Download X Minus One, Vol. 1: The Classic Radio Sci-Fi Series AudioBook Free
X Minus One, widely regarded as one of the finest technology fiction dramas ever before produced for radio, was transmit on NBC from 1955 until 1958. It started out as a revival of NBC's Sizing X, which ran for only a year . 5, from 1950 to 1951. Although first 15 episodes of X Minus One were merely new types of Sizing X episodes, the others were adaptations of recently posted works of technology fiction reports by a few of the genre's top authors, including Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, Robert A. Heinlein, Frederik Pohl, and Theodore Sturgeon.... Each episode opened with the advantages: "Countdown for blastoff.... X minus five, four, three, two, X minus one.... Hearth! From the considerably horizons of the anonymous come transcribed stories of new proportions with time and space. They are stories of the future, adventures in which you'll reside in a million could-be years on a thousand may-be worlds. The National Broadcasting Company, in co-operation with Street and Smith, publishers of Astounding Technology Fiction, presents.... X Minus One." Accumulated here are 12 episodes for your hearing pleasure:
- "The C-Chute", modified from Isaac Asimov, starring Bob Hastings
- "Skulking Permit", modified from Robert Sheckley, starring Mandel Kramer
- "The Sense of Question", starring William Quinn
- "Sea Feet", starring William Redfield
- "The 7th Order", starring James Monks
- "Lulungameena", starring Ralph Camargo
- "Mr. Costello, Hero", modified from Theodore Sturgeon, starring Joe DeSantis
- "Bad Medicine", starring Karl Weber
- "The Personalities Will be the Styx", modified from Theodore Sturgeon, starring Craig McDonnell
- "The Snowball Result", starring Ted Osborne
- "The Lifeboat Mutiny", starring Leon Janney
- "Saucer of Loneliness", modified from Theodore Sturgeon, starring Elaine Rost