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Idle Hands

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Science Fiction

Idle Hands

Doing Nothing Keeps the World Running — Literally.By Chris A. Piazza | Antherra™

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Idle Hands

Length1h 27m

About this audiobook

Rest is the extraction. The body finally stops and something else begins to run. Idle Hands is a world where stillness has been infrastructured — where your burnout is load-bearing, your collapse is currency, and the pause you earned is the system's most efficient input. Compliance doesn't look like obedience here. It looks like lying down.

Dystopian Rebellion Futuristic Psychological Identity Political Intrigue Hopepunk Memory Conspiracy

Audiobook details

GenreDystopia, Science Fiction

Length1 hr 27 mins

Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices

FormateBook with Audio

Publish dateApr 27, 2026

LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1Introduction

7CHAPTER FIVE: Flux Crime

2PUBLIC ADDRESS NO. 1: An Invitation to Stillness

8CHAPTER SIX: Reharmonization

3CHAPTER ONE: Still-Duty

9CHAPTER SEVEN: Stillness Demonstration: Live

4CHAPTER TWO: Idle Metrics, Sector 9

10CHAPTER EIGHT: Brilliance

5CHAPTER THREE: A Notification of Gratitude

11NOTE ON RETURNING

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6CHAPTER FOUR: The Sanctuary at Pell

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