Anything You Can Do ...

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Anything You Can Do ...

by Randall Garrett

EN·~5 hours·6 chapters

Chapters

6 total
1

DARREL T. LANGART - anything you can do ...

41:46
2

FIRST INTERLUDE

38:47
3

SECOND INTERLUDE

47:59
4

THIRD INTERLUDE

36:58
5

FOURTH INTERLUDE

1:42:24
6

FINAL INTERLUDE

49:25

Description

A solitary, fish‑shaped ship glides through the endless night, its silver‑pink hull marred by a long, dark scar that marks a dying vessel. The engines emit a low, mournful song—a vibration that signals both the ship’s damage and the precariousness of its journey toward a distant yellow‑white star. Inside, the alien pilot, known only as the Nipe, faces a cascade of failures that threaten to tear the craft apart at any moment.

The Nipe’s thoughts turn inward as he confronts the stark reality of his isolation. He has already made an impossible choice, ending the life of his own brother to conserve the scant supplies needed for his survival. Now, with communications dead and power available only in brief, desperate bursts, he wrestles with the weight of that decision and the looming prospect of his own end.

Against the backdrop of an alien cosmos, the story unfolds as a quiet meditation on survival, responsibility, and the thin line between duty and desperation. Listeners are drawn into a haunting, introspective voyage that asks what one will do when the universe offers no easy answers.

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Language

en

Duration

~5 hours (304K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by Greg Weeks, Geoffrey Kidd, Stephen Blundell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

Release date

2008-01-26

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

Randall Garrett

Randall Garrett

1927–1987

A prolific mid-century science fiction and fantasy writer, he became especially well known for the Lord Darcy stories, where detective fiction meets an alternate world shaped by magic. He also wrote heavily for the pulp magazines of the 1950s and 1960s and collaborated with other major SF writers.

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