BEST OF (#51 of 555) ASLEEP IN ARMEGEDDON by RAY BRADBURY

1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales

Jon Hagadorn

Fiction, Arts

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🗓️ 19 February 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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A Classic sci-fi short story by Ray Bradbury that tells of a space traveler who has crash landed on a planet inhabited by thoughts- beings with no form that destroyed their own civilizations through war and have been waiting eons for a living being to land there. All he has to do is avoid sleep for sic days until the rescue ship comes.....

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Welcome to another episode from 1001 classic short stories and tales.
0:34.8	This one titled, A Sleep in Armageddon.
0:39.9	It's from science fiction writer Ray Bradbury,
0:45.7	and one of its few that can now be found in the public domain. It was first published in Planet Stories in 1948, and those were great times for sci-fi stories. Then reprinted in the Avon
0:51.6	Fantasy Reader No Number 11 in 1949.
0:55.0	If you have an original, you can probably guess what that's worth.
0:58.0	There are many stories of interplanetary travel, but Bradbury excels.
1:02.0	We hope you enjoy.
1:04.0	And now, Asleep in Armageddon by Ray Bradbury.
1:10.0	You don't want death, and you don't expect death.
1:13.6	Something goes wrong.
1:15.6	Your rocket tilts in space.
1:17.6	A planetoid jumps up.
1:19.6	Blackness, movement, hands over the eyes,
1:22.6	a violent pulling back of available power in the four jets.
1:25.6	The crash. The darkness., the crash, the darkness.
1:29.2	In the darkness, the senseless pain.
1:32.2	In the pain, the nightmare.
1:35.3	He was not unconscious.
1:38.2	Your name?
1:40.1	Asked hidden voices.
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