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Unobtainium
The Half-Life of AlmostBy Montaigne Kubasek
Length1h 5m
About this audiobook
A miner. A ghost. A Corporation that owns them both on paper.
Deep in the shadow-seams, where ore and information became the same substance eons ago, a digger hears a heartbeat in the rock. What he finds is not metal. It is the only alien mankind will ever meet — a living quantum presence that can exist only while it stays free — and mankind meets it with a pickaxe and an invoice.
His obsession will cost him his name. The woman who follows him will lose hers watching. And above them both, a dying man who owns worlds signs catch orders for a cure he can never hold — because here, to measure is to alter, and to catch is to kill. The only thing anyone truly owns is the letting go.
Part Greek myth, part quantum tragedy, part love letter no one was meant to hear. Unobtainium is the story of the half-step between wanting and having — and what it costs to close it.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★★ 5.0 (1)
GenreScience Fiction
Length1 hr 5 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 4, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Title: Unobtainium
7V. Recyclable Asset
2Prologue: The Seam
8VI. Final Log Off
3I. The Renegade's Dream
9VII. The Half-Life of Almost
4II. The Girl in the Storm
10VIII. Translation
5III. The Paradox of Tantalus
11IX. The Seam: Reprise
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6IV. Observation 404
12Appendices and Glossary
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