Scanners Live In Vain: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
Scanners Live In Vain by Cordwainer Smith: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 5 original MP3 tracks, 1:20:22 running time and a link to listen.

Scanners Live In Vain, credited to Cordwainer Smith, 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 Scanners Live In Vain by Cordwainer Smith. Read in English by Ben Tucker. This story deals with science-fiction's oldest subject—space-travel. Yet the author's treatment of the subject is so completely different that it makes "SCANNERS" one of the most outstanding stories to appear in any magazine! - Summary by Fantasy Book, Vol. 1, No. 6
Recording facts
- Recording title: Scanners Live In Vain
- Author credits: Cordwainer Smith
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 5
- Listed recording duration: 1:20:22
Catalogue topics
- sci-fi
- instrumentality of mankind
- scanners
- haberman
- dead cyborgs
Track guide
- 01 - Chapter 1 — 19:23
- 02 - Chapter 2 — 15:49
- 03 - Chapter 3 — 13:10
- 04 - Chapter 4 — 14:54
- 05 - Chapter 5 — 17:06
Listen to this recording
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Source and rights
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