The Thing Itself – Adam Roberts Free Audiobook

Written by Adam Roberts
Read by Cameron Stewart
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Length: 14h 17m

Adam Roberts turns his attention to answering the Fermi Paradox with a taut and claustrophobic tale that echoes John Carpenters’ ‘The Thing’.

Two men while away the days in an Antarctic research station.

Tensions between them build as they argue over a love-letter one of them has received. One is practical and open.

The other surly, superior and obsessed with reading one book — by the philosopher Kant.

As a storm brews and they lose contact with the outside world they debate Kant, reality and the emptiness of the universe.

The come to hate each other, and they learn that they are not alone.

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01 Thing and Sick [Unity]
02 Baedeker’s Fermi [Plurality]
03 The Institute [Totality]
04 Penelope’s Mother [Affirmation]
05 Broadmoor [Negation]
06 A Solid Gold Penny [Limitation]
07 Pursuit [Substance and Accident]
08 The Fansoc for Catching Oldfashioned Diseases [Causality]
09 A Dialogue in Four Parts [Community]
10 The Last Three Days of the Time War [Possibility and Impossibility]
11 Seek, and Thing [Existence and non-existence]
12 The Professor [Necessity]