Born Again: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Born Again, credited to Alfred Lawson, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Born Again by Alfred Lawson. "I doubt that anyone who reads [Born Again] will ever forget it: it is quite singularly bad, with long undigestible rants against the evils of the world, an impossibly idealistic Utopian prescription for the said evils, and - as you will have gathered - a very silly plot." - oddbooks.co.uk Alfred Lawson was a veritable Renaissance man: a professional baseball player, a luminary in the field of aviation, an outspoken advocate of vegetarianism and economic reform, and the founder of a pseudo-scientific crackpot philosophy called Lawsonomy. Born Again, his only novel, is a bizarre, delirious, and delightfully silly utopian science-fiction novel that lays the groundwork for the philosophy that would later dominate Lawson's life. It tells the story of John Convert, a wayward, seafaring soul (based loosely on Lawson, minus the conveniently symbolic initials) who is tossed overboard by his crewmen after a physical altercation. Convert awakens on an island inhabited by a race of superhuman giants -- called the Sagemen -- who slumber in their subterranean city. He then meets Arletta, a giantess who takes Convert on a journey that will change his life in ways too fantastically strange to imagine. (Summary by ChuckW)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Born Again
• Author credits: Alfred Lawson
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 36
• Listed recording duration: 7:46:28

Catalogue topics

• utopian
• science-fiction
• lawsonomy
• adventure
• philosophy

Opening tracks: first 24 of 36

1. 00 - Dedication — 2:11
2. 01 - Chapter I — 7:00
3. 02 - Chapter II — 5:08
4. 03 - Chapter III — 6:28
5. 04 - Chapter IV — 8:11
6. 05 - Chapter V — 11:50
7. 06 - Chapter VI — 9:02
8. 07 - Chapter VII — 11:54
9. 08 - Chapter VIII — 14:43
10. 09 - Chapter IX — 14:10
11. 10 - Chapter X — 17:47
12. 11 - Chapter XI — 11:15
13. 12 - Chapter XII — 12:13
14. 13 - Chapter XIII — 6:43
15. 14 - Chapter XIV — 8:05
16. 15 - Chapter XV — 10:37
17. 16 - Chapter XVI — 22:46
18. 17 - Chapter XVII — 11:55
19. 18 - Chapter XVIII — 14:40
20. 19 - Chapter XIX — 11:15
21. 20 - Chapter XX — 13:51
22. 21 - Chapter XXI — 14:29
23. 22 - Chapter XXII — 14:03
24. 23 - Chapter XXIII — 13:54

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