The Zap Gun

Released: March 5, 2025
Length: 7 hrs 39 mins
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Publisher: Recorded Books

Follow Philip K. Dick View on Audible amazon apple

In this satirical tale, the Cold War's false tension persists through elaborate, ineffective doomsday weaponry created by both eastern and western governments, who keep the truth hidden from their citizens. When extraterrestrial invaders appear, the top designers from both sides must collaborate to develop a genuine doomsday device while navigating the chaos and intrigue that ensue. Blending elements of romance, espionage, and alien invasion, the story offers a sharp critique of the military-industrial complex with enduring relevance.

first contact literary fiction science fiction soft science fiction

RecentAudiobook tracks Philip K. Dick and over 141,000 other authors for new releases.

Follow the authors you love and hear about every new audiobook the day it lands.

Get started Browse authors

100 of the World's Greatest Short Stories

Clifford Simak, Robert A. Heinlein, Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Dashiell Hammett, Margery Allingham, Raymond Chandler, Clifford D Simak

The Masters of Science Fiction Short Stories

Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, Frank Herbert, Ray Bradbury, Robert Sheckley, Philip K. Dick, Murray Leinster, H G Wells, Jules Scott Verne

Leviathan Falls

James S. A. Corey

Livesuit

James S. A. Corey

Old Rambling House

Frank Herbert

Pendergast

Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

Second Foundation

Isaac Asimov

We

George Orwell, Ursula K. Le Guin, Yevgeny Zamyatin

We

George Orwell, Ursula K. Le Guin, Yevgeny Zamyatin

The 19th Century Classics Collection: 13 Stories From Tolstoy, Brontë, Dickens, Dostoyevsky, Eliot, Verne, & Much More

Jules Verne, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Thomas Hardy, George Eliot, H.G. Wells, Anne Brontë, Bram Stoker, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Herbert George Wells, Jules Scott Verne

The Cities Classics Collection: London, Paris, New York

Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, H. G. Wells, Alexandre Dumas, Edith Wharton, Victor Hugo, H.G. Wells, Ernest Hemingway, P. G. Wodehouse, Herbert George Wells, F Scott Fitzgerald, Robert L Stevenson

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Full-Cast Edition)

J.K. Rowling