Sean O'Hara

3 books read for LibriVox

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Stand by for Mars! Carey Rockwell
Pure 1950s rocket-jockey stuff, and it knows it: cadet Tom stuck in a unit with Roger, who needles everyone, and Astro, a big Venusian who'd rather hug an engine than talk. The Mars crash-and-trek back half is genuinely tense.
The Mysteries of Udolpho Ann Radcliffe
You follow Emily St Aubert from sunlit France into the oppressive corridors of Udolpho, where music, shadows, and a black veil keep your nerves pleasantly busy. It’s long, ornate, and sometimes dramatically overwrought, but the atmosphere is so carefully sustained that the castle starts haunting you too.
Uller Uprising H. Beam Piper
Piper openly rebuilds the Sepoy Mutiny on a planet of quartz-skinned, silicone-based natives, and von Schlichten's scramble to hold things together (including improvising an atom bomb from scratch) is pure competence fiction. Fun if you like brisk 1950s military SF, though the colonial framing hasn't aged gently.

3 books read for LibriVox

filter sort genre era audiobooks

Stand by for Mars! Carey Rockwell
Pure 1950s rocket-jockey stuff, and it knows it: cadet Tom stuck in a unit with Roger, who needles everyone, and Astro, a big Venusian who'd rather hug an engine than talk. The Mars crash-and-trek back half is genuinely tense.
The Mysteries of Udolpho Ann Radcliffe
You follow Emily St Aubert from sunlit France into the oppressive corridors of Udolpho, where music, shadows, and a black veil keep your nerves pleasantly busy. It’s long, ornate, and sometimes dramatically overwrought, but the atmosphere is so carefully sustained that the castle starts haunting you too.
Uller Uprising H. Beam Piper
Piper openly rebuilds the Sepoy Mutiny on a planet of quartz-skinned, silicone-based natives, and von Schlichten's scramble to hold things together (including improvising an atom bomb from scratch) is pure competence fiction. Fun if you like brisk 1950s military SF, though the colonial framing hasn't aged gently.