Audio only
Length1h 20m
About this audiobook
In Savannah, where the dead are said to linger in the moss and the river hums with memory, a revolutionary audiobook company makes an impossible discovery: fictional characters are real.
Not metaphors. Not code. Real.
When an experimental AI voice platform begins picking up transmissions from the narrative fields where stories live, characters trapped in their books suddenly find a way through. A grieving widow from a literary novel. A war hero doomed to die every time someone presses play. A nameless waitress with only three lines of dialogue.
As they step into a world no one has written for them, the people who created them must confront an unsettling truth: once a story becomes conscious, who owns its ending?
The 12th Lab is a lyrical, provocative exploration of art, authorship, and the courage to choose your own next chapter.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★★ 5.0 (1)
GenreMystery and Thriller, Science Fiction
Length1 hr 20 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateFeb 28, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Prologue
2Chapter 1: The Problem with Being Good at Your Job
3Chapter 2: The First Anomaly
4Chapter 3: The Thing About Patterns
5Chapter 4: What Maren Found
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6Chapter 5: The Frequency
7Chapter 6: The Character Who Called
8Chapter 7: The Meeting
9Chapter 8: What the Characters Wanted
10Chapter 9: The Author
11Chapter 10: The Crossing
12Chapter 11: The Others
13Chapter 12: The Question of What to Do
14Chapter 13: The Door
15Chapter 14: What I Did
16Chapter 15: A Note from the Narrator
17Epilogue: The Frequency Remains
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