Glow Worm
Written by Harlan Ellison
Narrated by Scott Miller
5/5
()
About this audiobook
Glow Worm by Harlan Ellison - He was the last man on Earth, all right. But—was he still a man?
When the sun sank behind the blasted horizon, its glare blotted out by the twisted wreckage rising obscenely against the hills, Seligman continued to glow.
He shone with a steady off-green aura that surrounded his body, radiated from the tips of his hair, crawled from his skin, and lit his way in the darkest night. It had been with him for two years now.
Though Seligman had never been a melodramatic man, he had more than once rolled the phrase through his mind, letting it fall from his lips: "I'm a freak."
Which was not entirely true. There was no longer anyone he might have termed "normal" for his comparison. Not only were there no more men, there was no more life of any kind. The silence was broken only by the searching wind, picking its way cautiously between the slow-rusting girders of a dead past.
Even as he said, "Freak!" his mind washed the word with two waves, almost as one: vindictiveness and a resignation inextricably bound in self-pity, hopelessness and hatred.
"They were at fault!" he screamed at the tortured piles of masonry in his path.
Across the viewer of his mind, thoughts twisted nimbly, knowing the route, having traversed it often before.
Man had reached for the stars, finding them within his reach were he willing to give up his ancestral home.
More audiobooks from Harlan Ellison
Deathbird Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Troublemakers: Stories Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Harlan Ellison's Watching: Essays and Criticism Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Jupiter: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Stalking the Nightmare and Other Works Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsI Have No Mouth & I Must Scream and Other Works Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Science Fiction Grand Masters Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSlippage Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSci-Fi Spaceships and Nothing But Sci-Fi Spaceships 2 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLost Sci-Fi Books 61 thru 80 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World and Other Works Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Space Travelers and Nothing But Space Travelers 3 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Love Aint Nothing But Sex Misspelled and Other Works Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMemos from Purgatory and Other Works Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Lost Sci-Fi Books 76 thru 80 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Deadly Streets and Other Works Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Harlan Ellison Hornbook and Other Works Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings50 Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories 2 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Vintage Sci-Fi 4 - 21 Science Fiction Classics from Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, Robert Silverberg, Harlan Ellison and more Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Compleat Glass Teat Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLost Sci-Fi Books 71 thru 80 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsApocalyptic Sci-Fi - 7 Science Fiction Short Stories by Philip K. Dick, Harlan Ellison, Frederik Pohl and more Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings1950s Science Fiction 2 - 23 Science Fiction Short Stories From the 1950s Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Related to Glow Worm
Titles in the series (100)
Breeder Reaction Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThree Spacemen Left to Die! Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Fifty-Fourth Of July Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Voyage of Vanishing Men Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDanger in the Void Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAnd All The Girls Were Nude Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Hanging Stranger Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Mind Digger Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Zloor For Your Trouble! Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Addicts Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDeath Star Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Never Gut-Shoot A Wampus Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPlanet of Dreams Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLeave Earthmen or Die! Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Eyes Have It Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Water Eater Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Fugitives Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Queen of Space Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFoster You're Dead Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Martians and the Coys Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Matter of Ethics Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTask of Kayin Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBeyond The Door Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5So They Baked A Cake Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsJourney For the Brave Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Wreck Off Triton Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Plagiarist From Rigel IV Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Alien Dies at Dawn Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Gun Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Defense Mech Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related audiobooks
The Wanderer Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Compleat Glass Teat Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Harlan Ellison Hornbook and Other Works Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLove Aint Nothing But Sex Misspelled and Other Works Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Deadly Streets and Other Works Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMemos from Purgatory and Other Works Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World and Other Works Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Slippage Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSpace Travelers and Nothing But Space Travelers 3 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Three Science Fiction Stories by Fritz Leiber Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Buddy Holly is Alive and Well on Ganymede Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5X Minus One - Almost Human & Courtesy Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Lost Sci-Fi Books 1 thru 10 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Vintage Sci-Fi 4 - 21 Science Fiction Classics from Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, Robert Silverberg, Harlan Ellison and more Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings1950s Science Fiction 2 - 23 Science Fiction Short Stories From the 1950s Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Progeny Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTales of Three Hemispheres: A collection of classic fantasy stories by Edward Plunkett Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAsteroid of the Damned Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Eyes Have It Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Beyond The Door Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Tony and The Beetles Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLost Sci-Fi Books 61 thru 80 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Stars, My Brothers: Unabridged Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Morgue Ship Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Water Eater Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Reel Stuff Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sci-Fi Spaceships and Nothing But Sci-Fi Spaceships 2 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsX-Minus One, Season 1: 31 Half-Hour Episodes Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Defenders Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsX Minus One - Mars Is Heaven & Universe Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Science Fiction For You
Parable of the Sower Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Institute: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5All Systems Red Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Kindred Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Three-Body Problem Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Good Omens: A Full Cast Production Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Good Omens Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Picture of Dorian Gray: Classic Tales Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This Is How You Lose The Time War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Left Hand of Darkness Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Red Rising Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dune Messiah: Book Two in the Dune Chronicles Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The One Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Future Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Man in the High Castle Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Live in Concert Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Red Rising (1 of 2) [Dramatized Adaptation]: Red Rising 1 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Clockwork Orange Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Before the Coffee Gets Cold: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/52001: A Space Odyssey Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How High We Go in the Dark: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Troop Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Morning Star Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Summary: Lessons in Chemistry: A Novel by Bonnie Garmus: Key Takeaways, Summary & Analysis Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Coraline Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Stories of Your Life and Others Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Deep Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Only Living Girl on Earth Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Glow Worm
1 rating0 reviews