Reading, Short And Deep #350
Eric S. Rabkin and Jesse Willis discuss Ode On The Death Of A Favourite Cat, Drowned In A Tub Of Gold Fishes by Thomas Gray
Here’s a link to a PDF of the poem.
Ode On The Death Of A Favourite Cat, Drowned In A Tub Of Gold Fishes was first published in 1747.
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Reading, Short And Deep #318
Eric S. Rabkin and Jesse Willis discuss Fishhead by Irvin S. Cobb
Here’s a link to a PDF of the story.
Fishhead was first published in The Cavalier, January 11, 1913.
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Creatures of the Abyss
By Murray Leinster; Read by Mark Douglas Nelson
5 Hours 36 Minutes – [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Librivox
Published: 2013
Radar expert and electronic engineer Terry Holt has been recruited by a scientific expedition in the Phillipines to make underwater listening devices. They won’t tell him what his inventions are meant to investigate. And that makes him mad.
He has some ideas though. Orejas de ellos, the things who listen, have been the explanation by fishermen about strange catches of fish. Are they real or just superstition? What are the mysterious shooting stars that seem to fall with such frequency into the Luzon Deep? Why do mysterious swarms of fish gather in one specific area of the ocean?
Had Leinster been reading Jules Verne? Had he been reading H.G. Wells? Or is this a completely new creation? Those are the questions I repeatedly asked as I vacillated between three different theories about the mysterious “fish herding” and who is doing it. As Leinster always does, I was glued to this adventure story investigating what comes from the abyss, which may be deadly, especially to those who are set on discovering the truth.
I will disclose only this … I was very surprised by the end of the story. Bravo, Murray Leinster.
I listened to the LibriVox free audio version, narrated by the wonderful Mark Douglas Nelson.
LibriVox link: http://librivox.org/creatures-of-the-abyss-by-murray-leinster
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