The Status Civilization: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Status Civilization, credited to Robert Sheckley, 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 Status Civilization, by Robert Sheckley. Read by Gregg Margarite (1957-2012). Will Barrent awakes without memories just before being deposited on Omega, a planet for criminals where the average life expectancy is 3 years. He’s listed as a murderer and released into the illicit society as a “peon” the lowest class imaginable. A mysterious girl gives him a weapon that starts him on his path to status, a path that requires constant brutality. But it must be borne if our hero is to discover the reason for his imprisonment; A reason that pits him against himself, and involves the sardonically similar but devoutly different creeds of Omega and Earth. - The Status Civilization was first published as “Omega!” in the August and September 1960 issues of Amazing Science Fiction Stories Magazine. (Summary by Gregg Margarite)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Status Civilization
• Author credits: Robert Sheckley
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 6
• Listed recording duration: 4:57:04

Catalogue topics

• Science Fiction

Track guide

1. 1 - The Status Civilization (Chapters 1 - 4) — 49:09
2. 2 - The Status Civilization (Chapters 5 - 9) — 56:25
3. 3 - The Status Civilization (Chapters 10 - 15) — 50:27
4. 4 - The Status Civilization (Chapters 16 - 21) — 51:57
5. 5 - The Status Civilization (Chapters 22 - 26) — 42:07
6. 6 - The Status Civilization (Chapters 27 - 30) — 47:03

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