The Dueling Machine: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Dueling Machine, credited to Ben Bova, 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 Dueling Machine, by Ben Bova. Read by Gregg Margarite (1957-2012). The Dueling Machine is the solution to settling disputes without injury. After you and your opponent select weapons and environments you are injected into an artificial reality where you fight to the virtual death… but no one actually gets hurt. That is, until a warrior from the Kerak Empire figures a way to execute real-world killings from within the machine. Now its inventor Dr. Leoh has to prevent his machine from becoming a tool of conquest. – The Dueling Machine, written with Myron R. Lewis, first appeared in the May, 1963 issue of Analog Science Fact & Fiction. (Summary by Gregg Margarite)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Dueling Machine
• Author credits: Ben Bova
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 3
• Listed recording duration: 2:24:10

Catalogue topics

• fantasy
• fiction
• science fiction

Track guide

1. 1 - The Dueling Machine (Chapters 1 - 5) — 50:14
2. 2 - The Dueling Machine (Chapters 6 - 10) — 42:31
3. 3 - The Dueling Machine (Chapters 11 - 16) — 51:26

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