Life in a Thousand Worlds
William Shuler Harris
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
A jolly romp, which could be perhaps be described as Gulliver’s Travels Through Our Solar System and Beyond, as written by a great admirer of C. S. Lewis, on a rainy Sunday afternoon, after one too many mugs of cocoa. Includes some thought on alien philosophies and how to apply them to moral and social problems here on Planet Earth.
Unrelated to the book, this was also the one-thousandth project to be started at LibriVox. — (Non-summary by Cori Samuel.) (5 hr 45 min)
Chapters
00 - Preface and Introduction | 6:46 | Read by Cori Samuel |
01 - Are There More Worlds Than One? | 8:25 | Read by Esther |
02 - A Visit to the Moon | 24:13 | Read by Chris Chapman |
03 - A Visit to Mars | 18:18 | Read by Esther |
04 - A Glimpse of Jupiter | 24:59 | Read by Tammy Sanders |
05 - Beautiful Saturn | 14:55 | Read by Lizzie Driver |
06 - The Nearest Fixed Star | 11:02 | Read by Lizzie Driver |
07 - The Water World Visited | 14:09 | Read by Alex Buie |
08 - Tor-tu | 16:17 | Read by Leonie Rose |
09 - A Problem in Political Economy | 13:52 | Read by Esther |
10 - Floating Cities | 14:29 | Read by Leonie Rose |
11 - A World of Ideal Cities | 15:46 | Read by Esther |
12 - A World Enjoying Its Millennium | 13:22 | Read by Lizzie Driver |
13 - A World of High Medical Knowledge | 12:06 | Read by Sarah Jennings |
14 - A World of Low Life | 10:16 | Read by Laura Koskinen |
15 - A World of Highest Invention | 19:54 | Read by Leonie Rose |
16 - A Singular Planet | 14:00 | Read by Lizzie Driver |
17 - The Diamond World | 18:21 | Read by Kevin McAsh |
18 - Triumphant Feat of Orion | 8:09 | Read by Kevin McAsh |
19 - The Mute World | 13:26 | Read by Kirsten Ferreri |
20 - Brief | 11:36 | Read by Leonie Rose |
21 - The Life on Wings | 22:09 | Read by Lizzie Driver |
22 - Heaven | 18:47 | Read by Sean McGaughey |
Reviews
Outlandish, Outdated, I love it!
Murdoch Council Malone
The title says it all. "Life in a humans imagination fuled by semi-science of the day" might be a more accurate title. Outlandish and outdated speculation on what life on other world's may be like. Includes: three eyed, "solid air" eating, pre-humans with stiff enlarged upper-lips they use for a sense of smell replacing the nose seeded our earth with the beginnings of humanity should say it all...
Most interesting book I've ever read
Marshall Thompson