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Cat's Cradle
Narrated by Tony Roberts
Written by Kurt Vonnegut
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Cat's Cradle is a darkly hilarious, fast-paced dive into human folly, rogue science, and the unpredictable mess of figuring out what is actually real.

What starts as a journalist chasing the eccentric family behind the atomic bomb quickly spirals into madness on a tiny Caribbean island governed by a banned, taboo religion and a secret compound that can freeze the oceans solid in seconds. Packed with eccentric billionaires, sham messiahs, and razor-sharp satire, this bite-sized masterpiece asks the ultimate question: if the world is doomed by humanity's own stubborn clumsiness, shouldn't we at least get to laugh on our way to the apocalypse?

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