Science Fiction Stories of the Future from the Past
About this audiobook
A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn 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 author
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.
During his fifty-five-year career, Clifford D. Simak produced some of the most iconic science fiction stories ever written. Born in 1904 on a farm in southwestern Wisconsin, Simak got a job at a small-town newspaper in 1929 and eventually became news editor of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, writing fiction in his spare time. Simak was best known for the book City, a reaction to the horrors of World War II, and for his novel Way Station. In 1953 City was awarded the International Fantasy Award, and in following years, Simak won three Hugo Awards and a Nebula Award. In 1977 he became the third Grand Master of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, and before his death in 1988, he was named one of three inaugural winners of the Horror Writers Association's Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement.
William Henry Harben (1858–1919) was an American novelist and short story writer, renowned for his depictions of Southern life, particularly in Georgia. He drew on his experiences growing up in the post-Civil War South to explore themes of social class, race, and human folly with humor and realism. Harben was also a journalist, and his works combined sharp observation with vivid, often satirical storytelling.
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.
