Book description
If you loved Blade Runner 2049, this audiobook is the chilling, brilliant heart of it all-Philip K. Dick's original Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, set decades before the film's haunting future. Imagine a world where World War has wiped out most life, leaving Earth as a quiet, dusty graveyard. People hoard fake animals-electric sheep, cats, birds-to feel connected to what's gone, while androids, almost indistinguishable from humans, slip into the shadows of Mars-bound colonies. Enter Rick Deckard, a bounty hunter paid to "retire" rogue androids. But as he hunts, the line between human and machine blurs, and the question isn't just who's human-it's what does it mean to be alive in a world that's already forgotten how to feel?
The audiobook version? It's pure magic. Dick's prose, dense with paranoia and poetic dread, comes alive in a voice that makes you lean closer. You hear Deckard's exhaustion, the weight of his decisions, the unsettling hum of a world where empathy is both a luxury and a weapon. The narrator captures the novel's eerie beauty-the way a fake sheep's artificial warmth feels wrong, the way androids whisper secrets that make you wonder if they're more human than the people hunting them. And it's all framed by that razor-sharp insight Rolling Stone called Dick's "sparkling-and terrifying-possibilities," the kind of vision that makes you rethink your own world. As The New York Times put it, he's a "kind of pulp-fiction Kafka, a prophet"-and listening to this, you feel why. It's not just sci-fi; it's a mirror held up to our own age of AI, extinction, and the desperate need to feel real. This isn't just a book you read-it's a conversation you have with yourself long after the final line. A masterpiece, perfectly tuned for the ear.
Kitchen
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Runway Darling
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Woo Woo
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Scratch
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Wild Hair
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Sleepwalker
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Bitmap
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Babe
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Toy Town
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Playing a wide variety of audio formats
Works on all devices with iOS 13 and newer
Huge amount of features for a small price
Frequent updates to add new features and improve existing ones
Advanced playback controls
Live sound processing
Changing the timbre of the reader's voice and noise reduction
Translated into more than 20 languages
If you love listening to fiction audiobooks, ListenBook has features to make the process easier.
Edit book data: title, author, cover
Use equalizer to make the sound comfortable for you
Adjust the playback speed
Enjoy dark and light app themes
Supported formats: MP3, M4B, AWB, FLAC, OGG audio files and many more (must be DRM free)
Auto-Bookmarks make it easy to find your place
AirPlay support allows redirection of audio output.
VoiceOver support
Dark mode for night owls
Convenient bookmarking system helps you mark the most important places.
Unlimited bookmarks for each audiobook
Put your own cover on the wager
Share your audiobook with friends
Lock-screen control
Customise app with extensive options
Sleep timer with shake to reset, set custom notification sounds, and a few unique options
Auto rewind depending on paused time, customize rewind times to your liking
Removing background noise from recordings made in classrooms and meetings
Changing the timbre of the reader's voice for a better listening experience