Length13h 6m
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
Length13 hrs 6 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 25, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1SONNET
26First Quatrain · The Good Shepherd
2Book I: Fire
271. The Birth of Volta
3The People
282. The Bergen Treaty
4Prologue
293. The Price of Paradise
5First Quatrain · The Ember
304. The One-Child Law
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61. The Man with the Warm Hands
31Second Quatrain · The Flies
72. Thirteen Minutes
325. The Silence in Lagos
83. The Cassette
336. The Man Who Didn’t Come Home
94. The Rabbit Holes
347. New Rabbit Holes
10Second Quatrain · The Fire Spreads
358. Juni
115. The Island
36Third Quatrain · The Larks
126. The Levant
379. The Larks
137. The Women from Kharkiv
3810. Tor
148. Voss
3911. The Doha Documents
15Third Quatrain · The Archive
4012. Nadiya
169. The Shots in the Rose Garden
41Couplet
1710. Twenty Days
4213. South
1811. Live
4314. Dawn
1912. The Night the Archive Opened
44Coda: Patagonia
20Couplet
45The Catch
2113. The Children of Prometheus
46The Tribunal
2214. The Flies
47The Verdict
23Book II: Volta
48The Chip
24The People
49The Letter
25Prologue
50Cerro Negro
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