36 Results for : sheckley
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Science fiction short stories (Book Guide)
Science fiction short stories (Book Guide) ab 35.49 € als Taschenbuch: List of science fiction short stories Genius of the Species Misfit The Songs of Distant Earth Tlön Uqbar Orbis Tertius The Last of the Masters Flowers for Algernon Robert Sheckley short stories bibliography Speech Sounds. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Ratgeber,- Shop: hugendubel
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X Minus One, Vol. 1: The Classic Radio Sci-Fi Series, Hörbuch, Digital, 338min
X Minus One, widely regarded as one of the finest science fiction dramas ever produced for radio, was broadcast on NBC from 1955 until 1958. It began as a revival of NBC's Dimension X, which ran for just a year and a half, from 1950 to 1951. Though the first 15 episodes of X Minus One were merely new versions of Dimension X episodes, the rest were adaptations of newly published works of science fiction stories by some of the genre's top authors, including Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, Robert A. Heinlein, Frederik Pohl, and Theodore Sturgeon.... Each episode opened with the introduction: "Countdown for blastoff.... X minus five, four, three, two, X minus one.... Fire! From the far horizons of the unknown come transcribed tales of new dimensions in time and space. These are stories of the future, adventures in which you'll live in a million could-be years on a thousand may-be worlds. The National Broadcasting Company, in cooperation with Street and Smith, publishers of Astounding Science Fiction, presents.... X Minus One." Collected here are 12 episodes for your listening pleasure: "The C-Chute", adapted from Isaac Asimov, starring Bob Hastings "Skulking Permit", adapted from Robert Sheckley, starring Mandel Kramer "The Sense of Wonder", starring William Quinn "Sea Legs", starring William Redfield "The Seventh Order", starring James Monks "Lulungameena", starring Ralph Camargo "Mr. Costello, Hero", adapted from Theodore Sturgeon, starring Joe DeSantis "Bad Medicine", starring Karl Weber "The Stars Are the Styx", adapted from Theodore Sturgeon, starring Craig McDonnell "The Snowball Effect", starring Ted Osborne "The Lifeboat Mutiny", starring Leon Janney "Saucer of Loneliness", adapted from Theodore Sturgeon, starring Elaine Rost /li Language: English. Narrator: full cast. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/007672/bk_blak_007672_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Best of Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine, May-June 2003, Hörbuch, Digital, 397min
The June 2003 issue of the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction is a tribute to SF great Barry M. Malzberg, and so it's appropriate that Audible's May/June composite audio issue is bracketed by Malzbergiana, opening with Barry's own "A Short Religious Novel," a seeker tale reminiscent of the best of both Franz Kafka and Arthur C. Clarke, and ending with John Kessel's "Of New Arrivals, Old Encounters, and the Music of the Spheres," chronicling Barry's first night in Writer's Heaven. "The Retriever" by Harvey Jacobs is a noirish-toned piece of fantasy, depicting the ultimate gumshoe, who retrieves much more than the usual lost objects of desire. The ingredients for "Basement Magic" are available in every home, but this powerful story of a trod-upon stepchild, written by Ellen Klages, is anything but mundane. In "The Refuge Elsewhere," Robert Sheckley takes us inside the FBI's witness protection program and beyond - from upstate New York to a world we've mostly all heard of, but few have visited. Jack Cady's "The Twenty-Pound Canary" is a romp through a carnival of science experiments set in an idyllic Midwestern town. "The Tale of the Golden Eagle" by David D. Levine is a miniature epic space opera in the grand tradition, while Paulo Bacigalupi's "The Fluted Girl" is an equally classic evocation of a complex future society, complete with its own unique class structures, social mores, and political intrigues. Both these stories benefit from highly individualized characterizations and art forms far beyond most of our wildest dreams. And finally, give up all pretense of knowing what's real and what's not on television by dialing "555." This Hollywood story by Robert Reed takes us inside an alternative world where soap opera is played for keeps. Language: English. Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki, Amanda Karr, Gabrielle de Cuir. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/000014/bk_adbl_000014_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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People from Dutchess County New York
People from Dutchess County New York ab 23.49 € als Taschenbuch: Ed Wood Pete Seeger Rufus Wainwright Jack Mulhall Natasha Richardson Dan Brouthers Emma Roberts Sneha Anne Philip Robert Sheckley Howard Mills III Kieran Lalor John Alvin Richard Denning Paul Tudor Jones Sally Jessy Raphael. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Geist & Wissen,- Shop: hugendubel
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Dimension of Miracles , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 320min
Audie Award Finalist, Solo Narration - Male, 2014Award-winning author, narrator, and screenwriter Neil Gaiman personally selected this book, and, using the tools of the Audiobook Creation Exchange (ACX), produced this work for his audiobook label, Neil Gaiman Presents. A few words from Neil on Dimension of Miracles: "Dimension of Miracles is probably not [Sheckley's] most famous book…. but I think it's probably his best-loved book. It's about the joys and tribulations (mostly the tribulations) of winning the lottery—the galactic lottery—accidentally. And wrongly. Tom Carmody is awarded a remarkable prize, is taken half way across the universe to collect it, finds himself hopelessly lost, and needs to find his way home again to Earth…to this Earth, not an alternate, weirdo Earth. He's got to get back. And the price is high. In its style of humor—and even in some of the jokes—Dimension of Miracles is very obviously a precursor of Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Douglas actually hadn't read Dimension of Miracles until very shortly after Hitchhiker came out, when people pointed him to it, and he told me that he found the experience almost shocking—it was like reading himself. He was a huge admirer of Bob Sheckley and a huge admirer of this book, and in later life, I had the privilege of introducing both of them. Now the challenge for me with a book this funny, this strange, this perceptive was to try and find a narrator who was as iconic, somebody who could deliver the goods, somebody who could give you a book like this as it deserved to be given. And the first, and the last, and actually the only person to come to mind was John Hodgman. So I asked John, and he said yes! And he did it; he pulled it off. Listening to John—not just the suave, sensible, sane narrator of this book, but all the peculiar accents and incarnations that he is forced to adopt th ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Hodgman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/005637/bk_acx0_005637_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Store of the Worlds
Store of the Worlds - The Stories of Robert Sheckley: ab 19.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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