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I was 11 or 12 when I first read this. I have not been without a copy of this book since. I am 75 now, and still read this book occasionally. I gave it to my daughter in hopes that someday she may pick it up. I find that reading out loud changes the focus of literature and sharpens its sense and poetry. I discovered this when reading passages of Walden to a girlfriend and discovered Thoreau's sense of humor; which has nothing to do with Heinlein as an author, but a lot to do with the music of language. Thank you, Mr. Nimoy for this exposition

I have that same dinosaur toy

Hoboken

Wow....This is great. Thank you so much. City is such a good book.

A good story, but I have a few questions. I can just about understand the baby’s resentment against its mother, for her failure to keep him safe in her womb, but why would he resent his father? That makes no sense. Would any doctor prescribe a pill that would put a patient to sleep for 24 hours? Seems highly unethical and unlikely to me. Who was supposed to be looking after the baby while the father was asleep for 24 hours? There’s a brief mention of “servants” but it’s not specified what their roles are. They are literally asleep on the job when the doctor shows up and finds the baby’s father dead. Assuming the servants play a part in caring for the baby, why didn’t the mother get them to help out when the baby was crying all night, so she could get some rest? Had the baby tried to kill the servants too? Was he a sort of infant serial killer, or was it just his parents he wanted dead? I know it’s a fantasy, but I still dislike plot holes.

Asinine

What in the world is more selfish than a baby? That line hits you, although cats

7.30.24. Thank you ❤

🖖star trek

I could listen to Spock narrate all day

Complete Crap Trash

I like her narration but I couldn't tell if she was attempting a Russian or Scottish accent for the Engineer.

Really moving. Love it.

Wonderful to hear the voices of these authors.

Excellent, apart from W. Shatter, aka "Shatman" narrating too fast!

We pray for one last landing, on the home that gave us birth, that we may once more see, the cool green hills of Earth!

Mr. Balls

FemNAZI propaganda...utter garbage. I have no idea how this broad ever got published.

2:17 I'm adopting this as my personal motto

I love this!

Nimoy and Heinlein are GOATS of sci fi!

Great voice for narration! First time hearing her.

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A true classic I’ve never forgotten since I last read years ago

Has such a short story ever covered so much ground?

Le Guin is a commie and nothing she ever wrote is worth a shit.

Amazing story telling

I've recommended this story many times to young readers whose minds have been made up for them by religious parents. I like to believe that it made them think for themselves, even just a little.

It's not the complete story, though. In the original there's a scene at Joe's home before he leaves for the Boneyard.

Delightful! Thanks for uploading

Don't sound like spock

Completely weird. Loved it.

Terrific story. We forget that Arthur C. Clarke was also a great writer of horror stories.

Magistral!

"We de Camp?" Oh, LOL!

Here from Betelgeuse! Me no camp with witch!

I have loved this author for almost 50 years now.

Court at 9am

Growing up in the 70s I heard many SF writers and fans if the time mention the influence and impact 'Green Hills' had on them. When I finally read the story sometime in my late forties, it was very different from what I had expected; I wasn't what you would call disappointed, rather - I cringe to admit this - I was unimpressed...I didn't see what the big deal was. But the story has always stayed with me and now I find I am adapting it into a one act play fused with Bradbury's 'All Summer in a Day'. Spending hours with Rhysling (augmented by Nimoy's exemplary reading of the story) has altered my opinion tenfold and, like many who have commented below, its hard to listen to this recording without becoming very emotional.

Years ago when I read this story for the first time, laughing out loud when I figured it out. Le Guin's genius lives on. What a treat to hear her read it! Thank you -

Mega Star Trek mood.

Why is this recording so different from the text on Internet Archive?

Nice to find some unusual material, but, the sound/speed/pitch still seems way off...(NOI...)

Fritz is awesome!

I don't understand the ending, did his wife create the Big Gambler? Is she a witch?

I think Bradbury was a deep thinker.

Go in alphabetical order that way Angel Aguilar goes first that goes back to grade school

I was a boy living in Appalachia when I first read this. I felt the power and emotions described so well in other comments here. But for a boy living in a shotgun house up on Poverty Hollow, it held a hope of tomorrow that can scarce be felt today. Not only of worlds uncounted, of life unlived, but of another space, a space for my kind. You see, it reassured me that there would be a place in space for the working man. That it wouldn't all be just for the rich, the brilliant or the lucky. That none need be left behind in the Great Expansion. It told me the future would always have need for the hands and hearts of the Builders and Doers, not just the Dreamers and Believers. It spoke of the pyramid workers, and the temple carvers, and the concrete pourers damming the river's wild flow. The Thinkers think, and the Doers do. This has always been the Way of Man. But unlike the author, I see no closure in returning to my birthplace to die. Where er'e my bones should fall, that will mark my final claim. As a child of the Universe, the whole expanse is my forty acre wood. While the souls who stroll chartreuse beaches 'neath an amber sky will not remember my face, yet in truth I will walk there, inside their souls, just as others have walked inside of mine.

Thank you so much for Posting these stories.

OH, My God, I have been looking for this Album for Years! Thank you so much for posting this and Survival Ship! They are both Fantastic Stories. (and Survival Ship, so Much Fun). Again Thank You. !