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Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep
A NovelBy Paul TremblayNarrated by Sophie Amoss, Graham Halstead, John Pirhalla, Dan BittnerLength12h 38m
About this audiobook
"Paul Tremblay is on fire. . . .As entertaining and pop-culture savvy as this novel can be, it's emotionally wrenching and truly scary."
—Ed Park, author of Pulitzer Prize finalist Same Bed, Different Dreams and An Oral History of Atlantis
Four narrators across five distinct voices bring a tech nightmare to life. Philip K. Dick meets the Coen Brothers in this genre-bending near-future that is as bitingly funny as it is horrifically believable from the New York Times bestselling author of Horror Movie.
Meet Julia Flang, a twenty-something former semi-professional gamer, living with her retired uncle, and working two jobs she doesn’t like. Out of the blue, her estranged mother, a CFO for one of the world’s largest tech companies, offers her a temp job with a payday Julia can’t refuse. One sham interview later, she’s offered the job: to chaperone a man in a vegetative state—one with proprietary AI implanted in his head—from California to the East Coast.
To sum up in Julia’s own words: “You want me to remote control this dead dude across the country.” In a word, yes. But he’s not dead dead.
Meet a middle-aged man who wakes within a disorienting hellscape filled with monstrous grotesqueries. Worse than the fluid, morphing reality in which he’s trapped, he has no memory of who he is. He certainly doesn’t remember getting the rabbit tattoo on his arm. He only knows that he must find a certain person. Who? He can’t remember.
Using a cell phone modeled after a video game controller, Julia fumblingly navigates the man she calls “Bernie” from the company campus and onto planes and through one of the largest airports in America. All the while, the man endures an ever-changing and worsening nightmare that offers clues as to who he was—and who he must track down. And as their two lives intertwine, Julia and Bernie become unlikely allies and fugitives on a collision course with reality.
Redactions hum. Silence has weight. Layered audio, spatial effects, and precisely timed sonic disruptions make the act of listening feel like the text is processing you. Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep is a heady, horrific genre-bender from one of the most groundbreaking voices in fiction today.
"Creepy and unexpectedly humorous. . . .A master storyteller, Tremblay's b(l)ending of genres here truly is a perfect beach read."
—NPR
Audiobook details
Rating★★★ 3.5 (2.7K)
Includes Goodreads
GenreDystopia, Horror, Mystery and Thriller
Length12 hrs 38 mins
Narrated bySophie Amoss, Graham Halstead, John Pirhalla, Dan Bittner
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateJun 30, 2026
LanguageEnglish
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