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Novels as complete audiobooks, free: literary and historical fiction, mysteries and thrillers set around the world. In this volume: Gilgamesh and the building of the wall of Uruk; a detective in Tang-dynasty Chang'an in the year 752; Shanghai in 1919 and a comprador framed on his wedding night; a murder in Jakarta in 1985; a Tel Aviv call centre that robs pensioners; Hong Kong high society and an anonymous ranking; ancient Egypt; Iceland in the year 997, where the dead can sue. New novels are added as they are released. Narrated with a synthetic voice. vastfiction.com

  1. 5d ago

    THE ZOHDIS OF CAIRO Book 1 - Part 06

    Cairo, 1923. Nevine Mahran is twenty-four, publishes under her own name, and cannot find a newspaper in the city that will print her. Sherif Zohdi owns one, needs the revenue, and has a society column he cannot kill because it pays the wages of the political pages he believes in. She buys a full page every Wednesday; he charges her half rate and will not say why. What neither of them says is worth more: a paragraph he was paid to print in September, and a school in Bulaq that has been funded for two years by a man nobody has named. Cairo assembles the rest out of chauffeurs, maids and hostesses with grudges. Narrated with a synthetic voice.

  2. 5d ago

    THE ZOHDIS OF CAIRO Book 1 - Part 05

    Cairo, 1923. Nevine Mahran is twenty-four, publishes under her own name, and cannot find a newspaper in the city that will print her. Sherif Zohdi owns one, needs the revenue, and has a society column he cannot kill because it pays the wages of the political pages he believes in. She buys a full page every Wednesday; he charges her half rate and will not say why. What neither of them says is worth more: a paragraph he was paid to print in September, and a school in Bulaq that has been funded for two years by a man nobody has named. Cairo assembles the rest out of chauffeurs, maids and hostesses with grudges. Narrated with a synthetic voice.

  3. Oct 3

    TWO YEARS EARLY - Part 06

    Bangalore, 2004. Four people inside a three-thousand-person software services company build a product they are not permitted to own, in a clean room, against their own largest client, and it is switched off by a project plan. Over twelve years they build three more — a place to talk for people who have a phone and no computer, a way to send money to a phone number, a telephone line answered by a human being in nine languages — and every one of them is right about the country and wrong about the year. Sunita Iyer keeps the arithmetic. Nandita Borah keeps the shape. In one quarter of 2016 all of the infrastructure they were early for arrives at once, and none of them is still in the game. Narrated with a synthetic voice.

  4. Oct 3

    TWO YEARS EARLY - Part 05

    Bangalore, 2004. Four people inside a three-thousand-person software services company build a product they are not permitted to own, in a clean room, against their own largest client, and it is switched off by a project plan. Over twelve years they build three more — a place to talk for people who have a phone and no computer, a way to send money to a phone number, a telephone line answered by a human being in nine languages — and every one of them is right about the country and wrong about the year. Sunita Iyer keeps the arithmetic. Nandita Borah keeps the shape. In one quarter of 2016 all of the infrastructure they were early for arrives at once, and none of them is still in the game. Narrated with a synthetic voice.

  5. Oct 3

    THE ZOHDIS OF CAIRO Book 5 - Part 03

    Cairo, 1929. Tarek Mahran is three years sober, has a law degree he has never used, and keeps a list of forty-one people he ruined when he was drinking. He is working through it — finding them, paying them, apologizing to them — and fifteen of them refuse him, which he has decided is the correct outcome and not a setback. The list has an entry he has not reached. The woman he works beside every day, in his sister's newspaper office, has a father on it at number forty-two, and Tarek has known for two years and has not found a way to tell her that would not be a transaction. Narrated with a synthetic voice.

  6. Oct 3

    THE ZOHDIS OF CAIRO Book 5 - Part 02

    Cairo, 1929. Tarek Mahran is three years sober, has a law degree he has never used, and keeps a list of forty-one people he ruined when he was drinking. He is working through it — finding them, paying them, apologizing to them — and fifteen of them refuse him, which he has decided is the correct outcome and not a setback. The list has an entry he has not reached. The woman he works beside every day, in his sister's newspaper office, has a father on it at number forty-two, and Tarek has known for two years and has not found a way to tell her that would not be a transaction. Narrated with a synthetic voice.

  7. Oct 3

    THE ZOHDIS OF CAIRO Book 5 - Part 01

    Cairo, 1929. Tarek Mahran is three years sober, has a law degree he has never used, and keeps a list of forty-one people he ruined when he was drinking. He is working through it — finding them, paying them, apologizing to them — and fifteen of them refuse him, which he has decided is the correct outcome and not a setback. The list has an entry he has not reached. The woman he works beside every day, in his sister's newspaper office, has a father on it at number forty-two, and Tarek has known for two years and has not found a way to tell her that would not be a transaction. Narrated with a synthetic voice.

  8. Oct 3

    THE ZOHDIS OF CAIRO Book 4 - Part 03

    Europe, 1927. Leila Zohdi is twenty-six, has perhaps four years of tennis left, and has been invited to play a circuit that is open only to people who do not need to be paid. The amateur rule forbids her expenses, a passage, a coach, a hotel bill settled by somebody else — and everybody on that circuit runs on exactly those arrangements and nobody survives being caught at them. Adham Sirry has spent nine years being the acceptable Egyptian in European clubhouses and knows precisely what the machine costs, because he paid it. She has an opinion about his career after eleven days. He has watched three players do this and go home. Narrated with a synthetic voice.

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Novels as complete audiobooks, free: literary and historical fiction, mysteries and thrillers set around the world. In this volume: Gilgamesh and the building of the wall of Uruk; a detective in Tang-dynasty Chang'an in the year 752; Shanghai in 1919 and a comprador framed on his wedding night; a murder in Jakarta in 1985; a Tel Aviv call centre that robs pensioners; Hong Kong high society and an anonymous ranking; ancient Egypt; Iceland in the year 997, where the dead can sue. New novels are added as they are released. Narrated with a synthetic voice. vastfiction.com

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    Vast Fiction
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
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