Audiobooks by Robert Silverberg

Never Trust A Thief!

Never Trust A Thief! by Robert Silverberg - Kiley felt all-powerful with the alien guiding him in the looting of a world. Now the whole galaxy was his if he could remember to—Never Trust A Thief! Kiley took one last, fond look at the glittering heap of jewels in the back of the spaceship, nodded happily to himself, and began to set up a blastoff orbit. Somewhere down on the field far below, he could see dot-like figures—spaceport attendants, all firmly convinced that this was an authorized flight. He chuckled. This is the right way to pull a job, he thought contentedly. Hypnotize 'em silly and then walk in and take what you want. His fingers skipped lightly over the control panel as he readied the ship for blastoff. For the first time in his life he felt truly happy. Two million stellors of rare gems in the back of the ship, and even after cutting Thaklaru in for his share, that still left a million. A million stellors! Lord, that sounded good! Well, Kiley, are you going to spend all day dreaming? I'm waiting for you! The rolling thunder of Thaklaru's voice in Kiley's mind jolted him back to reality. 'I'm on my way,' he said out loud, knowing that the alien was listening. 'I've got the stuff, and I'll be there before you know it.' Good. I'm anxious to see those jewels. 'Don't worry about it, Thaklaru.'

Robert Silverberg (Author), Scott Miller (Narrator)

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Aliens and Nothing But Aliens 3

Aliens and Nothing But Aliens 3 - Sixteen Lost Sci-Fi Short Stories from the 1940s, 50s and 60s - Strange Eden by Philip K. Dick - From Outer Space by Robert Zacks - Planet of the Angry Giants by Robert Silverberg - The Guest Rites by Robert Silverberg - The Star Mouse by Fredric Brown - And Then—The Silence by Ray Bradbury - Duel on Syrtis by Poul Anderson - Earthmen Bearing Gifts by Fredric Brown - Welcome Martians by Evan Hunter - Guest Expert by Allen K. Lang - The Eater of Souls by Henry Kuttner - Message From Mars by Clifford D. Simak - The Pause by Isaac Asimov - The Call From Beyond by Clifford D. Simak - The World That Couldn't Be by Clifford D. Simak - The Sky Was Full of Ships by Theodore Sturgeon

Allen K. Lang, Clifford D. Simak, Evan Hunter, Fredric Brown, Henry Kuttner, Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick, Poul Anderson, Ray Bradbury, Robert Silverberg, Robert Zacks, Theodore Sturgeon (Author), Scott Miller (Narrator)

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The Thing Behind Hell's Door

The Thing Behind Hell's Door by Robert Silverberg - It seemed to be human... but it was inside out, all its organs exposed... the heart beating, the lungs breathing, the stomach digesting... and now, the Thing began to come toward him... its mouth working hideously! The room was small and obviously hadn't seen a fresh coat of paint in last decade, but Robert Harris decided it wasn't bad for the price. And he needed a to stay. A place where he could study without being disturbed. The landlady stood behind him, a withered crone who, like the room, had a faintly musty odor. She grinned, showing the puckered redness of her toothless gums. Her teeth, Robert thought sourly, were probably downstairs in a glass of water. 'Like it?' she asked in her hoarse croak of a voice, eagerly. 'It's–very nice,' Robert said without enthusiasm. A twelve–by–fourteen room, a rickety bed, a dirty window whose g'ass was so warped he could hardly see through it, a single tiny closet–it wasn't much of a room at all. But he couldn't argue with a price of six bucks a week. Until he found work here in San Francisco, he was going to have to practice economies. Cheap eating-places, cheap movies, cheap hotel rooms. The landlady—Mrs. Garvey, that was her name—walked to the window. Dust was thick enough to draw pictures in on the pane. 'Lovely view you have from here,' she gabbled, indicating the fog-bound street with het twisted forefinger, Robert smiled and nodded. The view was of the other side of the street, a dozen close–packed old ramshackle houses just like this one, here in San Francisco's North Beach district. Some view. Robert shrugged. For six bucks a week, what did the view matter?

Robert Silverberg (Author), Scott Miller (Narrator)

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Sci-Fi Killers - 14 Killer Science Fiction Short Stories by Philip K. Dick, Robert Silverberg, Harry

Fourteen Killer science fiction short stories from some of the best sci-fi authors of the 1940s, 50s and 60s. - Slay-Ride by Winston Marks - Wreck Off Triton by Alfred Coppel - Retribution by George T. Spillman - The Skull by Philip K. Dick - Prison of a Billion Years by C. H. Thames - The Misplaced Battleship by Harry Harrison - Monsters That Once Were Men by Robert Silverberg - Seventh Victim by Robert Sheckley - Birkett's Twelfth Corpse by August Derleth - Hero From Yesterday by Robert Silverberg - The Foxholes of Mars by Fritz Leiber - Watchbird by Robert Sheckley - Cry Silence by Fredric Brown - The Power by Fredric Brown

Alfred Coppel, August Derleth, C. H. Thames, Fredric Brown, Fritz Leiber, George T. Spillman, Harry Harrison, Henry Slesar, Philip K. Dick, Robert Sheckley, Robert Silverberg, Winston Marks (Author), Scott Miller (Narrator)

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Sci-Fi Space Ships and Nothing But Sci-Fi Space Ships 2

Sci-Fi Space Ships and Nothing But Sci-Fi Space Ships 2 - Fifteen Lost Sci-Fi Short Stories from the 1930s, 40s, 50s and 60s - The Planet Of Illusion by Robert Silverberg - The Flight Of The Eagle by Alfred Coppel - Madmen of Mars by Erik Fennel - Jonah of the Jove-Run by Ray Bradbury - Space-Lane of No-Return by George Whittington - Invader From Infinity by George Whittington - Rocket Summer by Ray Bradbury - Rabbits Have Long Ears by Lawrence F. Willard - Glow Worm by Harlan Ellison - The Misplaced Battleship by Harry Harrison - Distress Signal by Ross Rocklynne - The Star Mouse by Fredric Brown - Survey Team by Philip K. Dick - Home is the Spaceman by George O. Smith - The Creatures That Time Forgot by Ray Bradbury

Alfred Coppel, Erik Fennel, Fredric Brown, George O. Smith, George Whittington, Harlan Ellison, Harry Harrison, Lawrence F. Willard, Philip K. Dick, Ray Bradbury, Robert Silverberg, Ross Rocklynne (Author), Scott Miller (Narrator)

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Hero From Yesterday

Hero From Yesterday by Robert Silverberg - They were a peaceful people and somehow couldn't stand the thought of executing their only criminal. The answer was to discover a—Hero From Yesterday The day Lugert's criminals gunned down three citizens in a bold broad-daylight robbery, Domnas Karson, Third Speaker of the Council, said, 'I think I've got the answer.' 'Answer? To what?' asked Murgon Darell Fourth Speaker. 'To Lugert,' said Karson. 'The weapon we can use against that throwback who's terrorizing us all.' Darell sighed wearily. 'There is no answer to Lugert, I'm afraid. We're peaceful people; he's a throwback to a more violent age. There's no way to cope with him. Would you want to be the one to shoot him down?' Karson shuddered and said, 'No, not me. Of course not. I'm no more capable of violence than anyone else. But Lugert can be stopped. We can get help.' 'From where?' 'From the past,' said Karson. 'From the ugly crime-ridden world we've evolved out of. Dr. Lorence of the Science Council has developed a time-net which....' 'Of course!' Darell exclaimed. 'Bring a man out of the past! A man who won't be inhibited by our innate hatred of violence, a man who'll be able to deal with Lugert as he deserves!' He rose and strode around the long councilroom in quick, nervous steps. 'Call Lorence, Karson. Get him at work on the project at once. We can't waste any more time. There's no telling when Lugert might....'

Robert Silverberg (Author), Scott Miller (Narrator)

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Space Travelers and Nothing But Space Travelers 4

Space Travelers and Nothing But Space Travelers 4 - Seventeen Lost Sci-Fi Short Stories from the 1930s, 40s, 50s and 60s - The Star Mouse by Fredric Brown - And Then—The Silence by Ray Bradbury - The Queen of Space by Joseph Slotkin - Unwelcomed Visitor by William Morrison - Duel on Syrtis by Poul Anderson - Task of Kayin by William Morrison - Asteroid of the Damned by Frederik Pohl - $1,000 a Plate by Jack McKenty - Rabbits Have Long Ears by Lawrence F. Willard - Planet of the Angry Giants by Robert Silverberg - Wanderlust by Alan E. Nourse - Zurk by Richard O. Lewis - Christmas on Ganymede by Isaac Asimov - Dust Unto Dust by Lyman D. Hinckley - Time Pussy by Isaac Asimov - Spacemen Die At Home by Edward W. Ludwig - The Repairman by Harry Harrison

Alan E. Nourse, Edward W. Ludwig, Frederik Pohl, Fredric Brown, Harry Harrison, Isaac Asimov, Jack Mckenty, Joseph Slotkin, Lawrence F. Willard, Lyman D. Hinckley, Poul Anderson, Ray Bradbury, Richard O. Lewis, Robert Silverberg, William Morrison (Author), Scott Miller (Narrator)

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Space Travelers and Nothing But Space Travelers 3

Space Travelers and Nothing But Space Travelers - 17 Lost Sci-Fi Short Stories from the 1930s, 40s 1950s and 1960s - Six Frightened Men by Robert Silverberg - Jonah of the Jove-Run by Ray Bradbury - Rescue Mission by Robert Silverberg - Space-Lane of No-Return by George Whittington - Invader From Infinity by George Whittington - Rocket Summer by Ray Bradbury - Willie's Planet by Mike Ellis - The Planetoid of Peril by Paul Ernst - Day of Wrath by Bjarne Kirchhoff - Glow Worm by Harlan Ellison - And the Gods Laughed by Fredric Brown - Strange Eden by Philip K. Dick - The Misplaced Battleship by Harry Harrison - From Outer Space by Robert Zacks - Monsters That Once Were Men by Robert Silverberg - Distress Signal by Ross Rocklynne - The Hated by Frederik Pohl

Bjarne Kirchhoff, Frederik Pohl, Fredric Brown, George Whittington, Harlan Ellison, Harry Harrison, Mike Ellis, Paul Ernst, Philip K. Dick, Ray Bradbury, Robert Silverberg, Robert Zacks, Ross Rocklynne (Author), Scott Miller (Narrator)

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Planet of the Angry Giants

Planet of the Angry Giants by Robert Silverberg - The inhabitants of Dunhill V were gigantic. They were peaceful and good natured until something happened to upset them—and then their wrath was truly terrific! Commander Laurence Burke, who headed the Terran Colony on the planet of Dunhill V, was a small small as Earthmen went: he was a wiry figure no more than five feet six inches tall, with hardly an ounce of superfluous fat on his body. Despite the handicap of his size, Burke had been sufficiently adept at catching the attention of his superiors to reach his present fairly important post, as head of the tiny settlement on Dunhill V. There was one aspect of the Dunhill V assignment that Commander Burke particularly relished: although he was by six inches the shortest Earthman in the settlement, that fact tended to be overlooked in the general scheme of things—for the simple reason that the natives of Dunhill V averaged around eleven feet in height, thus making all Earthmen look like Dwarfs and making any individual difference in height seem insignificant. Life was fairly quiet for the small band of Earthmen on Dunhill V. There were only some hundred and fifty of them, living in temporary plastic domes. All the colonists were scientific observers, studying the planet's ecology and trying to determine whether it would be possible and desirable for Earth to send out a full-scale colonizing mission. There were many factors to be considered: the climate, the edibility of the native foods, the problem of indigenous diseases, and–by far the most important—the attitude of the natives toward having another civilization settle practically in its midst.

Robert Silverberg (Author), Scott Miller (Narrator)

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Monsters That Once Were Men

Monsters That Once Were Men by Robert Silverberg - They were like creatures painted by a drunken artist, ghastly, utterly repulsive caricatures of humanity! Tet, twisted through they were, they were still human... We were en route from Arenack to Delimon XI when some trouble developed in the gyroscopic drive stabilizers, and so we decided to lay over for repairs at the nearest planet. We weren't in any real hurry to get to Delimon XI, because we were flush from our last hauling job, and didn't need cash in a hurry. That's our trade, you see—interstellar hauling. I've been a free-lance transport man for the last twenty-eight years, and I like the work just fine. I carry a crew of eight, charge top rates and get them too, and the work is pleasant if you have the right kind of disposition for it, which I happen to have. But the events of that simple little stopover for stabilizer repairs nearly soured my disposition for good.

Robert Silverberg (Author), Scott Miller (Narrator)

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The Guest Rites

The Guest Rites by Robert Silverberg - Carthule was not the Earthman's god, but Carthule protected him while he was a guest in the temple—even if he tore the temple down! It was time for the after-meal meditation. Marik, First Priest of Carthule, finished his frugal meal and went outside to sit in the mid-day breeze and watch the sands blowing gently over the bare flat plains. The problem of the Revelation occupied his reveries: why had Carthule, in His infinite wisdom, waited so long to reveal to His people that they were not alone in the universe? Marik looked up at the glowing dot behind the gray wall of the sky. That, he knew, was the Sun. And there were other planets, some inhabited, some not. Carthule was not alone; He was one of nine. And His people had never suspected the truth until the flaming ships of the third planet—Earth, was it?—had broken through the skies, and the small white people had told them of the other worlds. The problem was one which the greatest theologians of the time—in whose number Marik, without pride, deemed himself—had discussed at great length, never coming to a solution. Marik and Polla San, of the neighboring temple, had finally concluded that Carthule moved in ways too complex for His mortal people to understand. Marik lowered his gaze from the sky and looked out across the dry expanse of desert. He could make out, dimly, Polla San's temple far across the sands. Polla San was due to visit him shortly, he recalled. Or was it the other way around? Marik frowned; he was getting old, and soon would have to relinquish his duties to one of the younger acolytes and spend his remaining decades sitting dreaming in the afternoon. Calmly Marik settled into the semi-somnolence of the after-meal meditation, fixing his gaze on the far-off temple of Polla San but turning his vision inward.

Robert Silverberg (Author), Scott Miller (Narrator)

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Aliens and Nothing But Aliens 2

Eighteen Lost Sci-Fi Short Stories from the 1940s, 50s and 60s - Defense Mech by Ray Bradbury - Planet of Doom by C. H. Thames - Tony and The Beetles by Philip K. Dick - Piper In the Woods by Philip K. Dick - Madmen of Mars by Erik Fennel - The Monster That Threatened The Universe by Russ Winterbotham - Rescue Mission by Robert Silverberg - Alien Equivalent by Richard R. Smith - Day of Wrath by Bjarne Kirchhoff - Invader From Infinity by George Whittington - Human Is by Philip K. Dick - Rabbits Have Long Ears by Lawrence F. Willard - Asteroid of the Damned by Frederik Pohl - The Man Who Liked Lions by John Bernard Daley - The Luckiest Man Alive by William Morrison - And The Gods Laughed by Fredric Brown - A Message From Our Sponsor by Henry Slesar - Distress Signal by Ross Rocklynne

Bjarne Kirchhoff, C. H. Thames, Erik Fennel, Frederik Pohl, Fredric Brown, George Whittington, Henry Slesar, John Bernard Daley, Lawrence F. Willard, Philip K. Dick, Ray Bradbury, Richard R. Smith, Robert Silverberg, Ross Rocklynne, Russ Winterbotham, William Morrison (Author), Scott Miller (Narrator)

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