Publisher Description
A Dusty Tomes Audio Book
In Cooperation with Spoken Realms
Science Fiction Stories of the Future from the Past
Narrated by Joseph Tabler
“The Automatic Maid of All Work” by M. L. Campbell originally published in The Canadian Magazine of Politics, Science, Art and Literature for July, 1893.
“Ely’s Automatic Housemaid” by Elizabeth W. Bellamy originally published in The Black Cat, December, 1899.
“Mr. Meek—Musketeer” by Clifford D. Simak originally published in Planet Stories, Summer, 1944.
“Mr. Meek Plays Polo” by Clifford D. Simak originally published in Planet Stories, Fall, 1944.
“In the Year Ten Thousand” by William Harben originally published in The Arena Vol. VI, 1892.
“Service with a Smile” by Charles L. Fontenay originally published in If Worlds of Science Fiction, June, 1958.
“Family Tree” by Charles L. Fontenay originally published in If Worlds of Science Fiction, December, 1956.
“Glow Worm” by Harlan Ellison originally published in Infinity Science Fiction, February, 1956.
All stories are in the public domain, read from Project Gutenberg.
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About the Authors
Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875) was born in Odense, Denmark, the son of a poor shoemaker and a washerwoman. As a young teenager, he became quite well known in Odense as a reciter of drama and as a singer. When he was fourteen, he set off for the capital, Copenhagen, determined to become a national success on the stage. He failed miserably, but made some influential friends in the capital who got him into school to remedy his lack of proper education. In 1829 his first book was published. After that, books came out at regular intervals. His stories began to be translated into English as early as 1846. Since then, numerous editions, and more recently Hollywood songs and Disney cartoons, have helped to ensure the continuing popularity of the stories in the English-speaking world.
Harlan Ellison (1934–2018) wrote and edited more than 120 books and more than 1,700 stories, essays, and articles, as well as dozens of screenplays and teleplays. He won the Hugo Award nine times, the Nebula Award four times, the Bram Stoker Award six times (including the Lifetime Achievement Award in 1996), the Edgar Allan Poe Award of the Mystery Writers of America twice, the Georges Méliès Fantasy Film Award twice, and was awarded the Silver Pen for Journalism by PEN, the international writer’s union. He was named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2006.
About Joseph Tabler
Joseph Tabler is an American author, publisher, used book dealer, lifeguard, expert bodysurfer, pianist, and composer. Presently he narrates “old books that probably would never get turned into audio books.” Dusty Tomes Audio Books are public domain books retrieved from the ravages of time.