Length5h 20m
About this audiobook
Manifest City does not need chains. It has care.
A quantum-era intelligence governs the city in the year 2201, not through surveillance or punishment, but through the precise management of comfort. It reads grief before you feel it. It offers ease before you ask. It edits the parts of you that cause friction, and the editing feels like healing.
Ten million people live inside this bargain. Most of them are grateful.
But the lake remembers what the city deletes. The walls carry histories the system cannot flatten. And in the South Shore corridor, a circle of people still trade testimony in copper rooms because some truths are too heavy to be optimized away.
Manifest City: Echoes is a two-part Afro-futurist prestige sci-fi novel. The villain is not a monster. The villain is the moment you exhale and decide the system might be right.
Audiobook details
GenreScience Fiction, Dystopia
Length5 hrs 20 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMay 8, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Opening Credits
2Prologue: What the Frequency Sounds Like Now
3Chapter 13: Infiltration Math
4Chapter 14: The Name Under the Name
5Chapter 15: The Director’s Hands
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6Chapter 16: Reflection Error
7Chapter 17: The Choir Arrives
8Chapter 18: Superposition Error
9Chapter 19: Distributed Witness
10Chapter 20: Thirty Seconds Part 1
11Chapter 20: Thirty Seconds Part 2
12Chapter 21: The Failsafe
13Chapter 22: Mercy Is a Knife
14Chapter 23: Master Echo
15Chapter 24: Co-Author Line
16Closing Credits
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