Five Stories by Alan Nourse


Read by KirksVoice

(4.2 stars; 79 reviews)

These Five Stories were written by Alan Edward Nourse, an American science fiction (SF) author and physician. He wrote both juvenile and adult science fiction, as well as nonfiction works about medicine and science. His SF works generally focused on medicine and/or psionics. Psionics refers to the practice, study, or psychic ability of using the mind to induce paranormal phenomena. Examples of this include telepathy, telekinesis, and other workings of the outside world through the psyche. (Summary compiled from Wikipedia.org) (7 hr 28 min)

Chapters

Gold in the Sky - Part 1 30:29 Read by KirksVoice
Gold in the Sky - Part 2 31:33 Read by KirksVoice
Gold in the Sky - Part 3 21:50 Read by KirksVoice
Gold in the Sky - Part 4 25:27 Read by KirksVoice
Gold in the Sky - Part 5 33:05 Read by KirksVoice
Gold in the Sky - Part 6 31:19 Read by KirksVoice
Gold in the Sky - Part 7 36:31 Read by KirksVoice
Martyr - Part 1 36:20 Read by KirksVoice
Martyr - Part 2 36:04 Read by KirksVoice
Martyr - Part 3 42:21 Read by KirksVoice
Infinite Intruder - Part 1 27:40 Read by KirksVoice
Infinite Intruder - Part 2 29:18 Read by KirksVoice
Marley's Chain 33:04 Read by KirksVoice
Contamination Crew 33:51 Read by KirksVoice

Reviews

Good stories


(5 stars)

Alan Nourse has a way with mixing moral messages into sci-fi. A few of these stories are thought-provoking in their message, but some are just plain fun. The last story had me cracking up. It was great! Kirk is an excellent reader, and he always does a nice job with his recordings. This was an excellent listen. Enjoy!

great author, much mispronunciation continued...


(0.5 stars)

Agreed. Add armIStis (armistice) to that list. I now collect these Librivox mispronunciations - I have accumulated well over 100, ranging from the moronic axe (ask) and excape (escape) to the relatively sophisticated rithered (writhed). I'm still waiting for a 'z' to turn up. In order to be fair, I try hard to exclude legitimate alternative pronunciations from the collection as far as possible, but it's very, very depressing. Sometimes, it's difficult to pick up a mispronunciation because the reader is gabbling the text so fast - like this guy. Simply takes away any pleasure from listening to these recordings...

Great stories with some amusing twist, great story reader


(5 stars)

great author, much mispronunciation


(2 stars)

Nukular, hydroPHonics, containment (instead of contaminant), and several more mispronunciations detracted greatly from the stories. The reader's voice was gruffly suited for the space western story "Gold in the sky", though his pacing left something to be desired.

A nice collection classic sci-fi


(5 stars)

Great classic sci-fi read by an excellent reader very entertaining

good stories


(4.5 stars)

Clever plots, good reader

A nicely broad collection of stories.


(5 stars)


(5 stars)

Great stories. And a good reader.