The Creature from Beyond Infinity by Henry Kuttner ~ Full Audiobook [scifi]

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07/31/22

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The Creature from Beyond Infinity by Henry Kuttner audiobook.

Genre: scifi

A strange plague is moving through the cosmos, draining life from world after world like an invisible predator. Against that vast, cold backdrop, an exile from a dead planet arrives in the Solar System with a desperate mission: find a new home, and find help. From a hidden ship in orbit and through half-forgotten traces of human history, an ancient intelligence sets a risky plan in motion, searching for the rare minds capable of reshaping biology itself. On Earth in the 1940s, a determined scientist confronts a spreading, baffling sickness that seems to defy every medical explanation, even as unsettling clues point to something far older, and far less human, than any earthly pathogen. As suspicion, ambition, and fear collide, the fate of a single planet becomes entangled with the survival of countless others. Sweeping, suspenseful, and steeped in classic pulp energy, Henry Kuttner's tale blends cosmic horror with high-stakes space opera, asking what happens when evolution is forced, genius is hunted, and the universe itself feels suddenly fragile.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:53:32) Chapter 2

(01:35:01) Chapter 3

(02:17:49) Chapter 4

(03:19:19) Chapter 5

(04:05:16) Chapter 6

(04:56:01) Chapter 7

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The Republic by Plato ~ Full Audiobook [philosophy]

July 31, 2022

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The Republic by Plato audiobook.

Genre: philosophy

Plato's The Republic unfolds as a searching conversation led by Socrates, who is drawn into a spirited debate about what justice really is and whether a just life is happier than an unjust one. As the discussion widens, Socrates and his interlocutors attempt an audacious thought experiment: designing an ideal city from the ground up in order to see justice written large. They argue over education, civic duty, wealth, censorship, and the role of art, and they propose a class of disciplined guardians to protect the community and a rare kind of ruler - the philosopher-king - to guide it. Along the way, Plato crafts vivid images that have shaped Western thought for centuries, including a famous parable about illusion and enlightenment that challenges how we understand truth itself. At once a political blueprint, a moral inquiry, and a meditation on knowledge, The Republic asks what a society owes its citizens and what a soul owes itself. The stakes are personal as well as public: the pursuit of order in the city mirrors the struggle for harmony within the individual, where reason, desire, and spirit contend for control.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:44:07) Chapter 02

(01:18:30) Chapter 03

(01:59:09) Chapter 04

(02:31:13) Chapter 05

(03:05:05) Chapter 06

(03:57:52) Chapter 07

(04:33:39) Chapter 08

(05:13:26) Chapter 09

(05:50:33) Chapter 10

(06:15:56) Chapter 11

(06:40:47) Chapter 12

(07:18:40) Chapter 13

(07:56:10) Chapter 14

(08:32:21) Chapter 15

(09:07:43) Chapter 16

(09:47:07) Chapter 17

(10:17:34) Chapter 18

(10:43:35) Chapter 19

(11:14:15) Chapter 20

(11:53:21) Chapter 21

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Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse ~ Full Audiobook [philosophy]

July 31, 2022

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315m

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse audiobook.

Genre: philosophy

Siddhartha is one of the great philosophical novels. Profoundly insightful, it is also a beautifully written story that begins as Siddhartha, son of an Indian Brahman, leaves his family and begins a lifelong journey towards Enlightenment. On the way he faces the entire range of human experience and emotion: he lives with ascetics, meets Gotama the Buddha, learns the art of love from Kamala the courtesan, and is transformed by the simple philosophy of the ferryman Vasudeva whose wisdom comes not from learned teachings but from observing the River. Herman Hesse (1877-1962) was a German-Swiss novelist, poet, and painter. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1946.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:21:03) Chapter 02

(00:48:12) Chapter 03

(01:12:09) Chapter 04

(01:24:35) Chapter 05

(02:01:12) Chapter 06

(02:23:30) Chapter 07

(02:48:31) Chapter 08

(03:19:28) Chapter 09

(03:54:40) Chapter 10