Length4h 21m
About this audiobook
This Crowded Earth is one of the early entries in the overpopulation subgenre. It begins with Harry Collins in that far-future year of 1997, and follows him through various adventures to 2065. Harry is one of the growing number of people who can't stand the over-crowded cities. He lives in a cramped bachelor's apartment -- he could upgrade to a larger one if he'd get married, but he'd also have to add an hour to his commute each way, bringing the total to six hours. One day he suffers a mental breakdown and is sent to a bucolic clinic in the country, where he soon enters a relationship with a nurse. Or so he thinks. A doctor at the clinic approaches him with the truth -- the "nurse" is another patient who was instructed to deceive him in order to start a tryst. They're both, in fact, part of an experiment to solve the over-population problem. The doctor is apprehended by the Powers That Be at the clinic, and Harry is told the man's a nut. But soon his "nurse" disappears and he ends up in a relationship with another ... and then another ... and another. Bloch plays coy about what exactly the experiments are about, but we eventually learn that they're part of a project to end overcrowding by breeding midget babies. (Goodreads)
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 3.6 (645)
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GenreScience Fiction
Length4 hrs 21 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 22, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
11. Harry Collins—1997
77. Michael Cavendish—2027
22. Harry Collins—1998
88. Harry Collins—2029
33. President Winthrop—1999
99. Eric Donovan—2031
44. Harry Collins—2000
1010. Harry Collins—2032
55. Minnie Schultz—2009
1111. Jesse Pringle—2039
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66. Harry Collins—2012
1212. Littlejohn—2065
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