The World That Couldn't Be
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- Publication date
- 2010-11-07
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- Public Domain
- Topics
- librivox, literature, audiobook, science fiction, sci-fi, simak, farming, hunting, gender, reproduction, intelligence, alien life
- Language
- English
LibriVox recording of The World That Couldn't Be, by Clifford D. Simak. Read by Gregg Margarite (1957-2012).
Layard was a curiosity to sociologists. The planet supported thriving tribes of natives but they were genderless. How could tribes form without families? But Gavin Duncan didn’t care. He had come to Layard to farm vua plants. Their berries cured mental illnesses and were one of the most expensive commodities in the galaxy. He was going to make his fortune if he could just keep the Cytha at bay, a big, dumb animal that could munch through 10 rows of vua in a night. Despite native superstitions he was going to have to hunt and kill the pest if he was to protect his crop. It was a dim-witted beast. How hard could it be? – “The World That Couldn’t Be” was first published in the January 1958 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction magazine. (Summary by Gregg Margarite)
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M4B audio book (42mb)
Layard was a curiosity to sociologists. The planet supported thriving tribes of natives but they were genderless. How could tribes form without families? But Gavin Duncan didn’t care. He had come to Layard to farm vua plants. Their berries cured mental illnesses and were one of the most expensive commodities in the galaxy. He was going to make his fortune if he could just keep the Cytha at bay, a big, dumb animal that could munch through 10 rows of vua in a night. Despite native superstitions he was going to have to hunt and kill the pest if he was to protect his crop. It was a dim-witted beast. How hard could it be? – “The World That Couldn’t Be” was first published in the January 1958 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction magazine. (Summary by Gregg Margarite)
For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.
For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org.
M4B audio book (42mb)
- Addeddate
- 2010-11-07 20:13:25
- Boxid
- OL100020111
- Call number
- 4877
- External-identifier
- urn:storj:bucket:jvrrslrv7u4ubxymktudgzt3hnpq:world_that-couldnt_be_1011_librivox
- External_metadata_update
- 2019-04-14T03:05:55Z
- Identifier
- world_that-couldnt_be_1011_librivox
- Ocr
- ABBYY FineReader 9.0
- Ocr_converted
- abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.11
- Ocr_module_version
- 0.0.14
- Ppi
- 600
- Run time
- 1:31:45
- Taped by
- LibriVox
- Year
- 2010
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