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Space: 1969

By: Bill Oakley
Narrated by: Natasha Lyonne, full cast
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What if President John F. Kennedy had survived and rocketed the Space Race of the 1960s into overdrive? And what if he was, maybe, not quite...himself?

Space: 1969 is a wild and outrageous sci-fi comedy from the mind of Emmy-winning writer Bill Oakley (The Simpsons, Futurama, Portlandia).

Nancy Kranich (played by Emmy-nominated actress Natasha Lyonne of Russian Doll and Orange Is the New Black) is a night nurse on an orbiting space station. But Nancy hates her job, is sick of space, and longs to find adventure and a safe place to smoke cigarettes that won’t blow everyone up.

But when Nancy gets caught up in an outer-space conspiracy involving President Kennedy (serving his third term), former vice-president Richard Nixon (now a miserable, forgotten lawyer practicing estate law in New York City), and an intergalactic object that could change the course of history, she gets way more adventure than she bargained for.

Can Nurse Nancy save herself, the Moon Colony, and the future of the entire United States of America?

Space: 1969 is a retro sci-fi comedy adventure that has to be heard to be believed!

Narrators:

  • Natasha Lyonne
  • Jim Meskimen
  • LJ Ganser
  • Catherine Taber
  • Barrett Leddy
  • Bill Andrew Quinn
  • Chris Andrew Ciulla
  • Dina Pearlman
  • Gabriel Vaughan
  • Jay Snyder
  • Kevin Pariseau
  • Kevin T. Collins
  • Khristine Hvam
  • Mark Boyett
  • Helen Laser
  • Nick Sullivan
  • Piper Goodeve
  • Robert Creighton
  • Steve Routman
  • Thom Rivera
  • Ron E. Rains
  • Richie Moriarty
  • Jeb Kreager
  • Henry Strozier
  • Bartley Booz
  • Adrian Roberts
  • Joniece Abbott-Pratt
  • Carol Monda
  • Bill Oakley
  • Josh Weinstein
  • Shaun O'Hagan
  • Marc Vietor

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Humorous Literature & Fiction Satire Science Fiction Funny Witty Space Humour

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I liked this - a serial play, with ingenious historic references and plot devices. The only thing that grated on me was the main female lead characters voice. It was a little like listening to a gangster’s moll, who smokes 60 a day, speaking through a rusty baked bean tin full of barbed wire. The character was good it was just that overplayed voice that was tiresome. Otherwise, it was a good listen. The story was a bit hard to follow and resolved in a clumsy manner. Just my view!

1963 explained albeit with irritations.

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Hysterical. Surprisingly involving. Fits the period.
Can't wait for the second book!!!
Really really funny!

Came across this by accident and listens to the whole thing in two sittings!

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Performed by several voice artists with narration this is a gripping ride from Earth to the Moon via the Space Station.
You could loosely describe it as an alternative history, speculating what would happen if President Kennedy didn’t die in Dallas in 1963.
I think it is accessible by anyone, but as some reviewers have pointed out, familiarity with 1960’s US history and social norms adds to the humour I suspect.

Retro space opera or what?

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superb story and performance by the whole cast. funny and entertaining throughout. I wasn't sure I would like it at first been a full cast performance but it really added to the story and showed the characters. Great space adventure with strange things going on, and rival presidents.

excellent

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A good fun book that doesn't take itself serious. well performed and very funny . a must read

A good lusten

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