The Repairman by Harry Harrison ~ Full Audiobook [scifi]

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01/25/23

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97m

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

January 25, 2023

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75m

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 World I Live In by Helen Keller ~ Full Audiobook [biography]

January 25, 2023

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176m

The World I Live In by Helen Keller audiobook.

Genre: biography

The World I Live In by Helen Keller is a collection of essays that poignantly tells of her impressions of the world, through her sense of touch, smell, her imagination and dreams.

My hand is to me what your hearing and sight together are to you. In large measure we travel the same highways, read the same books, speak the same language, yet our experiences are different. All my comings and goings turn on the hand as on a pivot. It is the hand that binds me to the world of men and women. The hand is my feeler with which I reach through isolation and darkness and seize every pleasure, every activity that my fingers encounter. With the dropping of a little word from another's hand into mine, a slight flutter of the fingers, began the intelligence, the joy, the fullness of my life. Helen Keller, quoted from her essay, The Seeing Hand

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:02:25) Chapter 01

(00:14:30) Chapter 02

(00:24:17) Chapter 03

(00:33:09) Chapter 04

(00:45:46) Chapter 05

(00:56:07) Chapter 06

(01:07:57) Chapter 07

(01:13:18) Chapter 08

(01:20:48) Chapter 09