The Knights of Arthur by Frederik Pohl ~ Full Audiobook [scifi]

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01/11/23

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109m

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The Knights of Arthur by Frederik Pohl audiobook.

Genre: scifi

After the Third World War, New York City is a hollowed-out ruin of scavengers, broken factions, and improvised rules. Into this wreckage come three unlikely partners: Sam Dunlap and Vern Engdahl, sailors trying to stay alive one day at a time, and Arthur - a compact machine intelligence with a brain built for command, logistics, and survival. Arthur is valuable in a way food and bullets cannot match: he can organize people, run systems, and make plans that might actually work. That makes him a prize. When a determined young woman appears with an offer to buy Arthur outright, Sam and Vern realize just how many desperate survivors want Arthur for their own purposes, and how few of them will respect his freedom - or their lives. Forced into flight through a city that has forgotten law, the trio must decide what they owe one another, what kind of community is worth rebuilding, and whether a mind inside a machine can choose its own destiny. Fast, sharp, and wry, Frederik Pohl blends post-apocalyptic tension with big questions about personhood, loyalty, and power.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:15:13) Chapter 02

(00:36:49) Chapter 03

(00:46:55) Chapter 04

(01:03:49) Chapter 05

(01:24:43) Chapter 06

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Search the Sky by Frederik Pohl ~ Full Audiobook [scifi]

January 11, 2023

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421m

Search the Sky by Frederik Pohl audiobook.

Genre: scifi

Ross was a junior trader on Halsey's Planet, and had great prospects but was not happy at all. Everything smelled of decay. The whole planet seemed to be slowly disappearing, the population dwindling month by month and year by year and yet no one seemd to care or even notice. Something was very, very wrong. When the first interstellar transport in 30 years arrived on Halsey's Planet, it brought things to a head. The ship had touched on six other colony worlds - and all six had been devoid of human life. Where was everybody? It was almost as if humankind, when separated by cosmic distances from Mother Earth, could not survive. He didn't know the answer but he knew it all smelled highly of decay. Decay and Rot. This highly praised novel by C.M.Kornbluth and Frederick Pohl was first published in 1954 was seen as a wonderful satire on various trends in the society of the 1950's.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:39:25) Chapter 02

(01:07:27) Chapter 03

(01:24:51) Chapter 04

(01:49:47) Chapter 05

(02:16:03) Chapter 06

(02:43:56) Chapter 07

(03:20:36) Chapter 08

(03:53:40) Chapter 09

(04:22:27) Chapter 10

(04:57:32) Chapter 11

(05:33:26) Chapter 12

(06:08:00) Chapter 13

(06:35:28) Chapter 14

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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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