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Release date
April 29, 2024 -
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9781592124350
- File size: 65903 KB
- Duration: 02:17:17
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Languages
- English
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Levels
- ATOS Level: 6
- Lexile® Measure: 890
- Interest Level: 6-12(MG+)
- Text Difficulty: 4-5
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Reviews
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This is a title in an ongoing series of full-cast audiobooks featuring stories from the golden age of science fiction written by L. Ron Hubbard. The production quality is simply excellent, with sound effects and a full cast performing all the roles. The stories are pulp fiction--churned out quickly for low-paying magazines of the time. All three in this collection are fantasy tales. In "Danger in the Dark" (1939) a man named Billy Newman confronts a god in the Philippines. "The Room" (1942) is a ghost story, and "He Didn't Like Cats" (1942) is about a man who doesn't like cats, and pays for it. The packaging is attractive and includes a booklet filled with pictures and biographical information on the author. S.D.D. (c) AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine -
December 22, 2008
Originally published in 1939, this Hubbard tale takes listeners to the South Seas, where Billy Newman has purchased his own island at a bargain rate. Unfortunately, the island is dominated by natives who believe he is the source of their ill will. His only choice is to sacrifice a woman to their god or await their wrath against him. Read by a large cast, the story features brilliant performances by Karen Black, Jim Meskimen, Noelle North, R.F. Daley and Christina Huntington. The recording is chock-full of background sound effects that create an almost theatrical atmosphere and also features a rousing musical score. Two of Hubbard’s other short stories—“The Room” and “He Didn’t Like Cats”—also get full-cast treatments in this package. A Galaxy paperback.
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