The Radio Beasts: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Radio Beasts, credited to Ralph Milne Farley, 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 Radio Beasts by Ralph Milne Farley. Read in English by Daryl Hanson This is the second book of a fanciful series written by Ralph Milne Farley, pen name for Roger Sherman Hoar. It is an interplanetary adventure in the style of Edgar Rice Burroughs. In the first book, "An Earthman On Venus," Myles Cabot, an electrical engineer from Earth, was accidentally transported to the planet Venus while attempting to transfer matter in a small scale experiment in his Boston laboratory. Alone and unarmed and finding himself on Poros, the local name for his new-found alien world, Cabot was swiftly captured by a race of giant intelligent ants, called Formians. They had enslaved a race of much more human-like inhabitants known as the Cupians for a period of five hundred years. While a prisoner, Myles soon falls in love with a beautiful Cupian princess who was being held captive by the Formians for the purpose of genetic experimentation. Cabot escapes with the princess and begins the long road to freedom for the Cupian nation which is eventually accomplished by the end of the first book in the series. Now, in book two, Cabot and his adopted country are pitted against a resurgent Formian empire who are in league with a renegade Cupian known as Prince Yuri. The traitorous prince hates Myles with a passion for stealing the beautiful Lilla away from him, and he snobbishly looks down on anyone not born of nobility as he is. And in Cabot's particular situation, he has the added stigma in Yuri's mind of possessing those peculiar alien deformities of a man from another planet. Neither the Formians nor the Cupians have external ears to perceive sound, but rather are endowed with two graceful antennae with which they are able to communicate with each other by a type of radio waves. Without his ingeniously contrived apparatus made up of tubes, headphones, microphone and homemade batteries, Cabot would be entirely unable to communicate with either species himself. Throughout the remainder of the book, Cabot must escape from various predicaments, fight for his very life, and then succeed to rally the Cupians to overcome the tremendous threat once again posed by the renegade Yuri and his Formian cohorts. - Summary by Daryl Hanson

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Radio Beasts
• Author credits: Ralph Milne Farley
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 23
• Listed recording duration: 8:16:56

Catalogue topics

• antennae
• giant ant-men
• radio waves
• interplanetary adventure
• gossamer wings
• war among the races

Track guide

1. 01 - From Another World — 14:32
2. 02 - The Match And The Powder — 30:58
3. 03 - Great News — 31:05
4. 04 - Trapped — 21:25
5. 05 - Ant-Bear And Ant-Man — 35:43
6. 06 - Trapped Again — 15:30
7. 07 - A Way Out — 11:09
8. 08 - Beasts Of The Dark — 23:34
9. 09 - The Caves Of Kar — 22:45
10. 10 - Treachery — 19:20
11. 11 - With The Army — 19:24
12. 12 - The Troubles Of Toron — 9:40
13. 13 - Toron Continues His Story — 22:23
14. 14 - Portheris — 13:05
15. 15 - For Control Of The Air — 17:58
16. 16 - The Beasts Of Kuana — 17:09
17. 17 - "The Lion And The Mouse" — 18:58
18. 18 - Sangre Y Arenas — 32:42
19. 19 - Treachery — 30:38
20. 20 - The Tables Turned — 13:23
21. 21 - But Who Is King? — 30:34
22. 22 - At Yuri's Mercy — 24:29
23. 23 - Too Much Static — 20:32

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