The Edge of the Knife: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Edge of the Knife, credited to H. Beam Piper, 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 Edge of the Knife by H. Beam Piper. Read by jfmarchini. The Terro-Human Future History is Piper's detailed account of the next 6000 years of human history. 1942, the year the first fission reactor was constructed, is defined as the year 1 A.E. (Atomic Era). In 1973, a nuclear war devastates the planet, eventually laying the groundwork for the emergence of a Terran Federation, once humanity goes into space and develops antigravity technology.The story "The Edge of the Knife" (collected in Empire) occurs slightly before the war, and involves a man who sees flashes of the future. It links many key elements of Piper's series. (Summary from Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Edge of the Knife
• Author credits: H. Beam Piper
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 6
• Listed recording duration: 1:48:22

Catalogue topics

• scifi
• science fiction
• sci-fi

Track guide

1. Part 01 — 18:58
2. Part 02 — 18:27
3. Part 03 — 15:05
4. Part 04 — 16:00
5. Part 05 — 21:58
6. Part 06 — 17:56

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