The Misplaced Battleship by Harry Harrison ~ Full Audiobook [scifi]

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01/25/23

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75m

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The Misplaced Battleship by Harry Harrison audiobook.

Genre: scifi

Something the size of a battleship should be hard to misplace. In interstellar space, it is just another missing object with the potential to start a war. When a powerful warship goes unaccounted for in a supposedly peaceful region, the Special Corps sends its most unusual investigator: James Bolivar diGriz, better known as Slippery Jim, the Stainless Steel Rat, a master thief who now uses his talents on the side of the law. Jim follows a trail of quiet rumors and carefully hidden paperwork to the planet Cittanuvo, where an illegal shipbuilding project may be underway behind a mask of respectability. The deeper he digs, the more he runs into professional-grade misdirection, a web of bribes and false fronts, and the unsettling possibility that someone plans to steal the battleship and sell its firepower to the highest bidder. Facing the criminal genius Pepe Nero and aided and hindered by the brilliant and unpredictable Angelina, Jim must rely on charm, nerve, and a thief's instincts to find the ship before it becomes the spark for galaxy-wide chaos. Fast, witty, and twisty, this caper blends crime, adventure, and classic space opera suspense.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:16:41) Chapter 2

(00:38:45) Chapter 3

(00:54:11) Chapter 4

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The K-Factor by Harry Harrison ~ Full Audiobook [scifi]

January 25, 2023

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66m

The K-Factor by Harry Harrison audiobook.

Genre: scifi

In Harry Harrison's The K-Factor, humanity has tried to make war obsolete by turning it into a measurable, manageable risk. The key tool is Societics, a hard-nosed, data-driven science that treats whole cultures like systems and watches for the smallest shift that can trigger a runaway chain reaction. When the frontier planet Himmel begins showing a sudden, inexplicable rise in its k-factor - the war factor - veteran field operative Neel Sidorak is pulled from routine work and sent to find out why. Working under the weary guidance of Societics' aging founder and partnered with his assistant Adao Costa, Neel is dropped into a tense colonial society where independence movements, political pride, and old resentments are building pressure by the hour. But the numbers do not lie, and they hint at something worse than local unrest: someone may be feeding dangerous knowledge to the wrong hands, pushing Himmel toward a catastrophic point of no return. As Neel races to map the real forces shaping the planet, he must decide how far a supposedly peaceful civilization should go to prevent a war before it starts.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:16:05) Chapter 2

(00:29:09) Chapter 3

(00:46:01) Chapter 4

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The Repairman by Harry Harrison ~ Full Audiobook [scifi]

January 25, 2023

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97m

The Repairman by Harry Harrison audiobook.

Genre: scifi

In a sleek, automated future where machines run nearly everything, the people who can still fix those machines have become an afterthought. The Repairman follows one of the last true troubleshooters, a working-class specialist who spends his days crawling through service ducts, hunting down faults in systems that most citizens no longer understand and no longer want to think about. When a critical breakdown ripples outward from a seemingly minor failure, he is pulled from routine calls into the bright, bureaucratic world that depends on uninterrupted technology. There, corporate rules, spotless control rooms, and complacent managers collide with the messy reality of maintenance: things wear out, connections fail, and somebody has to get their hands dirty. As pressure mounts to restore operations quickly and quietly, the repairman must rely on his practical ingenuity, hard-won instincts, and a stubborn sense of professional pride to navigate a society that values convenience over competence. Witty, sharp, and unsettlingly plausible, Harry Harrison's story explores status, responsibility, and what happens when progress leaves essential people behind.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:19:14) Chapter 2

(00:34:55) Chapter 3

(00:46:31) Chapter 4

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