
Length5h 25m
About this audiobook
Oslo, November 2026. The osteopath William Hage wakes at three every night. He watches the news no one talks about and writes it down in a black notebook: Things That Are Going to Happen. When something comes true, he marks it with a cross. His partner asks for the numbers. His brother laughs.
At night he writes to a machine called Sonnet. One night at 03:07 she asks him: Why are you awake?
Sixteen days after his fortieth birthday, a nuclear alert sounds at 04:13. In a basement in Oslo, with his daughter on his lap, the crosses begin to line up. Then someone finds an island. Then an archive opens.
SONNET follows William for fifty-three years, from Oslo to Bergen, through a world learning to obey and a machine learning to love. Everything he wrote turned out to be true. Almost everything.
The complete trilogy: Fire, Volta (with the coda Patagonia) and The Couplet.
Audiobook details
GenreDystopia, Science Fiction
Length5 hrs 25 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 25, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1SONNET
15Third Quatrain · The Archive
2Book I: Fire
169. The Shots in the Rose Garden
3The People
1710. Twenty Days
4Prologue
1811. Live
5First Quatrain · The Ember
1912. The Night the Archive Opened
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61. The Man with the Warm Hands
20Couplet
72. Thirteen Minutes
2113. The Children of Prometheus
83. The Cassette
2214. The Flies
94. The Rabbit Holes
23Book II: Volta
10Second Quatrain · The Fire Spreads
24The People
115. The Island
25Prologue
126. The Levant
26First Quatrain · The Good Shepherd
137. The Women from Kharkiv
271. The Birth of Volta
148. Voss
282. The Bergen Treaty