Updated: May 30, 2010
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There are two different kinds of audio files available here. The first ("The Foghorn", "A Gun for Dinosaur" and "A Sound of Thunder") are downloadable MP3 files. When selected a File Download dialog will appear. On this dialog you may choose to "Save" the file perhaps for playing at your convenience or "Open" will download the file and begin playing it in your default media/audio player.
The remainder are delivered as streaming audio. When selected, a window will appear with the tracks listed and a media control panel that allows you to play, stop, pause and move backwards and forwards through the tracks. |
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Ray Bradbury
In this 1951 science fiction short story by Ray Bradbury two men in a rural lighthouse witness an ancient creature rise from the deep ocean. This story was originally titled "The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms" and it formed the basis of a film by this name by the special effects wizard, Ray Harryhausen. The short story "The April Witch" is also included and plays first.
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"Caspak" Trilogy
Edgar Rice Burroughs
In Land, Edgar Burroughs concocts a fabulous microworld, located somewhere in the South Pacific, called Caspak. On this mountainous island live winged, humanlike creatures, dinosaurs, ferocious beasts of prey, Neanderthals, "wild ape-men," and monstrous reptiles. Into this world land a submarine crew who must fight their way across the island, dining on Plesiosaurus steaks and having a grand old time in the company of a jungle princess.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Thomas Billings travels to the lost continent of Caspak, near Antarctica, where, in a sheltered tropic jungle, dinosaurs still roam and savage proto-men maintain a strange civilization. Can Billings survive unknown dangers long enough to rescue the missing friend he came in search of? The People That Time Forgot is a direct sequel to The Land That Time Forgot and continues the lost world saga begun in the earlier story. Burroughs continues the revelation of his lost world's unique biological system, only hinted at in the previous installment, in which the slow progress of evolution in the world outside is recapitulated as a matter of individual metamorphosis. This system forms a thematic element serving to unite the three otherwise rather loosely linked Caspak stories.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
In Caspak, the land that time forgot, creatures from the world's savage past live on dinosaurs, cavemen, and the last remnants of Bronze Age barbarians. But the claws and fangs and sharp-edged spears guard a terrible secret. Out of Time's Abyss is the story of a man who dares to uncover that secret. Crossing the last terrible barrier to the heart of Caspak, he enters a world of wonder, terror, and danger beyond imagining.
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L. Sprague de Camp
When approached by a prospective client of his time safari business, Reginald Rivers informs the client he is not big enough to hunt the dinosaurs of the Cretaceous Period, illustrating his point with an extended anecdote from a previous expedition.
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Arthur Conan Doyle
In this classic tale by the creator of Sherlock Holmes, a scientific expedition headed by the larger-than-life Professor Challenger, sets out to explore a plateau in South America that remains frozen in time from the days when dinosaurs roamed the earth. Seemingly impossible to penetrate, this lost world holds great dangers for the expedition team, from fiendish ape-men to terrifying prehistoric creatures.
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Pellucidar series
Edgar Rice Burroughs
David Innes and his inventor friend, Abner Perry, set out on a trial run in Perry's invention, an iron mole, with hopes of locating new beds of anthracite coal. Once in motion, however, they are unable to change the prospector's course and travel five hundred miles toward the center of the Earth. Expecting to meet eternal fires, the two instead emerge into a prehistoric world.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Pellucidar continues the tale of David, the protagonist from At The Earth's Core. It tells the story of his return trip to the fabled subterrainian stone-age land known as Pellucidar. Here he must locate old friends, reunite with his lost loved one, and face his all-but-forgotton foes. |
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Ray Bradbury
In 2055 a hunter named “Eckels” goes on the adventure of a lifetime: travelling back into the past on a prehistoric safari to kill a Tyrannosaurus rex. He is warned that even the smallest change in the past could have unpredictable consequences in the present...
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James DeMille
The adventures of Adam More, a British sailor shipwrecked on a homeward voyage from Tasmania. After passing through a subterranean tunnel of volcanic origin, he finds himself in a "lost world" of prehistoric animals, plants and people sustained by volcanic heat despite the long Antarctic night.
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