Main Fiction: “Whispering Death” by Lawrence Donovan, first published in Action Novels, August, 1929.
Narrator: Robert Crandall.
Slap that rim of machine-gun fire down on a hard road and it would sound like men walking. But there in the grass tops it only swished and whispered like.
Talkin’ to us and hissing, “Come up! Come up! Come up!”
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Main Fiction: “The Tree of Life” by C. L. Moore, first published in Weird Tales, October 1936.
Today’s podcast presents the second, concluding part of “The Tree of Life”.
Narrator: Jeff Lane.
A queer, penetrating light shining upon his closed eyes roused Smith by degrees into wakefulness again. He lifted heavy lids and stared upward into the unwinking eye of Mars’ racing nearer moon. He lay there blinking dazedly for a while before enough of memory returned to rouse him. Then he sat up painfully, for every fiber of him ached, and stared round on a scene of the wildest destruction.
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Main Fiction: “The Tree of Life” by C. L. Moore, first published in Weird Tales, October 1936.
Today’s podcast presents part one of “The Tree of Life”; next week will bring the conclusion.
Narrator: Jeff Lane.
There was neither food nor water in these ancient Martian ruins, and Northwest Smith knew that it could be only a matter of time before the urgencies of his own body would drive him out to signal those wheeling Patrol ships and trade his hard-won liberty for food and drink. He crouched lower under the shadow of the temple arch and cursed the accuracy of the Patrol gunner whose flame-blast had caught his dodging ship just at the edge of Illar’s ruins.
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