The Maniac
The Best Fiction Podcasts for Listeners Who Love a Good Story
You can’t beat a good story. Luckily, humans are great at storytelling, and the best fiction podcasts are all the proof that the modern listener requires. Get the popcorn ready; it’s storytime.
Best Sellers
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When We Cease to Understand the World
- Written by: Benjamín Labatut
- Narrated by: Adam Barr
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 15
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 12
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Story4 out of 5 stars 12
Shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize. A Guardian Fiction Book of the year. Sometimes discovery brings destruction...
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1 out of 5 stars
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Manages to be both disturbing and pointless
- By James P. on 2022-01-30
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When We Cease to Understand the World
- Narrated by: Adam Barr
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 2021-12-10
- Language: English
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$19.74 or free with 30-day trial
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The Maniac
- Written by: Benjamin Labatut
- Narrated by: Gergo Danka, Eva Magyar
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 8
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 7
From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hungarian polymath John von Neumann, tracing the impact of his singular legacy on the dreams and nightmares of the twentieth century and the nascent age of AI....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating story
- By GBeltgens on 2024-08-06
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The Maniac
- Narrated by: Gergo Danka, Eva Magyar
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 2023-10-03
- Language: English
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$26.22 or free with 30-day trial
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The Maniac
- Written by: Benjamín Labatut
- Narrated by: Gergo Danka, Eva Magyar
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0 out of 5 stars 0
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John von Neumann was a titan of science. A Hungarian wunderkind who revolutionized every field he touched, his mathematical powers were exceptional...
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The Maniac
- Narrated by: Gergo Danka, Eva Magyar
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 2023-11-06
- Language: English
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$26.00 or free with 30-day trial
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When We Cease to Understand the World
- Written by: Benjamin Labatut, Adrian West - translator
- Narrated by: Adam Barr
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story3 out of 5 stars 2
When We Cease to Understand the World is a book about the complicated links between scientific and mathematical discovery, madness, and destruction....
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2 out of 5 stars
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Meandering Vulgar Science Mysticism
- By Anonymous on 2024-04-29
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When We Cease to Understand the World
- Narrated by: Adam Barr
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 2021-09-30
- Language: English
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$35.34 or free with 30-day trial
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Quando deixamos de entender o mundo
- Written by: Benjamín Labatut, Paloma Vidal - tradutor, Mariana Beltrão, and others
- Narrated by: Enrique Diaz
- Length: 6 hrs
- Unabridged
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Matemáticos, físicos e químicos protagonizam as narrativas deste livro, no qual o chileno Benjamín Labatut reconta a história de quatro descobertas científicas que abalaram profundamente a humanidade e o mundo à sua volta.
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Quando deixamos de entender o mundo
- Narrated by: Enrique Diaz
- Length: 6 hrs
- Release date: 2025-09-11
- Language: Portuguese
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$16.25 or free with 30-day trial
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MANIAC (Spanish edition)
- Written by: Benjamín Labatut
- Narrated by: Santiago Ramírez
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Una novela vertiginosa sobre los límites del pensamiento y los delirios de la razón. Un inquietante tríptico sobre los sueños del siglo XX y las pesadillas...
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MANIAC (Spanish edition)
- Narrated by: Santiago Ramírez
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 2024-06-12
- Language: Spanish
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$31.13 or free with 30-day trial
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La piedra de la locura
- Written by: Benjamín Labatut
- Narrated by: Benjamín Labatut
- Length: 1 hr and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Una fascinante reflexión sobre el caos y la locura a partir de teorías científicas, expresiones literarias y experiencias personales...
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La piedra de la locura
- Narrated by: Benjamín Labatut
- Length: 1 hr and 24 mins
- Release date: 2021-11-17
- Language: Spanish
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$12.03 or free with 30-day trial
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Quando abbiamo smesso di capire il mondo
- Written by: Benjamín Labatut
- Narrated by: Nicola Bonimelli
- Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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C'è chi si indispettisce, c'è chi si esalta e c'è invece chi si rende conto, come il giovane Heisenberg durante la sua tormentata convalescenza a Helgoland, che probabilmente il traguardo è proprio questo: smettere di ascoltare il mondo come lo si è ascoltato fino a quel momento e avventurarsi verso
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Quando abbiamo smesso di capire il mondo
- Narrated by: Nicola Bonimelli
- Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 2025-07-04
- Language: Italian
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$11.25 or free with 30-day trial
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Maniac (German edition)
- Written by: Benjamín Labatut, Thomas Brovot - Übersetzer
- Narrated by: Thorsten Giese, Günter Schoßböck, Luise Georgi, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Benjamín Labatuts neuer Roman über John von Neumann, einen der genialsten und wegweisensten Denker des 20. Jahrhunderts. Er ist ein so bewundertes...
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Maniac (German edition)
- Narrated by: Thorsten Giese, Günter Schoßböck, Luise Georgi, Wenzel Banneyer, Danne Hoffmann, Stefan Kaminsky, Thomas Dehler, Andreas Keller, Michael Schrodt, Claudia Gräf, Alexander Gamnitzer, Konstantin Marsch, Kevin Körber, Patrick Imhof, Anna-Lena Zühlke
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 2023-09-25
- Language: German
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$35.78 or free with 30-day trial
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