One of SciScoop’s favorite novels from 2004 (see: Sweetwind’s review) is back in a whole new form, and this time it’s free!
Praised for its believability and scientific accuracy by CalTech’s Kip Thorne, Hebrew University’s Jacob D. Bekenstein, and MIT’s Scott Hughes, Singularity went on to win last year’s Foreword Magazine Gold Medal for Best Science Fiction and an Independent Publishers Group IPPY for Best SF/Fantasy.

The premise behind Bill DeSmedt’s novel Singularity is both simple, and simply terrifying:

What if the cataclysmic Tunguska explosion of 1908 was caused, not by a meteor or a comet, but by a submicroscopic black hole?
What if  that fantastic object – tiny as a proton, massive as a mountain, old as time itself – is still down there, orbiting deep inside the earth, slowly consuming the planet?
What if only a rookie government agent and an eerily insightful consultant stand between a renegade Russian oligarch and his plans to use the black hole to change history – or end it?
What if it’s all true?

What if it’s not only true, but free? Because now the audiobook edition of Singularity has made its debut as a free podcast, read by author Bill DeSmedt. To listen, point your browser at:

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