The Red Dust: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Red Dust, credited to Murray Leinster, 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 Red Dust, by Murray Leinster. Read by Phil Chenevert This story is the exciting sequel to "The Mad Planet" by Murray Leinster. Our world, in a far distant future, is peopled with huge insects and titanic fungus growths. Life has been greatly altered to say the least, and poor weak Man is still in the process of becoming acclimated to the change even after 30,000 years. We again meet our hero Burl, but this time a far greater danger menaces the human race. The huge insects are still in evidence, but the terror they inspire is as nothing compared to the deadly Red Dust. You will follow this remarkable story with breathless interest. "Burl raised his spear, and plunged down on the back of the moving thing, thrusting his spear with all the force he could command. He had fallen upon the shining back of one of the huge, meat-eating beetles, and his spear had slid across the horny armor and then stuck fast, having pierced only the leathery tissue between the insect's head and thorax." (Summary from the magazine blurb and Phil Chenevert)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Red Dust
• Author credits: Murray Leinster
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 5
• Listed recording duration: 2:45:41

Catalogue topics

• science fiction
• SF
• SciFi
• leinster
• fiction

Track guide

1. 1 - Prey — 34:10
2. 2 - The Journey — 35:11
3. 3 - The Sexton-Beetles — 32:16
4. 4 - The Forest of Death — 35:19
5. 5 - Out of Bondage — 28:46

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