfe, Millard V. Gordon, Philip K. Dick, Ray Bradbury, William Morrison (Author), Scott Miller (Narrator)

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Ring of Stones: Portal to Another World

“Do you trust me?” When Anna’s dirt bike pulled up alongside late one summer’s evening, Harry grasped the opportunity to escape the city and his troubles, but he never imagined the mysterious girl would lead him across the galaxy to another world. Transported via the Ring of Stones to a planet reflecting a visionary Earth, the friends embark on an intricate pursuit of the truth about what really happened to their missing parents, all the while struggling to remain one step ahead of the sinister Authorities.

Alexander Lawes (Author), Colette Redgrave (Narrator)

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