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Black Star Passes by John W. Campbell
Science Fiction
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Follow along with Arcot, Morey, and Wade as they discover a revolutionary form of propulsion, visit our neighboring planets, and go up against aliens from a rogue solar system that passes close to our own. These three stories (Piracy Preferred, Solarite, and The Black Star Passes) were originally published as a serial in Amazing Stories magazine.
Read by Scott D. Farquhar of Prometheus Radio Theatre
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By: Scott
Apologies on the slight delay in the next episode, for those who might be eager. My neighbors were having their windows replaced over the weekend and the very noisy work was happening during those times I had intended to record. It should only be a day or two...By: Scott
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Laith, Yep. Just one classification.
Chapters
| Title | Description | Date Created |
| Author's and Reader's Introduction (8.4 MB) | Reader Scott D. Farquhar shares John W. Campbell's own Introduction to The Black Star Passes. | Jul 16, 2008 |
| Book 1 "Piracy Preferred" - Prologue (15.24 MB) | "Piracy! Pirates in the air! In 2126 we have pirates attacking our air lines." -- Field Manager of the San Francisco terminus of The Transcontinental Airways Company | Jul 16, 2008 |
| Book 1 "Piracy Preferred" - Chapter 1 (16.99 MB) | "The other day several men came in to charter a plane to San Francisco. It seems they wanted to hire the ship so they could be robbed!" -- Robert Morey | Jul 20, 2008 |
| Book 1 "Piracy Preferred" - Chapter 2 (28.95 MB) | "Dad seems to think the machine has possibilities! I believe it will antiquate all types of airplanes, prop or jet. It's a direct utilization of the energy that the sun is kindly supplying... We may as well tap that vast ocean of power." -- Richard Arcot | Jul 30, 2008 |
| Book 1 "Piracy Preferred" - Chapter 3 (24.88 MB) | "I never began to let out the power of this thing! What a ship! When these are made commercially, we'll have to use about one horsepower generators in them, or people will kill themselves trying to see how fast they can go." -- Richard Arcot | Aug 10, 2008 |
| Book 1 "Piracy Preferred" - Chapter 4 (28.46 MB) | "I'm Wade--help if you can. Am in an orbit and can't get out. Fuel reserve gage stuck, and used all my rockets. No more power. I am running out of compressed air and the generator is going--will take animation suspending gas--will you be able to reach me before entering night?" --The Pirate | Aug 22, 2008 |