Space Race Nostalgia

A space pioneer at a lonely outpost is captured by aliens and condemned to die. Can he hold out until the relief ship arrives...?

/PressPort/ -- Martin Warminger gives top rating to recent audio book release from Max Bollinger Interactive Media. www.maxbollinger.co.uk Acid Bath http://www.interactive.eu.com/acid_bath.html

A space pioneer at a lonely outpost is captured by aliens and condemned to die. Can he hold out until the relief ship arrives...?

I understand that this story by Vaseleos Garson was written in the 1950s, a time when space flight became a reality for the human race and there is a sense of wonder in its telling that reflects that age of goggle-eyed expectancy. Russian born TV producer and writer, Max Bollinger, narrates the tale beautifully, his Russian vowels adding yet another link to that time of east-west space-racing.

Unlike the usual style of audio book, this has a music and effects soundtrack backing the narration giving it a radio play feel rather than a straightforward reading. Someone has also been playing with some Dalek-voice electronics allowing the aliens to have strange mechanical voices. The whole effect gives a slightly `boys own' ambience which is not unpleasant and is a nostalgic link to those years of sitting in front of the `wireless'.

As other reviewers have indicated, this is a short story, not a full length novel and as such should be balanced against price. Nevertheless, this is a charming audio book which evokes a period feel of Dan Dare style early space travel and alien encounters which no boy, or even `old' boy should miss.

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