2000X: Tales of the Next Millennia [Audiobook, CD, Unabridged] [Audio CD]

Ray Bradbury (Author), Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (Author), Harlan Ellison (Author), Richard Dreyfuss (Reader), Lynne Thigpen (Reader), Robin Williams (Reader)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 25, 2003

This collection includes: "Pillar of Fire" by Ray Bradbury - an angry corpse is awakened by the imaginationless, barren society of the future; "By His Bootstraps" by Robert A. Heinlein - a man is rudely pulled by a disheveled stranger through a time gate to meet his destiny; and "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow" by Kurt Vonnegut - five generations living in the same one-bedroom condo thanks to an elixir that prolongs life into the triple digits.

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About the Author

The author of more than thirty books, Ray Bradbury is one of the most celebrated fiction writers of our time. Among his best-known works are "Fahrenheit 451", "The Martian Chronicles", "The Illustrated Man", "Dandelion Wine", and "Something Wicked This Way Comes". In 2000, Mr. Bradbury was honored by the National Book Foundation with a medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He is the winner of the 2004 National Medal of Arts and the 2007 Pulitzer Prize Special Citation. In 2007, he was awarded a medal naming him a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters, France's highest cultural award. His most recent books include "Now and Forever", "Farewell Summer", and "From the Dust Returned". Mr. Bradbury lives in Los Angeles.

Kurt Vonnegut was a master of contemporary American Literature. His black humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured America's attention in "The Siren's of Titan" in 1959 and established him as "a true artist" with "Cat's Cradle" in 1963. He was, as Graham Greene has declared, "one of the best living American writers."

Harlan Ellison is one of the world's most respected writers of fiction. He has won more awards for his fiction than any living writer.

Williams has been teaching college level graphic design for 14 years.

From AudioFile

In this science fiction short story anthology, diverse players tackle a variety of excellent, good, and mediocre stories, with the positives much outweighing the negatives. There are some truly classic tales here: "By His Bootstraps," by Robert A. Heinlein; "'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman," by Harlan Ellison; "R.U.R.," by Karel Capek--to name just three. Among the offerings are stories by authors Kurt Vonnegut, Fredric Brown, A.E. van Vogt, Octavia E. Butler, C.L. Moore, and Connie Willis. The readers are mostly well known and of vast talent: Richard Dreyfuss, Charles Durning, Tom Poston, Lynne Thigpen, Rene Auberjonois, Barbara Rush, Robin Williams, among others. Truly well done. D.R.W. © AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Publisher: Audio Literature, Fantastic Audio; Unabridged edition (November 25, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1574535560
• ISBN-13: 978-1574535563
• Product Dimensions: 6.2 x 5.9 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,558,215 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is an incredible set of Sci Fi Radio, August 13, 2003

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This review is from: 2000X: Tales of the Next Millennia (Audio CD)

This set contains six discs featuring 16 different futuristic science fiction audio dramas by various authors.
The clamshell binder holds the cds in sleeves which you might want to convert to slim cd cases for protection.
Disc One:
Blood by Frederic Brown
By His Bootstraps by Robert A. Heinlein
The Choice by Wayland Young
Disc Two:
RUR by Karel Kapek
Disc Three:
Bloodchild by Octavia E. Butler
Merchant by Henry Slesar
Tomorrow and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Disc Four:
Shambleu C.L. Moore
And Miles to go before I sleep by William F. Nolan
Even The Queen by Connie Willis
Disc Five:
Revival Meeting by Dennie Placta
Pillar of Fire by Ray Bradbury
Sentience Today by Yuri Rasovsky
Disc 6:
Knock by Frederick Brown
Dear Pen Pal by A.E. Van Vogt
"Repent Harlequin" Said the Ticktockman by Harlan Ellison

These full cast audio productions are crystal clear on CD and feature humorous introductions by Harlan Ellison who hosts the series. Highly Recommended!

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Unprecedented excellence, July 1, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: 2000X: Tales of the Next Millennia (Audio CD)

The best sci-fi radio drama I've ever heard, this volume anthologizes selections from an NPR series that ran in 1999-2000. All stories take place in the future. Lushly and meticulously produced, wonderful acting and nicely written, these plays of various lengths dramatize stories by greats such as Butler, Heinlein, Vonnegut and Bradbury, plus the stage play R.U.R., an international hit of the 1920s that gave us the word "robot." The sheer breadth of themes -- mensturation, over-population, miscegenation, scholarly folly, etc., etc. -- is astonishing, not to mention the mix of styles. Ellison, who introduces the stories, is his usual annoying self, but (thank God!) uncharacteristically brief.