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You can't beat my uncle Isadore - he's dead but he's quick - yet that is just what he was daring me to try and do!.
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First published in ”Galaxy Magazine”
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Science Fiction
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Public Domain stories from archive.org that are read by volunteers.
First published in ”Galaxy Magazine”
Free download from LibriVox.org
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First published September 1, 1958
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About the author
Rosel George Brown
36 books4 followersBorn New Orleans, Louisiana, she lived in the city of her birth with her husband after concluding her formal education at Sophie Newcomb College, where she majored in Greek, and at the University of Minnesota where she received her M.A. in Greek. Several of her books were dedicated to her husband W. Burlie Brown, who was a history professor at Tulane University. The couple had two children. In addition to writing, she worked as a teacher and a welfare visitor in Louisiana. In 1959, she was nominated for the Hugo Award for best new author, but her career was cut short when she died of lymphoma at the age of 41 in 1967. The fourth Nebula Award Anthology contains an obituary written by Daniel F. Galouye, and Anne McCaffrey dedicated her 1970 anthology Alchemy & Academe to Brown, along with several other people. Brown and McCaffrey had met at a Milford Writer's Workshop.
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November 8, 2013
A fun short story with good characters and an interesting plot. The narrator Mark Nelson as always is easy to listen to. The recording is professional and seamless.
January 27, 2026
This story is a lot of fun. It's crazy silliness, but always coherent silliness.
So the story starts....Uncle Isadore is dead. His crumpled spaceship has crashed on Alvarla. Our unnamed Narrator, and his guide Rene look upon the wreckage.
And so there is a now a Mystery to be solved. What happened to Uncle Izzy?
And thus begins the story of a crazy Treasure Hunt. And that is all I am going to say.
NO SPOILERS HERE.
The great fun of this story is the reader's discovery, step by unraveling step, of the mystery of Uncle Izzy's demise. And I'm not going to spoil the fun.
It's a well written story, full of surprises with a great cast of characters. From the mysterious, unseen Uncle Isadore, to the unnamed Narrator who is a Studs & Neckclasps Salesman, to the constantly complaining, yet competent guide Rene.
Even Mr. Picks, he of the plain square-edged bag shirt and dun suit, our unnamed Narrator's Supervisor, has a broad hint of personality about him.
And there is also some mysterious Long-Legged, Pink-Haired Girl lurking around in the background. Don't know who she is.
It's also amusing that at one point, the unnamed Narrator takes the time to explain to the reader how, in the future, reading an Antique, Old Fashioned Paper Book is an annoyingly difficult process
Recommended. Just read it and have some fun.
And so, a couple of quotes from the story.
"The Dodo
'Though thy crest be shorn and shaven
Thou,' I said, 'Art like a Raven
Ghastly, grim, and ancient Dodo,
Wander from the nightly shore;
Tell me what thy lordly name is
On Night's Plutonian shore...'
Quoth the Dodo, 'Isadore.' "
"....Rene was sitting on his bunk, his jaw slack. 'This is the first time I've been made a fool of by an alcoholic bird.' "
So the story starts....Uncle Isadore is dead. His crumpled spaceship has crashed on Alvarla. Our unnamed Narrator, and his guide Rene look upon the wreckage.
And so there is a now a Mystery to be solved. What happened to Uncle Izzy?
And thus begins the story of a crazy Treasure Hunt. And that is all I am going to say.
NO SPOILERS HERE.
The great fun of this story is the reader's discovery, step by unraveling step, of the mystery of Uncle Izzy's demise. And I'm not going to spoil the fun.
It's a well written story, full of surprises with a great cast of characters. From the mysterious, unseen Uncle Isadore, to the unnamed Narrator who is a Studs & Neckclasps Salesman, to the constantly complaining, yet competent guide Rene.
Even Mr. Picks, he of the plain square-edged bag shirt and dun suit, our unnamed Narrator's Supervisor, has a broad hint of personality about him.
And there is also some mysterious Long-Legged, Pink-Haired Girl lurking around in the background. Don't know who she is.
It's also amusing that at one point, the unnamed Narrator takes the time to explain to the reader how, in the future, reading an Antique, Old Fashioned Paper Book is an annoyingly difficult process
Recommended. Just read it and have some fun.
And so, a couple of quotes from the story.
"The Dodo
'Though thy crest be shorn and shaven
Thou,' I said, 'Art like a Raven
Ghastly, grim, and ancient Dodo,
Wander from the nightly shore;
Tell me what thy lordly name is
On Night's Plutonian shore...'
Quoth the Dodo, 'Isadore.' "
"....Rene was sitting on his bunk, his jaw slack. 'This is the first time I've been made a fool of by an alcoholic bird.' "
March 12, 2025
Science fiction comedy in which a young man locates his uncle's crashed ship on a planet with the help of an irascible guide. The fun begins when they set out to find the old man's fortune with the aid of a talking bird reminiscent of the extinct dodo.
March 14, 2026
SciFi, short story by a master,with Great Narration!!
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