Nourse was a great science fiction writer of past times. As a 15-year old teenage in 1967, I went to the school library and checked out the science fiction novel, Rocket to Limbo by Alan Nourse. I didn't know it at the time, but this science fiction book would be my all time favorite. After leaving the 9th grade for high school (1968) and graduating in 1971, I never forgot that book. The story line just stuck in my head, to remain there for decades. Thanks to the internet, I was able to obtain a used paperback book (ACE), printed in 1959, Rocket to Limbo by Alan Nourse. In 2014, on a whim, I pulled up ebay on my laptop, typed in the title of the book and "bam", there it was, Rocket to Limbo! After some 4-decades of time space between me and my youth, a book, a story that had captured and held prisoner my imagination for some 40+years. I ordered the paperback, sat back, and waited for delivery. When it came, I was as excited as a kid at Christmas! I quickly read the short novel again and realized again, my all time favorite science fiction story, all time!
I felt that way about Rendezvous with Rama. My first dose of hardcore sci-fi. Now I’ve read enough literature to recognize it as just another example of the ‘Big Dumb Object’ sub-genre of sci-fi. It still takes me back to that first exhilaration of pondering the colossal scale of it. We all have such soft spots.
I was browsing the other day and came across your channel. What a find! I am so delighted with all these gems. I started with the " derelict " and have been binging on the shorter stories first. I never lost my fascination with science fiction which began soon after elementary school. Well done❤👍🙏
Alan E. Nourse wrote one of my favorite books called "The Fourth Horseman." It was a book about a pandemic which at the time just seemed like good fiction. Yeah...
scott crocker Thanks for the laugh!! It is impossible to listen to the Shatner guy. He sounds like he is trying to do a parody on SNL. Such a shame, so many great books. However, as soon as I hear his voice. Switch.
Classic. Am reminded of other epic sci-fi writers like John Campbell, Matheson, and many others all the way back to Lovecraft, Wells, Verne, Poe, etc. and all of the many writers from the long pulp fiction and especially the cold-war eras. Great reading of a fun yet meaningful tale.
Depressing story of another dystopian future, a drab world where people are trapped by 'The System'. Serious Sci Fi is all the same; the future is hell!
These tales of science fiction have fascinating characters and plots involving subterfuge skullduggery espionage cloak and dagger.And Like a great many science fiction stories that involve the mind and imagination like a detective working on a case like some a game of chess
@@alpha1solace Pulp writers spanned genres. The fans overlapped. The science was...guesses. We were so much younger then. Tip: for italics, bracket the text with underscores. _ Like this. _ ...but no spaces between underscore and letter. _Like this._ *Bold* is with * asterisks. * -Strike through- is with - dashes. -
"...shoving him unceremoniously...", as opposed to a more ceremonial style of shoving, like in an advanced Judo kata lol. "I'm for me, and believe me I know it!" Funny, but I sincerely understand Nourse's thesis re: individuality vrs hyper-capitalism/expansion.
I'll not deny that the humans of the 40's 50's & 60's loved a good old kkk style torching but I missed the bit in this story where any little green men were killed. Just the tale of a rough diamond finding the deeply buried good in him. I believe he even did it without the aid of a 19 year old voluptuous virgin or tobacco !
The sudden deceleration caused by grappling caused the aliens to crash into the instrument panels. Their remains were still juicy, right ? Anyway, it would have made a better story.
I think it was Mark Nelson. As soon as the story began, I recognized the voice and tried to place a name to the voice. I've heard him read a lot of stories on "Libivox."
Most of this old sci fi shit is pitiful. It's crude totally inept and a perfect example of low intellect and low pulp fiction filth. Perfect heritage for Cormac Mccarthy.
Nourse was a great science fiction writer of past times. As a 15-year old teenage in 1967, I went to the school library and checked out the science fiction novel, Rocket to Limbo by Alan Nourse. I didn't know it at the time, but this science fiction book would be my all time favorite. After leaving the 9th grade for high school (1968) and graduating in 1971, I never forgot that book. The story line just stuck in my head, to remain there for decades. Thanks to the internet, I was able to obtain a used paperback book (ACE), printed in 1959, Rocket to Limbo by Alan Nourse. In 2014, on a whim, I pulled up ebay on my laptop, typed in the title of the book and "bam", there it was, Rocket to Limbo! After some 4-decades of time space between me and my youth, a book, a story that had captured and held prisoner my imagination for some 40+years. I ordered the paperback, sat back, and waited for delivery. When it came, I was as excited as a kid at Christmas! I quickly read the short novel again and realized again, my all time favorite science fiction story, all time!
Your comment really made me smile. I can totally relate to the feeling of finding a book you love.
Glad that you were reunited with the" love of your life!"
Was life better back then?
I felt that way about Rendezvous with Rama. My first dose of hardcore sci-fi. Now I’ve read enough literature to recognize it as just another example of the ‘Big Dumb Object’ sub-genre of sci-fi. It still takes me back to that first exhilaration of pondering the colossal scale of it. We all have such soft spots.
I was browsing the other day and came across your channel. What a find! I am so delighted with all these gems. I started with the " derelict " and have been binging on the shorter stories first. I never lost my fascination with science fiction which began soon after elementary school. Well done❤👍🙏
Alan E. Nourse wrote one of my favorite books called "The Fourth Horseman." It was a book about a pandemic which at the time just seemed like good fiction. Yeah...
Don't worry It'll never happen.
@@johnjaleco5683 I'm so relieved 😅
@@sistakia33 don't worry about world war 3 either that'll never happen 🙄
@@johnjaleco5683 Phew! My anxiety pills are on the way to the trash as we speak!
@@sistakia33 I'm glad to have helped😋
... thought this was a cool metal album by an artist I haven't herd, and now I can't stop listening.
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Awesome what keeping an open mind can do, huh?
Thanx for that comment Sir.
NOW I want to listen.🤣🤣🤣
Sounds interesting
@@highimagination8560 .
Cool story, never heard of the author before now.
This is , by far, my favorite narrator. All the best to you sir!!
He also did Clancy's "The Hunt for Red October". Excellent voice chops as well as convincing Russian accent.
humbleradio Thanks for the heads up! All the best to you and yours for a wonderful holiday season and a healthy, prosperous and happy new year!
Agreed. Totally blows away that guy who does the bad Shatner imitation or the one who sounds like Paul Lynde.
scott crocker Thanks for the laugh!! It is impossible to listen to the Shatner guy. He sounds like he is trying to do a parody on SNL. Such a shame, so many great books. However, as soon as I hear his voice. Switch.
Mark Nelson?
Classic. Am reminded of other epic sci-fi writers like John Campbell, Matheson, and many others all the way back to Lovecraft, Wells, Verne, Poe, etc. and all of the many writers from the long pulp fiction and especially the cold-war eras. Great reading of a fun yet meaningful tale.
One of the best of the classics
Great story !! If wondering. Do yourself a favor and listen.
Always loved Alan E Nourse books
Great story & a WONDERFUL reader! Thank you!!!
That was a sad tale, but good story.
First class narration. Thanks for posting.
Way ahead of its time! Thankyou
Thank you, AWESOME upload !
this is a tremendous story and really well read:-)
Well read ,thank you .
Thanks for subtitles!!!!
Super story !!!!
"If" was published in Buffalo New York.
Yay stories!
Need a showdown with this narrator and the Pugg guy
Short books are nice
Good story well told
Depressing story of another dystopian future, a drab world where people are trapped by 'The System'.
Serious Sci Fi is all the same; the future is hell!
Beautiful
These tales of science fiction have fascinating characters and plots involving subterfuge skullduggery espionage cloak and dagger.And Like a great many science fiction stories that involve the mind and imagination like a detective working on a case like some a game of chess
Alan E. Nourse wrote the novel "BLADE RUNNER" - title used for Dick movie.
Great story!
Cool story!
Excellent!
Crew: "We're a station. They're a ship, 'really moving' fast."
Captain: "Grapple them!"
Me: Uh huh. Sigh.
Distance? Momentum?
Oh right. Buckles must be swashed.
That's Space Opera for you. Inconvenient science is ignored :)
I knew nothing about this but this really cued me in to how old the story is before I looked it up. That and focus on Saturn.
@@alpha1solace Pulp writers spanned genres. The fans overlapped. The science was...guesses. We were so much younger then.
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Who says the guy got away? Maybe he got crushed, just like the builders of the ship.
By the implied acceleration, yep, like a bug.
"...shoving him unceremoniously...", as opposed to a more ceremonial style of shoving, like in an advanced Judo kata lol. "I'm for me, and believe me I know it!" Funny, but I sincerely understand Nourse's thesis re: individuality vrs hyper-capitalism/expansion.
I prefer (x minus one) if I’m going to listen to sf audio
Good Stuff
I like the cover of IF: Jupiter Five
I'll not deny that the humans of the 40's 50's & 60's loved a good old kkk style torching but I missed the bit in this story where any little green men were killed. Just the tale of a rough diamond finding the deeply buried good in him. I believe he even did it without the aid of a 19 year old voluptuous virgin or tobacco !
Oh that is such leftwing $hit!
Science Fiction should be called Ward Churchill fiction.
So there breaking into the spaceship..
How did the ghostship stop for them to board?
Because they brought it to a speed which matched their own by using grappling hooks
Sort of
They just manoeuvre into a synchronous orbit, piece of cake!
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The sudden deceleration caused by grappling caused the aliens to crash into the instrument panels. Their remains were still juicy, right ? Anyway, it would have made a better story.
Ok
Sunday
Who is narrator, Mark Nelson 🤔
I think it was Mark Nelson. As soon as the story began, I recognized the voice and tried to place a name to the voice. I've heard him read a lot of stories on "Libivox."
That sounds like the world we live in now!
Where the f£&k is
Nobody Bothers Gus
By that brilliant sci fi writer B. Aldry?
Didn't end well you keep on wanting the guy to get away
10:30
Anti-climatic ending. Narration was good but storyline was slow and ponderous.
This narrator sounds exactly like the voice overs on old school kung-fu flicks.
masochistic tutorial, crudely crafted.
I love the reader but not the story.
8:00 From here on the story establishes itself as another dystopian vision of the future.
Talk about cliches!
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"Going to miss us by several thousand KILOs....". The word for which you so vainly search is is KLICS. Pass.
Kilometers is correct.
Well, that was shit. Glad it was only 48 minutes of my life wasted.
Most of this old sci fi shit is pitiful. It's crude totally inept and a perfect example of low intellect and low pulp fiction filth. Perfect heritage for Cormac Mccarthy.