Sand Doom - Murray Leinster

The issue was as perfect a circle as one could hope for: they couldn't dock the ship carrying the repair parts without repair parts!
Published in December 1955 ~ Astounding Science Fiction
Narrated by Mark Nelson
This audiobook has been carefully edited and enhanced to the highest standard. Enjoy sinking into the sands of this classic story by SF legend Murray Leinster

[@SBCBears]

Narrator Mark Nelson is always appreciated.

[@timobrien2813]

It was the tail end of the golden age of sci fi that started my love of reading. By chance I found Sand Doom today and through it NewThinkable. It took me a while to get into the story but then I was swept along by the adventure and excitement. Thank you NewThinkable. This is going into my favorites list! UKUK

[@sams5963]

I second the Love on the artwork. And I loved the story.

[@jamesmc04]

I started listening because of the cover art, and stayed because the reader is (the excellent) Mark Nelson.

[@plumpuddn]

Such a refreshing step back in time after today's hard sci-fi. Can't get enough of either.

[@RP-ve7bl]

Welcome Back!

[@Seven-Planets-Sci-Fi-Tuber]

Wow! I thought you were gone forever. I am elated. And I was thinking about Murray Leinster as recently learned about a new collection of his stories that I want to get. This channel is a gold mine! Thank you so much for all your work! 💚

[@dionnedeniseeveryday]

My favorite pass time❤️ Good morning😊

[@johnkelly7757]

Welcome and bravo!

[@IWillHarvestYourToes]

Love the retro artwork 😍

[@michelleeden2272]

Blue and orange are complementary colors, and orange seems to advance towards us, while blue recedes. Except for some very pale green, the whole painting is done in blue and orange, so the palette is both attractive and dramatic. The composition is also excellent, with two contrasting masses: the foregrounded mountains slanting down, and the background mountains slanting up. The large flat expanse of blue sky is also mirrored by the blue and grey rocket and ferry on the flat orange plain. Even the distant pale green vegetation is mirrored by a sphere in the same celadon hue. The seven main figures are rendered in deep blues with black shadows and a few off-white highlights,, creating the same dramatic chiaroscuro effect as on the spacecraft and rover vehicle. Textures are emphasized in the sand and rocks in the foreground, and in the rock striations poking through the distant sandy mountains. Overall this is a superior example of sci-fi art. Well done, mystery artist!

[@warplanner8852]

It was derivative of the space art of the fifties, a painting by Chesley Bonestell depicting a two-stage rocket concept for a Mars mission. It is from the Werner Von Braun and Willy Ley's Exploration of Mars_ book. I remember spending hours in my father's library reading it and it's companion by Willy Ley's companion book _The Conquest of Space_ . pictures.abebooks.com/OLDCAT/md/md17120822978.jpg

[@otterrivers3765]

This story is captivating me. I love the problem solving angle. But the most striking thing is this cover art! Wow! How vivid!

[@adamoneal6476]

The Return of the King

[@toomuchcake]

I was so excited when I saw a new video! Welcome back and thank you!

[@jakistuart]

So good to hear this readers voice. First time listening to this story

[@NewThinkable]

The narrator is Mark Nelson - you'll find more audiobooks narrated by him on this channel. Thanks for listening!

[@dickrichardson1804]

Whoa! Hell yes!❤

[@ericblair3009]

along about 1 hour 15 minutes they are discussing making ice and using the sun to melt things..... This IS REAL science! Good story!

[@alantaylor353]

Awesome.! Thank you.!

[@shaunbrown4951]

Great to have you back

[@SocalSamStokes]

A story from a different time when we all worked together.

[@paulkube3901]

Excellent! Thank you for posting.

[@NewThinkable]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@fayemo9391]

Good to have you back buddy 🙌

[@rogue5ive]

Back with a banger! Great story, superb little universe createrd in such a short time, really enjoyed, thank you. Think I will listen to everything previously posted again since it been years.

[@matthewmallan1995]

Love this guy's voice, great story.

[@NewThinkable]

Glad you enjoyed it Matthew!

[@Ashystar067]

Woohoo !! :D new story ~ ty !!

[@aaronlea9559]

Oh happy day!

[@captchrispike]

a great story, great narrator, really enjoyable! & with all its positivity, this story could've been made into a really good original series Star Trek episode.

[@charleskutrufis9612]

Thank You so much for this, very satisfying.

[@Swolimandius]

yoooo love me some new sci fi stories to listen to. welcome back!

[@owensthilaire8189]

Maybe it's my age but I really like the old weird tales and sci-fi stories. I pictured Boardman as Larry Linville.

[@engineerforthefuture8593]

The Return

[@angel22893]

Great story ❤

[@stutzbearcat5624]

And Great Job Mr Reader!!!!

[@peterlablanche8211]

Frank Herbert must have read this before he wrote Dune.

[@wallacewilliams535]

WELCOME BACK!

[@stevie-ray2020]

Great story!

[@Norfolk250]

This started playing in my cachet immediately after the making of Tremors. Heeheeee

[@custardgannet4836]

Oh hey! It's been a minute

[@deltabravo2678]

that was a fun story!

[@bfitzger2]

Nice coincidence - I had recently read this (in a collection of Leinster short stories). Nice version!

[@ajobdunwell2585]

You credited the reader.. cool.

[@jonahdonahue2930]

OMG it's the KillDozer guy!!

[@gwilliams4269]

👏👏👏🤝

[@ukonline1]

I keep listening to these stories at bedtime and fall asleep and don’t know what the f**k is going on. What’s this about? Sand? Warlocks?

[@shauntaylor9251]

That narrator twists me melon big big time !

[@dmonvisigoth1651]

It's been too long. This + a new Spark Master Tape album. Things are going well this week.

[@lastofthe4horsemen279]

This is a cool Sci fy tale seems like its from the 30's - 50's .

[@johnnybgoode7983]

Is this thing on ?... tap tap tap.....shake off the dust and oil those gears !!

[@DressedForDrowning]

Question to the American audience: Is Murray Leinster considered a good sf author?

[@type2ryder417]

nice

[@davidwestfall4121]

What is a cater wheeled vehicle?

[@jamesbeemer7855]

Interesting , 1955 was a time of recovery from world war 2 . And astronomy was not so popular . But the rocket , that was a big invention of the Germans and we saw some of the possibilities .

[@jamesbeemer7855]

So , to continue , the number of feathers in a war bonnet is fake . In holly wood films .

[@stutzbearcat5624]

Funny almost/pretty much describes Mars. Tho Mars is seemingly more monochromatic.

[@EricVornoff]

18:43 25:59 38:58 43:00 1:01:01

[@jamesbeemer7855]

Oh that’s interesting . Each race has their own planet . I wonder how that would work .

[@user-jl8mp6lg4i]

Wensday

[@user-qk1mp7vb4s]

The narrator mispronounces 'Leinster'--it should be LENSTER like the Irish province.

[@jamesbeemer7855]

Wow , a bit of truth . Counting cou . When a warrior in the Native American tradition skalps an enimy , he earns a cou . A cou , is an eagle feather . See this no one tells you this . And Hollywood totally misrepresents this tradition .

[@wikikomoto]

not too bad for a white saviour story from the 1950s, this was a fun one!

[@williamhagen2792]

This is boring to the tens. D I S L I K E.

[@michelleeden2272]

Yes, you are. I agree.

[@warplanner8852]

Wonder if any of the woke listeners here realize that the _paleface_ here solved the problems that the _red man_ and the _African_ doctor could not solve? Could it be that Murray Leinster - _the Jew_ - was a racist?