The Blue Germ: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Blue Germ, credited to Maurice Nicoll, 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 The Blue Germ by Maurice Nicoll. Read in English by Brian Fullen. For your consideration: an English physician and a Russian research scientist jointly develop a bacillus that transforms disease causing germs into benign microorganisms effectively eliminating death by natural cause. Hence, mankind's age old dream of immortality is about to become reality. In an era that predates international regimens governing the introduction of such a miracle their only concern is potential interference by reactionary politicians opposed to practically anything that might be considered revolutionary. The well-intentioned inventors take matters into their own hands, gifting mankind with their extraordinary boon, by spreading the bacillus globally beginning with the water supply in England. The result might be utopian or dystopian or something betwixt those extremes. Lets find out! - Summary by Brian Fullen

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Blue Germ
• Author credits: Maurice Nicoll
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 30
• Listed recording duration: 5:58:39

Catalogue topics

• science fiction
• scifi
• ethics

Opening tracks: first 24 of 30

1. 01 - Black Magic — 5:37
2. 02 - Sarakoff's Manifesto — 11:48
3. 03 - The Butterflies — 8:54
4. 04 - The Six Tubes — 10:31
5. 05 - The Great Aqueduct — 4:27
6. 06 - The Attitude of Mr. Thornduck — 9:32
7. 07 - Leonora — 21:57
8. 08 - The Blue Disease — 10:41
9. 09 - The Man from Birmingham — 15:07
10. 10 - The Illness of Mr. Annot — 13:52
11. 11 - The Resurrection — 12:46
12. 12 - Mr. Clutterbuck's Opinion — 10:37
13. 13 - The Dead Immortal — 15:45
14. 14 - First Impressions of Immortality — 12:45
15. 15 - The Terrible Fear — 15:37
16. 16 - The Visit of the Home Secretary — 15:41
17. 17 - Clutterbuck's Odd Behaviour — 5:27
18. 18 - Immortal Love — 21:11
19. 19 - The Meeting at the Queen's Hall — 14:13
20. 20 - The Way Back — 10:26
21. 21 - Jason — 13:11
22. 22 - The First Murders — 14:07
23. 23 - At Downing Street — 11:09
24. 24 - Night of an Immortal — 7:48

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