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.
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 three 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.
