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Cargando... One Was Stubborn (Stories from the Golden Age)por L. Ron Hubbard
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. ONE WAS STUBBORN is a collection of three short stories, the title piece plus A CAN OF VACUUM and 240,000 MILES STRAIGHT UP. All three are pulp fiction stories, like the majority of what Mr. Hubbard wrote, and as such should not be taken too much to heart. Sit back, relax, read for a while, and then set the piece aside and forget about it. There is nothing here to shake up your day.The title piece is about an old man who finds the Devil trying to destroy mankind by having the latter stop believing in the existence of everything, including the individual. VACUUM is a product of Mr. Hubbard’s military career where practical jokes are rampant, only this time the joke is on the jokester. Finally STRAIGHT UP is about the space race and the consequence of a very militant Russia secretly landing on the moon first and using it as the military high ground in an epic blackmail scheme. All are nicely written short pieces that, when compared to his best writing, seem a bit lackluster. Still, if you want to kill a couple of hours, these stories will fit the bill nicely. Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. Im sorry I didnt realize this was an audio book so I havent had a chance to listen to it yet. Im hoping over the summer when I have more time I can listen to it. Ive really enjoyed your other books.Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. Classic Sci-Fi with very good voice acting. L. Ron Hubbard is a great in the field. One of the stories was really very funny because of the assumptions that were made by the author on the power a nation would wield by being the first to the moon. I wish that more audio books would adopt the multiple cast approach to voice acting. Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. Three great sci-fistories. "One Was Stubborn" (from the November 1940 issue of Astounding Science Fiction, "A Can of Vacuum" (from the December 1949 issue of Astounding Science Fiction) and "240,000 Miles Straight Up" (from the December 1948 issue of Thrilling Wonder Stories). Excellent production and acting make for a fun listen (including Charles Durning). NOTE: Content is not edited for current political correctness, so overly sensitive listeners may balk. No Scientology within. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Things are disappearing. Parts of buildings, parts of people, parts of the whole world--they're here today, gone tomorrow. Old Shellback--a character as crazy-smart as Christopher Lloyd in Back to the Future--thinks he needs glasses. But all he really has to do is open his eyes . . . and see the light. Or so says George Smiley--otherwise known as the Messiah. George claims that the reason things are vanishing is because he wants them to go away. He has no more use for the world . . . and so it goes. Say goodbye. But Old Shellback has a different idea, and since he is the most stubborn man in the universe, you might want to hear him out. What's Shellback's idea? That two can play at this game. While George is making this world disappear, Old Shellback will make another one appear. Join him on an amazing odyssey--as he heads back to a future of his own making. By the spring of 1938, Hubbard's stature as a writer was well established. As author and critic Robert Silverberg puts it: he had become a "master of the art of narrative." Hubbard's editors urged him to apply his gift for succinct characterization, original plot, deft pacing and imaginative action to a genre that was new, and essentially foreign, to him--science fiction and fantasy. The rest is Sci-Fi history. Also includes the Science Fiction adventures, A Can of Vacuum, in which a practical joke on a space station proves that a good sense of humor is timeless, and 240,000 Miles Straight Up, the thrilling story of a race to the moon . . . and the one man who may be able to save the earth from Armageddon. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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In this audio book there is three short stories that just didn't keep my attention.
"One Was Stubborn", "A Can of Vacuum and "240,000 Miles Straight Up" outta the three titles the only one that interests me was "240,000 Miles Straight Up"
What I mainly enjoy about this is the multicast performances with the music and sound effects. Hopefully I can find another title like "Carnival of Death" (the other title I listened to.) Because that title held my ear to the speaker.
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