As a winner of multiple awards for his writing, Frank Belknap Long enjoyed a much lauded career across seven decades and a wide array of genres. This audiobook is a collection that celebrates his contributions to the realm of Science Fiction in 17 stories from publications between 1929 and 1956. These tales are explorations of humanity as much as they are of the exploration of space, time, extraterrestrial planets and life forms, and all things scientific and supernatural.

The collection includes:

The Hounds of Tindalos, 1929

The Vibration Wasps, 1941

The Mercurian, 1941

The Sky Trap, 1941

Time Trap, 1948

And We Sailed the Mighty Dark, 1948

The Miniature Menace, 1950

The Mississippi Saucer, 1951

Lake of Fire, 1951

Little Men of Space, 1953

The Man the Martians Made, 1954

The Man From Time, 1954

The Calm Man, 1954

Mr. Caxton Draws a Martian Bird, 1954

The Cottage, 1954

Two Way Destiny, 1954

Young Man With a Trumpet, 1956

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The Oz Collection by L. Frank Baum presented by The Online Stage.

This collection features all 14 original Oz books written by L. Frank Baum. You will catch up with old friends and meet new ones throughout the entire land of Oz and beyond. With a consistent cast throughout, this collection will delight and excite all ages!

Featuring the voices of Erin Grassie, Amanda Friday, Anna Grace, Andy Harrington, Tyler Hyrchuk, Josh Innerst, Lance Rasmussen, Russell Gold, Sara Sheckells, Tim Sailer, Marty Krz, Rosie O’Toole, and Isabelle Friday.

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As a winner of multiple awards for his writing, Frank Belknap Long enjoyed a much lauded career across seven decades and a wide array of genres. This audiobook is a collection that celebrates his contributions to the realm of Science Fiction in 17 stories from publications between 1929 and 1956. These tales are explorations of humanity as much as they are of the exploration of space, time, extraterrestrial planets and life forms, and all things scientific and supernatural.

The collection includes:

The Hounds of Tindalos, 1929

The Vibration Wasps, 1941

The Mercurian, 1941

The Sky Trap, 1941

Time Trap, 1948

And We Sailed the Mighty Dark, 1948

The Miniature Menace, 1950

The Mississippi Saucer, 1951

Lake of Fire, 1951

Little Men of Space, 1953

The Man the Martians Made, 1954

The Man From Time, 1954

The Calm Man, 1954

Mr. Caxton Draws a Martian Bird, 1954

The Cottage, 1954

Two Way Destiny, 1954

Young Man With a Trumpet, 1956

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The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle presented by The Online Stage.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle needed to take a break from his detective work and so created this fantastic tale. A group of Victorian explorers discovers a hidden plateau in the Amazon jungle that is populated by fearsome dinosaurs and dangerous ape-like creatures. Can they survive the experience?

Cast:

Edward Malone – Scott R. McKinley

Professor George Challenger – Rob Goll

Professor Summerlee – Ted Wenskus

Sir John Roxton – Russell Gold

Gladys Hungerton – Trisha Rose

Mr. McArdle – Graham Scott

Tarp Henry – Jon Bolitho-Jones

Jessie Challenger – Merete Mohs

Professor Waldron – David Prickett

The Chairman – Andrew Coleman

Gomez – Andy Harrington

Macdona – Chris Marcellus

Dr. Illingworth – Alan Weyman

Mr. Hungerton – Jeff Moon

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‘Glinda of Oz’ by L. Frank Baum presented by The Online Stage.

In order to prevent a war between two neighboring groups, Ozma and Dorothy travel to a remote corner of Oz to lend their wisdom and their aid. Despite their good intentions, the Skeezers and the Flatheads are determined to have their war and imprison the two girls in an enclosed underwater city. The only person able to rescue them, Queen Coo-ee-oh, gets transformed into a swan, forgetting all her magical powers. Is Glinda’s magic powerful enough to raise the submerged city and rescue the girls?

This is the fourteenth book in the original Oz series written by L. Frank Baum.

Cast:

Narrator – Andy Harrington

Ozma – Rosie O’Toole

Dorothy – Amanda Friday

Goldfish – Erin Grassie

Bronzefish – Sara Sheckells

Scarecrow – Tyler Hyrchuk

Wizard – Marty Krz

Glinda – Anna Grace

Button Bright – Isabelle Friday

Frogman – Tim Sailer

Shaggy Man – Josh Innerst

Tin Man – Lance Rasmussen

Spider – Russell Gold

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Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse presented by The Online Stage.

Bertie and Jeeves are back in their third adventure! This time, Bertie tries his hand at some Jeeves-like schemes to help his chums Tuppy and Gussie find love. Of course, Bertie isn’t as capable as Jeeves, and misunderstandings and shenanigans ensue, but Jeeves comes through as always and puts everything to rights.

Cast:

Bertie Wooster – Rob Goll

Jeeves – Graham Scott

Aunt Dahlia – Sarah Mitchell

Gussie Fink-Nottle – Jeff Moon

Tuppy Glossop – Andy Harrington

Madeline Bassett – Amanda Friday

Angela Travers – Anna Grace

Seppings – David Stifel

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‘Wives and Daughters’ by Elizabeth Gaskell presented by The Online Stage.

‘Wives and Daughters’ follows the daily life of a widowed county doctor, Mr. Gibson, and his daughter, Molly. During our time with the Gibsons, Mr. Gibson decides to marry a woman who has a daughter near Molly’s age, Cynthia. Molly and Cynthia grow up together, fall in love, and spend their days with the many characters in Hollingford.

Cast:

Narrator – Sybil Johnson

Mr. Gibson – Rob Goll

Molly Gibson – Anna Grace

Mrs. Kirkpatrick – Elizabeth Klett

Cynthia – Amanda Friday

Squire Hamley – Jeff Moon

Mrs. Hamley – Sara Sheckells

Roger Hamley – Tyler Hyrchuk

Osborne Hamley – Lance Rasmussen

Lord Cumnor – Graham Scott

Lady Cumnor – Lillian Rachel

Lady Cuxhaven – Shaina Summerville

Lady Agnes – Grace Keller Scotch

Lady Harriet – Leanne Yau

Lord Hollingford – Kyle Alan

Mr. Preston – Andy Harrington

Mrs. Goodenough – Sara Morsey

Miss Phoebe – Trisha Rose

Mrs. Parkes – Sarah Mitchell

Old Silas – Josh Innerst

Aimee – Tiffany Halla Colonna

Grandchild – Isabelle Friday

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Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray presented by The Online Stage.

Vanity Fair centers on the young Becky Sharp and her dear friend Amelia Sedley during the time of the Napoleonic Wars. Rebecca Sharp is the daughter of an art teacher and a French dancer, being ambitious, intelligent, and strong-willed in order to get what she wants out of society. She is often touted as amoral and an anti-heroine. Alternately, her friend Amelia is kind, good-natured, and born into wealth. The interwoven fortunes of the two women play out among a backdrop of social skirmishes and human afflictions of pride and ego.

The novel is presented as a multiplot puppet play at a never-ending fair, using both a preface and a coda to bookend the story. The narrator character also interjects themselves into the story with gossip and opinions about the action occurring in certain scenes. Published as a serial in 19 monthly installments, it is a satire of 19th-century Britain, highlighting hypocrisy and opportunism. After initial release, it was published in full in 1848 with the subtitle of A Novel Without a Hero, a nod to Thackeray’s feelings about heroism in literature.

Cast:

Narrator – Lillian Rachel

Rebecca Sharp – Amanda Friday

Amelia Sedley – Anna Grace

Rawdon Crawley – Jon Bolitho-Jones

George Osbourne – Andy Harrington

William Dobbin – Tyler Hyrchuk

Joseph Sedley – Tim Sailer

Sir Pitt Crawley – Graham Scott

Matilda Crawley – Sarah Mitchell

Pitt Crawley – Rob Goll

Rose Crawley – Merete Mohs

Peggy O’Dowd – P. J. Morgan

Major O’Dowd – David Stifel

Jane Sheepshanks – Ella Lynch

Lady Steyne – Danielle Cohen

Lord Steyne – Jeff Moon

Captain Grigg – Caleb Summers

Miss Pinkerton – Sybil Johnson

Little Girl – Isabelle Friday

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The Invisible Man

A Grotesque Romance

by H. G. Wells

Presented by Voices of Today

Narrated by Graham Scott, Andy Harrington, Denis Daly, Patrick Barker, and Lillian Rachel

The Invisible Man was the fourth sci-fi novel written by Wells in the 1890s. The main character, Griffin, is one of the intimidating villains in all popular literature. The archetypal “mad scientist,” Griffin devotes himself to an obsessive study of optics and realizes his ambition to render livings things permanently invisible. After making a cat invisible, he successfully applies the procedure to himself. After causing chaos in London, he travels to the village of Iping in Sussex and takes up residence in a local hotel. He attempts to conceal his invisibility by wearing gloves, bandages on his face, and a false nose. However, due to his irascible and impulsive temperament, the inhabitants soon become aware that he is invisible, and Griffin decides to institute a reign of terror in the neighborhood.

The Invisible Man has become one of Well’s most popular works and has been adapted multiple times for presentation in film, television, and in graphic novels.

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The Tin Woodman of Oz by L. Frank Baum presented by The Online Stage.

A young boy named Woot encounters The Tin Woodman and The Scarecrow, who are sharing stories of the past. Woot inquires how the Tin Woodman came to be made of tin. The Tin Woodman, known as Nick Chopper, was in love with a girl named Nimmie Amee, who also happened to be the Wicked Witch of the East’s ward. The Witch enchanted the Tin Woodman’s axe, which caused him to chop off all his limbs. Each limb was replaced by Ku-Klip, a tinsmith. Figuring he could no longer love the girl without his heart, Nick Chopper left her. Soon after these events, Dorothy and the Scarecrow encounter him on the road to Oz. Woot suggests that perhaps he should find Nimmie Amee now that his heart was restored by The Wizard, and the trio sets off on a quest to track her down. This is the twelfth book in the Oz series.

Cast:

Narrator – Erin Grassie

Woot – Andy Harrington

Tin Woodman – Lance Rasmussen

Scarecrow – Tyler Hyrchuk

Mrs. Yoop – Sara Sheckells

Polychrome – Anna Grace

Dorothy – Amanda Friday

Ozma – Rosie O’Toole

Tin Soldier – Tim Sailor

Chopfyt – Josh Innerst

Hippogyraf – Russell Gold

Jaguar – Marty Krz

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The First Men in the Moon

By H. G. Wells

Narrated by Graham Scott and Andy Harrington.

Travel to Moon was probably the first subject addressed in science fiction literature. The earliest surviving account of a lunar voyage is that described by the Second Century Greek writer Lucian of Samosata in his True History. In the Seventeenth Century, the astronomer Johannes Kepler, Anglican divine Francis Godwin, and natural philosopher Francis Bacon all composed imaginary accounts of lunar travel, and in 1835, Edgar Allan Poe wrote “The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall.” In 1865, Jules Verne’s presented his account of a trip to the Moon in “From the Earth to the Moon.”

Here, it was almost inevitable that this subject would attract the interest of H.G Wells in the batch of sci-fi novels that he wrote between 1895 and 1901. In Well’s story, the vehicle is not a balloon, as in many of the previous accounts, but a sphere made of a mysterious substance, named “cavorite” after its inventor, Cavor, who accompanies the narrator, Bedford, on the trek to the moon. The ascent is made possible by the fact the “cavorite” is, in Well’s words, “transparent to gravity.”

Like previous lunar visitors, Bedford and Cavor discover that the Moon is not uninhabited and that they have to develop ways of dealing with an alien civilization.

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The Lost Princess of Oz by L. Frank Baum presented by The Online Stage.

Upon waking up in the Emerald City, Dorothy discovers that Princess Ozma is missing. In Quadling Country, Glinda finds that her magical Great Book of Records is also missing. She sends a message to the Wizard for help, but the Wizard cannot find his magic tools either. A search party is formed to track down the dear princess and all the missing magic. Over in Winkie Country, Cayke the Cookie Cook is missing her diamond-studded golden dishpan and enlists the Yips advisor, Frogman, to assist her in locating it. Where has all the magic gone and what will become of Princess Ozma? This is the eleventh book in the Oz series.

Cast:

Narrator – Andy Harrington

Betsy – Rosie O’Toole

Dorothy – Amanda Friday

Trot – Anna Grace

Wizard – Marty Krz

Button Bright – Isabelle Friday

Cayke – Erin Grassie

Frogman – Tim Sailer

Cowardly Lion – Josh Innerst

Lavender Bear – Tyler Hyrchuk

Pink Bear – Russell Gold

Ugu the Shoemaker – Lance Rasmussen

Nellary – Sara Sheckells

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