Volunteers outside the USA: Murray Leinster died in 1975. This person's work may still be protected by copyright in countries where copyright duration is determined by the author's death date. In Europe this is 70 years; in Canada it is 70 years for authors who died after 1971; and in Australia it is 70 years for authors who died after 1955.
• This project is now complete. All audio files can be found on our catalog page: https://librivox.org/exploration-team-by-murray-leinster/"If you took a spitting cobra and crossed it with a wildcat, painted it tan-and-blue and then gave it hydrophobia and homicidal mania at once—why you might have one sphex.", so says rugged adventurer Hyugens of the a particularly vicous native species to the harsh and inhospitable planet Loren Two, a planet that Hyugens has chosen to attempt to colonize illegally with the help of his friends Sitka Pete, Sourdough Charley and Faro Nell (along with her child Nugget), massive mutated Kodiak bears, bred to be intelligent and loyal to man. Also to aid him in his mission is his trained giant eagle Semper. When Huygens discovers that a robot colony has been overrun by sphexes and possible survivors are trapped in a mine-tunnel with little time to spare, he makes the difficult choice to head out on a rescue mission, even if it means his own arrest and capture.
Winner of Hugo Award for Best Novelette in 1956!
(Summary by Ben Tucker )
Source text (please read only from this text!): https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68730
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Genres for the project: Fantastic Fiction/Science Fiction
Keywords that describe the book: illegal colony, mutant bears, trained eagle, sphexes, rescue mission
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LibriVox recording settings: mono (1 channel), 44100 Hz sample rate, 128 kbps constant bit rate MP3. See the Tech Specs
Intro to recording:
Leave 0.5 to 1 second of silence at the beginning.
For the first section, say:
For the second and subsequent sections, you may use the shortened intro if you wish:"Section (or Chapter) # of Exploration Team. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit librivox.org." [Optional: "Read by your name."] "Exploration Team, by Murray Leinster. Section Title."
End of recording:"Section (or Chapter) # of Exploration Team, by Murray Leinster. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain." [Optional: "Read by your name."] "Section Title."
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Leave 5 seconds of silence at the end."End of Exploration Team, by Murray Leinster."
Filename: explorationteam_##_leinster_128kb.mp3 where ## is the section number. (e.g. explorationteam_01_leinster_128kb.mp3)
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