# 10 The Cosmic Computer By H. Beam Piper

 The Cosmic Computer ♦ By H. Beam Piper ♦ Science Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook

Title: The Cosmic Computer Author: H. Beam Piper https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._Beam_Piper Genre(s): Science Fiction Language: English Read By: Mark Nelson Librivox Recording Summary: Conn Maxwell returns from Terra to his poverty-stricken home planet of Poictesme, "The Junkyard Planet", with news of the possible location of Merlin, a military super-computer rumored to have been abandoned there after the last war. The inhabitants hope to find Merlin, which they think will be their ticket to wealth and prosperity. But is Merlin real, or just an old rumor? And if they find it will it save them, or tear them apart? (by Mark Nelson) #TheCosmicComputer #ScienceFiction #HBeamPIPER

# 9 The City at Worlds End By Edmond Hamilton

 The City at Worlds End ♦ By Edmond Hamilton ♦ Science Fiction ♦ Audiobook

Title: The City at Worlds End Author: Edmond Hamilton Genre(s): Science Fiction Language: English Read By: Mark Nelson Librivox Recording Summary:

A surprise nuclear war may cause the End of the World, but not the way anyone could have imagined. A classic science fiction tale from Galaxy Magazine. (Summary by Mark Nelson) #TheCityatWorldsEnd #EdmondHamilton #ScienceFiction

# 8 Legacy By James H. Schmitz

 Legacy ♦ By James H. Schmitz ♦ Science Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook

Title: Legacy Author: James H. Schmitz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_H._Schmitz Genre(s): Science Fiction Language: English Read By: Mark Nelson Librivox Recording Summary: Ancient living machines that after millennia of stillness suddenly begin to move under their own power, for reasons that remain a mystery to men. Holati Tate discovered them—then disappeared. Trigger Argee was his closest associate—she means to find him. She's brilliant, beautiful, and skilled in every known martial art. She's worth plenty—dead or alive—to more than one faction in this obscure battle. And she's beginning to have a chilling notion that the long-vanished Masters of the Old Galaxy were wise when they exiled the plasmoids to the most distant and isolated world they knew.... - Summary by Original text #Legacy #JamesHSchmitz #ScienceFiction

# 7 Four Day Planet By H. Beam Piper

 Four Day Planet ♦ By H. Beam Piper ♦ Science Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook

Title: Four-Day Planet Author: H. Beam Piper Genre(s): Science Fiction Language: English Read By: Mark Nelson Librivox Recording Summary:

Fenris isn't a hell planet, but it's nobody's bargain. With 2,000-hour days and an 8,000-hour year, it alternates blazing heat with killing cold. A planet like that tends to breed a special kind of person: tough enough to stay alive and smart enough to make the best of it. When that kind of person discovers he's being cheated of wealth he's risked his life for, that kind of planet is ripe for revolution. (Introduction from the Gutenberg text) #FourDayPlanet #HBeamPiper #ScienceFiction

# 6 Plague Ship By Andre Norton

   Plague Ship ♦ By Andre Norton ♦ Science Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook

Title: Plague Ship Author: Andre Norton Genre(s): Science Fiction Language: English Read By: Mark Nelson Librivox Recording The sequel to this book is Voodoo Planet and can be found here: https://youtu.be/iR9_CilcssQ Summary: Lured by its exotic gems, the space trader Solar Queen lands on the little-known planet of Sargol, only to find the ruthless Inter-Solar Company there ahead of them. Adapting quickly to the culture of Sargol’s feline inhabitants, the crew of the Queen beat out their rivals and successfully make a deal with the natives. But soon after takeoff, the Queen’s crew is stricken with a plague, and they are now banned from landing on any inhabited planet. Will the Queen’s crew save themselves, or be condemned to drift forever through space? (Summary by Mark Nelson) #PlagueShip #AndreNorton #ScienceFiction

# 5 Planet Of the Gods By Robert Moore Williams

 Planet Of The Gods ♦ By Robert Moore Williams ♦ Science Fiction ♦ Audiobook

Title: Planet Of the Gods Author: Robert Moore Williams https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Moore_Williams Genre(s): Science Fiction, Fantasy Fiction Language: English Read By: Phil Chenevert Librivox Recording Summary: Far, far in the future Earth has achieved real peace and is sending out interstellar expeditions, not to conquer, but to explore. The third such expedition, has made it to the Vega system and discovered to everyone's amazement, not only a solar system but two worlds circling the Vega sun that seem to have atmosphere and water. And apparently intelligent life is there as well because something tries, and almost succeeds, in blasting the expedition ship out of space before it can even get close to either one. Damaged, with 3 dead men aboard, the expedition ship semi-crashes and seeks to hide from this obviously hostile civilization. The three dead members of the crew are buried and four of the local inhabitants pay a friendly call. Then during the second night on this planet, one of the dead bodies knocks on the door and wants to come in. Something very strange is going on here. #PlanetOftheGods #RobertMooreWilliams #ScienceFiction

# 4 Deathworld By Harry Harrison

   Deathworld ♦ By Harry Harrison ♦ Science Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook

Title: Deathworld Author: Harry HARRISON Genre: Science Fiction Language: English Read By: Gregg Margarite Librivox Recording Harry Harrison is best known for his Stainless Steel Rat stories and the novel Make Room! Make Room! which was adapted for film as Soylent Green. Deathworld is the first in a series of novels begun in 1960 and originally serialized in Astounding Science Fiction Magazine. It’s the story of Jason dinAlt a professional gambler with psionic skills who finds himself on Pyrrus the deadliest planet to be colonized by humanity. Violent weather, active tectonics, heavy gravity, abundant predators, and a hostile splinter group of colonists is only the beginning of Jason’s quest to learn the truth about Pyrrus. (Summary by Gregg Margarite) #scienceFiction #HarryHarrison #Deathworld

# 3 Star Hunter By Andre Norton

    Star Hunter ♦ By Andre Norton ♦ Science Fiction ♦ Audiobook

Title: Star Hunter Author: Andre Norton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andre_Norton Genre(s): Fantasy Fiction, Science Fiction Language: English Read By: Leonie Rose Librivox Recording Summary: "Somewheres on the jungle world of Jumala, there was a man in hiding—a man whose mind had been reconditioned with another's brain pattern and for whom there was a fabulous reward. Star Hunter is a thrill-packed account of that other-worldly game of hide-and-seek between a man who did not know all his own powers and an interstellar safari that sought something no man had a right to find...." (summary from gutenberg etext) #StarHunter #AndreNorton #ScienceFiction

# 2 Badge of Infamy By Lester del Rey

 Badge of Infamy ♦ By Lester del Rey ♦ Science Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook

Badge of Infamy ♦ By Lester del Rey ♦ Science Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook Title: Badge of Infamy Author: Lester del Rey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lester_del_Rey Genre(s): Science Fiction Language: English Read By: Thomas Rose Librivox Recording Summary: Set in the early 22nd century: Dr. Daniel Feldman, stripped of rank and status and named pariah for violating Medical Lobby rules, stows away on a spaceship and flees to Mars Colony. There, while essentially practicing medicine without a license, he stumbles upon a plague organism indigenous to Mars, that threatens the whole colony and potentially the human race. Performing research to identify a cure, (also in gross violation of Medical Lobby rules) he must risk his life to buck the entrenched bureaucracy, bent on sweeping the whole matter under the rug in the name of political expediency. - Summary by Thomas Rose #BadgeofInfamy #LesterdelRey #ScienceFiction

# 1 Space Prison By Tom Godwin

Space Prison By Tom Godwin - Science Fiction - Full Audiobook

Title: Space Prison Author: Tom Godwin Genre(s): Science Fiction Language: English Read By: Mark Nelson Librivox Recording AFTER TWO CENTURIES....The sound came swiftly nearer, rising in pitch and swelling in volume. Then it broke through the clouds, tall and black and beautifully deadly — the Gern battle cruiser, come to seek them out and destroy them. Humbolt dropped inside the stockade, exulting. For two hundred years his people had been waiting for the chance to fight the mighty Gern Empire ... with bows and arrows against blasters and bombs! (Summary from the Gutenberg text) #SpacePrison #TomGodwin #ScienceFiction