Planet of Shame: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Planet of Shame, credited to Bruce Elliott, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Planet of Shame by Bruce Elliott. Read in English by Robert H. Cherny. The Planet of Shame, by Bruce Elliott, is a semi-comical science fiction novel written in the early 1960s. Set in the quasi-distant future on a penal colony planet far enough away to be isolated, it relates the adventures and misadventures of James (Jimmy) Comstock and a small group of his associates who possess more heart than head, as they confront an anti-science and anti-intellectual power structure that has ossified and threatens to fall under its own weight. Many of the mores and norms of the earthbound home have been inverted, leading to a society that barely functions. “You don’t spit in the wind, you don’t pull the beard from the… - Summary by Bob Cherny

Recording facts

• Recording title: Planet of Shame
• Author credits: Bruce Elliott
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 17
• Listed recording duration: 4:25:46

Catalogue topics

• rebellion
• dystopian
• paternal

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface — 3:33
2. 01 - Chapter 1 — 16:42
3. 02 - Chapter 2 — 18:24
4. 03 - Chapter 3 — 14:58
5. 04 - Chapter 4 — 16:48
6. 05 - Chapter 5 — 17:03
7. 06 - Chapter 6 — 16:28
8. 07 - Chapter 7 — 22:07
9. 08 - Chapter 8 — 16:52
10. 09 - Chapter 9 — 14:18
11. 10 - Chapter 10 — 17:33
12. 11 - Chapter 11 — 20:41
13. 12 - Chapter 12 — 15:52
14. 13 - Chapter 13 — 14:46
15. 14 - Chapter 14 — 17:50
16. 15 - Chapter 15 — 6:55
17. 16 - Chapter 16 — 14:56

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