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Dare to Know: A Novel Audiobook
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Dark Matter meets Annihilation in this mind-bending and emotional speculative thriller set in a world where the exact moment of your death can be predicted—for a price.
Our narrator is the most talented salesperson at Dare to Know, an enigmatic company that has developed the technology to predict anyone’s death down to the second. Divorced, estranged from his sons, and broke, he is driven to violate the cardinal rule of the business by forecasting his own death day. The problem: his prediction says he died twenty-three minutes ago.
The only person who can confirm its accuracy is Julia, the woman he loved and lost during his rise up the ranks of Dare to Know. As he travels across the country to see her, he is forced to confront his past, the choices he has made, and the terrifying truth about the company he works for.
Wildly ambitious and highly immersive, this mind-bending thriller explores the destructive power of knowledge and collapses the boundaries between reality, myth, and conspiracy as it races toward its stunning conclusion.
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“A razor-smart sci-fi corporate noir nightmare…A heartbreaking, time-bending, galactic mindbender delivered in the mordantly funny clip of a doomed antihero.”
— Daniel Kraus, New York Times bestselling author
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“A voraciously readable page-turner of a novel, part creepypasta, part thought-experiment.”
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“A fascinating, compulsively readable thriller.”
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“Entertainingly mindbending.”
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“Audaciously clever…vivid, thought provoking, and unsettling.”
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“A fresh and morbid twist on the old sci-fi/occult idea of hacking the universe’s mathematical source code."
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“[A] genre-bending thriller…Good pacing and clever plotting keep the pages turning.”
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“Hastings’s sarcastic narration is a fantastic complement to the nameless narrator’s tone as he’s prone to snark…Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”
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“Essential reading for the gathering dark.”
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“A wholly original novel that’s bound to frustrate just as many as it entrances.”
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“A fast-paced, existential, mind-expanding thriller—a thoroughly enjoyable read.”
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“[An] enjoyable slipstream thriller.”
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“Prompts readers to consider the philosophical implications of life and death itself.”
— Booklist
Awards
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An Indie Next List Pick of the Month
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A Gizmodo Pick of September SSF Books
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A London Guardian Pick of Best Recent Fantasy, Horror, and Science Fiction
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A Library Journal Pick of Best Books Out This Month
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The Chicago Reader Pick of September Books
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A London Financial Times Pick of Best New Science Fiction
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The #1 London Times Pick for Best Science Fiction Book of the Year
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Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award
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About James Kennedy
James Kennedy is the author of the adult horror thriller Bride of the Tornado, the science fiction novel Dare to Know, and the young adult fantasy novel The Order of Odd-Fish. He is the founder of the 90-Second Newbery Film Festival, an annual video contest in which kid filmmakers create short movies that tell the entire stories of Newbery-winning books in about 90 seconds, with yearly screenings in New York, Chicago, Boston, and numerous other cities. In addition, he co-hosts the Secrets of Story podcast with Matt Bird.
About Bradford Hastings
Bradford Hastings is a voice talent and audiobook narrator.