Snowball by Poul William Anderson ~ Full Audiobook [scifi]

Snowball by Poul William Anderson audiobook.

Genre: scifi

In a quiet Massachusetts college town, physicist Simon Arch and his equally brilliant wife, Elizabeth, are chasing a theoretical hunch about dielectrics when they accidentally create something that should not exist: a cheap, stable material with an astronomical dielectric constant. A block the size of a book can store staggering amounts of energy - and, worse (or better), the recipe is simple enough that anyone with basic chemicals and a kitchen oven can make it. Simon imagines patents, progress, and a cleaner world powered by compact energy storage. Then the idea escapes the lab. A teenage hot-rodder sees an engine-free future. Entrepreneurs smell instant fortunes. Utilities, fuel companies, and politicians realize their control of power itself is slipping away. As homemade capacitite spreads like gossip, the modern economy begins to wobble, and Simon finds himself trapped between personal pride, public need, and the accelerating consequences of an invention that cannot be recalled. Snowball is a sharp, fast-moving classic of social science fiction about technology's unintended ripple effects, and how quickly a miracle can become a crisis when it belongs to everyone.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:35:55) Chapter 02

(01:07:21) Chapter 03

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