Five short stories by classic science fiction writer H. Beam Piper (FULL Audiobook)

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  • @jobethk588
    @jobethk588 3 ปีที่แล้ว +56

    31:20 Temple Trouble
    1:54:28 Flight From Tomorrow
    2:50:30 Police Operation
    4:21:00 Graveyard of Dreams

    • @ericmiller931
      @ericmiller931 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Thank you for taking the time to do this. I want you to know it doesn't go unappreciated.

    • @DOWNUNDER.
      @DOWNUNDER. 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@ericmiller931 Indeed 👍

    • @AtlasReburdened
      @AtlasReburdened 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thanks, you rock.

    • @cynonneilson7334
      @cynonneilson7334 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      A prince among men I doff my hat to you good sir

    • @osmia
      @osmia ปีที่แล้ว

      Much thanks!

  • @CommandoCody01
    @CommandoCody01 7 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    In my opinion one of the greatest authors ever. Piper, Asimov, Vogt, Simak, Saberhagen, Heinlein, and many more, have each added so much to my life. Their books are part of me. Through many years I have read, and re-read them. Now I have another way to enjoy them! Thank you for the upload!

    • @ullo-ragnartelliskivi4639
      @ullo-ragnartelliskivi4639 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Try brothers Strugatsky. The sci fi anguish is so real it makes my hair stand up. Game series "Stalker" is inspired by their books.

  • @deant6361
    @deant6361 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I enjoy listening to these stories while I’m lying in bed before sleep 🤘🇦🇺🌌

    • @jefferydraper4019
      @jefferydraper4019 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I do the same. Sadly I can only really enjoy the stories Ive read sometime before.

  • @christinamc66
    @christinamc66 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Beautifully read.

  • @NPC-fl3gq
    @NPC-fl3gq 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Wonderful author and excellent narration.
    Thank you!!

  • @15multiventure51
    @15multiventure51 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    First story:
    00:00:32 The Answer

  • @tooziefaloozie
    @tooziefaloozie 7 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    What wonderful narration! Best LibriVox I have heard!

  • @TwistedMentality089
    @TwistedMentality089 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    This is the best channel on youtube !

  • @osmia
    @osmia ปีที่แล้ว

    Great stories!

  • @mikailstar4270
    @mikailstar4270 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Please anxiety let me alone to listen to this beautiful reader😥

  • @BlueSkyCountry
    @BlueSkyCountry 7 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Here's some more H. Beam Piper trivia for you: The fifth story in this series, "Graveyard of Dreams", was actually an experimental short story that he wrote and put on the backburner while he focused on completing the Paratime series. Once that was done, "Graveyards" was expanded into one spectacular novel, titled "The Cosmic Computer", which set in motion the philosophical debate about religion versus technology, and the role of sentient supercomputers as godly figures due to their unlimited intelligence and power.

    • @Morboeatspeople
      @Morboeatspeople ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I love the story of Con and company :) The Cosmic Computer rocked!

    • @jefferydraper4019
      @jefferydraper4019 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The Cosmic Computer. A horrible title for such a great story.

  • @BlueSkyCountry
    @BlueSkyCountry 8 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I love all of the great works by H. Beam Piper. Especially the Paratime series. He was such a talented writer and master of storytelling, as well as a gun collector and shooting enthusiast too. I am thoroughly surprised, that the Paratime novelettes have not been made into movies or a TV series already. I can picture Matt Damon playing Verkan Vall and Angelina Jolie or Cecile Cassel as Hadron Dalla. Science fiction is suffering a major setback recently due to all the "reality based" shows and cheap romances, and something original like the Paratime Series would immediately become successful, especially in today's market and using the latest in CG and video art.

    • @jonbocz
      @jonbocz 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Get serious! Can you imagine what the response would be from the liberals and the media when the kind of people that Piper wrote about our put in movies or on television? The kind of people who were responsible for their own actions, who did things on their own rather than waiting for someone else (the government?) to to do something for them. There would be resistance to making the movies or television programs, and the critics would pan them. In the end, one or two TV series might get a year, or a movie might be made, and that would be it. There would be some reason for their objections - look at 'Uller Uprising' - but 'Oomphel in the Sky' or 'Omnilingual' would be a real problem to Liberals.

    • @marchofthelorex238
      @marchofthelorex238 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@jonbocz Everyone looks to the government when their bums are on fire. Everyone is a hypocrite.

    • @jerryjohnson8485
      @jerryjohnson8485 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I'd watch 'em!!

    • @henriqueribeiro8167
      @henriqueribeiro8167 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jonbocz I think Space viking would be something to break the ice.
      Vikings are in pop culture again thanks to "Vikings TV show", "Wardruna, heilung bands", if you make a movie using it as a springboard.. I know in space vikings, they were not very viking, but a sci-fi norse asthethics would be interesting.

    • @kiwibob223
      @kiwibob223 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@jonbocz interesting to see de santis taking the federal money then ?

  • @PatrickRob82
    @PatrickRob82 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    30:35 what is that theme from?? It's so familiar and it's driving me crazy.

    • @mikedynes
      @mikedynes 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      To me, it sounds like the music from the game Rebuild 2.

  • @danielch6662
    @danielch6662 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    9:00 and China does not get mentioned at all. Piper died in 1964. The story was written in 1959, set in Argentina in 1984. Armageddon was in 1969.
    Noticed how much potential India had at the time? West Germany and Japan had yet to recover. Western Europe was still rebuilding.

    • @ethelredhardrede1838
      @ethelredhardrede1838 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      "Piper died in 1964."
      Committed suicide, but first put all his published books in the Public Domain. I think that Fuzzy Sapiens is the only under copyright. He did that to keep the money from his ex-wife.

    • @kiwibob223
      @kiwibob223 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ethelredhardrede1838 legend.

  • @egcowling9657
    @egcowling9657 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    This reader and the guy who sounds like Greg Proops are the best!

  • @jolenelittlewood7978
    @jolenelittlewood7978 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great narrative and sounds quality,😜🤔🧐thanks for this 😜,

  • @lifenreviews
    @lifenreviews 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The answer- start until 30:30

  • @left4twenty
    @left4twenty 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Future me, you listened to these already

  • @devincox9478
    @devincox9478 9 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Some one needs to comment the start of each story

    • @mynewschannel3100
      @mynewschannel3100 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Read by Mark Nelson. "The Answer:" 0:00:30 "Temple Trouble:" Part 1 0:31:28, Part 2 1:17:28 / "Flight from Tomorrow:" 1:54:15 / "Police Operation:" Part 1 2:50:00, Part 2 3:14:40, Part 3 3:57:54 /"Graveyard of Dreams:" 4:21:11

    • @willb5571
      @willb5571 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@mynewschannel3100 thank you 😏

    • @user-rw9wm3hm1q
      @user-rw9wm3hm1q 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      cox u knob

    • @georgemcleod6248
      @georgemcleod6248 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@mynewschannel3100 0

    • @nikkid9615
      @nikkid9615 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Why didn't you just do it?

  • @chessdad182
    @chessdad182 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I read a sci-fi story about 50 years ago and I at times wonder what story it was. The only elements I remember is the main character was enhanced like the six million dollar man, and I remember a sentence mentioning his silver veins. He was able to move very fast, etc. I don't remember the final ending. It was in a collection of sci-fi stories. LOL. Not a lot of clues, but I'm at a loss what story it was.

    • @ericjohnson8001
      @ericjohnson8001 ปีที่แล้ว

      I got one like that I read at9 or 10 years and old and all I remember is "teardrop shaped space craft"-- but I remember it really impressed me at the time.

  • @harshtimes7777
    @harshtimes7777 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    great stories

  • @DanA-st2ed
    @DanA-st2ed 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    the answer - hb piper 0:30

  • @gawelamadeusz4602
    @gawelamadeusz4602 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is new author for me, and i am in love. Can someone tell me whos poems was use in last story?

    • @amodernalchemist432
      @amodernalchemist432 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Might be easier to "ask Google?" But, I wouldn't be surprised if they were also written by Beam.

  • @knewledge8626
    @knewledge8626 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Alternative ending to The Answer. The bomb disappears when it enters the atmosphere and reappears over Auburn 15 years earlier due to time displacement from the blast. It ignores a few laws of physics but sci-fi authors are good at that and it would have been a cooler ending. 😎

  • @gerry5134
    @gerry5134 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Mark Nelsons Russian (in story one) must have learned English from a Scottish Pakistani ! 😀😂

    • @hyacinthdibley2420
      @hyacinthdibley2420 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      hahahahaha

    • @BCSoHappy
      @BCSoHappy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      i thought the reader, given that he was an amateur, and presumably without access to speech coaches, was very very good

  • @lifenreviews
    @lifenreviews 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    31:30 "temple trouble"

  • @athopi
    @athopi 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    @1:54:00 Flight From Tomorrow

  • @h.e.vanderzee4608
    @h.e.vanderzee4608 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    super

  • @daerk420666
    @daerk420666 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Dat guitar riff doe

  • @captainclone1367
    @captainclone1367 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    1:33:34

  • @andydensmore5293
    @andydensmore5293 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Can you read the horor stories of h beam piper and andre norton and do you have the pulp stories of Frederiick c Davis and can you please add the operateor 5 stories by Frederick c Daviis this plea is for librivox audiobooks

  • @anthonygeorge3618
    @anthonygeorge3618 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    I’ve come here after do androids dream of electric sheep looking for another si fi fix hope that this does the trick

  • @captainclone1367
    @captainclone1367 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    4:51:00

  • @IvanSommerynsGoa
    @IvanSommerynsGoa 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    funky librivox intro... lol, something different... the reading is the same near dead dull stuff... are the readers reading as a punishment of some kind? The stories and the writers are so great....

  • @bewarethegreyghost
    @bewarethegreyghost ปีที่แล้ว

    That's a lot of work to just read a Wikipedia article

  • @willb5571
    @willb5571 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    👍👍👍🤗🤔

  • @BryinWillis-e8g
    @BryinWillis-e8g 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    4hrs

  • @janetprice7966
    @janetprice7966 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    V

  • @kevinberry8860
    @kevinberry8860 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hey opp

  • @messerschmitt6384
    @messerschmitt6384 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    MASONS!!! LOL , wow inside joke I guess

  • @krispeterson1021
    @krispeterson1021 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    20 minutes in..
    Wow.... mighty boring.. imho

  • @captainclone1367
    @captainclone1367 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    3:34:28

  • @captainclone1367
    @captainclone1367 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    4:20:28