The Paradox Paradox
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The Paradox Paradox
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Narrated by:
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Clare Saxby
Osheen Shupple has been working his entire life to resolve the paradox of a desperate audio message from years ago, one which holds a horrifying secret that will change the course of history. His plan: build a time machine and return to the source of the message.
But he can't do it alone. Fortunately, the universe has supplied a perfect team: an archaeologist serving twenty-eight life sentences, a veterinarian with an identity crisis and no original body parts, a cheating university student, and a famous but very, very dead starship captain.
Together, they will be propelled across the past, and to worlds beyond their timelines, on a temporal treasure-hunt to trace the tragic truth behind whoever Austin Lang turns out to be. But time is not to be trifled with, and every misstep unmasks another layer of chronological chaos. The past can't be changed—but will there be a future worth saving...?
The Paradox Paradox is a darkly hilarious and compelling ride into the future, the past and various alternate dimensions that arise when powerful masterminds wrestle to control the universe.
©2026 Daniel Hardcastle (P)2026 Daniel HardcastleWell… pretty much everything. 😂
The humour, the plot, the characters — and the sheer glorious absurdity of it all.
The Paradox Paradox is exactly the sort of audiobook where you think, “I’ll just listen to a chapter before bed.” Then suddenly it’s an unreasonable hour of the morning, you’ve lost all concept of time, and you're lying there thinking, “Well, I suppose another chapter isn't going to hurt.”
It will.
It absolutely will.
Because before you know it, you've accidentally listened to half the bloody book.
There’s something wonderfully Dan Hardcastle about the whole thing. It’s clever without being smug, ridiculous without being nonsense, and funny in that wonderfully effortless way where you can almost hear the author grinning as he wrote it.
The plot just keeps pulling you along, throwing one thing after another at you until you're basically strapped into the back of a runaway shopping trolley with no brakes and absolutely no idea where you're going.
And, frankly, I'm here for it.
What did I like/dislike?
Honestly?
Dislike?
I'm struggling.
Like?
Pretty much all of it.
I will admit I had one tiny concern going in. I’d secretly hoped Dan Hardcastle would narrate it himself. I’m generally a huge fan of authors voicing their own characters because they've spent so long living with them that they know all the little quirks, mannerisms, pauses and nuances that exist somewhere in that mysterious place writers keep their characters.
You know — that secret room in their head that presumably has a filing cabinet labelled “Things My Characters Would Say But Probably Shouldn’t.”
So I wondered whether someone else would quite capture them.
Turns out I needn't have worried.
Clare Saxby genuinely did Dan proud. She brings the characters to life brilliantly, and the delivery and comic timing work incredibly well.
That said, Dan… I have a modest suggestion.
And by modest, I mean something that would probably require an unnecessarily large production team, several microphones, a ridiculous number of sound effects and at least one person whose entire job is shouting things in the background.
Full-cast radio-play version.
Dan voicing some the characters.
Everyone else doing the rest.
Absolute chaos.
I'd be there faster than you could say “This is probably a terrible idea.” 😂
Because while there is technically no such thing as too much of a good thing, sometimes it's rather nice knowing there’s more of a good thing to look forward to.
And that's exactly where The Paradox Paradox leaves me.
Loved it. Genuinely had a blast. Would absolutely listen again.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go and pretend I wasn't already hoping there'd be another one before I'd even finished this one.
Very inconsiderate, really.
Writing something this entertaining and then expecting us to simply wait patiently for more.
How dare you, Dan😂
my thoughts in closing ...
The paradox of The Paradox Paradox is that the more you listen, the closer you get to finishing it — and the closer you get to finishing it, the more you don't want it to end.
So technically, finishing the audiobook is the worst possible way to enjoy having more of it.
Which leaves me with the ultimate paradox:
I bought an audiobook to find out how it ends… and now I’m annoyed that it did. 😂
Dan, this is clearly going to require another book. I don't make the rules.
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