Short Science Fiction Collection 004
Various
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Science fiction (abbreviated SF or sci-fi with varying punctuation and case) is a broad genre of fiction that often involves sociological and technical speculations based on current or future science or technology. This is a reader-selected collection of short stories, originally published between 1931 and 1962, that entered the US public domain when their copyright was not renewed. Summary by Cori Samuel, with Wikipedia input. (5 hr 37 min)
Chapters
| Beyond Pandora | 5:21 | Read by Jerome Lawsen |
| The Infra-Medians | 41:34 | Read by John Larmour |
| The Misplaced Battleship | 58:53 | Read by Barny Shergold |
| Missing Link | 43:02 | Read by Kim Cutler |
| Quantum Jump | 22:40 | Read by Jerome Lawsen |
| The Repairman | 32:16 | Read by Rowdy Delaney |
| Sodom and Gomorrah, Texas | 19:00 | Read by Lucy Lo Faro |
| Stairway to the Stars | 42:41 | Read by R. J. Davis |
| Traders Risk | 34:32 | Read by Susan Umpleby |
| Wizard | 37:55 | Read by Alex C. Telander |
Reviews
Short Science Fiction Collection 004
David R. Smith
Stories are a good listen and are mostly well read - Thanks!
A fair selection
Akku
Is “The Repairman” in every third collection of short stories? Some poor audio in some of these. Maybe LibriVox needs a volunteer sound processing team too, to get consistency with audio levels and so on. The short story collections are really some of the gems of LibriVox. Most of these are pretty good or very good
So-So
mikezane
Agree with the previous reviewer that the stories are mixed, some good, most depressing tho. Seems like most sci-fi authors felt that the future is going to end badly in some way. This is an older recording, BTW, so it has a LOT of rough recordings and sound issues. I had to skip one story because it was unlistenable.
Nice collection of short stories
Seven Archers
A nice I selection of short Syfy stories, the readers did good a job. Very entertaining, thank you LibriVox.
not as good
Sandyjeans
not as good as other collections. one story had so many audio problems I had to skip it.
Paul Billingham
Really enjoyable stories that although a little dated are historical pieces in their own right. Many make me smaile
Science Fiction Shorts ( (Review #1 2022) November 2022 )
R A Perry
Free Audio, Review
FNH
What we really have here is a collection of 10 short Sci Fi stories. It does contain a couple of gems such as "The Repairman" and "The Missing Battleship" by Harry Harrison but I found most of the other stories rather poor fair. This is not a fault of the readers, I just found most of the stories rather uninspiring. These collections generally suffer from a lack of consistency. Collection books need to have a theme in order to shine. The stories in this collection are so varied and disparate that you cant really "get into it". Reading = 2/3 Production = 2/3 Story = 1/3 Total = 5/9 Read more of my Reviews at http://freeaudioreview.blogspot.com/