Morgue Ship Audiobook (free download)

"Morgue Ship" is short, only six pages long, but Bradbury perfectly manages to capture the atmosphere aboard the morgue ship with its clinical interior, its shelves full of dead soldiers, the churning blood pumps and whirring machinery, in such a short space. Bradbury also manages to pack the horrors of war in space, the exploding ships and spinning dead bodies among the wreckage, into just a few paragraphs. Finally, Bradbury captures overwhelming weariness of Sam Burnett, weariness with his grisly task, weariness with the war and the feeling that because Burnett is not a combatant, he is not contributing to the war effort.

This week, the audio book version of Ray Bradbury's Morgue Ship has made it into the top 50 bestsellers in the Science Fiction and Fantasy category. You can legally download or stream this audio book and listen for free at Spotify, and in high quality at Audible.