
Favorite Science Fiction Stories, Volume 1
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Narrated by:
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Jim Roberts
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Ben Hurst
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Cindy Hardin Killavey
This first volume of Favorite Science Fiction Stories features "the best of the best" from the Golden Age of science fiction. It includes 21 stories by, among others, Andre Norton, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Robert Silverberg, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Philip K. Dick, Edmond Hamilton, Jack Williamson, Alan Edward Nourse, Fritz Leiber, Frederik Pohl, Fredric Brown, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., and others. This is a must listen for sci-fi buffs and anyone who likes a well written and imaginative story.
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Many of these stories are available individually on Audible; one advantage to this collection is that you can snag a good half-dozen good stories with one credit. But there are also a lot of second- or third-tier stories mixed in. For example, A Martian Odyssey is considered to be one of the best shorter-than-novel sci-fi stories, period (although better renditions are available on Audible). 2B R0 2B is a pretty good story, but it's not Vonnegut's best (even relating to the particular theme); I had never encountered A World Called Crimson before listening to this collection, and I'm not in a hurry to encounter it again.
The most common theme, unfortunately, is fair-to-poor reading. Jim Roberts seems to have read most of them, and his performance is delivered in a quite uninspired monotone. The other narrators are better, but Roberts seems to have done a large fraction of them.
The bottom line: a mixed bag. Some great stories, some so-so stories, some non-good ones. Some good narrations, but many of the stories have a poor narrator.
A Very Mixed Bag
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Excellent selection
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wonderful amalgam
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Fabulous collection
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Mid century pulp stories!
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Would think these would be great stories
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Great selection
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excellent Sci-fi stories
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Would you consider the audio edition of Favorite Science Fiction Stories, Volume 1 to be better than the print version?
YesWho would you have cast as narrator instead of the narrators?
Anyone, the main narrator is horrible monotonated and sounds the same in EVERY story!If you were to make a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?
N/AAny additional comments?
The old time stories are great still!I Guess Narrators Do Make a Difference
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If you can take poor narration and production values you can fund all these stories for free on Librivox.
Frankly, all these anthologies should be accessible for free with the Audible subscription.
in any event, you can't beat the classics.
classic Sci fi at its best
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