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Narrated by:
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Ari Fliakos
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By:
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Daryl Gregory
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JP and Dulin have been the best of friends for decades. When JP finds out his cancer has aggressively returned, Dulin decides it’s the perfect time for one last adventure: a week-long bus tour of North America’s Impossibles, the physics-defying glitches and geographic miracles that started cropping up seven years earlier—right after the Announcement that revealed our world to be merely a digital simulacrum. The outing, courtesy of Canterbury Trails Tours, promises the trip of a (not completely real) lifetime in a (not completely deluxe) coach.
Their fellow passengers are 21st-century pilgrims, each of them on the tour for their own reasons. There’s a nun hunting for an absent God, a pregnant influencer determined to make her child too famous to be deleted, a crew of horny octogenarians living each day like it’s their last, and a professor on the run from leather-clad sociopaths who take The Matrix as scripture. Each stop on this trip is stranger than the last—a Tunnel outside of time, a zero gravity Geyser, the compound of motivational-speaking avatar—with everyone barreling toward the tour’s iconic final stop Ghost City, where unbeknownst to our travelers the answer to who is running the simulation may await.
When We Were Real is “an addictive thriller packed with winning characters and big, brilliant ideas” (Lev Grossman, New York Times bestselling author of The Bright Sword and The Magicians trilogy) and an exploration of what really matters, even in an artificial world.©2025 Daryl Gregory (P)2025 Simon & Schuster Audio
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It is a world like our own in every respect, save one. In the 1950s, random acts of possession begin to occur. Ordinary men, women, and children are the targets of entities that seem to spring from the depths of the collective unconscious, pop-cultural avatars some call demons. As a boy, Del Pierce is possessed by the Hellion, an entity whose mischief-making can be deadly. With the help of Del's family and a caring psychiatrist, the demon is exorcised... or is it?
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Random demonic possession
- By Michael G Kurilla on 11-17-24
By: Daryl Gregory
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Polybius
- By: Collin Armstrong
- Narrated by: Rachanee Lumayno
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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October, 1982. Forced to move to the quiet seaside town of Tasker Bay by her mother, the only thing on high schooler Andi’s mind is saving up enough money to return to her old stomping grounds in Silicon Valley. Her self-taught skills with all things electronic make her a perfect fit for a job at the dingy local arcade. When Polybius—a new game of unknown origin arrives—the shop is suddenly overwhelmed with players fighting for time on the machine. Seemingly overnight, a virus-like epidemic grips Tasker Bay while a violent coastal storm rolls in, isolating it from the outside world.
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the story was interesting, as long as you ignore the awful narration
- By Anonymous User on 05-07-25
By: Collin Armstrong
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Gifted & Talented
- By: Olivie Blake
- Narrated by: Eunice Wong
- Length: 18 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six comes the story of three siblings who, upon the death of their father, are forced to reckon with their long-festering rivalries, dangerous abilities, and the crushing weight of all their unrealized adolescent potential.
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It is finally
- By crperkins on 04-15-25
By: Olivie Blake
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Cold Eternity
- By: S.A. Barnes
- Narrated by: Amara Jasper
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Halley is on the run from an interplanetary political scandal that has put a huge target on her back. She heads for what seems like the perfect place to lay low: a gigantic space barge storing the cryogenically frozen bodies of Earth’s most fortunate citizens from more than a century ago… The cryo program, created by trillionaire tech genius Zale Winfeld, is long defunct, and the AI hologram "hosts," ghoulishly created in the likeness of Winfeld’s three adult children, are glitchy. The ship feels like a crypt, and the isolation gets to Halley almost immediately.
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Speechless
- By Shelby ecker on 04-09-25
By: S.A. Barnes
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Awake in the Floating City
- A Novel
- By: Susanna Kwan
- Narrated by: Catherine Ho
- Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Bo knows she should go. Years of rain have drowned the city and almost everyone else has fled. Her mother was carried away in a storm surge and ever since, Bo has been alone. She is stalled: an artist unable to make art, a daughter unable to give up the hope that her mother may still be alive. Half-heartedly, she allows her cousin to plan for her escape—but as the departure day approaches, she finds a note slipped under her door from Mia, an elderly woman who lives in her building and wants to hire Bo to be her caregiver. Suddenly, Bo has a reason to stay.
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Catherine Ho is my least favorite audio performer
- By NMwritergal on 05-15-25
By: Susanna Kwan
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The Beauty of the End
- A Novel
- By: Lauren Stienstra
- Narrated by: Erika LeonGuerrero
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Charlie Tannehill and her twin sister, Maggie, are just eight years old when an unfortunate scientific discovery upends their world—and the world order. The revelation? Extinction, encoded in every creature’s DNA. The expiration date for humans? Only four generations away. A decade later, unsure of what tomorrow holds, Charlie and Maggie enroll as counselors in a government-run human-husbandry program.
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Beautiful!
- By Rikiean Whitebird on 06-01-25
By: Lauren Stienstra
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Radio Life
- By: Derek B. Miller
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
- Length: 13 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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When Lilly was first Chief Engineer at The Commonwealth, nearly fifty years ago, the Central Archive wasn't yet the greatest repository of knowledge in the known world, protected by scribes copying every piece of found material—books, maps, even scraps of paper—and disseminating them by Archive Runners to hidden off-site locations for safe keeping. Back then, there was no Order of Silence to create and maintain secret routes deep into the sand-covered towers of the Gone World or into the northern forests beyond Sea Glass Lake.
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Mr. Miller is a superb storyteller.
- By Anonymous User on 05-03-25
By: Derek B. Miller
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Luminous
- By: Silvia Park
- Narrated by: Eric Yang
- Length: 13 hrs
- Unabridged
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In a reunified Korea of the near future, the sun beats down on a junkyard filled with abandoned robots, broken down for parts. Eleven-year-old Ruijie sifts through the scraps, searching for a piece that might support her failing body. There among the piles of trash, something catches her eye: a robot boy—so lifelike and strange, unlike anything she’s ever seen before.
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Brilliant writing, mesmerizing story!
- By jc on 03-14-25
By: Silvia Park
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Freakslaw
- By: Jane Flett
- Narrated by: Abigail Lawrie
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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It is the summer of ‘97 and the repressed Scottish town of Pitlaw is itching for change. Enter the Freakslaw―a travelling carnival of deviant queers and architects of mayhem. There’s Gloria, fortune teller and worm charmer; her daughter Nancy, a contortionist witch; big-hearted tightrope walker, Werewolf Louie; not to mention illusionists and conjoined twins, Cass and Henry, and tattooed human pincushion, Pin Gal.
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Fun but Frustrating
- By unco on 06-02-25
By: Jane Flett
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Hourglass
- A Race Against Time
- By: Arthur G. Insana
- Narrated by: Scott Brick, Jason Culp, Mark Deakins, and others
- Length: 59 mins
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After a devastating military error with tragic results for humanity… a special squad is formed to reverse that error and restore the survival of humankind.
By: Arthur G. Insana
Wish the characters were more likable
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My head hurts
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Funny, sharp, delightful
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An Unreal Trek
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