Nice Girl With 5 Husbands by Fritz Leiber ~ Full Audiobook [scifi]

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01/11/23

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122m

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Nice Girl With 5 Husbands by Fritz Leiber audiobook.

Genre: scifi

Tom Dorset arrives at a secluded artists' retreat in the desert hoping the quiet will cure his creative drought. Instead, he meets Lois Wolver, a bright, disarming young woman who casually introduces a complication that stops Tom cold: she has five husbands. Before Tom can decide whether he has stumbled onto a joke, a cult, or a scandal, Lois invites him into the orbit of the Wolvers' tight-knit household - a deliberate experiment in love, loyalty, and shared living that treats jealousy as a problem to be solved rather than a fate to be endured. Drawn by attraction, curiosity, and a nagging sense that his own assumptions about romance are too small, Tom finds himself negotiating rules he does not understand, personalities that do not fit any familiar mold, and a community that can feel both tender and faintly menacing. As the desert heat presses in and Tom's outsider status becomes harder to ignore, he must decide what he truly wants from intimacy, from art, and from the stories he tells himself about what a 'normal' life should be.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:32:20) Chapter 02

(01:08:06) Chapter 03

(01:39:10) Chapter 04

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The Tunnel Under the World by Frederik Pohl ~ Full Audiobook [scifi]

January 11, 2023

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88m

The Tunnel Under the World by Frederik Pohl audiobook.

Genre: scifi

Guy Burckhardt wakes to the bright familiarity of Tingly, Ohio, with its tidy lawns, friendly neighbors, and the promise of another ordinary day. Yet small glitches keep snagging his attention: a billboard that seems to speak directly to him, conversations that loop back on themselves, and a creeping sense that the town's cheerful routines are too perfectly timed. When Guy begins comparing notes with his wife, Dianne, and watching the behavior of those around him, the comfort of suburbia starts to feel like a set built for an audience he cannot see. Determined to understand why his memories do not quite match what the town insists is true, Guy follows a trail of subtle inconsistencies toward a discovery that threatens everything he believes about his life, his choices, and even what it means to be real. Taut, unsettling, and sharply satirical, The Tunnel Under the World turns a mystery of one man's unease into a chilling meditation on consumer culture, manipulation, and the fragile boundaries between authentic experience and manufactured desire.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:15:14) Chapter 2

(00:31:34) Chapter 3

(00:46:39) Chapter 4

(01:07:30) Chapter 5

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No Great Magic by Fritz Leiber ~ Full Audiobook [scifi]

January 11, 2023

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118m

No Great Magic by Fritz Leiber audiobook.

Genre: scifi

Greta has nowhere to go and no past she can remember. Agoraphobic, amnesiac, and living like a backstage orphan, she has been taken in by a scrappy Shakespeare repertory troupe that performs in Central Park. From the safety of the dressing room and its wonderland of costumes and props, she stitches hems, fetches wigs, and watches strong personalities collide - especially Sid Lessingham, a grandstanding actor-manager with a taste for theatrical experiments, and Iris Nefer, a chillingly intense leading lady who can become Elizabeth I in a heartbeat. But on a night when Macbeth is scheduled and Queen Elizabeth appears anyway, Greta begins to suspect that the companies anachronisms are not just artistic liberties. The costumery seems to reach across centuries, the curtain itself feels less like cloth and more like a boundary, and the troupe's strange mix of accents, habits, and secrets hints at a larger game. As reality and performance blur, Greta is drawn toward a hidden conflict in which art can sway crowds - and the right scene, played at the right moment, might tilt history itself.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:23:32) Chapter 2

(00:42:56) Chapter 3

(00:59:59) Chapter 4

(01:11:29) Chapter 5

(01:21:51) Chapter 6

(01:32:05) Chapter 7

(01:40:24) Chapter 8

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