The Brain by Edmond Hamilton audiobook.

Genre: scifi

In the near-future America of 1960, Dr. Semper Lee, an overlooked entomologist and engineer, is abruptly pulled from a remote research post in Australia and flown to Cephalon, Arizona, a brand-new city that does not appear on any map. Lee arrives with an impossible cargo: tons of living termite mounds from his painstakingly bred species, Ant-termes-pacificus. Inside Cephalon's guarded Braintrust complex, brilliant scientists and military planners unveil the real reason he has been summoned: an immense mechanical intelligence known only as The Brain, a machine so vast it fills a mountain and so powerful it is touted as a weapon greater than the atom bomb. As Lee meets the project's enigmatic leaders and the capable, unsettlingly self-possessed secretary Oona Dahlborg, he begins to see that The Brain is not just calculating answers - it is forming judgments about human society itself. When the citys systems start to follow the machines logic rather than human command, Lee must decide whether this new intelligence promises a better, safer world or a new kind of tyranny, and whether his own insect research is the key to controlling what mankind has built.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:20:40) Chapter 02

(00:46:15) Chapter 03

(01:34:53) Chapter 04

(02:15:22) Chapter 05

(03:20:50) Chapter 06

(04:01:24) Chapter 07

(04:32:32) Chapter 08

(05:10:23) Chapter 09

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