Book description
The Long Run: A Tale of the Continuing Time
Daniel Keys Moran crafts a haunting audiobook experience that burrows deep into the psyche of survival and temporal displacement. The Continuing Time series continues its relentless exploration of humanity's fragility against forces both supernatural and scientific.
Moran's narrative voice, filtered through the audiobook format, creates an intimate claustrophobia that written text alone cannot achieve. The protagonist's journey through extended temporal sequences becomes a meditation on endurance, where each moment stretches like shadows at dusk-elongated, distorted, and filled with lurking dread.
The author's background in computer science infuses the supernatural elements with unsettling plausibility. What begins as straightforward science fiction gradually reveals darker psychological undercurrents, where the boundaries between reality and temporal anomaly blur with each passing hour. The audiobook format amplifies this disorientation-voices echo slightly off-kilter, sound effects seem to linger longer than expected, creating an auditory landscape where listeners question their own perceptions.
Moran understands that true horror lies not in explicit violence but in the slow unraveling of certainty. The Continuing Time universe operates under rules that feel both alien and disturbingly logical, where characters must navigate temporal loops that trap not just their bodies but their very sense of self.
The audiobook's pacing mirrors the protagonist's psychological descent. Early chapters maintain a deceptive normalcy before gradually introducing discordant elements that accumulate like pressure behind a dam. By the final chapters, listeners find themselves as temporally disoriented as the characters, questioning whether they're moving forward or backward through the narrative.
A masterfully unsettling addition to speculative fiction that uses the audiobook medium to its fullest advantage.
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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