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    X Minus One: Complete
    X Minus One: Complete
    X Minus One: Complete
    Audiobook51 hours

    X Minus One: Complete

    Written by Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, Robert A. Heinlein and Isaac Asimov

    Narrated by Old Time Radio

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    About this audiobook

    X Minus One was a half-hour science fiction radio series broadcast from April 24, 1955 to January 9, 1958, in various timeslots on NBC. Initially a revival of NBC's Dimension X (1950-51), X Minus One is widely considered among the finest science fiction dramas ever produced for radio. The first 15 episodes were new versions of Dimension X episodes, but the remainder were adaptations by NBC staff writers, including Ernest Kinoy and George Lefferts, of newly published science fiction stories by leading writers in the field, including Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, Robert A. Heinlein, Frederik Pohl, and Theodore Sturgeon, along with some original scripts by Kinoy and Lefferts.

    Episodes of the show include adaptations of Robert Sheckley's "Skulking Permit", Bradbury's "Mars Is Heaven", Heinlein's "Universe" and "The Green Hills of Earth", Pohl's "The Tunnel Under the World", J. T. McIntosh's "Hallucination Orbit", Fritz Leiber's "A Pail of Air", and George Lefferts' "The Parade".

    The program opened with announcer Fred Collins delivering the countdown, leading into this introduction (although later shows were partnered with Galaxy Science Fiction rather than Astounding Science Fiction):

    "Countdown for blastoff.... X minus five, four, three, two, X minus one.... Fire!" [Rocket launch SFX] "From the far horizons of the unknown come transcribed tales of new dimensions in time and space. These are stories of the future; adventures in which you'll live in a million could-be years on a thousand may-be worlds. The National Broadcasting Company, in cooperation with Street and Smith, publishers of Astounding Science Fiction presents...X Minus One."

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHN Publishing
    Release dateJan 1, 2018
    ISBN9781509491506
    X Minus One: Complete

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    • 5/5
      It was wonderdul to hear so many SF stories dramatized and broadcast years ago in a audio book format.

      3 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Everything you’d want in an old radio show: drama, comedy, old slang, exuberant voices, great stories based on the works of great authors, and of course the occasional, integral dappling of 1950’s advertisements to truly “take you back”.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Absolutely fantastic collection of classic science-fiction radio from the 50s. many of these are based on classic science fiction stories, and while they are very much of the time with things such as lack of diversity and representation of women, they’re still worth listening to. authors dramatised include right Bradbury, Robert Heinlein, Theodore Sturgeon and Isaac Asimov.Be warned, that a few of the episodes are repeated, so if you find yourself thinking that you have heard the episode before, you probably have. It happens about five or six times. Each episode is only 30 minutes, and so they are quite easy to get through quickly. I hope you enjoy them as much as I did.

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    • 5/5
      If you wanna know the future, listen to this relic from the past! Absolute gem!!

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Each show was great to hear. Worth the time! X-1