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The Wailing Asteroid (A Tale of Alien Contact) by Murray Leinster, Science Fiction

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The first sounds came at midnight, a woeful cry from an unknown voice in the vastness of uncharted space. Within hours the whole world had heard the strange, unearthly music--and the panic had begun.

Published 1960

This audiobook has been carefully edited and enhanced, so you can listen to this vintage tale of alien contact by legendary SF & Fantasy author Murray Leinster, distraction-free.

20 Comments

@thomassmith6659 8 years ago

Love these old Sci-if books. The reader is outstanding.

@gristledassow5373 4 years ago

The narrator is exceptional.

@wmcruzcarrollsr.5727 6 years ago

The Wailing Asteroid was the first Sci-Fi book to really grab me back in the early 1960s. It set my career path towards electronic engineering.

@Visitor2Earth 8 years ago

I listen to audiobooks like this instead of watching tv. I haven’t watched tv in well over 5 years!

@ShroomKeppie 5 years ago

Murray Leinster has been one of my favorite SF authors for decades. He's got a unique style, where he'll take an idea -- whether it's magnets that don't act like magnets, or "hafnium" , or any of a dozen little grains of a thought and before you know it, he's built a fleet of spaceships, or defeated an oppressive government, or led a band of cave men to a new and better home. His heroes are always low-key, and the love interests levelheaded and formidable in their own right.

Thanks for posting this. It's my first of the series, and I can't wait to see what else is available.

@politicallycorrectredskin796 5 years ago

I love the idea of backyard, amateur space travel. "Yeah, let's bring the diving suit! You never know. Let's also bring only people who don't know anything about space! That'll probably work!"

@nesziros 9 years ago

Old sci-fi is so awesome.

@stephencharman9604 8 years ago

What a brilliant and engrossing story! These audiobooks of stories from the classic sci-fi era are addictive

@raymartinez5788 6 years ago

Great narration job sir. 💯

@gitalloydforART 4 years ago

love this man's voice...

@wirehead1000 7 years ago

read this in the '60s. There are quite a few Leinster yarns on audiobook, many by Mark Nelson. Leinster is a master of irony. U like Murray, U'll like H Beam Piper. Mark Nelson reads a lot of Piper too. Check the XMinusOne radio shows. Leinster 'Sam this is U'. They are full radio plays taken from Galaxy magazine, one of the best SF rags. Heinlein, Asimov, Simak, Pohl, etc.

@cheffunk 8 years ago (edited)

This is the 3rd book of Murray’s that I’ve listened to, and so far all of them connect. Listen to “Mad World” and “Nightmare Planet”

@vincentconti3633 6 years ago

I may have read this!!! I devoured si fi when I was a teenager in the sixties. This is a great story. It stands the test of time. There was also a lot of not so great stuff that was fun when I was young.