Short Science Fiction Collection 008

Alan Edward Nourse and Alan E. Nourse

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(4 stars; 75 reviews)

This volume of the LibriVox Science-Fiction Collection is devoted to Alan E. Nourse (1928-1992). Nourse became a science fiction writer to help pay for his medical education, but eventually retired from practicing medicine to pursue his writing career. This reader-selected collection presents ten of his short stories which were published between 1954 and 1963. Extensive research by Project Gutenberg volunteers did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on these publications were renewed. Please consider this a brief sampling of Nourse's full range, and have fun buying and borrowing his other works.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia by Cori Samuel. (4 hr 59 min)

Chapters

Circus	19:34	Read by Daniele
The Coffin Cure	29:40	Read by James Christopher
Letter of the Law	42:54	Read by Daniele
The Link	36:28	Read by woggy298
Meeting of the Board	35:32	Read by Corey M. Snow
My Friend Bobby	21:52	Read by Mooseboy Alfonzo
The Native Soil	46:56	Read by Larissa Little
An Ounce of Cure	10:54	Read by Hector
PRoblem	28:32	Read by RainyDayNinja
Second Sight	27:19	Read by Allegra

Reviews

really good

(5 stars)

The Gilmores

well done even with thick accents

C. B

(1 stars)

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(3 stars)

Sean Kennedy

If you can't pronounce it don't volunteer. the Frenchman's accent on some of the stories was too thick. I barely understood what the man was saying sometimes, well spoken but his pronunciation of many words was so off it didn't even make sense.

good stories

(3.5 stars)

Suzie

Most of the readers were very good; however, one was difficult to understand and made many mistakes in pronunciation, e.g., bowel for bowl, and mispronounced “live” in the context in which it was used in the story.