Derelict - Alan E. Nourse 

Nourse was a great science fiction writer of past times. As a 15-year old teenage in 1967, I went to the school library and checked out the science fiction novel, Rocket to Limbo by Alan Nourse. I didn't know it at the time, but this science fiction book would be my all time favorite. After leaving the 9th grade for high school (1968) and graduating in 1971, I never forgot that book. The story line just stuck in my head, to remain there for decades. Thanks to the internet, I was able to obtain a used paperback book (ACE), printed in 1959, Rocket to Limbo by Alan Nourse. In 2014, on a whim, I pulled up ebay on my laptop, typed in the title of the book and "bam", there it was, Rocket to Limbo! After some 4-decades of time space between me and my youth, a book, a story that had captured and held prisoner my imagination for some 40+years. I ordered the paperback, sat back, and waited for delivery. When it came, I was as excited as a kid at Christmas! I quickly read the short novel again and realized again, my all time favorite science fiction story, all time!

Alan E. Nourse wrote one of my favorite books called "The Fourth Horseman." It was a book about a pandemic which at the time just seemed like good fiction. Yeah...

I was browsing the other day and came across your channel. What a find! I am so delighted with all these gems. I started with the " derelict " and have been binging on the shorter stories first. I never lost my fascination with science fiction which began soon after elementary school. Well done❤👍🙏

... thought this was a cool metal album by an artist I haven't herd, and now I can't stop listening.

Cool story, never heard of the author before now.

Classic. Am reminded of other epic sci-fi writers like John Campbell, Matheson, and many others all the way back to Lovecraft, Wells, Verne, Poe, etc. and all of the many writers from the long pulp fiction and especially the cold-war eras. Great reading of a fun yet meaningful tale.

Great story !! If wondering. Do yourself a favor and listen.

Always loved Alan E Nourse books

Great story & a WONDERFUL reader! Thank you!!!

One of the best of the classics

This is , by far, my favorite narrator. All the best to you sir!!

First class narration. Thanks for posting.

Yay stories!

Way ahead of its time! Thankyou

That was a sad tale, but good story.

Thanks for subtitles!!!!

Thank you, AWESOME upload !

Great story!

Super story !!!!

this is a tremendous story and really well read:-)

Excellent!

Beautiful

Well read ,thank you .

"If" was published in Buffalo New York.

Good Stuff

Cool story!

Need a showdown with this narrator and the Pugg guy

These tales of science fiction have fascinating characters and plots involving subterfuge skullduggery espionage cloak and dagger.And Like a great many science fiction stories that involve the mind and imagination like a detective working on a case like some a game of chess

Alan E. Nourse wrote the novel "BLADE RUNNER" - title used for Dick movie.

Short books are nice

Good story well told

I like the cover of IF: Jupiter Five

Who says the guy got away? Maybe he got crushed, just like the builders of the ship.

I prefer (x minus one) if I’m going to listen to sf audio

So there breaking into the spaceship.. How did the ghostship stop for them to board?

Crew: "We're a station. They're a ship, 'really moving' fast." Captain: "Grapple them!" Me: Uh huh. Sigh. Distance? Momentum? Oh right. Buckles must be swashed.

"...shoving him unceremoniously...", as opposed to a more ceremonial style of shoving, like in an advanced Judo kata lol. "I'm for me, and believe me I know it!" Funny, but I sincerely understand Nourse's thesis re: individuality vrs hyper-capitalism/expansion.

I'll not deny that the humans of the 40's 50's & 60's loved a good old kkk style torching but I missed the bit in this story where any little green men were killed. Just the tale of a rough diamond finding the deeply buried good in him. I believe he even did it without the aid of a 19 year old voluptuous virgin or tobacco !

Ok

Sunday

Where the f£&k is Nobody Bothers Gus By that brilliant sci fi writer B. Aldry?

Who is narrator, Mark Nelson 🤔

That sounds like the world we live in now!

Didn't end well you keep on wanting the guy to get away

10:30

This narrator sounds exactly like the voice overs on old school kung-fu flicks.

masochistic tutorial, crudely crafted.

8:00 From here on the story establishes itself as another dystopian vision of the future. Talk about cliches!

Anti-climatic ending. Narration was good but storyline was slow and ponderous.

"Going to miss us by several thousand KILOs....". The word for which you so vainly search is is KLICS. Pass.

Well, that was shit. Glad it was only 48 minutes of my life wasted.

Most of this old sci fi shit is pitiful. It's crude totally inept and a perfect example of low intellect and low pulp fiction filth. Perfect heritage for Cormac Mccarthy.