The Blue Star: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Blue Star, credited to Fletcher Pratt, 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 Star by Fletcher Pratt. Read in English by Mark Nelson; Angelique G. Campbell The novel is set in a parallel world in which the existence of psychic powers has permitted the development of witchcraft into a science; in contrast, the physical sciences have languished, resulting in a modern culture reminiscent of our eighteenth century. The protagonists are Lalette Asterhax, a hereditary witch, and Rodvard Bergelin, an ordinary government clerk who has been recruited into the radical conspiracy of the Sons of the New Day. Rodvard, though attracted to the daughter of a baron, is commanded by his superiors to seduce Lalette instead to gain the use of her blue star in the furtherance of their revolutionary aims. The witch is no more truly enamored of him than he is of her, but both fall in with the scheme for their own reasons, unaware of how much they are simply pawns in the larger scheme of things. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Blue Star
• Author credits: Fletcher Pratt
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 31
• Listed recording duration: 9:43:52

Catalogue topics

• romance
• science fiction
• fantasy
• witchcraft
• psychic

Opening tracks: first 24 of 31

1. 00 - Prologue — 15:05
2. 01 - Netznegon City: March Rain — 19:05
3. 02 - April Night — 21:15
4. 03 - Escape — 21:11
5. 04 - Daylight; Refuge — 21:19
6. 05 - Night; Generosity; Treason — 21:12
7. 06 - Night and Day; The Place of Masks — 18:48
8. 07 - Sedad Vix: A New Life — 22:46
9. 08 - High Politic — 21:01
10. 09 - Spring Festival: Intrigue of Count Cleudi — 17:45
11. 10 - Prelude to the Servants’ Ball — 18:32
12. 11 - Kazmerga; Two Against a World — 24:18
13. 12 - Netznegon City; A Zigraner Festival — 24:20
14. 13 - Farewell and Greeting — 20:34
15. 14 - The Eastern Sea; The Captain’s Story — 22:38
16. 15 - Charalkis; The Door Closes — 26:00
17. 16 - The Eastern Sea: Systole — 22:02
18. 17 - Charalkis: The Depth and Rise — 24:54
19. 18 - Decide for Life — 19:57
20. 19 - Two Choices — 15:29
21. 20 - Inevitable — 17:52
22. 21 - Midwinter: The Return — 23:04
23. 22 - The Law of Love — 18:27
24. 23 - Netznegon: Return to Glory — 18:20

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