MP3 audiobooks with a british accent, and associated media files to download and keep.

Sunday 2 June 2019

Little Fuzzy

FNH Audio presents an unabridged reading of H. Beam Piper's classic and much-loved science fiction novel Little Fuzzy.

Jack Holloway lives a solitary life in a wilderness of the planet Zarathustra. When a strange intelligent animal walks into his life from out of the forest everything is set to change.

The animal that he names 'Little Fuzzy' seems sapient and that threatens the charter of the company that owns the planet. With the company profits threatened, there's a lot riding on the sapience/non-sapience of Little Fuzzy and his fellows. Jack realises that both his life and that of Little Fuzzy are in danger.

Run time: 5 hours 52 minutes

Available from Audible

The People that Time Forgot

Tyler's manuscript detailing his life in a land filled with pre-historic dinosaurs has been found and returned to his family home. Tom Billings, a family retainer, leads a rescue mission. Loading up a ship with men, arms, ammunition, and even a flying boat, they head into the frozen waters of the Antarctic to the hidden land of Caspak.

In this unabridged sequel to The Land that Time Forgot, the adventure continues and we learn more about the mysteries of Caspak.

Run time: 3 hours 41 minutes

Available from Audible

Saturday 1 June 2019

Triplanetary

FNH Audio presents an unabridged reading of the classic sci-fi space opera Triplanetary.

Mankind's evolution has not been a purely natural event. There are races with powers far greater than ours that have manipulated the development of the human race as part of a power struggle to gain dominance of the known universe.

From the ancient nuclear war that sank Atlantis to the far future where mighty space fleets battle with unimaginable lasers and super beams, this exciting story will keep you listening.

Run time: 9 hours 32 mins

Available from Audible

Wanat

On 13 July 2008, nine American Soldiers perished while fighting a pitched battle in the village of Wanat in Afghanistan's Waygal Valley. On that day the men of Company C, 2d Battalion, 503d Parachute Infantry Regiment, endured four hours of intense close-quarters combat and mounting casualties.

The contingent of 49 United States and 24 Afghan National Army Soldiers valiantly defended their small outpost against a coordinated attack by a determined insurgent force armed with rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons. This audiobook narrates the Combat Studies Institute's historical and tactical analysis of the combat and its environment.

Run time: 8 hours 27 minutes

Available from Audible

Around the World in 80 Days

FNH Audio presents an unabridged reading of Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne.

Phileas Fogg is a man of regular orderly days, down to the minute. His acquaintances know where he will be and when, with perfect regularity. Discussion in the Reform Club turns to an article concerning a theorised journey around the world in only 80 days. From this a gentleman's bet is placed, and there is nothing more important to a gentleman than a bet!

Mr Fogg's life is thrown into turmoil as he commences the journey around the world. Taking his servant, one change of clothes, and a carpetbag stuffed with money, he starts leaping from train to train to steamer. Alas for him, his journey will not follow the carefully planned itinerary! Before the trip is over, there will be battles, rescues, arrests, mishaps and piracy.

Run time: 6 hours 33 minutes

Available from Audible

Sci Fi Shorts Volume 3

Sci-Fi Shorts is a collection of classic science fiction stories from the golden age of space fiction. This group of six unabridged short stories by various authors covers such adventures as secret research projects, underground robot organisations, a subjugated Earth, getting trapped in the void, alien minds, and strangers from Jupiter.

Run time: 3 hours 48 mins

Available from Audible

Sci Fi Shorts Volume 2

Sci Fi Shorts is a collection of classic science fiction stories from the golden age of space stories. This group of four unabridged short stories by various authors covers such adventures as invading technological hordes, super weapons on the moon, meteors with strange powers, and robot armies waging war on mankind.

Run time: 4 hours 35 mins

Available from Audible