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Space: 1969

By: Bill Oakley
Narrated by: Natasha Lyonne, full cast
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What if JFK survived Dallas, won the Space Race—and then never stopped?

Welcome to Space: 1969, a gloriously off-the-rails full-cast comedy from Emmy-winning Simpsons writer Bill Oakley, starring Natasha Lyonne.

It’s 1969, and President Kennedy is serving his third term, and is maybe not quite himself—he has pushed America clean off the edge of the Space Age. Nancy Kranick (Emmy nominee Natasha Lyonne) is a night nurse on an orbiting space station who hates her job, is sick of space, and wants nothing more than a safe place to smoke a cigarette that won’t blow everyone up.

Then she stumbles into an outer-space conspiracy tangled around President Kennedy, a miserable and long-forgotten estate lawyer named Richard Nixon, and an intergalactic object that could rewrite the course of history. Suddenly Nancy has all the adventure she never wanted and the fate of the Moon Colony, herself, and the entire United States riding on it.

Packed with impressions, absurdist alternate history, and a huge comedic cast, Space: 1969 is retro sci-fi satire that has to be heard to be believed.

Nancy Kranick’s cosmic misadventures continue in Space: 1972 the standalone sequel. Perfect for fans of absurdist comedy sci-fi and full-cast satire like Heads Will Roll.

Available in Dolby Atmos.

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This book is absolutely bonkers. It's like a comedy space cartoon from the 1960s but for adults.

The story is voiced by a cast of actors (the nurse sounds like Marge Simpson) and a full music score.

I burst out laughing a lot.

I loved it.

It' crazy, baby

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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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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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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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